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Prodigy
12+ albums
electronicHip-Hopbig beatRaverap
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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
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