Mobb Deep

Released: April 1, 2014

Featuring: Raekwon Nas

Producer: Mobb Deep

[Interviewer]
In the house for us right here, this is Mobb Deep, the Infamous Mobb Deep

[Prodigy]
Yeah, yeah

[Interviewer]
Right here. What up, straight up from Queensbridge

[Havoc]
Yo what up, cousin?

[?]
Oh, [????]! Raekwon and Nas is in the house! What up, kid? How y’all doing out here?

[Nas]
What’s up man, how you doing?

[Crow noise]

[Interviewer]
… Raekwon and Nas. Now for those of y’all that don’t have this album right here, get Infamous, Mobb Deep. This is the realness right here! This is the butter flavours right here. Now y’all got that joint Eye to Eye on this album with Raekwon and Nas. How’d y’all get together to do that exactly?

[Havoc]
We all real, youknowimsayin? You get the clique like that, youknowimsayin?

[Raekwon (Prodigy) {Nas}]
Word up. It’s family right here, knowimsayin? (keepin it real) Queensbridge and Shaolin, making it happen {the combination}

[Interviewer]
So y’all just built a bridge from Shaolin to Queensbridge?

[Nas]
No doubt, word

[Raekwon]
Mines that long, you know?

[Hook]
One two, an eye for an eye
We in this together son, your beef is mines
As long as the sun shines to light up the sky
We in this together son, your beef is mines

[Verse 1: Raekwon]
Ay yo, my thug related style attracts millions
Fans understand the plan, who’s the kid up in the green Land?
Then I skate motivate gettin' (Sniff)
Lifted, me and my chick get eight
Now im coolin' with the clique Mobb Deep and
Nas, word up here's the first prize I generate
Off the head piece, freestyle session word up son

[Verse 2: Nas]
Check it out yo
To my seed, may I lead you into no greed or evil
In the categories of stories I breed my sequel
You know the money, blues, blunts, broken 22's
Monkey see, monkey do shorty sipping sunny dew
On a low like a [????], chill shades of flow
Big Havoc at like you know, kid

[Verse 3: Prodigy]
Kid, you don't know me, you don't wanna know me
You tried to blow me your weak side just showed me
Stepped out my door on 41st Side at twelve
Didn't see my crew around so I got bent for search
I had to jet back upstairs so I can stash my nine
It was a Friday night Rikers had it bad one time
Cause niggas getting bagged on a regular son
D's like "Fuck the drugs, all we want is the guns,"
So I proceed with caution, eyes open whenever walking
Niggas be ass talking then be victims of extortion
Hold myself down the only way I know
Niggas pumping back in streets, in debt cause they owe
Street life is like a trial, ass out if you blow
The maximum is death son you know how that go

[Interviewer]
The Infamous is in the house! We’d like to thank Mobb Deep for coming out, Queens is in the house! Remember that, Queens is in the house...

Mobb Deep members Havoc and Prodigy represent the Queensbridge projects in the borough of Queens, New York. Their style is very dark, but Havoc’s sinister productions along with sharp lyricism from Prodigy on their sophomore album The Infamous and its first single “Shook Ones Pt. II” put the Mobb on the map and helped bring hardcore New York hip-hop back into the forefront while also influencing the hip-hop scene in France. Their two follow-up albums, Hell on Earth (1996) and Murda Muzik (1999) helped further solidify their status in the rap game as they received gold and platinum plaques.

The two released a number of projects as a duo as well as solo projects, and both of them released their own collaborative projects with their frequent collaborator The Alchemist.

Sadly, Prodigy passed away on June 20, 2017, in Las Vegas after being hospitalized during the Art of Rap Tour. May he rest in peace. See here for the Mass Appeal obituary.

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