The cluttered cover of soon-to-be-incarcerated Mobb Deep member Prodigy’s sequel to 2000’s H.N.I.C. is a Where’s Waldo-style mural of the myriad reasons the Queensbridge MC is a target for hip hop cops and the fashion police alike: pills, needles, gambling, and bizarre asymmetrical jackets with black and white stripes on one side, and red zig zags on the other.
I love it. Give P a break. The G-Unit thing didn’t do sh*t for him, the Hip Hop Cops are on him like nobody’s business, he’s got sickle-cell, he’s going to jail for 3 years. Hell, he never quite recovered from Jay’s Summerjam big-screen rip. But he’s a NYC rap god who actually earned it and he’s not doing some played “Yo check out my chain while I look threatening” record cover (could there even be some introspection implied in the syringe/broken syringe, bottle/smashed bottle dichotomy?). How is it a problem he’s flaunting the reasons NY’s finest is illegally monitoring his every move? He’s paying for it anyways, he ought to go upstate with his middle finger lofted high. Plus that asymmetrical jacket is ill in the best way.
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Also, Prodigy really seems to be going all out trying to rile up the internet before his stint upstate, because he also posted a batshit crazy blog entry where he claims to have invented, among other things, music blogs themselves. Sadly, his list of trendsetting exploits failed to contain “first rapper to be stripped naked during a robbery by another rapper.”
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It’s really a shame what’s happened to Des’ree’s old neighborhood.
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OK, I’m going to be the “Oh, I thought it was that Prodigy! Gasp!” guy.
How many months until album covers reach the Netscape vs. IE in 1998 levels? Can album art have blinking text?
@Camp Tiger Claw: Hot tea in lap, spilled because of laughter out loud.
I’m not sure what’s worse: that style of clothing which is beyond borderline ridiculous, or that the people who wear it would kick the shit out of me if I brought it up.