True or false. Prodigy was GOAT levels before the voice and energy change, pre HNIC.

[G Money]

Crime rhyme houdini P was a GOAT in his prime straight up and down.

P had his own style and was dropping real all time great QUOTABLE lyrics. None of that overly technical lyrical, miracle, spiritual bullshyt that some people prop up as "elite lyricism".

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

He still had it on HNIC and QB Finest compilation

 

[PIFF101]

Prodigy is

Give him his flowers

 

[OrdaineD]

He still had it on HNIC and QB Finest compilation

"Power Rap" is flawless .... power raps inside my skull cap....

 

[RichYung]

Yes.

 

[$cam-U-Well_Jack$on]

Agreed.

 

[Funcrusher]

Still some moments on HNIC, even though overall the album isn't as good as the Mobb albums that came before. Genesis might be my most listened to P solo song, still listen to it very often.
After that he basically became another rapper.

 

[ThirdAct]

True.

 

[Sean7]

I still have no clue how he fell off so hard from the HNIC era to the later albums he made after that, it's like his way to put words together and so on was just not the same and as you said he just sounded angry and was saying stuff and not rhyming all the time anymore. I liked some of his message though on HNIC 2 and it had some heat on it as did Hegelion Dialect which was one of his deepest albums message wise, he just seemed to lose his flow though and he was not nearly as nice as he was in his prime days as you mention.


What caused that fall off to that degree? IDK but he just never sounded the same and I still wonder to this day.... Prime P though was a top MC NO DOUBT, dude was up there with anyone around that time IMO.

 

[Sean7]

Still some moments on HNIC, even though overall the album isn't as good as the Mobb albums that came before. Genesis might be my most listened to P solo song, still listen to it very often.
After that he basically became another rapper.

Genesis was one of his real last shining moments IMO, great album but you could see traces of the fall off all over that album.... Love the production and overall feel and a few songs were vintage P but the decline started then with quite a few songs and his flow etc. was not nearly as flawless as before.

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

I still have no clue how he fell off so hard from the HNIC era to the later albums he made after that, it's like his way to put words together and so on was just not the same and as you said he just sounded angry and was saying stuff and not rhyming all the time anymore. I liked some of his message though on HNIC 2 and it had some heat on it as did Hegelion Dialect which was one of his deepest albums message wise, he just seemed to lose his flow though and he was not nearly as nice as he was in his prime days as you mention.


What caused that fall off to that degree? IDK but he just never sounded the same and I still wonder to this day.... Prime P though was a top MC NO DOUBT, dude was up there with anyone around that time IMO.

I’m imagining the sickle cell. It seemed like he just didn’t have the physical energy to push himself as hard as he did from 95-99…

He still showed signs in 2000 but by the time he recorded “Queens Finest” for CNN - The Reunion, it seemed the sickle cell had stricken him of the fire in his voice

Does his book cover this?

 

[Soymuscle Mike]

nikka was a Goat till the day he died nikka ain't never stop being elite
RIP

This.

 

[DetroitEWarren]

I still have no clue how he fell off so hard from the HNIC era to the later albums he made after that, it's like his way to put words together and so on was just not the same and as you said he just sounded angry and was saying stuff and not rhyming all the time anymore. I liked some of his message though on HNIC 2 and it had some heat on it as did Hegelion Dialect which was one of his deepest albums message wise, he just seemed to lose his flow though and he was not nearly as nice as he was in his prime days as you mention.


What caused that fall off to that degree? IDK but he just never sounded the same and I still wonder to this day.... Prime P though was a top MC NO DOUBT, dude was up there with anyone around that time IMO.

Definitely bro his delivery was so out cold and so energetic in the past then his voice became monotone and the delivery was completely different. His shyt was higher pitched and a lil scratchy back in the days, if you know what I mean. shyt like Mac 10 Handle was my shyt, but the style was a lot different.

I hate the fact that some of the greats styles and flow patterns were never followed. Nobody else has a Pac like style, nothing even close to relatable to his style and strengths. Prodigy either. Other rappers have multiple similarities to Nas, just far behind him.

 

[ThirdAct]

I’m imagining the sickle cell. It seemed like he just didn’t have the physical energy to push himself as hard as he did from 95-99…

He still showed signs in 2000 but by the time he recorded “Queens Finest” for CNN - The Reunion, it seemed the sickle cell had stricken him of the fire in his voice

Does his book cover this?

I think in the book he admitted he wasn't on his game for Infamy and it was just he had a lot of stuff going on in his life to really focus

 

[maxamusa]

1 of the worst style switch ups I can think of. still made some dope music after the fact but yea