Prodigy - Return of the Mac

oh man that video for ABC is kinda strange on some Omen/manson family shit

this is definitely still good.

title of the new one had me imagining p on some "just a friend" shit.

Ballerina P.

never got into return of the mac. prodigy sounded fucking comatose on it i thought, and really lacking in inspiration. yeah its consistent, which is something in itself for them/hip hop these days, but its just so so.

prodigy's always been real laconic and dead sounding

his voice is great. super-stoned

"prodigy's always been real laconic and dead sounding"

but on return of the mac he sounds like hes vocalling the tracks from a hospital bed. i listened to the infamous just to make sure he wasnt always like that and well, he wasnt.

Neither of these new tracks are as good as "Mac 10 Handle" - but neither was anything off that album, either. (or any other song released in the last year and a half)

Needs a propulsive beat to match the deathbed flow, yeah.

so it says Prodigy is serving jail time for his most recent firearms offense, his third.

anybody know anything about the first two?

Nope. But HNIC 2 has leaked, and it's a fine thing. So far I prefer it to Return of the Mac, which I also liked. OK look - it's Prodigy, you know what to expect. But he's a good judge of beats, and this is no exception.

So far I prefer it to Return of the Mac

!!!!

totally expected it to be a disaster, is why i'm shocked

so it says Prodigy is serving jail time for his most recent firearms offense, his third.

anybody know anything about the first two?

-- Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, January 19, 2008 11:03 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Link

weird fucking RFI, dude.

For a second I thought this was going to be a thread in which Liam Howlett reinterprets the Mark Morrison classic.

I think this every time this thread shows up in New Answers. I am always disappointed to realize I am wrong, although I have nothing against this other Prodigy and their/her/his song/album/thing.

do u post wearing a monocle

Got Prodigy's 'as told to' autobiography to read on my plane home. Other than the clumsy narration (ideas repeated multiple times in same paragraph, characters reintroduced unnecessarily, etc), it's pretty interesting.

Some of it obviously seems "tall tale"-ish but Prodigy seems like he was an extreme dickhole in his youth. Conveniently, in the timeline, he skipped from 1987 to 1989 (I wanted to hear him explain the ballerina pic -- he keeps bitching about how he hated that kind of dancing in this book). I have a feeling it'll come up when he gets to 2001.

lol I totally don't remember this..

so it says Prodigy is serving jail time for his most recent firearms offense, his third.

anybody know anything about the first two?

-- Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, January 19, 2008 11:03 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Link

weird fucking RFI, dude.

― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, March 25, 2008 11:33 PM Bookmark

book = Prodigy trying really hard to insist he was a ruffian growing up. not that I don't believe it, but despite his best attempts, you can tell being painted as phony by Jay-Z really put a chip on his shoulder.

He also claims that a friend connected with Tupac stated that Tupac knew who shot him in the studio, and only blamed Biggie/Puffy in the press because he felt the controversy would help his sales.

so weird that "Veterans Memorial Part 2" off of H.N.I.C. II essentially IS dude's book in 3 minute form. Most of the major stories he tells are touched on in it.

RIP

noooooo