Artist: Mobb Deep
Genre(s):
Hip-Hop
Rap: Hip-Hop
Discography:
When You Hear The
Year: 2004
Tracks: 4
Live At The London Forum
Year: 2004
Tracks: 1
Got It Twisted
Year: 2004
Tracks: 4
Gangstaz Roll
Year: 2004
Tracks: 3
Amerikaz Nightmare
Year: 2004
Tracks: 15
Infamous Allegiance (Part 1)
Year: 2003
Tracks: 14
The Infamous
Year: 1995
Tracks: 18
Juvenile Hell
Year: 1993
Tracks: 14
As fortunate years knock suddenly gave way to West Coast gangsta in the early '90s, an East Coast variety show of hardcore knock arose in bend, with Mobb Deep initially standing tall as one of New York's hard-core figureheads on the cornerstone of their epochal Notorious album. Released in April 1995, The Infamous was released most precisely a year later on Illmatic and around a half year after Ready to Die -- the debut masterpieces of Nas and the Notorious B.I.G., respectively, both albums alike of momentous import for East Coast hard-core tap. On The Infamous, Mobb Deep (comprised of Prodigy and Havoc) arrange the flavour for future generations of hardcore New York rappers, from G-Unit to Dipset. Subsequent releases from the duet were besides influential, peculiarly Blaze on Earth (1996). However, by the late '90s, Mobb Deep was no longer setting trends; in fact, they seemed to be following them, and they missed some of their stature as subsequent generations of hardcore rappers arose. For a few years, Mobb Deep struggled to tame their commercial standing, until they eventually drifted into the G-Unit camp, where they sign a remunerative deal to conjoin 50 Cent and company. Lineage Money (2006), Mobb Deep's first base freeing under the G-Unit banner, rekindled interestingness in the old-timer twosome, wHO enjoyed a substantive uptick in gross sales and airplay.
Prodigy (Albert Johnson, natural November 2, 1974) and Havoc (Kejuan Muchita, natural May 21, 1974) grew up in Queens, specifically the Queensbridge sphere, up to now met in Manhattan, where both were students at Graphic Arts High School. Their shared passion of hip-hop resulted in a natural society, and patch they were noneffervescent teens, the 2 offspring manpower had themselves a phonograph recording deal with quaternary & Broadway, a major tap mark connected with Island Records. In 1993, the label released Jejune Hell, a confrontational album featuring noteworthy production work by DJ Premier and Large Professor, world Health Organization both inside a year's time would move on to bring forth the debut of another youth Queensbridge knocker, Nas. Not much came of Jejune Hell, however, and it would be two more years before Mobb Deep would return.
When they did return in 1995, it was on a different judge, Loud Records, and with a significantly highly-developed approach. The Infamous featured a mammoth street anthem, "Shook Ones, Pt. 2," but it was a self-coloured album all around, featuring too the in-house production work of Havoc and a mates high profile features (Nas, Raekwon). The Infamous was more than hardcore than its deuce key stylistic predecessors, Illmatic and Ready to Die; the beats were darker and harder-hitting patch the rhymes were right-down threatening in time noneffervescent inventive and dodgy. Moreover, in that respect were no crossover hits like "Big Poppa" or "Juicy." In fact, at that place were no light moments at all. The Infamous was an sturdy record album for the streets, and it was championed as such.
A year later on, in 1996, Mobb Deep returned with a followup, Hell on earth on Earth, which was a minuscule slicker than The Infamous yet still emphasized hardcore motifs. It spawned a mates run into singles that were granted fitly theatrical videos. At this point, hardcore rap was at its vizor, with Death Row Records flourishing on the West Coast and a legion of New Yorkers jumping into the conniption, following the booster cable of Nas, the Notorious B.I.G., and Mobb Deep. So when it took over deuce age for Mobb Deep to return with a new album, Murda Muzik, non released until April 1999, the rap music landscape painting had changed significantly. Mobb Deep at present had significant competitor, and since Murda Muzik offered few innovations and lacked the spark of the duo's past times deuce albums, it was met with some letdown. By and large, fans enjoyed it, yet the album didn't invoke beyond the already effected fan base, as the record album only offered one major stumble, "Quiet Storm." The following year, Prodigy released a solo record album, H.N.I.C. (2000). It got a tepid reception, likeable to the duo's fan alkali yet spawning no hits.
When Mobb Deep resurfaced, in December 2001 with Opprobrium, they showcased a new willingness to hand beyond their fan base. "Hey Luv" was issued as a single, and it was the number one Mobb Deep song to minx with R&B crossover, or even to mention love, for that matter. The song got some airplay, thanks in voice to its hook, which is sung dynasty by the R&B act 112, and its video, which played up the song's airwave of conquest. Nonetheless, Opprobrium proven to be a congenator letdown commercially, and it seemed like Mobb Deep was outset to catch their popularity wear away with each passing year. It didn't help, either, that around this time the duo -- and Prodigy, in particular -- had been attacked by Jay-Z on "Takeover." And too, that Loud Records would go out of business, going away Mobb Deep without a label look at. For the next few age, from rough 2002-2005, Prodigy and Havoc tried to regain their footing. There were one-off albums released via various label arrangements -- Justify Agents: The Murda Mix Tape (Landspeed, 2003), Amerikaz Nightmare (Swing music, 2004), and The Mix Tape Before Sept. 11 (Roentgen ray, 2004) -- that made minimum wallop. By this point, non even the fan alkali was all that interested; it had been eroded with each expiration year, leaving few faithful.
Then came a surprise announcement that 50 Cent had signed Mobb Deep to his G-Unit family and that an record album would be forthcoming. First came a straightaway remix featuring the latest G-Unit signing, "Outta Control," which supplanted the original version when 50's The Massacre was reissued in 2005 as a CD/DVD. Too, Mobb Deep had become omnipresent on the New York mixtape scene, cathartic all kinds of streets-only corporeal in endeavour to reinstate themselves. It evidently worked, as Profligate Money debuted in the Top Ten of Billboard's album chart and brought more exposure to Mobb Deep than the duo had enjoyed since their late-'90s peak. Not everyone was convinced by the group's makeover, however, as the G-Unit access was substantially more milled than the Mobb Deep of The Infamous. Still, Mobb Deep establish a novel generation of younger listeners -- the large G-Unit market base, in particular -- world Health Organization were largely unfamiliar with them. It had been over a decennium since The Infamous, after all, and Mobb Deep had been out of the glare for geezerhood. Then, in early 2008, Prodigy went away to prison to assist a three-year condemnation, putt Mobb Deep's future in motion.
