I went to an Art & Design High School for, ultimately, architecture, but I was good at the arts, drawing, stuff like that. I didn’t know about going to old shops that sold vinyl records. That was my world of digging at that moment. He always had records spread across the floor, and I knew I needed records to sample. He was no one famous he just loved to play records. What I was digging through were records that Prodigy had, from his grandparent’s stash and records my father had. I had no idea people were digging for records. You have to keep in mind I’m a new producer if you could call me that at that time. We hit both ends of the spectrum with, and it was revered. That resonates with people who didn’t grow up in that situation and resonates even more with people that have. If you think about it, what made this album stand the test of time is, you can hear that vibe and automatically assume this is not made up. You’re listening to these two guys who are very honest about who they are and where they’re from. If I lived somewhere in the suburbs, maybe the sound would’ve been different, but it would’ve been my story. It’s taking your life and hitting the beat machine. Take all those things I just mentioned and go to a beat machine you could almost predict what would come out. And through it all, kind of embark on a music career.
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You hustling a little crack here and there or making fake crack and selling that to crackheads. As I said, the environment was that of a lot of drama, passion, weed smoke, alcohol, and parents that were addicted to crack. It either made you weak, or it made you strong.Ībsolutely, man. It was one of those places that built character.
Everybody knew everybody directly or indirectly. You had to be careful who you stood next to you had to know who had beef and who didn’t. You had your drug dealing and your drug selling. The 41st side of 12th Street and Queensbridge was one of those blocks, like every other hood in the projects. Tell me about growing up on the 41st side. I didn’t give it any real thought our sound was a reflection of my environment. I could’ve easily gone in a commercial direction, but my environment wouldn’t let anything commercial come out of me. Well, I didn’t know what sound I was going to cultivate at that time. It was just one of those, aha moments-the lightbulb went off.Įven though Mobb Deep’s sound and style are darker and aggressive, you knew you wanted to be on the stage?Ībsolutely. Seeing Treach perform, just how animated he was, it boasted what I wanted to do and who I wanted to be at the time. I always saw the Apollo on TV, so when I went, as a spectator, I was wishing to be on stage. It was the first concert Prodigy, and I went to together, and my first time in the Apollo. I can’t remember the exact year, but it had to be around ’91, ’92. You saw Naughty by Nature at the Apollo Theater, right? When did you see them perform? I can consciously remember listening to music around 6 or 7, but it wasn’t until 10, 11 that I pay attention to it. Is that when you started to get into hip-hop? Around that age?
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