A biography for Prodigyhasn’t been written yet.
“Growing up in bad neighborhoods, you see and experience a lot.”
“We started writing songs like 'Shook Ones' and 'Survival of the Fittest' explaining our neighborhood, but more our personal lives.”
“I'm a big fan of Kurt Cobain. I put a picture of him holding a gun on my Instagram for his birthday. He's definitely one of my favorite rock artists.”
“I just remember the feeling of being dropped from Island and having our hearts broken. Because we were given a chance to put out an album to the world. We got the chance for people to know who we were. We wanted to make our dreams come true and do hip-hop for a living, but we didn't do it right.”
“To me, I got a bunch of haters. Mobb Deep - and Prodigy, speaking for myself - I got a bunch of haters.”
“I make all types of music. People wanna put me in a little box, and they get mad when I don't stay in there.”
“The sickle-cell got me where doctors said I couldn't play sports, I couldn't overexert myself.”
“I'm always vocal about people being unique and different in hip-hop.”
“The aggressiveness of it attracted me to hip-hop because I was angry inside. I was an angry kid because of the sickle cell. So I liked the anger in hip-hop. That's what attracted me to it; that's what made me want to do it. It helped me get my aggression out.”
“Don't get 'Return of The Mac' confused as a solo album. That was just a mixtape.”
“When we first signed to Loud, we had a 20-song demo. So all of those songs we wanted to put on the album. But we started making new ones, and through process of elimination, we wanted all the new ones. We didn't like the old ones no more.”
“We didn't have any problem with 2Pac. We liked his music.”
“We gotta keep our sound alive, that dark hip-hop.”
“'Mortal Kombat' was an ill game. I would always be either Reptile or Scorpion. Those dudes were ill. We used to stay up all night playing.”
“There isn't just one black experience out here.”
“Obama represents one-world government, a.k.a. Neocolonialism. Presidents don't change anything locally - they only deal with foreign policy.”
“I read certain things about history. I don't like fiction. I read about stuff that's real, stuff that's goin' on in the world.”
“That's probably the key to our success and our longevity, sticking to our formula and what we do best, the hardcore Mobb Deep sound, rather than chasing trains. But we're always experimenting with the art and the creativity of hip-hop.”
“Nas is like King Queensbridge: he's the man out there.”
“We'll never change the fact that we are hardcore hip-hop and we make rebellious hip-hop music, and we're going to keep doing that and progress with our production, progress with our lyrical styles, be creative, and just have fun with it.”