RIP to P man. This day is forever burned in my memory. I remember it so vividly, because I was getting ready to go to Europe with my girlfriend the next morning. Earlier in the day I had just closed the biggest deal of my former career, I didn't think I'd close the deal until after the trip, so the trip seemed extra special and relaxing, because I wouldn't have to worry about the deal when I got back. The news hit me so hard that even on the first couple days of the best trip of my life I wasn't fully in the moment because I kept thinking about P's death.
Prodigy is the first person to die that I've never met that hurt as bad as it did.It sounds really corny but in many ways I felt like Prodigy was a kindred spirit, and he's one of the artists that influenced me as a person more than almost anyone.
I will be playing HNIC, Return of the Mac, Albert Einstein, HNIC 2, Hegelian Dialectic all weekend.And I can't think about Prodigy without saying RIP to Sean Price as well. Rest in Power, my two favorite P's.
EDIT: If anyone hasn't heard Hegelian Dialectic, it's a great way to commemorate P's final chapter. He was in a very spiritual and relaxed place. He drops a lot of wisdom and gems on that album, and the production is unique and different, in a good way. He was vibrating on a different frequency near the end of his life, and it's obvious on that album.