Looking back, THE INFAMOUS was...

[mson]

During this era, I was in Cali. But what was it like living in NYC when classic after classic was dropping. Even underground classics

It was beautiful. There was a point when dropping a classic or near classic was the standard. We was out here. How was it from your perspective?

 

[Drew Wonder]

Havoc went in on the production, but Tip dropped the best beat on the album

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwRuVpZcBg0]Mobb Deep - Give Up The Goods (Just Step) [Instrumental] - YouTube[/ame]

 

[nineteeneightysix]

"Run for you life, or you wanna get your heat whatever
We can die together
As long as I send you maggot azz to the essense
I don't give a fukk about my presense"

Some of the illest most troubling bars in hip hop history

@ that level of anger and disgust...P was painting ghetto portraits for his generation..



I'm lost in the blocks of hate and can't wait

For the next crab n1gga to step and meet fate


So, why you wanna end your little life like this?

'Cuz now you bump heads wit kids that's lifeless

I live by the day only if I survive the last night

Damn right, I ain't trying to fight

P in his prime is easily Top 5 of that era...

1) Pac
2) Nas
3) P
4) Biggie
5) Snoop

And no, Jigga was NOTHING when the heavyweights were doing their thing...

Jigga only took over when rappers could rhyme "ha" the entire song and go platinum...ahahah

Jigga didn't bang with the Titans of the mid-90s...FACT

 

[Sunalmighty]

It was beautiful. There was a point when dropping a classic or near classic was the standard. We was out here. How was it from your perspective?

Just wish I could go back at times. I can never again recapture that time, but when I listen to music from that era, it's like that random scent you catch that reminds you of someone special, brings back memories. The Bay Area, or any area for that fact, cannot match the classics that the East put out at that time. They raised me off of their music. We weren't to shabby, the entire Hieroglyphics camp to me crafted timeless music during that era. We were spoiled, now Drake is a Top 5 emcee. That's cool and all, but I know that late 80s-90s era is tha GOAT

 

[ISO]

my absolute fav album of all time.

I think Q-tip was the special ingredient which made that album special and unlike any other mobb deep album. You can tell he had a heavy influence on the album and the overall mix and mastering of it all.

Just listen how prodigy and havoc's voices sounded on "Trife life." They had some storytelling ghostly phone effect on them. It was great.

Listen to "drink away the pain." You'll NEVER hear mobb rhyme over a beautiful jazz saxophone like that again.

Trife Life reminds me of DBZ when I was young and Goku and Vegeta formed Vegito, the way the voices came together shyt is sick!

 

[Francis White]

Q-tips production on this album is so overlooked, this plus them being real broke and hungry and living in the projects produced a real classic.

 

[AMcV'88]

i think most people that once they first heard this, it became their favorite album for a while.

 

[thatmbagrind]

As hard as it is to pick a favorite album, this might be it. This album hasn't aged a bit, these dudes were just HUNGRY. Production was top notch, BANGER.

 

[Danie84]

Definitely

 

[Solomon Caine]

''My little thug's selling drugs and he's struggling
The game got him bugging, I tried to tell him slow down cousin
But he vexed and nikkas getting wet up in the projects
But with no doubt, shorties out for his respect
But is his brain insane from the lye?
From smoking that 118 tiny tye
Why, a nikka just died last week
As he swore he was grown and he's a thug in the street
But it's like that, my crew pump cracks and we pack mac
His eyes is wild with the rezzy monkey on his back
But I'm stressed and he need to be blessed
With a firepack, don't even go there cause it ain't like that
Slow down baby, he said, what, you trying to play me?
You must be crazy, pulled out the heat and almost blazed me
Then he was Swayze, the shot must of dazed me
Thug selling drug, busting slugs, but he ain't crazy''


Noyd Explained

He wasn’t close to us but one of my friends that lived on our block, we don't really know what happened to him. We don't know if he got his marijuana spiked or some liquor he was drinking got spiked, but he kinda bugged out. He went from normal to where you couldn't even recognize him. He would say crazy things. He would still remember who everybody was, but he wasn't the same

One time he came up to me and started telling people that I owed him money, that he had given me a fukking brick. If you heard the story from him, you would think we were big-time drug dealers. The whole story was bizarre and that's when people started realizing there's something wrong with him. But it's an incident that really happened. When it was studio time, I had to get to the lab, and that was one of the things that was on my mind. Like, shyt You must be crazy/Pulled out the heat and almost blazed me.

 

[Ohene]

Ya infamous is an almost perfect album, but rzas stuff is so imaginative and vivid. Infamous seems plain by comparison.

You right, I reached with that one. Rza is the GOAT IMO.

You guys are idiots.

 

[Ohene]

i remember when i brought the cd on the day after christmas in 99 and when my mom found out, she took it back to the store. some months later, she brought me the tape and damn, that shyt was powerful. it changed my life. i think she did me a favor by not buying it but being a kid that was always curious, i just had to hear it. it didn't help that i was depressed as fukk at the time too. that's why i refuse to believe prodigy and havoc could fall off so hard after the clock hit 2000. i was extremely disappointed with prodigy's first solo album as after hearing the infamous, hell on earth and murda muzik. i expected p to put out a classic, instead he does something else and he sounded horrible on it too.

i used to idolize p where i wanted to be just like him but damn, dude ruined his own career.

Come on man. HNIC was solid. 4 mics at least to me.

Three
Delt w/
Can Never Feel my Pain
Infamouss Minded
Keep it Thoro
Gun Play
Diamond
Cant Complain

Nah. Great album. Few questionable songs like Rock Dat shyt but its still very underrated if anything.

 

[Ohene]

Havoc went in on the production, but Tip dropped the best beat on the album

Mobb Deep - Give Up The Goods (Just Step) [Instrumental] - YouTube

Lunacy. I'd put Temperature's Rising it over actually...but besides that


Shook Ones Pt. II
QU Hectic
Survival of the fittest
Cradle II the Grave are inarguably better if you ask me.

 

[mortuus est]

The beat for the Hectic song is evil, dont hear much like that these days

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

the infamous is a great album with dope features and anthems.

Loud records were dropping nothin but heat..

havoc was holding shyt down with his sound..