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Honestly, What's Prodigy Obsession with Prison
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I read Prodigy's autobiography. Shyt was so surprising. Didn't know the guy was from Long Island and that his fam actually came from money.
Ratboy was just a typical suburb nikka corrupted by hood nikkas. Him and Hav thorugh their music in turn inspired an entire generation of fukk ups
All this flexing and glamorizing prison is
The Infamous and Hell on Earth still bump though
Ratboy was just a typical suburb nikka corrupted by hood nikkas. Him and Hav thorugh their music in turn inspired an entire generation of fukk ups
All this flexing and glamorizing prison is
The Infamous and Hell on Earth still bump though
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4 of the Best Recipes From Prodigy's New Prison Cookbook, “Commissary Kitchen"
From prison surprise to sweet potato pie, Chef Boyar-P puts his own spin on classic jail dishes.
Jackson Connor Oct 11, 2016
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Photo: Teddy Wolff - photographer; Caitlin Levin - food stylist; Tischen Franklin - creative director
There’s any number of reasons why a man might learn how to cook in prison. On the inside, the food served during chow is notoriously low-quality, hopelessly bland, and served in meager, rationed portions. Cooking with commissary items like ramen noodles, canned tuna, and butter packets—as unappetizing as that may sound to some—allows inmates a small glimpse of the food they enjoyed on the outside, a hint of the flavor and seasoning their families enjoyed around the dinner table back home. The physical act of cooking—dicing, chopping, and baking ingredients in a toaster oven or microwave—also rings of the everyday normalcy lost on the outside, focusing the mind.
As true as all of that might be, for Albert “Prodigy” Johnson—one half of the legendary Queensbridge hip-hop duo, Mobb Deep—cooking in prison was not a luxury, or a form of escapism, but an act of survival.
Having suffered from sickle cell anemia since he was a child, Prodigy’s mind was immediately fixated on food after he was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison on gun charges in 2007. During his first day on Rikers Island, the rapper was sent to the infirmary with food poisoning, and it became clear that keeping a close eye on what went in his body would be a matter of life and death.
Now, some six years after his release from jail, Prodigy has released Commissary Kitchen: My Infamous Prison Cookbook, detailing exactly how he managed to eat healthy in a system designed to wear men and women down from the inside out.
“This book won’t make you a better cook, but it might make you a better person,” Prodigy writes in the introduction. “Because in a world where prisoners are treated like animals, we made our experiences there feel more human by how we prepared our food.
From ingenious recipes for how to make dumplings out of gooey elbow macaroni, to ketchup-soaked sangria, here are four of our favorite recipes from Prodigy’s Commissary Kitchen.
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- P's Clean Hands Sweet Potato Pie
Photo: Teddy Wolff - photographer; Caitlin Levin - food stylist; Tischen Franklin - creative director
Ingredients:Directions: For his sweet potato pie, P makes a crust out of finely-crushed graham crackers and melted butter packets. Then, he takes some yams (along with the “juice” from the can) and mixes it in a bowl with sugar and honey. After heating the filling in the microwave, and adding more butter, he spreads the warm yams over the graham cracker crust and toasts the whole ting for 25 minutes.
- Graham crackers
- Canned yams
- Sugar
- Honey
- Butter (five or six individual packets)
Prodigy's tip: “Eyeball it to see if you need more time.”
- P's Prison Potstickers
Photo: Teddy Wolff - photographer; Caitlin Levin - food stylist; Tischen Franklin - creative director
Ingredients:Directions: For one of the more creative dishes from Prodigy’s adventures in the kitchen, the prison chef boils a bowl of macaroni in the microwave until the pasta turns mush and “looks like shyt. From there, he makes little balls in his palm and flattens them out with his thumb, creating small dumpling pockets. He fills the dumplings with canned vegetables, hot sauce, and soy sauce, brushes them with butter, and toasts for three minutes.
- Elbow macaroni
- Can of mixed vegetables
- Butter
- Hot sauce
- Salt
Prodigy's tip: “Some inmates liked to make the dumpling batter with wet bread, but that looked gross to me. You could also add some canned chicken to the mix, but it takes twice as long to cook. These are fast.”
- P's Prison Sangria
Photo: Teddy Wolff - photographer; Caitlin Levin - food stylist; Tischen Franklin - creative director
Ingredients:Directions: While much has been written about making hooch in jail over the years, P’s fine-tuned his recipe once he was released, unwilling to risk adding any more time to his sentence. Once you have your fruits, the rapper suggests putting it in a sealable bag, “mashing it together until it looks fukking disgusting,” and then letting it sit in a bowl of boiling, microwaved water. Finally, wrap the bag in a t-shirt and find a place to stash it.
- Apples
- Oranges
- Mixed fruit cups
- Bread
- Ketchup
- Sugar
Prodigy’s tip: “After a few days, the bag should start blowing up, which means gas in there and it’s becoming liquor. Open the bag a little and add some ketchup and a ton of sugar.”
- P's Don't Try This At Home Prison Surprise
Photo: Teddy Wolff - photographer; Caitlin Levin - food stylist; Tischen Franklin - creative director
Ingredients:Directions: Though Chef Boyar-P is decidedly anti-ramen (too much sodium), prison surprise is one of the more legendary jail dishes around, and the rapper decided to bless us with a recipe all the same. Basically, the Doritos make a kind of cheese sauce once they’re crushed up and mixed in with the boiling noodles. The Jack Mack—or mackerel in a can—is rinsed off and placed on top of the noodles.
- Ramen noodles
- Doritos (you could also substitute with Cheez-Its or sliced cheese)
- Jack Mack (tuna works fine too)
- Hot sauce
Prodigy’s tip: “Good luck, yo.”
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Yo son word is bond thunn
Get off a nigguh dikk and watch yo mouth yo. You ain't putting food on my lil dunn's tables yo.
I almost decided to write a book on fables and then I remembered Aesop already came with that shyt.
Yall nikkas man....
RIP Killa Black. I know yo spirit was with me writing this shyt thunn.
I read Prodigy's autobiography. Shyt was so surprising. Didn't know the guy was from Long Island and that his fam actually came from money.
Ratboy was just a typical suburb nikka corrupted by hood nikkas. Him and Hav thorugh their music in turn inspired an entire generation of fukk ups
All this flexing and glamorizing prison is
The Infamous and Hell on Earth still bump though
Yo son word is bond thunn
nikka, I corrupt nikkas. They don't corrupt me. so you best watch yo mouth too yo.
That's word on my grandmoms dance school thunn.
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Wait so sweet potato pie doesn't have sweet potatoes in it
P Dub shines regardless
Quit hating op
Quit hating op
Wait so sweet potato pie doesn't have sweet potatoes in it
It really isnt
It is when you consider the academic definition of "culture" and apply it to hip hop...Like Filipinos like nursing, Black Americans have made selling drugs their niche profession, and being a felon is celebrated in Hip Hop music (which is considered Black Culture by the vast majority of Black People today)...
Currently, there is a HUGE debate about what is "Real Hip Hop" and what isn't, and the main argument is really in the sound, but when you take a listen to the lyrics as I have been doing recently, you will notice common themes in Hip Hop then and now are (1) making money doing crimes (predominantly selling drugs) (2) spending that money on shiny objects and materialistic women (strippers and etc) (3) Doing drugs (preferably smoking weed, but now it has escalated to doing opiates and opioids) (4) Killing other black people (5) going to jail (6) being from a dysfunctional family unit...
These themes are the SAME when you listen to KRS One and compare him to Chief Keef...
This the is DEFINITION of culture, behaviors and beliefs that are common to a group of people and passed on from one generation to the next...
This the CORE of Hip Hop culture...I mean, what do Hip Hoppers mean when they say "that n!gga is a real one"...We ALL know they mean he is most likely a felon who is "about that life" i.e. dealing drugs and shooting other Black people...
We know this...Even people who live in Germany and Australia and listen to Hip Hop know EXACTLY what is meant by being a "real one"...
This is the ugly part of Hip Hop that people always try to sweep under the rug with that silly "we are just reporting what we see on the skreets everyday" excuse...Which is bullsh@t...Because the same people we say that, get mad at Hollywood for only casting black actors in "what we see on the skreets everyday" roles...
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P is wild for that
It just dropped and it's getting good reviews on Amazon. It's not what I thought it was. Not sure I want to pick it up, but sounds like it can be helpful to anyone on a really tight budget (i.e.pantry food) or suffers from sickle cell anemia.
but this book is recent too ... with good reviews (and more of them):
He got some competition.
but this book is recent too ... with good reviews (and more of them):
He got some competition.
tears, P wildin
