Prodigy of Mobb Deep dead at 42

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The plan is still The Book of Heroin dropping in July and The Book Of The Dead by his birthday...Love yall. P forever.

The trilogy box set will have all the songs.
The breh @ClarkKO worked with P in some capacity on the last album and apparently Vols. 2 and 3 of the Hegelian Dialectic are coming out...and there will be a trilogy box set
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Whats p best lyrical album brehs excluding hnic? Been listening to murda muzik and hoe today. The dude was on some other shyt in that era :damn:
 

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You think it was the sickle cell why he kind of lost a lot of energy on records after that and lyrics fell a little ?

Seems like the only thing I can think of

There's multiple reasons. He also describes it in the book. During the recording of Infamy he started taking drugs, alcohol again. This polluted his mind. His spirituality wasn't right.

Another thing is that he wanted to go independent during the release of HNIC. He hated Steve Rifkind for selling Loud Records to Sony in 1999 (just before Murda Muzik release in August). Loud wasn't the same anymore (went from like 30 people to 400 and Steve Rifkind wasn't really in charge anymore) and Prodigy realized the real paper is made when you're independent. But Infamy was still part of their contract with Loud. So he had to do Infamy against his will it seems. So I guess an artist like P has to be fully behind a project otherwise he's lacking in his music ability. You can hear that on Infamy. Also the beef with Jay-Z didn't help because now he's dissing Jay-Z on half the album instead of dedicating one diss track. A lot of things that add up in Prodigy not being fully P on that Infamy Album.

Plus in an interview from just 3 months ago (by Quest on Pandora) he mentioned he had beef with real street dudes and he was armed and ready all the time. He described that this mentality polluted his mind and was on of the things why he started using drugs, alcohol again.

Edit: He also was working on Murda Muzik the Movie during this time period. That director Lawrence Page pulled out a gun on P and demanded more money. This resulted in shelving the Movie. P was mad as hell about that and this resulted in him taking drugs and alcohol again
(stress results in old systems/habits creeping in again trying to take control)
 
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