Prodigy Breaks Down His 25 Most Essential Songs
By Insanul Ahmed | May 12, 2011 | 12:09 pm | Permalink
Tonight, The Infamous Mobb Deep will be taking the stage together for the first time in three years at New York City's Best Buy Theater (buy tickets here). Complex will definitely be in the building because who wouldn't love to see Prodigy and Havoc take the stage to perform all of their classic songs? In honor of the show (and in addition to our epic The Making of Mobb Deep's The Infamous and all the other features we've done with Prodigy lately) we got on the horn with P to discuss the making of his classic songs from all the Mobb albums, his solo work, and his guest appearances.
Hear P explain how he and Hav are trendsetters, how he got $200,000 for an album he was gonna give away for free, and how Big Pun once pulled out over a dozen guns on him. Better yet, see P talk about how Jay-Z was scared of Death Row, how (contrary to popular belief) his verse on "Thun & Kicko" isn't actually about Nas, and how Game tried to recruit Mobb Deep to Black Wall Street when they were about to sign to G-Unit.
As told to Insanul Ahmed (@Incilin)
HipHop May 12th, 2011 at 05:59 PM
Complex stays with the heat. I love these type of articles, when rappers are giving insight about their work. I must admit, I always thought that Thun & Kicko was a diss against Nas. BTW, that track was dope as all their collaborations with Cormega.
Deliverance May 12th, 2011 at 06:36 PM
Props to complex for supporting the real Hip-Hop.
dmfslimm May 13th, 2011 at 12:06 PM
what, no "stuck on you" ? anyway, thank you once again complex and thank you P. keep doing your thing yo.
Mak May 13th, 2011 at 09:00 PM
Didn't complex called 2pac the most overrated artist of all-time, of ALL the artists that ever made music I think whoever made that up should get a bullet in their head. Opinions is out the window with that
tragsicc May 13th, 2011 at 09:45 PM
i love 2pac but dude is OVERRATED! peace to the best rap duo of all time, The INFAMOUS
t2 May 14th, 2011 at 11:53 PM
mobb deep is the shit prodigy new shit hard but 2pac lil diss and hit him up way harder it cant c fucced with plain and simple on some real hood shit.
Tara Kamiya May 17th, 2011 at 09:12 AM
I remember this!! Funny as hell, they looked 10, talking about hit it from the back. Been a MOB fan since Juv. Hell while others slept!
Tara Kamiya May 17th, 2011 at 09:16 AM
Shook Ones II One of the illest ever!!! If you don't know this song you are not from Queens!
Charales October 22nd, 2011 at 03:00 PM
Tres Leches is a cake made from 3 different milks. It's superb.