Sep 30, 2020 def top 20. the 21st century stuff, esp with alc, is essential, and mobb deep quietly has one of the two or three best three-album runs ever
Oct 1, 2020 I wouldn’t say greatest of all time but he’s definitely one of the greats and his run from the mid 90s into the early 2000’s was a great run. He was definitely on that conspiracy theory wave, I wonder what he would be saying now during the pandemic, what kind of music he would be releasing. Prodigy is the first rapper I ever met (seen him live twice as well). I still have his autograph from back then. I also have a second autograph that I got by accident the day after his death. I own and read his first book, My Infamous Life. I was aware of his prison cookbook, which I eventually purchased, but I didn’t realize he had a novel called HNIC. The day after he died, I went to the used book chain, Book Off, specifically looking for the cookbook but instead I found a signed copy of HNIC. Only cost me $1. I visited Queensbridge several times to see the vandalized Prodigy mural, before and after it was vandalized. I spoke to the artists who worked on it and felt bad when the piece got vandalized twice. It wasn’t the only Prodigy mural, I visited most of the other ones as well, but a QB Prodigy mural would’ve been iconic especially with the Nas mural being just up the block. But some of the things that P said in My Infamous Life rubbed people the wrong way and that led to the mural being destroyed (“QB Politics”).
