Prodigy: I remember the day we came up with that name. We really wanted something to describe us. We were prophets but it really wasn’t a strong name for us. Havoc: It really didn’t fit us and what we were really about. What made you drop Poetical Prophets for Mobb Deep? We were so into it the same way and with the same amount of passion. As soon as we met we got right to work and music was our life. We clicked right away and I was like, ‘nah, we’re going to do this group thing now.’ They didn’t really want to do the group thing so we lost access to that studio. Prodigy: When me and Hav just met I had access to Battery Studio for a little while, because they had wanted to sign me as a solo artist. Q-Tip was one of the people that we met and took a liking to us and got us in the building to meet different people. Rush Management - what we would call RAL (Rush Associated Labels) back then - had many artists like Run-DMC, De La Soul, etc. One of them was Def Jam so we went up to Def Jam. We would look on the back of hip-hop albums that were out back then and get the addresses of the labels. We were real young and didn’t know too much about the business but we did know that we would have to go to record companies and have someone listen to our demo. And of course, we had to make a demo so we did ?.
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Havoc: We were figuring how to go about getting a record deal back when me and P first met and decided to become a group. Take me back to the beginning of Mobb Deep and your first attempts at acquiring a record deal. Its dark elements were the perfect soundtrack for a mid-90s walkthrough of North America’s largest housing projects, Queensbridge. Released April 25, 1995, The Infamous became a cornerstone of gutter gripping rhymes over production just as eerie. Q-Tip’s prowess and example helped Prodigy and Havoc put together their most critically acclaimed album to date and perhaps one of the darkest LPs the genre has ever experienced.īillboard recently spoke to the Infamous duo about their second album 20 years later. That same year the A Tribe Called Quest producer and Queensbridge duo began work on Mobb Deep’s Magnum Opus, The Infamous. It was then that their original mentor, Q-Tip, would fully reinstate himself within the Mobb camp. In early 1994, Prodigy and Havoc were dropped from their first record deal. Its adolescent nature was only fitting for how the duo spent their tenure at their first label home, 4th & B’way Records, admitting they were young and immature in retrospect. While it produced a couple of decent youth-inspired anthems, the Mobb’s first effort on wax was remembered as being more green than portraying anything from the dark side. They would become Mobb Deep and drop their debut album, Juvenile Hell, in 1993.
Def Jam was the New York hip-hop machine and their tour guide was none other than Q-Tip.Ī year later the duo - now known as Prodigy and Havoc - dropped their Poetical Prophets moniker for something darker. Barely at legal driving age, the two emcees were being walked into a world they knew little about. After umpteen denials someone finally decided to give the youngsters - who called themselves Poetical Prophets at the time - a listen and invite them inside.
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