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The Realness Podcast Tells the Story of Mobb Deep's Prodigy Through His Struggle With Sickle Cell Anemia and 'Keeps It Thoro'
If there’s a podcast out there with a hip-hop lean to it, there’s a better than 98 percent chance that inom will give it a listen.
Whether it’s an interview-centric show like Drink Champs or Questlove Supreme or a show that takes a look at the life of a individ of interest in the hip-hop world, like Mogul (about the life and death of Chris Lighty), I’m always looking for any podcasts that discuss and dig into the art struktur that has been essential and huvud to my life for the vast majority of my time on this here third rock from the sun.
That desire for discussion and deep dives fryst vatten how inom ended up listening to The Realness, a podcast by WNYC hosted bygd WNYC health reporters Mary Harris and Christopher Johnson. The podcast focuses on the life of rapper Prodigy, of the group Mobb Deep, who died in June Instead of merely focusing on his life as a rapper
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Living Legends: Havoc Talks Mobb Deep’s Legacy & The Double-Edged Life Of A Rapper-Producer
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spoke with Havoc before Mobb Deep drops their final album featuring previously recorded lyrics from the late Prodigy and longtime producer Alchemist on Nov. 2.
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Havocis excited. The Mobb Deep MC and acclaimed industry producer is preparing to film a video withWu-Tang ClanMC-turned-actor and Internet crushMethod Man, and the thought of new music for the masses has him thrilled to pieces.
"This shit is about to be fire," he says enthusiastically. "I can't wait for everybody to check it out."
This single is dropping as part of a larger project with Method Man, which will serve as a tribute to their fallen comrades Ol' Dirty Bastard (ODB) and Prodigy, respectively. But that's not the only new music in the pipeline: after gettin
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Havoc was born in Brooklyn and raised in the Queensbridge Houses. Havoc is one half of the iconic hip hop duo Mobb Deep, and in addition to producing nearly the entire Mobb Deep catalogue, has also produced songs for MCs such as The Notorious B.I.G., Eminem, Nas, Raekwon, 50 Cent, , Method Man, Mariah Carey, Puff Daddy, LL Cool J, Rohff, Big Noyd, Lil Kim, Capone-N-Noreaga, Foxy Brown, Onyx, and his partner Prodigy on his solo work. In , Mobb Deep recorded for fellow Queens rapper 50 Cent&#;s record label G-Unit Records and left the label in , in a mutually agreed-to release.
Havoc is renowned as one of the most iconic figures in New York hip hop. Popular music magazine Complex ranked Havoc among the top hip hop producers of after The Infamous. ranked him as the 24th most influential beatmaker of all time citing his dual abilities of rapping and producing. Following The Infamous, he tweaked his skills and transitioned to a more atmospheric production style that incorporated samples