Prodigy is the name of more than one artist. For the electronic group, plea… Read Full Bio ↴Prodigy is the name of more than one artist. For the electronic group, please correct your tags to The Prodigy.
1) rapper from Mobb Deep
2) group fronted by Todd Duane and Lale Larsen
3) 90s teenage rapper
4) 70s powerpop from Minnesota
5) US progressive/power metal
6) lounge jazz, alias of Miki Litvak
7) 90s US metal
8) US rapper in The Dominion
1) Albert Johnson (born November 2, 1974 in Bradford, Brooklyn, New York and died on June 20, 2017 in Las Vegas), better known by his stage name Prodigy, was a member of the hip hop duo Mobb Deep. Prodigy worked as a solo artist since the early 2000s. He was born to parents of Ethiopian and Jamaican descent. Prodigy was born with sickle cell anemia and suffered from the disease throughout his life. Propelled to awareness partially by fellow Queens, New York rapper Nas, who took a similar approach lyrically on his championed "Illmatic" album from 1994, as well as with the aid of a successful single, "Shook Ones Pt. 2," Mobb Deep suddenly found themselves developing a quickly growing cult. A year later, in 1996, Prodigy and Havoc released "Hell on Earth"; debuting at number six on SoundScan, the album found them fully realizing their approach, dropping both evocative beats and cinematic rhymes that communicated the dark side of New York's urban landscape. Thanks to a grim video for "Hell on Earth (Front Lines)" and theatrical Scarface-like photos inside the CD booklet picturing the duo with guns and a mound of cocaine, Mobb Deep had created an elaborate image for themselves that took hardcore gangsta rap to a new level for East Coast hip hop. Their next release, "Murda Muzik", was heavily bootlegged while still in its demo stage, leaking rough versions of the nearly 30 songs the duo had recorded onto the streets and over the internet.
Months after the bootlegs leaked and after several pushed-back street dates, "Murda Muzik" was formally released, debuting at number three on the Billboard charts and quickly going platinum on the strength of "Quiet Storm," a song that epitomized the Mobb Deep style. The album was welcomed by critics, who again lauded the group's lucid cinematics, driven primarily by Havoc's production. In late 2000, Prodigy finally released his long-rumoured solo album, "H.N.I.C.", which saw the more lyrically gifted member of the group collaborating with outside producers such as The Alchemist and Rockwilder on tracks that didn't depart far from the trademark sullen Mobb Deep style. Their follow-up, "Infamy", was the duo’s last album for Loud, distributed by Columbia Records and was, for some, a disappointment lyrically and musically, while others praised it as amongst the best rap albums of the year. Loud was absorbed by its new distributor shortly afterwards.
Mobb Deep then signed with Jive, under a unique deal that gave the duo its own imprint, Infamous Records, and released "Amerika'z Nightmare", a very uneven effort, which featured production by The Alchemist and Lil' Jon. However, despite a successful single that featured a Thomas Dolby sample. The duo was not happy with Jive, and were let go at its request. The duo took a hiatus afterwards and came back in 2006, signing to 50 Cent’s Interscope/Universal-distributed G-Unit imprint. Their well-hyped "Blood Money" was a failure from the money side when compared to fellow label mates like 50 Cent, Young Buck and Lloyd Banks. Some accused the duo of selling out, with their beats and rhymes not up-to-par with previous efforts on Loud.
He completed work on his third solo album "H.N.I.C. Part 2", which was previewed on his official mixtape "The Return of the Mac" on the independent label Koch Records. The mixtape single and mixtape video are called "Mac 10 Handle," and it shows Prodigy once again reverting to his trademark braids that he had prior to the release of Mobb Deep's 2004 "Amerika'z Nightmare" album; different from the short fade he had from 2004 to 2006. "H.N.I.C. Pt. 2 was released through Voxonic Inc., of which Prodigy is an equity holder.
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1) rapper from Mobb Deep
2) group fronted by Todd Duane and Lale Larsen
3) 90s teenage rapper
4) 70s powerpop from Minnesota
5) US progressive/power metal
6) lounge jazz, alias of Miki Litvak
7) 90s US metal
8) US rapper in The Dominion
1) Albert Johnson (born November 2, 1974 in Bradford, Brooklyn, New York and died on June 20, 2017 in Las Vegas), better known by his stage name Prodigy, was a member of the hip hop duo Mobb Deep. Prodigy worked as a solo artist since the early 2000s. He was born to parents of Ethiopian and Jamaican descent. Prodigy was born with sickle cell anemia and suffered from the disease throughout his life. Propelled to awareness partially by fellow Queens, New York rapper Nas, who took a similar approach lyrically on his championed "Illmatic" album from 1994, as well as with the aid of a successful single, "Shook Ones Pt. 2," Mobb Deep suddenly found themselves developing a quickly growing cult. A year later, in 1996, Prodigy and Havoc released "Hell on Earth"; debuting at number six on SoundScan, the album found them fully realizing their approach, dropping both evocative beats and cinematic rhymes that communicated the dark side of New York's urban landscape. Thanks to a grim video for "Hell on Earth (Front Lines)" and theatrical Scarface-like photos inside the CD booklet picturing the duo with guns and a mound of cocaine, Mobb Deep had created an elaborate image for themselves that took hardcore gangsta rap to a new level for East Coast hip hop. Their next release, "Murda Muzik", was heavily bootlegged while still in its demo stage, leaking rough versions of the nearly 30 songs the duo had recorded onto the streets and over the internet.
Months after the bootlegs leaked and after several pushed-back street dates, "Murda Muzik" was formally released, debuting at number three on the Billboard charts and quickly going platinum on the strength of "Quiet Storm," a song that epitomized the Mobb Deep style. The album was welcomed by critics, who again lauded the group's lucid cinematics, driven primarily by Havoc's production. In late 2000, Prodigy finally released his long-rumoured solo album, "H.N.I.C.", which saw the more lyrically gifted member of the group collaborating with outside producers such as The Alchemist and Rockwilder on tracks that didn't depart far from the trademark sullen Mobb Deep style. Their follow-up, "Infamy", was the duo’s last album for Loud, distributed by Columbia Records and was, for some, a disappointment lyrically and musically, while others praised it as amongst the best rap albums of the year. Loud was absorbed by its new distributor shortly afterwards.
Mobb Deep then signed with Jive, under a unique deal that gave the duo its own imprint, Infamous Records, and released "Amerika'z Nightmare", a very uneven effort, which featured production by The Alchemist and Lil' Jon. However, despite a successful single that featured a Thomas Dolby sample. The duo was not happy with Jive, and were let go at its request. The duo took a hiatus afterwards and came back in 2006, signing to 50 Cent’s Interscope/Universal-distributed G-Unit imprint. Their well-hyped "Blood Money" was a failure from the money side when compared to fellow label mates like 50 Cent, Young Buck and Lloyd Banks. Some accused the duo of selling out, with their beats and rhymes not up-to-par with previous efforts on Loud.
He completed work on his third solo album "H.N.I.C. Part 2", which was previewed on his official mixtape "The Return of the Mac" on the independent label Koch Records. The mixtape single and mixtape video are called "Mac 10 Handle," and it shows Prodigy once again reverting to his trademark braids that he had prior to the release of Mobb Deep's 2004 "Amerika'z Nightmare" album; different from the short fade he had from 2004 to 2006. "H.N.I.C. Pt. 2 was released through Voxonic Inc., of which Prodigy is an equity holder.
www.hnic2.com/
Medicine Man
Prodigy Lyrics
I don't write rhymes I write prescriptions
For your addiction
Audio fixation my flowtation is like morphine
Through the bloodstream
Generic rap just not potent like P
Jeez it's not music this medicine and
I'm not a rapper I'm a medicine man
More like a gifted holistic mystic
But try to kick my habit and get dope sick
Cause I'm embedded in your bones
You in denial if you don't jones for more P
Yeah shortly he'll be coming back I know
He'll be havin' them cold sweats
With the runny nose and the bubble guts
I give you couple puffs of
This fire right here
You'll never get enough
In 66 it was all about smat
76 marijuana was the trend 86 was crack
96 and 2000 right now is that medicine man
Put me in your sound device
And turn me up loud
When your adrenaline rush your feeling me now
I may cause rowdiness but not drowsiness
Keep out the reach of children
I'm a bad influence
I make them bastards grow up faster
And start askin' questions that
You can't answer and
I make grown women feel young
Make your pops wanna hang out wit
Us and hit the club
Take you on a natural high
You never come down
Distinctive it doesn't have a taste or smell
Something like the air we breathe
You can't see it but it's there
You die without it you need it
When you under the influence of me
Careful cause you might just crash g's
Total your V still pull my CD out the changer
You fucked the range up
But you still need that medicine man
You a addict for me but pretend like you not
See I don't fuck up lungs
And leave track marks
Niggas be closet fiends and down-low fanatics
Embarrassed to admit that they got a P habit
Cause they women get curious
They wanna know what that hobby like
Baby believe the hype
Its the upper most echelon
My baby this is what it feels like to climax
That other shit stepped on
And this is what you been missing
After all of these year
Now you can tell the difference
Get spoiled after fuckin' with me
Cause now the only thing you
Want is top quality
I'm discernibly dope it's murder she wrote
The first try
I got you stuck off the realness the illness
That sick'em all rap more sicker than smack
More powerful than anything
Its that medicine man
For your addiction
Audio fixation my flowtation is like morphine
Through the bloodstream
Generic rap just not potent like P
Jeez it's not music this medicine and
I'm not a rapper I'm a medicine man
More like a gifted holistic mystic
But try to kick my habit and get dope sick
Cause I'm embedded in your bones
Yeah shortly he'll be coming back I know
He'll be havin' them cold sweats
With the runny nose and the bubble guts
I give you couple puffs of
This fire right here
You'll never get enough
In 66 it was all about smat
76 marijuana was the trend 86 was crack
96 and 2000 right now is that medicine man
Put me in your sound device
And turn me up loud
When your adrenaline rush your feeling me now
I may cause rowdiness but not drowsiness
Keep out the reach of children
I'm a bad influence
I make them bastards grow up faster
And start askin' questions that
You can't answer and
I make grown women feel young
Make your pops wanna hang out wit
Us and hit the club
Take you on a natural high
You never come down
Distinctive it doesn't have a taste or smell
Something like the air we breathe
You can't see it but it's there
You die without it you need it
When you under the influence of me
Careful cause you might just crash g's
Total your V still pull my CD out the changer
You fucked the range up
But you still need that medicine man
You a addict for me but pretend like you not
See I don't fuck up lungs
And leave track marks
Niggas be closet fiends and down-low fanatics
Embarrassed to admit that they got a P habit
Cause they women get curious
They wanna know what that hobby like
Baby believe the hype
Its the upper most echelon
My baby this is what it feels like to climax
That other shit stepped on
And this is what you been missing
After all of these year
Now you can tell the difference
Get spoiled after fuckin' with me
Cause now the only thing you
Want is top quality
I'm discernibly dope it's murder she wrote
The first try
I got you stuck off the realness the illness
That sick'em all rap more sicker than smack
More powerful than anything
Its that medicine man
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