1995 was a great year for hip hop music and albums like The Infamous prove that.
One of my domino-playing crew members played the album for us when it was released and I knew the album was a classic long before we reached Drink Away The Pain. What I didn't know was when I would get my own copy to add to my own collection.
The Infamous was leaps and bounds better and more significant than the 1993 Mobb Deep I remembered. The Infamous is a must-own.
A distinct memory I have related to Mobb Deep was a Source Magazine photograph of Havoc, Prodigy joined by Nas & Raekwon in what looked like a recording studio. I don't remember if that photo was in a magazine published before or after The Infamous' release but I remember thinking those four would be working on a sick track if it were recorded.
What an album! Temperature's Rising, Up North Trip, Give Up The Goods, Survival of the Fittest, Eye For An Eye and of course Shook Ones, Part. 2 await the listener and I nearly listed half the album off of memory.
The Mobb Deep magic would repeat with Hell on Earth but that is another album and potential post.The duo celebrated some twenty years of hip hop music history.
Now, we celebrate the life of Prodigy who passed away June 2017.
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