Mobb Deep - Hell on Earth 19th Anniversary Official Celebration/Appreciation Thread Daps and Reps

[reserved_one]

Smh @ just seeing this thread sticked. I don't even know where to start....Album is a masterpiece. Sounds like a hood, horror, mafia flick on disc

Havoc at his best as a producer, Prodigy at his peak as a MC. What more can you ask for? The whole listening experience is mesmerizing and menacing. Best way I can describe Hell On Earth. It inspired me to make beats...Its hard to pick out my favorite cut, but If I was to choose it'll be G.O.D. PT 3. The interlude with Hav & P sniping dudes out the window sets the mood for the song perfectly.

Drop A Gem On Em was and I'm a 2Pac fan. One of the most underrated disses ever. Once you heard that piano loop at the start, you knew some shyt was about to be heard.
The storytelling on More Trife Life . It showed Havoc's greatness as a rapper that was overlooked and he could hold down a song on his own.


Man....Get Dealt With is just . That beat is just retarded...Its the hardest one on the album for me.

Apostle's Warning? Nothing needs to be said about that one. Prodigy's GOAT verse

Method Man blacking out on Extortion
Theres just too many great moments to list. I don't really get overly excited/anxious discussing albums like that but Hell On Earth is different. .

 

[mobbinfms]

That's my GOAT duo

Yall already said what I wanted to say already. Hell On Earth is a classic, and P was just on some other shyt on that album. Apostle's Warning, Hell On earth, that was some of the best stuff I've heard from P.

That Big Twins shirt

 

[mobbinfms]

Prodigy was a top 5 emcee all time on HoE and Havoc is a top 5 all time producer, so basically this album is GOAT status for me

The Infamous, Hell On Earth, Murda Muzik are one of the few holy trifectas in Hip Hop

Drop A Gem On Em > Every East vs West Coast diss

Get mad

There was a long thread recently about Drop A Gem On Em being the best thing out of the east west beef period. As I recall, all the Pac stans eventually agreed

 

[Shuteye]

Love the album, but i never liked G.O.D. PT3
the only track on the album i dont like

 

[2manyFCKNrappers]

At least wait until January to do this shyt, you taking all the gas out the 20 year anniversary thread that will be made next year dummy.

Tomorrow ain't promised

 

[MarloStanTrill]

Hell on Earth Dropped November 19, 1996
Let's start the celebration early
I copped on release date
On cassette
Played the album every day for at least 6 months straight
Album was 5 mics easily but the Source accidentally gave it 4.5

The roll out of the album was a mess
Drop A Gem on Em was supposed to be the lead single:

But Pac got murdered
So they had to cancel that.
Luckily the disses were so creative, that they didn't even need to say Pac's name and they could keep the song on the album
The Source had God Pt. 3 as a Sure Shot Single before the album dropped:

But that ended up being the second single
They ended up going with the title track...with P's legendary second verse

There was a video for this song...but it doesn't appear to be on Youtube
The Infamous is the Greatest Album of All Time, and as dark of an album as that is, the Mobb somehow managed to drop an even darker follow up And we all know that there are Hell on Earth stans who will tell you it's better than the Infamous
P was an absolute beast on the album - killing verse after verse
GOAT
Hav went for dolo on the beats and solidified his spot as the greatest producer ever
I wish I could go back and experience hearing this masterpiece for the first time
I envy the young brehs who will be hearing this for the first time
#tpc
#tnt
@charmander
@TheDarceKnight
@torcher
@shopant
@JuvenileHell
@ISOMELO
It's too many dunns to list

2 PAC >>>>>>>>>>>>

 

[keepitrealprk]

definitely remember buying this on release day at hmv downtown. it was a big fukking deal to get things on release day back then, and i definitely threw that tape in my shockwave walkman and listened to it over and over again.

 

[Farrinto]

Act like Murda Muzik and HNIC don't exist brehs

Misconstrue words, brehs. I never said he stopped being nice, I said he peaked on this album.

 

[mobbinfms]

Misconstrue words, brehs. I never said he stopped being nice, I said he peaked on this album.

He was just as nice on Quiet Storm. If not better. But in terms of consistency over an album, yeah I agree.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

This was done around LA LA the original west coast version. Prodigy didn't think Sony was going to cut a check for the verse.

So it wasn't recorded for HOE? I thought AL LA was also recorded around the HOE time period. Are you saying it wasn't, or something else? My bad it's early and I'm dumb.

 

[mobbinfms]

So it wasn't recorded for HOE? I thought AL LA was also recorded around the HOE time period. Are you saying it wasn't, or something else? My bad it's early and I'm dumb.

He talked about it in that Complex break down your essential songs article
Prodigy: “We recorded that for Hell On Earth. Nas called us when he was working on his album like, ‘Yo, I want to buy that song from y’all that we did.’ I was real reluctant at first because that shyt was crazy hot and that was our Nas feature for our album. He was like, ‘I want to buy that shyt.’ After thinking about it for a while, we sold it to him. We figured his shyt would be bigger than our shyt and it’d be good promotion for us because it’s Nas.

“The rhyme that I had on there is actually the rhyme that I [originally] had on ‘L.A., L.A.’ I had took that verse off of ‘L.A., L.A.’ because it was just too hot. When we did the song ‘L.A., L.A.’ we all was rhyming on it, we all had verses, but when I had wrote that verse, I was like, ‘Nah, I can’t put this on here. This is too crazy right here.’ So I ended up just doing the chorus on that song, and Hav did his verse on there, and that was it. I took that rhyme and I put it on ‘Live nikka Rap’ like two days later.

“If you listen to the rhyme on ‘Live nikka Rap,’ I’m talking about California shyt. I said, ‘Got links with big cats down in Santa Barbre.’ Nore tried to jack my little style off of that too. That whole ‘Live nikka Rap’ verse, Nore tried to jack my shyt a little something [Laughs.]. If you listen to it, you’ll know what I’m talking about. But it ain’t nothing, that’s cool.”

 

[raw613]

perfect album for this time of year

 

[TheDarceKnight]

If we talking Mobb and Hell On Earth how can we leave out this gem which would have fit nicely on the album

Probably my favorite non album Mobb Deep song. Can't even believe it;s the same sample as Xxplosive. I can see why they left it off, because it isn't quite as dark as the rest of the album, but I always threw it on my burned CDs of the album as a bonus cut.

Method Man blacking out on Extortion
Theres just too many great moments to list. I don't really get overly excited/anxious discussing albums like that but Hell On Earth is different. .

Daps/reps. Great post.

The way Meth stops rapping and then comes back in? "Young, black, and don't give a fukk if the next crew get the scissor...Bottom line......"



BTW @Juven I'll still find that P and ALC song for you.

 

[3rdWorld]

Man Down..

I can't be the only one that fukks with it..

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Man Down..

I can't be the only one that fukks with it..

At one point it was in my top 3 on there. That's how you know an album is good when everyone has different favorite songs. Also, for the longest time I didn't know that General G on Can't Get Enough Of It was Illa Ghee.