For most individuals, getting sent to prison is a curse. For Albert "Prodigy" Johnson, it was a "blessing." "Everything happens for a reason," said Prodigy, half of the legendary Queens, N.Y., rap duo ...

My junior year of high school, I’d grown so self-conscious about the size and shape of my head that the mere thought of the bus rides to and from school and to and from basketball games induced ...

The accomplished screenwriter also worked on ‘NYPD Blue’ and ‘The Temptations.’ 22 hours ago Two weeks ago, new of Prodigy's passing came like a cold gust in the night; without the proper physical (or ...

From one of the biggest names in rap, the first memoir of the golden era of hip-hop, revealing a hidden side of today’s biggest rappers and industry executives as well as shocking allegations of ...

The tragic passing of New York City rap icon and Mobb Deep co-founder Prodigy on Tuesday has elicited endless outpourings on social media and radio station playlists--even some musical ones. Rap fans ...

In the same week that The Game and 50 Cent ended their decade-plus long beef comes photos of Prodigy and Tru Life together on a New York City rooftop, doing the same. "Welcome home @therealtrulife ...

Ayo, the hood broke my heart into pieces / Dunn, the streets took my dreams and shattered them and turned me into a preacher I believe that rappers know something the rest of us don’t. They think and ...

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, ...

Rappers are rarely as economical in conversation as they are in song. A good rap song thrills in its precision, its measured sentences overstuffed with images and ideas, delivered with a kind of gusto ...

When the Prodigy’s third album, “The Fat of the Land,” arrived on American shores in 1997 and topped the charts, it represented a new genre that gleefully terrified the country. The Prodigy — fronted ...

Busting onto the scene in the mid 1990s, hip hop duo Mobb Deep quickly ascended from being two inner-city youths to one of the most revered groups in hip hop. My Infamous Life takes a look at ...