NFT: Prodigy from Mobb Deep passed away at 42

Was about to post this. Awful.. 42 is so young.

Was looking forward to seeing them at HARD Fest in August. Hope the rest of the group doesn't cancel and they do some sort of tribute.

....Rock you in your face, stab your brain with your nose bone.

RIP to one of the realest.

In comment 13505181 David in LA said:

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Was looking forward to seeing them at HARD Fest in August. Hope the rest of the group doesn't cancel and they do some sort of tribute.

Mobb Deep was he and Havoc. There wasn't a rest of the group.

RIP to a very underrated, very under-appreciated emcee.

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I grew up on The Infamous. I still have most of their CDs next to the CD player at my mother's house.

I'm gonna listen to Survival of the Fittest, Shook Ones, Hell on Earth, It's Mine, Hold You Down, etc.

Perhaps my favorite song with Prodigy is "One of Ours Part II" featuring Jadakiss.

He'll be missed.

RIP.

The Infamous will always be part of the important albums from the "Golden Age" of hip-hop.

I'm picturing myself in high school right now...late-night blazed out of my mind, sitting in my bean bag chair and listening to this entire album with my huge headphones.

Interestingly enough the same MC and disease referenced from 2Pac in "Hit 'em Up".

Going to throw on some "Drink Away the Pain" "Up North Trip" and "Trife Life" right now...

Always represented Queens to the fullest. RIP. #Mobbdeepforever #Prodigyforever

love Mobb Deep, easily one of the best groups in hip hop. RIP.

Hip hop has lost way too many great artists way too soon.

Just pure production with a consistent sound and mood - although I'll always regard the extended remix of Survival of the Fittest to be superior to the album version. But it gets slept on to this day from the albums of that era, better than just about any put out in that time period.

dropped.
I loved pumping Juvenile Hell in my jeep.
Prodigy killed it on "hold down the fort".
I was working overnights at Flushing Home Depot. I was a punk ass kid and Mobb Deep was in the background in a lot of the stupid things I did.

Queens hip-hop was the king then... RIP QUEENS FINEST.

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You could run but you can't hide forever
From these streets that we done took
You walkin' witcha head down scared to look
You shook cause ain't no such things as halfway crooks

I think it was related to the sickle cell complications that he was hospitalized for. There's some weird rumor out there that he choked on an egg while he was in the hospital but I don't buy that.

Either way, really sad.

Was my favorite rap album of all time. Survival of the Fittest and Shook Ones can go toe to toe with any rap song IMO. This sucks.

I love the beats, they are all so dark and hard hitting and a little more polished than the Infamous beats, but of course Hell on Earth has nothing like shook ones and survival of the fittest. Also, two very underrated songs, Hoodlum from the Hoodlum soundtrack and back at you, from the Sunset Park soundtrack (underrated basketball movie). They really fell off after Murda Muzik though, but those first 3 albums are what rap is supposed to sound like!