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ALBUMThe Wise & Lakid - SingleJay Royale, Havoc & Mobb Deep
Albums by Mobb Deep
ALBUMMobb Misses Pt. 2Mobb Deep
ALBUMBlood MoneyMobb Deep
ALBUMAmerikaz NightmareMobb Deep
ALBUMInfamyMobb Deep
ALBUMMobb MuzikMobb Deep
ALBUMMurda MuzikMobb Deep
ALBUMHell On EarthMobb Deep
ALBUMThe Infamous (25th Anniversary Expanded Edition)Mobb Deep
ALBUMJuvenile HellMobb Deep
Mobb Deep's Popular Music Videos
Shook Ones
Mobb Deep
Hey Luv (Anything)
Mobb Deep & 112
Quiet Storm (feat. Lil' Kim) [Remix - Official Video]
Mobb Deep
Outta Control (Remix) [Alternate Version]
50 Cent featuring Mobb Deep
Survival of the Fittest
Mobb Deep
Get Away
Mobb Deep
Have a Party
Mobb Deep featuring 50 Cent & Nate Dogg
Henny (Remix) [feat. French Montana, Mobb Deep & Busta Rhymes]
Mack Wilds
Quiet Storm
Mobb Deep
G.O.D., Pt. III
Mobb Deep
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Mobb Deep Essentials
The Queens-bred hip-hop group personified hardcore hip-hop in the '90s.
Artist Biography
Mobb Deep's murky, graphically detailed hip-hop made them one of the 1990s' most celebrated acts, every bit the artistic peer of stars like Notorious B.I.G. and Wu-Tang Clan. Havoc and Prodigy grew up in Queens but met as teenagers at Manhattan's High School of Art and Design in the early '90s, bonding through music. Their raw, unpolished debut, Juvenile Hell, got their feet in the door, but 1995's follow-up, The Infamous, forged their distinctive identity. Havoc produced haunting, suffocating sounds, and Prodigy delivered relentlessly violent, nihilistic rhymes with stone-faced intensity and inventive slang. Cinematic street credos like "Shook Ones (Pt. II)" made them a symbol of the toughness of East Coast hip-hop's golden era. Subsequent years saw beefs with 2Pac, Jay-Z, and Nas, but Mobb Deep never let up creatively: Hell On Earth (1996) was even more venomous than its predecessor, and Murda Muzik (1999) featured the canonical "Quiet Storm (Remix)" with Lil Kim. In 2006, the duo signed to G-Unit Records and released Blood Money, scoring assists from 50 Cent while adding sheen to their cavernous sound. They closed the decade on hiatus due to personal issues, releasing music individually until reuniting for 2014's double-disc, The Infamous Mobb Deep. Their eighth and final album was a completionist's bliss—17 new songs revived their signature street Darwinism and a batch of rare and unreleased 1994 sessions from The Infamous satisfied nostalgists. Prodigy died in 2017 after lifelong struggles with sickle cell anemia, and Havoc told Apple Music it feels "incomplete" to reminisce without his partner. But as acts like Roc Marciano and Griselda emulate the creepy melodies and unflinching menace that Hav and P pioneered, Mobb Deep live on.
Hometown
Queens, NY, United States
Genre
Hip-Hop/Rap