How Embarrassing was Mobb Deep's - "Hey Luv"

[Rapmastermind]

You guys do realize this song is the reason the album went Gold and it's one of their biggest hits on the charts? Also 112 has worked with some of the Biggest rappers. The song was good, it's just we don't expect Mobb to make a crossover joint like this. But if people were listening to Mobb like I have you would know they already tired to cross over with the Mariah Joint. Yes they were out of place on it but I didn't hate on the song cause 112 is a really good group. The beat was straight too. "Infamy" was Mobb's last best album, it's way better than "America's Nightmare and Blood Money".

 

[The Ruler 09]

compare classic naturally created collaboration tracks to a contrived wack embarrassing track brehs

You have a point, All I Need sounds much more natural and less forced than Hey Luv.

 

[904]

I remember me and my homeboy were looking hard for those Timbs back in high school

 

[SoulController]

the beat was iight, but yea the overall track was lame. Infamy was a letdown

 

[AMcV'88]

P thinking he was being smooth on this joint but he was trying to woo her sounding like a menace and a threat.

 

[ucanthandlethetruth]

Song ain't that bad.

beat was alright but the song was akward as hell to hear mob deep make a song for the hoes i think thats what it was

 

[Truth200]

It's funny because in hindsight I think Mobb has made worse "commercial" songs like the shyt with Lil John and some of the songs on Blood Money, etc. 112 wasn't bad. The instrumental itself isn't a soft beat or anything like that. Havoc did his thing.

But this was the first time the public really heard Prodigy's thugged out spoken word style that made people say he fell off. I vividly remember imitating Prodigy's verse really monotone in high school and pretending to fall asleep and wake back up while rapping it.

At the time yeah, everything about it was bad at the time. Takeover was already making Mobb look bad, then this song didn't help, then Prodigy falling asleep on the song and rapping different on Infamy didn't help. The video made it much worse too. The song on its own wouldn't have been as bad.

They should have dropped Get Away after Takeover came out. This was NOT the next song to drop. Perception is reality, and Jay made Mobb Deep look not so great on there (and Mobb Deep is y favorite group of all time), and then Nas made Prodigy look bad too on Stillmatic. So they were getting shyt from all angles and then dropped this song that on its own might not have been as bad.

Mobb should have just said fukk it and dropped Crawlin or some kind of response after Jay and Nas went at them. Even a hard record like Get Away would have been good.

I agree with this post.

They went from making Hell on Earth which is the highlight and pinnacle of this genre of music.

To making a song like 'hey love' and throwing away a GOAT type of legacy.

 

[California Burrito]

nothing is worst than this



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[Truth200]

nothing is worst than this



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Yea that got to be the worst.

 

[Gains]

they fell off after Murda Muzik

 

[Izanami]

Prodigys decline from murda muzik to infamy, still goes down as one of the biggest hip hop tragedies. That fall off

 

[Danie84]

Embarrassing...Hey Luv was one of the few standouts on Infamy

...it's highschool senior year again

 

[UpAndComing]

Song ain't that bad.

I know right, OP going overboard
I swear some of these fans want their fav artists to only rap in a vacant lot with fire burning in garbage cans

 

[Stacks]

Played this joint only a few days ago and was + remembering school days

 

[ORDER_66]

I know right, OP going overboard
I swear some of these fans want their fav artists to only rap in a vacant lot with fire burning in garbage cans