In 2000, Prodigy launched his solo career with H.N.I.C. Prodigy and Havoc would release eight records together as Mobb Deep, with their last, The Infamous Mobb Deep, arriving in 2014. Rest In Paradise young Blood can’t believe you gone lord we was just chilling !! Hold ya head /tXjogmHIfH While that record wasn’t well received, their 1995 follow-up The Infamous, remains a hardcore NYC classic and features one of the group’s signature songs, “Shook Ones Pt. The pair released their first demo together in 1992 under the name Poetical Prophets, which they followed up a year later with their Mobb Deep debut, Juvenile Hell. Prodigy and his Mobb Deep cohort, Havoc, grew up together in Queens, New York City and broke into hip-hop with a raw, vivid and vicious distillation of East Coast gangsta rap. We not only talked music we talked about everything but all I can say right now is RIP.” “We might have yelled and screamed at each other, but we always wanted what was best for the act … Mobb Deep was the second group to go platinum right after Wu. “When I say Loud was a family, Loud was a family,” he said. Prodigy’s old label boss, Steve Rifkind, who co-founded Loud Records, also remembered the rapper with a pair of posts on Instagram. He brought everybody to us in the office, and we took it from there.A post shared by Nasir Jones on at 10:33am PDT
“That’s how we met everybody, because of Q-Tip. “He introduced us to Chris Lighty that day,” remembers Prodigy. We asked him to listen to us, and he stopped and was like ‘aiight.’ He listened to our shit and said ‘where y’all from?’ and we were like ‘we from Queens, yo.'” It’s at that point, Prodigy says, that Tip invited them into the offices to introduce them to industry insiders at Def Jam and elsewhere.
“Nobody would stop for us,” he said of their attempt to land a record deal. At the :53 mark, he shares that he and Havoc, when first starting out, would visit the locations of record labels they found on the back of CDs and wait for notable artists or executives to exit the building. Elsewhere in the interview, Prodigy details how Q-Tip – who would go on to appear on The Infamous‘ “Drink Away the Pain (Situations)” – helped Mobb Deep catch a big break.
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