Heavy Mental is the debut studio album by the American rapper Killah Priest, released in March 1998.

(Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth)", which had appeared on GZA's 1995 Liquid Swords album in a slightly different form.

"One Step", with its refrain of "Your arms too short to box with God", reached No.

Spin noted that Killah Priest's rapping is "more consistently metaphysical than Ghostface's blunt confessions but still in line with the Wu belief that black soul is more interesting than black violence.

"[9] Robert Christgau deemed the album "Shaolin mystagogy meets millenarian panic in music for the end time.