Love Heavy Mental
posted by on April 27 at 16:11 PM
We had a false alarm about an upcoming Killah Priest performance at Nectar; if it was once scheduled on their website, it isn’t now. Which is a bummer, because Mudede and I were getting all worked up over KP’s epic track “From Then till Now” from the movie Ghost Dog . A sample of the lyrics:
Prophets stand in the midst of the seven candlesticks
I can’t take it, beauty that was once sacred
Is now gettin’ facelifts, fake tits, and fake lips
Cold embraces
Memory erases from the slaveships.
and
We was the wisest and the richest, now we turn to snitches
Women turn to bitches, in the time of harvest
We was the smartest, worshipped wisdom like the goddess
Now we act retarded, forsook the wisdom of the fathers.
KP has always been one of the deepest, most metaphysical Wu-Tang lyricist, and that song is especially profound. So profound that Mudede formulated his entire EMP Conference paper around the song.
“From Then till Now” appeared on his debut solo album Heavy Mental back in 1998 but not on the Ghost Dog soundtrack for some reason.
You can check it out—along with a bunch of other KP tracks—on this streamable mixtape.
Dude’s husky, monotone flow has always been on of the Wu’s secret weapons, and RZA’s eerie, kick-snap beat is perfectly stark. That mixtape is apparently the lead-in to a new solo joint, The Offering, on its way in May.
Priest is a G with his. "B.I.B.L.E." off of GZA's Liquid Swords, shit anything off of his Heavy Mental is classic material. I was a big fan of his appearance on (of all things)the Jon Spencer remix LP from years back too.
Now is the part where I can't help but mention that his babymomma is Amil, formerly of Roc-A-Fella. There I did it.
totally good call about that that "greyhound" JSBX remix, lar! more crazy biblical/apocalyptic dopeness from KP.
that whole ghost dog OST is the joint. that fastshadow song with method man was a personal favorite.
priest keeps a semi-regular journal on hiphopgame.com that i check out. i always got the feeling that he was one of GZA's pupils. his boy hell razah dropped a fairly sick album a few months back that featured priest plus a dope original track and verse from MFDOOM. there's a little bit of a weird conspiracy theory vibe to some priest shit, but mostly i like that he's so hardcore about learning. you always get the impression that he reads a lot. priest fucks with libraries hardbody.
and that amil factoid is pretty weird
You also may want to check out Killah on Material's "Temple of the Mental" off Intonarumori. Awesome track.
like bill laswell's Material? awesome, i gotta find that. yo, that hell Razah album is crazy, i slept.
Yeah, Lawell's Material. That same album also features Ramellzee, Kool Keith, DXT, Bernie Worrell, phonosycographDISK, Jerome Bigfoot Brailey, etc.
Laswell, that is.
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