Artist: Killah Priest Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
Discography:
The Offering Year: 2007
Tracks: 17
A Prelude To The Offering (Bootleg) Year: 2006
Tracks: 26
Black August Year: 2003
Tracks: 14
View From Masada Year: 2000
Tracks: 16
Heavy Mental Year: 1998
Tracks: 20
Killah Priest is a tangential associate degree of the Wu-Tang Clan. The Brooklyn native made his first recorded appearances on records by such Wu position projects and solo albums as the Gravediggaz, Ol' Dirty Bastard's
Give back to the 36 Chambers, and, to the highest degree importantly, Genius/GZA's seminal
Fluid Swords. His contributions became legendary and paved the way for the waiver of his acclaimed debut album,
Overweight Mental, in the springtime of 1998.
Natural in Brooklyn and raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Brownsville, Killah Priest became in love with rap as a kid, hearing to old school and raw school day acts of the Apostles care Eric B. & Rakim alike. He as well was influenced by local rappers like Genius and Onyx's Suave, wHO would ofttimes play local parties. Killah Priest began working on his rhymed and eventually earned a considerable reputation in Brooklyn, but rather of pursuing his musical career farther, he took a sabbatical in ordering to civilize himself, primarily around religious belief and account.
Killah Priest returned to rapping in 1995, appearance on several Wu projects. All of his cameos were noteworthy, merely his part on
Liquid Swords earned special attention. By the end of 1996, he formed his own side project, the Sunz of Man. In 1997, GZA suggested to Geffen that they augury Killah Priest, and the label took his advice. Killah worked on the album with True Master and fourth Disciple, two producers associated with the Clan. The resulting album,
Heavy Mental, was dense with spiritual imagery and filled with evocative sounds. It standard splendid reviews upon its March 1998 liberation and was a tidy commercial success, debuting at act 24 on the toss off charts. Killah Priest issued his second record album,
Horizon from Masada, in the give of 2000, further bolstering his status as one of the most compelling solo artists in the Wu-Tang stable, a mathematical group that, although he sometimes disjointed himself from, he constantly remained favorable with. Although
Position from Masada was well-received, it failed to do well commercially, and Priest moved to Recon for his adjacent record, 2003's Black August. Although he sure wasn't keeping silent in the time that passed, working on real for Black Market Militia and the Horsemen and appearance on legion other albums, it was a few years in front the doorknocker came out with his succeeding record, The Offering, in 2007.
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