Older heads , what was the reaction like when Mobb Deep The Infamous first came out ?

[god shamgod]

I was a senior in high school when this album dropped yea,yea I know

I bumped the infamous,goodfellas(show and ag) and me against the world non stop in 95 until that east 1999 and junior mafia conspiracy albums dropped later that summer.I use to bang the start of your ending,right back at you,temperatures rising and drink away the pain DAILY

 

[BmoreGorilla]

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.

 

[H.S.]

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 never really thought about until now, but I can't even think about The Infamous without remembering their videos too. They weren't even over-the-top cinematic, but they fit the singles really well. The Hennessy jerseys. The army jackets. The bandanas and bulletproof vests. shyt was hard but still mad stylish.

 

[Truth200]

... 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.

It's crazy to hear someone as young as you have this experience 10 years after the Infamous came out.

This is what truly classic music is all about and there has been nothing like that before or since the Infamous & Hell on Earth came out.

As great as illmatic was back then musically i didn't think it was even close to the first two Mobb Deep albums.

Like you mentioned about the narration and vividness i never experienced anything like that in Hip Hop before.

 

[BXKingPin82]

I never really thought about until now, but I can't even think about The Infamous without remembering their videos too. They weren't even over-the-top cinematic, but they fit the singles really well. The Hennessy jerseys. The army jackets. The bandanas and bulletproof vests. shyt was hard but still mad stylish.

my homeboys aunt knew this graffiti cat in NYC named KC and had him do his denim jacket up with the e&j bottles, newport cigarettes, backwoods packs all drawn up on the shyt
shyt was dope as fukk
i think he may have had Spider-Man somewhere on there too
but yeah
fatigues and shyt was like the uniform back then
then they started droppin all the wild ass colors and shyt

 

[Big Mel]

I recall Infamous & Sittin on Chrome being out at the same time.

 

[Animal House]

More dope hip hop was the reaction

 

[UpAndComing]

Onyx also had that nihilism in their music. But they were aggressive with it while Mobb were kind of matter of fact about it.

Thinking about taking my own life
I might as well
'cept they might not sell weed in hell
and thats where I'm going
cause the devil's inside of me
they make me rob from my own nationality

 

[intilectual recipricol]

Crickets

 

[DMGAINGREEN]

Crickets

Damn B you was homeless ? That's unfortunate to be falling asleep and be bombarded by parasites , glad your back on your feet

 

[JayBaldacci]

good album but if nikkas are acting like it was some doggystyle hype then they're wrong.

Better than doggystyle

 

[intilectual recipricol]

Damn B you was homeless ? That's unfortunate to be falling asleep and be bombarded by parasites , glad your back on your feet

Nah, lil homie. No one was talking about it outside of one project building in NY

 

[RichYung]

My brother still has E&J bottles signed by Mobb Deep from back then. Lol

 

[Mastamimd]

It grew on me eventually man...I was more into West Coast and Southern hp-hop at the time but then I started to like basically everything. I thought it was a damn good album...grew to be one of the best that I own.

 

[Farrinto]

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.