Older heads , what was the reaction like when Mobb Deep The Infamous first came out ?
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Lord Mecca
Eyes May Shine
Same here.... I grew up a big Boot Camp stan.... had no idea that the dude featured on U Da Man was a part of my one of my (soon to be) all-time favorite rap groups.
good album but if nikkas are acting like it was some doggystyle hype then they're wrong.
nah, breh. I don't think anybody saying that.Its amazing, though. When you say it like that, the only shyt that really sold all over from 1993 to 1996 and had THAT kind of impact all over the place was Doggystyle. The Chronic, and arguably E. 1999 Eternal.
I really count the whole Pac/Biggie point from 96 to 97 as it's own shyt....
they died and their last official joints came out and hip hop changed into something else entirely.
LandryFieldsDad
All Star
This album came out a year before I was born so I obviously wasn't present for the impact this album had , but I first heard this album when I was like 13 in 09 and it has never left my rotation sinceThis is personally my favorite rap album of all time because at the time when I first heard it I was already knee deep into the street life engaging in foul acts so this album described everything I was going through at that time frame so accurately it was almost damn near scary especially Trife Life because I had got set up by a girl on Myspace which led to AIM and we were scheduled to met by the 5train on Dyre ave but I ended up getting jumped by four people .
Up North Trip resonates with me as well because I did 18 months when I was 15 for assault and possession of a firearm , only thing I ain't go upnorth I went to a juvenile detention center in the same borough but still lol (Shoutout to my Horizion cats btw)
QU hectic is another gem just off the stregnth of how P started off the verse "I open my eyes to the streets where I was raised as a man"
I know alot of posters in the booth are 80s babies so they can recall when this album came out and how the public perceived it , I'm wild eager to hear ya' stories .
i was in the diner on dyre this morning
salute
The 20 year anniversary thread on this album was great
cd needed theft protection on that shyt
let a muthafukka in the crib at that time you better keep that disc in your pocket til that nikka leave
shyt will forever remain in my rotation
let a muthafukka in the crib at that time you better keep that disc in your pocket til that nikka leave
shyt will forever remain in my rotation
I'm from the hood but i'm not a street cat at all. I was like 13 when Kanye dropped College Droput and I was 
at an album i could relate to on more than a literal sense.
But around that time I finally got around to watching 8 Mile and you know Shook Ones II is in the movie and in the soundtrack. Beat had me like
peep the 8 Mile soundtrack (I know.. I know) the rhymes have me like 
I download the rest of The Infamous album off Kazaa or someshyt.....
.... nikka.....
...... I spin that shyt 3/4 times like
... Start of your ending is so mean. My eyes are open but it feels like i'm the New York projects in '93 as I journey through the album with P and Hav as my narrators and main characters. By the way P is the hardest, ruggedest street villain ever. It don't matter that he 5'5 and gets his chain snatched and snuffed on the regular. The brother IS invincible and is painting the hardest, vividest pictures I had ever heard at that point. Like he's not even telling stories in a literal sense a lot of the time... he's just living life.. being wreckless, telling me about his day to day with the odd short anecdote.. it's some amazing shyt brehs.
Also the album is hard.. but at the same time it's pretty soulful. So while cold it does have a warped heart. Temperature's Rising is a cold ass subject... but that bass.. it's heartfelt breh.
I like a number of Mobb albums but none of them hit me in the gut like The Infamous. Strong candidate for Best Hip Hop album of all time. For me, it's the best album by a non top-tier hiip hop artists (Jay, Nas, Big, Kast, 2Pac, Wu etc.) edging out OB4CL as an individual Rae album.
at an album i could relate to on more than a literal sense.But around that time I finally got around to watching 8 Mile and you know Shook Ones II is in the movie and in the soundtrack. Beat had me like
peep the 8 Mile soundtrack (I know.. I know) the rhymes have me like I download the rest of The Infamous album off Kazaa or someshyt.....
.... nikka........... I spin that shyt 3/4 times like... Start of your ending is so mean. My eyes are open but it feels like i'm the New York projects in '93 as I journey through the album with P and Hav as my narrators and main characters. By the way P is the hardest, ruggedest street villain ever. It don't matter that he 5'5 and gets his chain snatched and snuffed on the regular. The brother IS invincible and is painting the hardest, vividest pictures I had ever heard at that point. Like he's not even telling stories in a literal sense a lot of the time... he's just living life.. being wreckless, telling me about his day to day with the odd short anecdote.. it's some amazing shyt brehs.Also the album is hard.. but at the same time it's pretty soulful. So while cold it does have a warped heart. Temperature's Rising is a cold ass subject... but that bass.. it's heartfelt breh.
I like a number of Mobb albums but none of them hit me in the gut like The Infamous. Strong candidate for Best Hip Hop album of all time. For me, it's the best album by a non top-tier hiip hop artists (Jay, Nas, Big, Kast, 2Pac, Wu etc.) edging out OB4CL as an individual Rae album.
People will probably clown me but the first time I seen the video I wasn't really paying attention and just caught lines here and there. Based on that I thought they were from the west coast, because the over all vibe of the song was a lot darker and more direct than usual "street" NY rap.
Went to the mall and picked up the single a couple days later.
I'm from the mid west so they wasn't super popular out here. I was the only person at my school that I know of that had it. But everyone that listened liked it.
Fred.
Went to the mall and picked up the single a couple days later.
I'm from the mid west so they wasn't super popular out here. I was the only person at my school that I know of that had it. But everyone that listened liked it.
Fred.
I'm from the hood but i'm not a street cat at all. I was like 13 when Kanye dropped College Droput and I was
But around that time I finally got around to watching 8 Mile and you know Shook Ones II is in the movie and in the soundtrack. Beat had me like
I download the rest of The Infamous album off Kazaa or someshyt.....
Also the album is hard.. but at the same time it's pretty soulful. So while cold it does have a warped heart. Temperature's Rising is a cold ass subject... but that bass.. it's heartfelt breh.
I like a number of Mobb albums but none of them hit me in the gut like The Infamous. Strong candidate for Best Hip Hop album of all time. For me, it's the best album by a non top-tier hiip hop artists (Jay, Nas, Big, Kast, 2Pac, Wu etc.) edging out OB4CL as an individual Rae album.
I like this. I know this is a Mobb thread, but how would you analyze OB4CL?
Frida Giezman
Banned
I was gonna say they kinda started east coast gangster rap with this album
Not really but the way they rapped about the streets and violence was like nothing I ever heard before
They made it sound so real
while Mobb were kind of matter of fact about it.
Back then, North Carolina took a lot of its cues music and fashion-wise from NYC, so I remember hearing the singles rocking everywhere. I think cats really embraced The Infamous around my way because it brought you into NYC more so than any other rap album up to that point, or even since.
West Coast Avenger
West Coastin & Smokin
This was copped on release day from the Wherehouse....back then they had flyers on the counters for certain releases and this was one that was circled....BET back in the day was the fukking shyt...along with the Box and Yo MTV raps...Mobb Deep's videos were very intriguing to me and I loved their production along with the lyricism...I was out in LA so this wasn't a mad scramble to get or hyped release....but when I popped this in my cd player....
....I still have the original cd somewhere at my mom's house....I can't even count how many times I lent it out for nikkaz to dub on tape........best believe I got that shyt returned to me even single time though....one of my all time favorite albums....
....I still have the original cd somewhere at my mom's house....I can't even count how many times I lent it out for nikkaz to dub on tape........best believe I got that shyt returned to me even single time though....one of my all time favorite albums....
muzikfrk75
#4080
I remember exactly where I was the first time I heard "Shook Ones Pt II".....I was like holy shyt