(He never even meets the girl he and his crew end up fleeing because they saw a tinted-window car and couldn’t tell if it was “the enemy”.) A year earlier, Mobb’s Queensbridge compatriot Nas dropped the instant classic Illmatic, which found poetry and cinematic grace in the neighbourhood’s troubles The Infamous did away with that pretense. In contrast, on the chillingly paranoid Infamous standout “Trife Life”, Prodigy’s potential hook-up with an old fling in Brooklyn means bringing “gats for precaution” and five friends for “manpower” in case it’s a set-up. The biggest single from Mobb’s first album, 1993’s largely forgotten Juvenile Hell, was the light-hearted sex jam “Hit It From the Back”. 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 traumatised 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. and others, it often painted street life in a heroic, triumphant light. When gangsta rap first bloomed under Schoolly D, Ice-T, N.W.A.
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