But we know people who know them, and they're cool people. We had a conversation with them about, how did they get the same name that we had? There was a bunch of confusion. ![]() We met them one time real early at this convention called Jack the Rapper. P: We never really got to hang out with them or anything. How did you guys get along with the other Havoc and Prodeje? But when you were starting out, there was another Havoc and Prodeje, guys in South Central Cartel. It's about secret societies and the government doing experiments on animals and different stuff like that. The name of the play is The Illuminatiīall. P: There's a play by this lady named Cynthia von Buhler. S: I read something about a play you're going to be involved in? There's a bunch of different novels I've got coming out. P: Right now, just writing a lot for the album, getting ready for this Hell On Earth anniversary, and writing books. We're doing Live at the Blue Note, it's going to be a live recorded album. S: What about the tour you have coming up? I know you have some special stuff planned for The Blue Note in New York City. I remember doing a song in there with Infamous Mobb back in the days. It was real laid out in there, right in the hood. I think I might have recorded one or two songs in there, too. P: I just remember being there with a couple of the homies. What are your memories of Power Play when you were getting started? He said that you used to hang out at Power Play at sessions that weren't yours, with artists like Large Professor and Kool G. I think he even did a little work on Juvenile Hell. S: The other day I talked to a guy named Anton Pukshanky, who was an engineer at Power Play Studios in Queens in the 1990s. It's definitely a blessing to be able to still rock out and do these tours and put out these projects, and people still feel it the same way and relate to it. We was just making music that we loved for us, and luckily people embraced it. When you guys were making that record, did you have any idea that it would connect with people enough that they'd still be talking about it two decades later? S: This whole three-album project is to support the tour that's coming up for the 20th anniversary of Hell On Earth. Some of them are Alchemist, Hav, and Harry Fraud. P: It's a whole bunch of different producers. I've known Roc for a while, because we were down with Loud Records back in the 90s. He's from Hempstead, Long Island, where I'm from, so it was only a matter of time before we did a song together. S: You have three songs on there with one of my favorites, Roc Marciano. So we're like, let's package it and put it on the album, so people can actually know about it and hear it. It was just a song that we did together and put it out on the Internet. That was one of those songs that might have flew under the radar, because it really didn't come out on anything. He was real cool with my people from Far Rockaway, so we linked up. We just did it, because Chinx was the homie. P: Those were songs that we had made just hanging out in the studio. S: You have a couple songs on the first volume that you did with Chinx Drugz, who sadly passed away last May. The cover art for "Tyranny," one of the bonus songs on 'R.I.P. The collections will be released as free downloadable bundles on BitTorrent and will also contain videos and other bonus material. The first volume is being released at noon on Friday and, like the others, contains unreleased or hard-to-find collaborations between Prodigy and a whole scope of artists, from the similarly gruff and streetwise Roc Marciano to the late Chinx Drugz to Hip-Hop Cash King Mac Miller to actor-turned-rapper Donald "Childish Gambino" Glover. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Mobb Deep's classic album Hell On Earth and the group's accompanying tour, Prodigy has teamed up with BitTorrent to release three albums' worth of songs, 45 in total, as BitTorrent Bundles under the name The R.I.P. So it's no wonder that he's still setting trends, but this time they are in technology. Since he was a teenager in the early 1990s, his powerful voice and concise, evocative lyrics have sparked legions of imitators, in his native New York and across the globe. Rapper Albert "Prodigy" Johnson, best known for his work with the group Mobb Deep, has always set trends.
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