Prodigy of Mobb Deep has died at age 42. A publicist for the group confirmed to XXL that he was found unconscious this morning.

He apparently had some sort of health crisis two days ago, and hip-hop as a whole has known P struggled with sickle cell disease for most of his life.

For his entire career, Prodigy was a master wordsmith, handling the lyrical heft for Mobb Deep while Havoc paved the way as one of New York’s premier producers.

We send our condolences to P’s family, friends and colleagues.



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This one hurts. Just as he was going through an artistic renaissance via Albert Einstein and now he's gone.

RIP to a legend and one of the most quotable lyricist's EVER.

By the time he got to Murda Muzik it was clear the progression on the first 3 Mobb albums wasn't a fluke. He's in the same class as Redman, as far as being more gifted than his subject matter would reveal.

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I don't like the beat anymore because its just a loop. ALC didn't FLIP IT ENOUGH!

Flip it enough? Flip these. Flip off. Go flip some f*cking burgers.(c)Kno

Allied State of the National Electric Beat Treaty Organization (NEBTO)

I know...shocked...Lucky to have seen the Mobb perform live a few years ago...damn...

That was my boy. Feels like my soul was icepicked.

Like, it's knocked the pause into me real quick here at my desk. Getting misty.

R.I.P. to a great lyricist. Some of the best and most memorable verses ever. Peace to his whole family and all his friends.

The Infamous - Hell On Earth - Murda Muzik was one hell of a classic run.

Without a doubt top 5 of the 90s

Nas/Wu/Mobb ran shit.

So much classic material from albums to guest spots to compilation joints.

Rest In Peace Pee.

in that moment. That whole album was nothing but taipan venom from top to bottom. The day I bought it and played it, my eyes popped out at how consistent he was over the whole album.

...really felt like we got to know him better thru that podcast too ..RIP

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One of the absolute greatest.

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"There's a fine line between persistence and foolishness..."
-unknown

"To Each His Reach"

I'll be playing "Up North Trip"

we losing our artists way too early

this is devastating...rip

Apostles warning verse popped in my mind for some reason. God bless fam. One of my favorites. Will be bumpin Hell on earth on the way home from work

I'll be honest that the recent passing of legendary musicians hasn't affected me as much as it has others, I loved them all but they didn't hit that perfect combination to me personally like he did of having made great music, having made great music at an age that I was able to really immerse myself in it, having been at their apex when I was at an age to appreciate it, being able to see their direct influence on other artists and the music, giving regional pride at a silly, unfortunate time when it felt necessary, being close enough in age to them where the music and lyrics provided a somewhat cathartic and vicarious experience and not just fantasy.

He wasn't my favorite MC, Mobb Deep wasn't my favorite group, I'm from New York City but not Queens, but he's from that era where I just felt so much, if not everything was straight heat and Mobb Deep was at the forefront of it all to me

I hate to sound selfish but it hurts to lose that emotional part and time of your life. My first reaction to this wasn't to play his music but to text my own brother and tell him I love him.

RIP to a legend, he created some of the greatest hip hop of all time.

He was literally the main reason I wanted to go to this years Roots Picnic, I always wanted to see him and Hav live.

42 is young.

This sucks man.

RIP P

RIP, P!

this really, really burns. One of the GOAT.

RIP Prodigy from Mobb Deep. The Infamous & Hell On Earth were benchmarks for 90's rap and will always remind me of a time when the planets in our cosmos were aligned perfectly and NY Hip Hop was king. My day is ruined

The number of deceased musicians in my catalog is getting disturbingly large.

When The Infamous album was out... some of the best years of my life..

Similar to Ernie Barnes nigga
But mines is more ghetto
More guns; more drugs
Mostly thugs
All my duns, their baby moms daughter and sons
Dark blocks, with streets lamps shot the fuck out
Park benches is broke, a nigga stretched out
Jumped off the roof and fell to his death it's real
Hand Ball walls displayed with R-I-P murials
Those who sling, play the shadows by the building
Devils spring, keep em going while the snows blowing
Grams get dipped, 50's is moked, cookies is broke
And Spliced in large pieces for the fiends to smoke
The sun set looks beautiful over the projects
What a shame, its ain't the same where we stand at
If you look close you can see the bricks chipped off
Sometimes niggas miss when they lick off don't get clipped off
Street life

Damn damn damn, I can't believe Prodigy is gone, he was that emcee that embodied the essence of Queensbridge thug-ism, he was in his own lane with him & Havoc.

I will miss him a lot, but his music will live on forever.

i remember waiting the hour or so that it took so i could listen to that track that i'd heard on BET or MTV earlier that day. still one of my favorite Mobb Deep tracks. P kills that shit. RIP.

For all of the folks who don't have access to this interview on QLS

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-w8eEH3SpMlNnJpNDVsT0RySEE

Mods: Feel free to delete it if necessary...

RIP

always dug his voice and where he was coming from. prayers go out to his family, friends and fans.

RIP to one of the greatest ever.
He told us on HNIC, we could never feel his pain.

FUCK man - this one hurts like hell.

Keepin' It Real
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ra0QpzrxAYg

You'll notice that Q-Tip used a part of the first verse on "Common Ground"

That was my JOINT!!!!

That and "Hectic"

"I Want You"...wow.

RIP The H.N.I.C

Remake of "Feel Like Making Love" by Robeeta Flack, been used quite a few times.

he used it there too, excellent song.

werd.

Whatever, party over tell the rest of the crew (c) Prodigy

RIP Prodigy...this one hurts.

...East Coast rap in the '90s.....

Rest In Power.....Prodigy.......

Obviously the Mobb stuff are classic, but he had a great solo career too. Big loss for hip hop, man.

41 replies to a hip-hop legend's RIP post is just proof of the sad state of The Lesson. GD's post has more than double the replies.

I'm actually surprised at the response here and in all honesty, disgusted.

and couldn't give less than a damn about anything else. I haven't enjoyed a Mobb album in full since Murda Muzik (or Mobb Muzik, as the clean version states) but I'll be damned if I'm not gonna give it up for Prodigy. As an emcee he put too much work in over almost 3o years, but these people don't care about shit like that unless public opinion tells them to.

werd.

just the body of work alone and how continuous and how he evolved. his lyrics were getting deeper and deeper in content and meaning as time passed on.

Really hope he went peacefully and pain free. Music just lost one of the great ones.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/7841926/prodigy-mobb-deep-atlanta-newscasters-tribute

Biggie...Pac...Phife joints are great too

all you negros that think Illuminati stuff is funny or stupid, don't come in here with your shit

https://youtu.be/zGz5spcStJs

really messed up... Mobb Deep is one of my favorite groups of all time... P passing away takes me back to the Infamous album... when a brother was broke...trying to make it...that album was like my motivation music...


man and P was coming with it recently on these mixtapes...the latest one is super timely coming too with all the BS .... I bumped this for like a week when this came out.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbxfiVWSpMA

P was preachin man....

rest easy dun...

listened to alot of Mobb in college to keep my edge. Along with Boot Camp.

I was never the biggest Mobb Deep fan but "infamous" is undeniable and while "hell on earth" was the last thing I wanted to hear muscially *and* lyrically upon release, if you remove it from the context and era it was created in, it's about as strong follow-up to an undeniable classic as it gets...

Really dug "Albert Einstein" too...

Either way, as a rapper, dude nailed a particular, era-specific vibe/aesthetic better than practically anyone not called Nas or Raekwon...

Like Guru, Heavy D, Nate Dogg, Phife,......Prodigy isn't even that much older than me! It's bugged. Quiet Storm will forever be my anthem.

and the fact that the only reason he isn't here now is because of a misdiagnosis. That really hits me in a soft place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_93BCCS59Y

n*ggas in they face just for livin."

Anti-gentrification, cheap alcohol & trying to look pretty in our twilight posting years (c) Big Reg


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i cant listen to Mobb or P right now, it hurts. I'm *just* getting over Sean Price's passing.


Rest in Power , Prodigy.

#mobbdeepforever #bandanaP

I hope they catch whoever did it.

https://massappeal.com/prodigy-mural-queensbridge-defaced-paint/

Queensbridge Prodigy Mural Defaced with White Paint

Sky-high disrespect levels

Last week, in the wake of the tragic and sudden passing of Mobb Deep rapper and Queens native Prodigy, artists Jeff Henriquez and Eli Lazare—collectively known as Eli-Eos—painted a mural of the late rap legend across the street from the storied Queensbridge Houses project development. Overnight however, the mural was defaced with splashes and streaks of white paint, leaving area residents with quite the eyesore in place of the initial ode to their hometown hero.

The paint was likely thrown onto the mural during the wee hours of Saturday morning, as a Queensbridge Housing resident confirms to Mass Appeal that as of midnight it had been untouched. The mural was painted over a span of several days last week on the side of an Urban Upbound location where 13th St. meets 40th Ave, across the street from the housing projects. Though Prodigy isn’t originally from Queensbridge—he first lived in the nearby LeFrak City complex after moving to Queens from Long Island—his joining forces with the other half of Mobb Deep, Havoc, led to the late rapper spending an immense amount of time in and around the popular Queens residence. Along with fellow Queensbridge rep Nas, Mobb Deep was instrumental in making Queensbridge a near-mythical part of hip hop lore in the 1990’s and beyond.

Henriquez and Lazare have plans to hold a candlelight vigil in front of the mural—which depicts Prodigy bearing his “Mobb” and “Deep” forearm tattoos in his signature pose—on July 13 according to DNAInfo. The artists did not immediately return Mass Appeal’s request for comment.

it's weird to me that there would be anyone who at a minimum at least respected Prodigy and Mobb Deep...

https://youtu.be/APt23Ery1Qs

CHECK THIS SONG, HATE THE BEAT AND THE CHORUS BUT HIS WORDS ARE EERIE.
Prodigy - Last Words
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfT80Qconqs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo0l7RuxZNM