Eight years removed from Prodigy’s untimely death, Mobb Deep is heavily in the air right now. The NYC hip hop duo’s classic 1995 album The Infamous just topped Pitchfork’s The 100 Best Rap Albums of ...

Debates in hip-hop are common; even those not crammed into the dark corners of rap-focused internet discussion forums know about the “top five” debate. Another common, but more granular, version of ...

A new lawsuit reveals that Mobb Deep may be in deep trouble. The rap duo have been named in a lawsuit from hardcore punk band Sick of It All for using their logo without their consent, Hypebeast ...

Before the legendary Prodigy‘s untimely death, he and his Mobb Deep partner Havoc were out on the Art of Rap Tour. The tour kicked off at the Downtown Las Vegas Events Center on Saturday (6/17), which ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mobb Deep’s “Shook Ones, Pt. II” beat has been crowned as the greatest in the history of Hip-Hop. As part of its Hip-Hop’s ...

On this date in 2001, Queensbridge crime rhyme giants Mobb Deep released their fifth full length studio album Infamy on the Loud and Columbia imprints. The project arrived during one of the most ...

"Flipping in the ghetto on a dirty mattress." Long before Lauryn Hill spit those lyrics, depicting the mixed bag of injustice and ingenuity that comes with inner-city living, Kejuan Muchita, the ...

On this date in 1996, the infamous crew from Queensbridge known as Mobb Deep released their third studio album Hell On Earth. The project, produced entirely by Havoc and Prodigy and released through ...

The music of Queensbridge’s iconic hip-hop duo lives on through original rapper Havoc.

Those of us who grew up in the golden age of gangster rap, and are now entering our 30s, have begun to wonder whether we’ll always listen to this stuff. When we’re filling old folks’ homes and wishing ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. If rap is the new rock, then older rappers ought to inspire the same respect as classic rockers. But that’s not ...

Rapper Prodigy, a member of the New York hip-hop duo Mobb Deep, has died. He was 42. The rapper’s publicist said in a statement Tuesday that Prodigy was hospitalized a few days ago in Las Vegas “for ...