![]() The biggest single from Mobb’s first album, 1993’s largely forgotten Juvenile Hell, was the lighthearted sex jam “Hit It From the Back.” In contrast, on the chillingly paranoid Infamous standout “Trife Life,” Prodigy’s potential hookup with an old fling in Brooklyn means bringing “gats for precaution” and five friends for “manpower” in case it’s a setup. Throughout the album, released when Prodigy and Havoc were just 20 years old, the pair don’t come off like cinematic heroes they seem like traumatized teens just trying to survive in Queensbridge-America’s largest housing project, right over the bridge from Manhattan’s old-money Upper East Side. Mobb Deep’s 1995 classic, The Infamous, shattered those fantasies. The protagonists were larger than life, mythical, and had the women, luxury trappings, and over-the-top stories to prove it they were victors with spoils. ![]() ![]() When gangsta rap first bloomed under Schoolly D, Ice-T, N.W.A., and others, it often painted street life in a heroic, triumphant light. ![]()
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