Seventh studio album released by Wu-Tang Clan affiliate rapper Killah Priest. Produced entirely by DJ Woool, it features Victorious and Able as the only guests.
Despite being a legitimate CD, released by Iceman Music Group, the product presents itself as a very poor quality mixtape. The cover is quite simple and faithfully represents what you will hear: the author's face blurred, the author's name with the final letter forming a cross, the album title further down with a red veil. At the bottom, the production credits, which is the thing that should scare you the most about this project: DJ Woool produces everything. There are no other producers, they are 15 of his tracks recorded in his studio where Priest decides to have practically no help from anyone on the microphone, it's a mess.
The rhythms are loud, poor, weak, there's no boom bap, nothing hits. The beatmaker chooses some of the worst drums of the year and mixes them with weak samples to create stuttering, cheap, slimy rhythms that try to be cinematic, they resemble those already made for Priest's previous album released the year before, but they sound worse, they sound minimal, lo-fi, they are there and they are not there, you can't understand anything. On this amateur and cheap production, since the label doesn't release budget of any kind for this project, Priest spits bars that you expect from him with the usual themes, also going on street stories and violent content.
If you didn't like "Behind the Stained Glass", skip this effort, it's clearly a low point in his career. Ten years after its release the product is reissue by the label under which Sunz of Man signed, X-Ray Records, a subsidiary of Cleopatra. 4/10.
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