Rare Species (Modus Operandi) (Soul in the Hole soundtrack)
The Bridge (the original unreleased version on Youtube, NOT the recent remastered version) - one of Prodigy's top verses ever. Some of Prodigy/Mobb Deep's songs that I've found myself consistently listening to (aside from the obvious classics): Hell on Earth is my favourite rap album - not least because of the consistent beats, hard lyrics, vynil crackles and classical music samples warped into some dark shit. Nas had the better album, at least in terms of lyrics (Illmatic) but, unlike Nas, Prodigy had two back-to-back classics, and a whole bunch of unreleased gold from that period.
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Feel free to share your favorite Prodigy verses in the comments below.Įnjoy these reviews, and I'll be back soonish.
And the review for Infamy is still one of my favorites that I've written.Īnyway, maybe the response to this post could help me determine if it's worthwhile to finish Cellblock P's discography. Product of the '80s (with Big Twins and Un Pacino)įor the record, I still feel that Hell On Earth is the better complete album, save for the title track, which I still hate (I believe its tonal shift is so jarring that it disrupts the flow, which, up to that point, was perfect), while The Infamous contains much better songs (absolutely nothing on Hell On Earth fucks with "Shook Ones Part II" or, my personal favorite, "Eye For An Eye"). Some of the photos may not work anymore, but I can't be bothered to fix any of those links at this time: besides, this is really about the writing anymore.įor the hell of it, I've also included what I've written about his rhyme partner Havoc, in addition to Mobb Deep affiliates Rapper Noyd and the Infamous Mobb, which gives you that much more to comb through. Instead, I've compiled a list of all of the Prodigy and Prodigy-related reviews I've written to date, in the hope that you two may discover or rediscover the man's body of work, which absolutely deserves all of the attention its received. What follows isn't a new write-up, as I, admittedly, haven't listened to any new Prodigy work in quite some time (upon hearing the news, The Infamous and Hell On Earth were played back-to-back immediately). His cold, calculated-but-aloof flow will easily place the Mobb's finest works, the breakthrough The Infamous and its follow-up Hell On Earth, onto Best Albums of All Time lists for decades to come, and the man still had some bangers following all of that. I'm not going to spend a lot of time cherry-picking my favorite bars or tracks, as that's been done all over the Interweb already, but regardless of how I felt about the man's later output (both by himself and as one-half of the formidable Queensbridge duo Mobb Deep, who was in the midst of a tour when the man passed away), Prodigy was one of the finest emcees to come out of New York in the 1990s, and, unlike a lot of your favorite rappers, the man had legitimate classic records under his belt.
The recent passing of Albert "Prodigy" Johnson was a severe loss for the genre as a whole.
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