Prodigy of Mobb Deep was a major figure in establishing and defining the sound and image of hardcore New York City rap. Mobb Deep, with classic albums like The Infamous, Hell on Earth, and Murda Muzik ...
Like most of the world, I first encountered the rapper Prodigy in a debris-strewn lot outside a slumping, graffiti-covered building on a dimly lit and dangerous-looking corner of New York City—the ...
On Tuesday, the Queens-raised rapper and producer Prodigy died, at the age of forty-two. The cause of his death has not been revealed, but Prodigy, who was born Albert Johnson, spent his life battling ...
Few voices in Hip Hop carried the weight of lived experience like Albert “Prodigy” Johnson. Born in Hempstead and raised in Queens, Prodigy came from a family steeped in music (his mother sang with ...
When Keith Flint died in 2019—it seemed over. What was left of The Prodigy? “I didn’t actually remember speaking to Maxim that much for probably a year, or probably months on end,” Liam Howlett says, ...
News broke today (June 20) that Queens rapper Prodigy passed away at age 42. Born Albert Johnson in Hempstead, N.Y., Prodigy formed the duo Mobb Deep with rapper-producer Havoc in 1992 out of the ...
Before we had the Internet, we had a sort of proto Internet in the form of Prodigy, which was created in 1984 as part of a joint venture between IBM, CBS, and Sears. Over at the Atlantic, Benji ...
One of the most heartbreaking stories of 2019 has been the suicide of Prodigy vocalist Keith Flint. Despite the death of their iconic singer, the Prodigy will continue making music, as the heavy ...