He warned: “do not try to inflict more pain on me and those I love, for I shall strike first, and I promise overkill.” Prodigy didn’t just want to win – he wanted to annihilate and maim his opponents. Even when writing battle raps, a huge part of P’s catalog followed unspoken rules to establish the writer’s rap supremacy. When he indicted the system in his latter-day work, he was searching for the root cause behind the pain of contemporary African-American life. When he bragged about his riches and sexual conquests, that was an escape from pain.
Whether illustrating his everyday mental and physical suffering or promising to inflict a terminal dose of violence upon his enemies, P’s constant was pain, and it colored every topic he approached. Son Raw files through P’s litany of mixtapes, guest appearances and remixes to pull out the rapper’s very best deep cuts.įew songwriters dealt with pain as eloquently as Mobb Deep’s Prodigy. He was only 42 years old, and leaves behind a vast catalogue of music, most of it unfairly underrated.
Legendary Queensbridge rapper Prodigy, best known as one half of influential East Coast duo Mobb Deep, died on June 20, 2017.
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