“Shook Ones, Part II”—Mobb Deep
60 Songs That Explain the '90s
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Prodigy Is One of the Best Rappers of All Time
I think that he actually might be the greatest MC ever at opening and closing verses. He's a guy who when we talk about song craft, you talk about rapping as rapping versus song writing. Prodigy is not someone who was putting out these huge top 40 records. And to do it over that sound that have it mutated from the Herbie Hancock record is really unbelievable. I think they made things darker in a lot of senses.
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