Mobb Deep News

Since 1991's Grand Upright Music Ltd. vs. Warner Bros. case , most non-Puff Daddy producers have been wary of sampling well-known source material.

When a local hip-hop artist takes the initiative to remix one of the sacred scriptures of Golden Age Hip-Hop, it's usually a cringe-worthy affair exposing the remixer as a talentless hack with delusions of grandeur.

ONE & BUCKSHOT unveil the first song off their highly anticipated album "SURVIVAL SKILLS" in stores August 25th on Duck Down Records.

As evidenced by Jay-Z 's decision to showcase an old picture of Mobb Deep 's Prodigy in leotard in 2001, HOT 97 's annual Summer Jam can always be counted on for a few surprises.

Mobb Deep released back-to-back stone-cold classics with their debut, " The Infamous," and its followup, "Hell on Earth." Both were hollow, stark and menacing, with neck-snapping beats punctuated by the trife-life rhymes of Queens MC/producers Havoc and Prodigy.

Rap, like any other genre of music, isn't always straightforward. The message hidden within the layers of densely packed rhymes can be rather elusive.

It is 10 years since Mobb Deep released their Murda Muzik project; it is a year and change since Havoc 's partner in crime was shipped off upstate to sit steady on gun charges, but life stands still for no man.

A Queens-bred rapper is suing a Manhattan music company from behind bars for allegedly failing to pay him more than $30,000 and plunging his family into foreclosure.

Prelude To A Legacy 3.27.09 - Saigon Posted by Fred Richani on 03.27.2009 Who would have thought a supporting character on HBO's Entourage could have so much potential to change the face of hip-hop? Fred "The F-Bomb" Richani drops you some knowledge on the man they call Da Yardfather! Saigon is kind of famous.

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Prelude To A Legacy 3.07.09 : G-Unit Posted by Fred Richani on 03.07.2009 When people think of rappers from Queens that have had a large impact, Nas and Mobb Deep first come to mind.

Baba Brinkman's "Rap Guide to Evolution" is not as good as the masterful "Rap Canterbury Tales" he's brought to past Rogue Festivals -- but it's still an entertaining and provocative show at which Fresno is ...

With a long career as one half of Mobb Deep [ click to read ] and a well-respected career as a producer, Havoc would naturally want to branch out and try his hand at solo albums.

Pete Polack, aka 'Syre Dedeye,' may one day do for Clinton what Jack Kerouac did for Lowell: put it on the map as the hometown of a revolutionary artist.

The $10 cover can seem like a far stretch nowadays. But at the Living Room's Tuesday party called 'I'm With That,' party promoters wanted to create a recession-friendly environment with no cover, $5 pupu menu ...

When I was a teenager, all I ever longed for was to live in a world where it was socially acceptable, nay, a social requirement , to frequently burst into song.

Hip-Hop website OnSmash.com acquired, what's being billed as the official tracklist to 50 Cent' s Before I Self Destruct album.

In 1995 two then 18-year-olds were featured in The Source magazine's coveted 'Unsigned Hype' column.