Large Professor's career should have been so different. We were robbed!

[mitter]

I was listening to Breakin' Atoms and marveling at how great of an album it is. Then I thought of how Large Pro was just 19 at the time.

How crazy is it that he started the 90s doing a large chunk of the production for Rakim and Kool G Rap, then he released Breakin' Atoms. Over the next couple of years he produced Akinyele's album, made significant contributions to Illmatic, and had some other notable collabos (with Tribe, Diamond D, etc.) ...

And then he disappeared for basically the rest of the decade.

Yes, I know about his album The LP which was supposed to come out in 1996.

But still: Large Pro did so much in the first few years of the 90s (Illmatic came out in 1994, but I think Extra P's work was all done in 1992) by the age of 20, one would have expected him to be a mainstay for the rest of the decade. He should have had a discography like Primo. It's so strange how he became a non-factor at such a young age. I feel like the hip-hop world was robbed of some great music.

 

[Awesome Wells]

He was doing a lot of joints here and there in the 90's.

Akinyele's whole first album, tracks for Organized Konfusion, Mad Skillz, Tribe, Common, etc. But he never had the best output. He spends a lot of time deejaying and doing shows, more than he's going around producing for other artists. But he's still a legend and really one of the most Hip Hop-minded dudes in the game.

 

[mitter]

He was doing a lot of joints here and there in the 90's.

Akinyele's whole first album, tracks for Organized Konfusion, Mad Skillz, Tribe, Common, etc. But he never had the best output. He spends a lot of time deejaying and doing shows, more than he's going around producing for other artists. But he's still a legend and really one of the most Hip Hop-minded dudes in the game.

Yeah, but compare his output from 1990-1993 to the rest of the decade, and there is a huge fall off.

I remember back in the day when word got out that he was going to do some production on Stillmatic. My first reaction was "Large Pro is still alive?"

 

[AnonymityX1000]

He went thru some personal stuff and took "a vacation in the ghetto" he says so the slow down was on purpose to deal with real life shyt.

 

[Art Barr]

Large pro fell back for some undisclosed reasons.

Where oddly in this day and age.
his privacy was respected.


Art Barr

 

[mitter]

Large pro fell back for some undisclosed reasons.

Where oddly in this day and age.
his privacy was respected.


Art Barr

To be fair, his privacy was probably respected because he was not a huge star ...

 

[mitter]

He went thru some personal stuff and took "a vacation in the ghetto" he says so the slow down was on purpose to deal with real life shyt.

What was the personal stuff he went through?

 

[mitter]

 

[Juggalo Fred]

I was listening to Breakin' Atoms and marveling at how great of an album it is. Then I thought of how Large Pro was just 19 at the time.

How crazy is it that he started the 90s doing a large chunk of the production for Rakim and Kool G Rap, then he released Breakin' Atoms. Over the next couple of years he produced Akinyele's album, made significant contributions to Illmatic, and had some other notable collabos (with Tribe, Diamond D, etc.) ...

And then he disappeared for basically the rest of the decade.

Yes, I know about his album The LP which was supposed to come out in 1996.

But still: Large Pro did so much in the first few years of the 90s (Illmatic came out in 1994, but I think Extra P's work was all done in 1992) by the age of 20, one would have expected him to be a mainstay for the rest of the decade. He should have had a discography like Primo. It's so strange how he became a non-factor at such a young age. I feel like the hip-hop world was robbed of some great music.

He was still giving Non Phixion fire beats in the 2000s

 

[Ziggiy]

He had label issues. He spoke on it I think with Vlad that his label issues kind of fukked up his relationship with Nas because while Nas was ascending he was on the shelf trying to fight to get The LP released.



Other than that I don’t know why other rappers don’t want to rock with his production. Talib Kweli said in his interview with Cormega that he was visiting with Large Pro and Pro had a bunch of beats just sitting around and Talib was like “What you doing with all of these beats?” And Pro was like “No one wants them”.

 

[mitter]

That sample at the beginning fit "Mad Scientist" PERFECTLY. I know it was used on Busta's album later, but it really was incredible how Large Pro used it.