love letter to prodigy

~~John Wilkes Booth~~ · 12-04-2014, 01:54 PM

rap's finest unapologetic scumbag imo.

recently mobb deep released a sort of part 2 to the infamous called "the infamous... mobb deep." disc 1 had all new songs while disc 2 was a bunch of unreleased songs and unreleased versions of classic mobb songs. disc 2 is great. i haven't spent much time listening to disc 1 but i will eventually.

anyway prodigy is great to me because of the simplicity of his style and the fact that he manages to paint such a vivid picture of a ****ed up reality without really being much of a lyricist. he's one of those rappers that is really an underappreciated poet to me. a lot of people instantly get turned off by the fake gangster persona but if you really listen to his lyrics there is a bit of existential anguish behind the tough guy mask. basically when mobb deep first came out gangsta rap was really making a name for itself and they just did what they could to take it to the next level. no sugar coating, no glorification, just a sociopath trying to make it in a world already gone mad. prod and hav are well known studio gangsters who basically met in art school and this makes me love them even more tbh.

frome the unreleased mobb track, get it in blood:

Quote:

I'm yawning while I'm waking to the early morning gunfire
Another day another scar to require
Jumped out my bed, tried to break my alarm
Took a shower, and then I strapped on my firearm
Grabbed my Pelle Pelle cause I wanna look fly when I die,
But it ain't my turn to say goodbye
How do I know? Some people call it instinct
I like to call it my luck, who gives a ****

Quote:

This city got me trapped like an animal with criminal thoughts
I can't seem to turn away from this unknown force
If only I can lay my hands on the source of my trouble
Then maybe I can heal my scar before it bubbles,
It's like a plague, and there ain't no cure
We observe this world's filth, therefore we're un-pure
My life is like a bad dream I can't seem to shake
Only my peoples really equal understand or relate
The way we live is never planned, it just happened that way
So until tomorrow I'll just be surviving today

there's some other notable tracks on disc 2... mostly alternative versions of classic mobb songs and a few unreleased songs. few interviews/skits sprinkled here and there. mostly stuff i've heard before but anyone who is really into 90's east coast music like that should check it out.

in other news... prodigy & alchemist's album "albert einstein" is pretty decent to me. tbh i slept on p's newer material for a while because he was pretty much **** for the longest time... but it seems he's making an effort again. and alchemist has a knack at making those dark types of beats he shines over but with a little more modern sound than the classic mobb ****.

Quote:

That murder music, this dumping season, I hunt humans
But I never find niggas when I go looking
They always seem to fall in my hands
Like nigga don't blame me, this is really God's plan
Up, there he go
What the **** nigga picking up his kid from the school bus
Now how shall I proceed?
Do the nigga dirty right in front of his seed
So the little bitch grow up traumatized, a witness
To how ugly life can be, it is what it is
They walking up the way holding hands, look
I drove ahead of them and got out for the ambush
There's no thinking twice, the dark-skinned nigga turned white
'Fore that first shot knocked out his lights
Now baby girl screaming hysterically
She gon' spend most her life inside therapy
Spitting image of her pops
So I smacked the little ho with the gun then I walked around the block
Police bugging, I left the chariot still running
Forgive me lord, he had it coming

^

the moral of the story is basically if i was to gay-marry a rapper prodigy of mobb deep would be a contender. no homo.

DwnWthVwls · 12-04-2014, 04:56 PM

Thanks JWB, I'll check it out. What you described about Prodigy is the same thing that I also appreciate about 2pac/DMX. Most artists are not very good at capturing a listeners attention through lyrics alone without having great wordplay but Prod does is it very well.

~~John Wilkes Booth~~ · 12-04-2014, 05:24 PM

yea, i am a fan of both of them as well. i love 2pac's energy more than anything else about him... and his borderline schizo paranoia in the later part of his career.

~~John Wilkes Booth~~ · 12-17-2014, 11:33 PM

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