It was Prodigy’s ability to cast himself as a slick, invincible straight shooter in the darkness that gave the rapper’s verses their slim but invaluable sense of empowerment. II,” gave us the signature bit of the rapper’s figurative violence: “For all of those who wanna profile and pose / Rock you in your face, stab your brain with your nose bone.” Mobb Deep’s classic single, “Shook Ones, Pt. He also rapped about power, fame, and escape, though his outlook on all of that was bleak, too. Prodigy rapped about life in the projects, and his outlook was bleak. Prodigy’s demeanor was a cold force set to Havoc’s exceedingly grim production. The album was like nothing hip-hop had ever heard before: Havoc flipped obscure samples into ghastly melodies, and Prodigy would rap over those beats in a tenor similar to the hip-hop pioneer Rakim, but with horrific, unsparing detail in his verses. Two years later, Prodigy’s smoky voice came to dominate the group on their breakout album, The Infamous, released by Loud Records. Initially, Havoc coached Prodigy as a songwriter for the duo’s debut album, Juvenile Hell, released by 4th & B’way Records in April 1993. He and his longtime recording partner, Havoc, formed Mobb Deep together as teenagers in 1992. Prodigy - born in Hempstead, Long Island - stood as half of the Queensbridge rap duo Mobb Deep, one of the most celebrated New York rap groups in the genre’s history.
The exact cause of death is unknown at this time. No rapper has ever been more honest about the agony and aspirations of a stick-up kid than Prodigy, who died Tuesday at age 42.Įarly news reports indicate that the rapper, born Albert Johnson, had been hospitalized due to complications from sickle cell disease, which the rapper famously struggled with since birth.
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