mobb deep - c or d?

ugh only 42, so sad

all time great
rest in peace to the god

I'm goin' out blastin', takin' my enemies with me
And if not, they scarred, so they will never forget me
Lord forgive me the Hennesey got me not knowin' how to act
I'm fallin' and I can't turn back
Or maybe it's the words from my man Killa Black
That I can't say so it's left a untold fact, until my death
My goal's to stay alive
Survival of the fit only the strong survive

rest in peace, P. cot damn that sucks, another legend gone way too soon. knew he'd had sickle cell since childhood but damn.

Havoc's tweet was p heartbreaking and touching at the same time.

Aw, damn. One of the absolute greats.

go buy a prodigy album.
as time went by, out of all the nyc 90s rappers that mostly got by off like nostalgia shit and doing fairly tasteful work, maybe it was the knowledge that every day he woke up could be his last, the experience of his illness, going to jail, whatever-- he was an original, challenging artist. i think probably not many here checked out the bumpy johnson album, which is where he sorta steered off the radar and sounds like it was made in 1999 instead of 2012, probably prodigy at his lyrical best apart from hnic / mobb deep material. or albert einstein, four years ago, alchemist beats and a flow that's as far from what 2017 rap flow is like as possible, only occasionally maybe accidentally structured like a rap verse is conventionally structured, or rhymed or showing any sort of formal constraints, full of psychotic imagery, like weed smoke floating through a gunshot in the back window of a car. or the hegelian dialectic from this year, which was disappointing as i expected an album promoted on infowars and called the hegelian dialect to be less chilled out conventional rappin than it was but it has its moments and i like introspective prodigy.

https://streetknowledge.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/prodigy.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbaDNpjSJ1Q

i never went back to 'murda muzik', even though it was next up after 'hell on earth', b/c i had bought the disappointing 'infamy' on release, checked out probably until 'hold you down' - but listening to it today, it's good. kind of surprising to hear 8ball on a mobb deep record.

prodigy's delivery has got to be one of the all time artistic coups in rap history. there's nothing at all that you'd say is bad about it, the way some limited rapper might sound stiff or mechanical or whatever - but it's not at all inviting, he swings about the least of any new york rapper from his era, he's deliberately monotone and jams everything together to mute the rhetorical edges of his utterances, the contours of his clauses, he conceals a lot of what he has in the way of punchlines and wordplay or even the internal rhymes that new york rappers are so dependent on - but he knows the secret of making you listen.

'those that listen, get addicted to my diction'

oh jesus i only just read this

RIP

now i want to buy his cookbook

https://www.amazon.com/Commissary-Kitchen-Infamous-Prison-Cookbook/dp/0997146230

RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDZDu5rTJWM

my fav off MM ^^ outside of Quiet Storm. organ squeals always gonna get me hyped.

good posts j and dylann

kind of surprising to hear 8ball on a mobb deep record.

― j., Tuesday, June 20, 2017 10:25 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

suave house production suited mobb deep just fine.

shit!

http://nahright.com/2009/05/08/prodigys-open-letter-to-esquires-stephen-marche/

"Outta Control" was #1 on my decade-end list.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjzSEdKNIsw

yessss

thats great, whats it from?

http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2017/06/prodigy-dj-whoo-kid-hnic-pt-1-mixtape/

:)

http://www.stereogum.com/1948494/atlanta-newscasters-sneakily-pay-tribute-to-mobb-deeps-prodigy/video/

thx xp

pac's bars on 'hit em up' particularly ugly rn

the rap tribute i prefer is from 'still not a player':

I lay your head on my chest, come feel my heartbeat
We can park the Jeep, pump Mobb Deep, and just spark the leaf

if that's not a description of heaven i don't know what is

prodigy on Pac:

2PAC pac grew on me, i really started liking pac when he made i get around and then really when he made hail mary and when he was going at mobb deep, i was feelin the fire in his heart. pac wasnt afraid to speak his mind about anything and the beats he chose were dope, i went back and bought alot of his older shit and had a new respect for him later on. people say "how you gonna like pac when he dissed you?" but i dont make my decisions off of what people say, i move on my own instincts. dont care if pac said shit bout my sickle cell, i still like 2pac regardless. so whoever disagrees, so what................................................................

his interviews and writings are gold mines

Enjoyed this Song Exploder episode about "Shook Ones Pt. II" with Havoc:
https://songexploder.net/mobb-deep