I liked the anger in hip-hop. That's what attracted me to it; that's what made me want to do it. It helped me get my aggression out. | | | | Prodigy at the Hammerstein Ballroom, New York, Nov. 29, 2007.
(Jason Kempin/WireImage/Getty Images) | | | | | | “I liked the anger in hip-hop. That's what attracted me to it; that's what made me want to do it. It helped me get my aggression out.”
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| | rantnrave:// He entered our lives as an old-school, actually-been-there actually done-that street poet with "an almost Ivy League confidence in birthright, experience, and rhymesmanship." He leaves, much too soon, with an unfinished musical about the illuminati and a recently published prison cookbook. In between, there were feuds, breakups, anger, jail time, reconciliation, and some of the most miraculously lyrical and hard-hitting rhymes anyone in NEW YORK, or anywhere, has ever delivered. PRODIGY put his lifetime in between the paper's lines, as he himself once said. The sickle cell anemia that he fought from birth to death—at age 42—was dragged beneath the paper's lines, too, through a catalog of work that was as personal as it was influential, as prophetic as it was in-the-moment, as tragic as it was magnetic. MusicSET: MOBB DEEP's Prodigy: The Voice of New York... The average SPOTIFY subscriber paid the service $30 less in 2016 than in 2013, reports MUSIC BUSINESS WORLDWIDE's TIM INGHAM. He pins that on international expansion and "aggressive price promotions"... That hasn't prevented Spotify from continuing a three-year acquisition spree in which it has spent over $120 million... KATY's WITNESS slighty outstreams TAYLOR's 1989 in the first week for both on streaming services... CHRIS CORNELL's bittersweet final video... RIP also: BAM BAM CARTER and PAUL ZUKOFSKY. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| B-boying. Breaking. Breakdancing. Hip hop made it. | | |
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| In case you still haven’t recognized and accepted him and Hav’s contributions to the rap game, Prodigy has included a comprehensive list of trends that can be traced back to the M-O-B-B in his latest blog post. | | |
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