Mobb Deep-Infinite (Coming 10/10) Official Thread

[mobbinfms]

yall think ROTM or Albert Einstien is better?

Both classics, but I would go with ROTM.

 

[Ziggiy]

I think the lack of hooks nowadays is less of a stylistic choice and more so exposes the lack of songwriting ability and creativity from a lot of these modern street rappers.

So basically they suck

 

[mobbinfms]

Working out listening to the Infamous Mobb Deep album from 2014. On vinyl with all the features.
Another classic

 

[HNIC973]

yall think ROTM or Albert Einstien is better?

ROTM Rotten Apple>>>>>>>>>>>.

 

[neomerge]

Best album of legends series by far. Only thing I woulda liked to see was an infamous Mobb feature.

 

[mobbinfms]

Yep. @L $ C we still wanna hear Freddie. I Saw him and Alc perform last night. He’s a true emcee’s emcee, despite him being a degenerate lol. He was the drunkest I’ve ever seen a performer but still rapped that rapid fire flow for 90 mins straight without a hype man and he didn’t miss a god damn word.
elite rap shyt

One of the most impressive shows I’ve seen. They played 90% of all the songs on Alfredo 1 and 2 plus some of his tracks with Madlib.

Alc posted a video of that show on IG. shyt looked crazy
Lot of good crowd shots. You might see yourself in it, if you were close to the front.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

yall think ROTM or Albert Einstien is better?

I go back and forth all the time. I honestly think Albert Einstein is a little bit better on the rapping side, but it's also just longer and more music overall (and way more features), and the musical styles on there are a little more varied. Albert has that almost sci-fi psychedelic space rock vibe to it. Lots of European prog samples and shyt like that.

Mac obviously has all those soul sample chops and Blaxploitation loops, and the rhyming is a little more simple, but it's just so hard, and I've got so much nostalgia for it. It was my favorite project of 2007. And if you look back at it, it was a big sign of things to come with some of the raw loops on there without added drums (Rotten Apple, Nickel and a Nail), and lots of collage layering of samples (Stop Fronting).

I honestly think Einstein is a slightly better project (P was 100% a better rapper on Einstein than Mac.), but I've been listening to Mac a whole lot this year.

RIP P

 

[OGBobbyJohnson]

shyt is candidate for aoty
50 would’ve been perfect on Mr Magic Havoc a 99 ovr production wise on this

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Even though he was a member of the group, what 9th did for Little Brother could be argued as a catalyst for the “one producer per album” discussion

I might push back a little bit on that, because 9th was actually a part of the group and they formed it as a trio, and I felt like they were a continuation of groups like Gang Starr.

Madlib and MF DOOM as well in 2004. That was a big one.

If anything, the stuff 9th was doing for Murs, Jean Grae, Buckshot, Skyzoo, etc, in the 00's is one of the first times I remember a producer grabbing lots of different rappers from different regions and with different styles in order to custom make different albums for them.

 

[spliz]

Y'all in here giving credit to all the wrong people.
Y'all should know by now a thing doesn't become A THING till a certain somebody does it.
This is not about being factual (in terms of who brought it back first) it's about who moves the culture. Sorry that ain't Muggs Spitta Currensy Cormega or Freddie

Future is who I credit for making it a thing again for this era. Nas n Hit brought it back for the older heads .

Quite certain Jay wasn't the first rapper to rock a button down with jeans. But HE made it thing

Quite certain Nas wasn’t the first person to refer to the Cuban Linx album as the Purple Tape. But HE made it a thing

Also, them Nas n Hit albums killed the 40 n still Rapping narrative. That notion is dead n outta here. Never mind that KRS 1 never stopped releasing albums. But again, it's about who has the influence..

Everybody ain't got the power to move the culture...Just because they did it first

It was NOT Future who made it a thing that's cap. nikkas was already heavy into it during that scene by the time Future was getting hot doing it and if u don't remember. ALOT of these cats came thru Spitta on his mixtapes from Wiz, to Gibbs, to Big Sean, to Nip etc etc. Spitta had famous industry rappers hopping on his shyt like Ross, Wale, French, 2Chainz etc etc. Him and Roc the most influential underground rappers of the 2010s generation bar none. Spitta had influence on cats like Playboi Carti n all that. Spitta was the one making certain producers either get hot or have a resurgence such as Alchemist, Ski Beatz and Cardo Got Wings. There was a whole movement behind Spitta so don't just act like he was just some nikka who did it first with no influence. He didn't do it first. But he DEF had the influence.

 

[Zero]

Writin' in my nocturnal journal to a dark beat
On a cold dark night, I came up with these
Four hundred words that best describe me
And my lifestyle, I'm not like you, I'm unique
In the twilight, I shine bright and get my mind right
I was born under the full moon
And I'll die starin' up at the cosmos
Laid out 'til my heart come to a stop and then my eyes close
I lived a full life, don't cry for me
A real-life king of New York, the top of the heap
I did songs with Mary J. Blige, my nikka
Mariah Carey, Big Pun, and Nas, my nikka
I did tours with Biggie Smalls, my nikka
Eminem, 50 Cent, I did it all, my nikka
The shows, the hotels, and the afterparties
When that sun goes down, yeah, the moon shine for me

 

[g-ice]

Writin' in my nocturnal journal to a dark beat
On a cold dark night, I came up with these
Four hundred words that best describe me
And my lifestyle, I'm not like you, I'm unique
In the twilight, I shine bright and get my mind right
I was born under the full moon
And I'll die starin' up at the cosmos
Laid out 'til my heart come to a stop and then my eyes close
I lived a full life, don't cry for me
A real-life king of New York, the top of the heap
I did songs with Mary J. Blige, my nikka
Mariah Carey, Big Pun, and Nas, my nikka
I did tours with Biggie Smalls, my nikka
Eminem, 50 Cent, I did it all, my nikka
The shows, the hotels, and the afterparties
When that sun goes down, yeah, the moon shine for me

Verse of the year

 

[mobbinfms]

I might push back a little bit on that, because 9th was actually a part of the group and they formed it as a trio, and I felt like they were a continuation of groups like Gang Starr.

Madlib and MF DOOM as well in 2004. That was a big one.

If anything, the stuff 9th was doing for Murs, Jean Grae, Buckshot, Skyzoo, etc, in the 00's is one of the first times I remember a producer grabbing lots of different rappers from different regions and with different styles in order to custom make different albums for them.

I agree. I think we’ve sufficiently fleshed this out in this thread and I think 9th really set this off. That being said, I will have convenient amnesia in the next thread and claim that P set the trend and add it to the list of trends he set

 

[L $ C]

this beat is so heavy in the whip

 

[Ziggiy]

It was NOT Future who made it a thing that's cap. nikkas was already heavy into it during that scene by the time Future was getting hot doing it and if u don't remember. ALOT of these cats came thru Spitta on his mixtapes from Wiz, to Gibbs, to Big Sean, to Nip etc etc. Spitta had famous industry rappers hopping on his shyt like Ross, Wale, French, 2Chainz etc etc. Him and Roc the most influential underground rappers of the 2010s generation bar none. Spitta had influence on cats like Playboi Carti n all that. Spitta was the one making certain producers either get hot or have a resurgence such as Alchemist, Ski Beatz and Cardo Got Wings. There was a whole movement behind Spitta so don't just act like he was just some nikka who did it first with no influence. He didn't do it first. But he DEF had the influence.

To be honest if we’re talking about artists bringing the “one producer” cohesive album thing “back” it was Common & Kanye with Be & Finding Forever. After those albums you had a spike of fans and internet forum heads calling for Kanye/Nas, Premo/Nas, Kanye/Jay, Just Blaze/Jay and so on and so forth. I remember Jermaine Dupri hopping online clamoring to produce all of Nas’s Untitled and showing off beats he was making to submit to Nas.