After his release, he dropped three more solo albums and a final Mobb Deep album, 2014’s The Infamous Mobb Deep, before passing away in 2017 from complications related to sickle cell anemia. Three more albums with Mobb Deep came out in the 2000s, but in 2007, Prodigy was sentenced to three and a half years in prison on a firearms charge.

Mobb Deep put out two more albums in the ’90s, and Prodigy dropped his first solo LP, H.N.I.C., in 2000 that album showed off his emergent conscious side. Mobb Deep’s first album arrived in 1993, followed in 1995 by The Infamous, a groundbreaking East Coast hip-hop album that helped set the scene’s menacing vibe. In 2000, before Prodigy released his official solo debut album, H.N.I.C., he teamed up with DJ Whoo Kid to drop his first ever solo mixtape called H.N.I.C. He met Kejuan Waliek Muchita, later known as Mobb Deep’s other half Havoc, while the two were classmates at New York City’s High School of Art and Design in the early ’90s. On H.N.I.C., his first solo venture outside of Mobb Deep, Prodigy collaborates with a long list of featured guest rappers, many of them from his Queensbridge stomping ground, and he also works with a variety of producers, most notable among them the Alchemist and Rockwilder.

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Born Albert Johnson in Hempstead, NY, in 1974, Prodigy came from a family of musicians. Listen to The Hegelian Dialectic 2: The Book of Heroine by Prodigy on Apple Music. Prodigy helped shape New York rap in the 1990s and beyond, both as a solo artist and as a member of the legendary duo Mobb Deep.

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