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I just put together this list of Prodigy trivia you have to know. I probably didn't include everything so leave a comment on some stuff I missed.
He helped put the following people on the map:
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Prodigy known as/for:
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@mobbinfms @shopant @TheDarceKnight @Xtz23 @Walter H White
- He almost died in the hospital when he was just a kid. His grandmother knew something wasn’t right and demanded they checked on him. They resisted at first but his grandmother didn’t wanna hear none of that and they checked on P. It’s in the book. I don’t know exactly what happened but let’s just say that if they didn’t check up on him he would’ve died.
- Prodigy chose the Name Prodigy because it sounded tough. Not because it means ‘child genius’
- When Prodigy was 8 years old his pops took him for a ride and told him he was addicted to heroin since he was 14 years old.
- He wrote his first song ‘You’s a crack head” when he was 9.
- Prodigy could’ve been Carlton Banks in the Fresh Prince of Bel Air if things played out differently
- He got kidnapped by his pops when he was 9/10 years old.
- Prodigy got serious about rap when he was just 12 years old.
- When he was 13 he wanted to commit suicide because of his sickle-cell
- At age 13 he decided to be a rapper and that he didn’t care about school.
- His first known song is called “Too Young” it’s on the Boyz and Hood soundtrack. He recorded the track in 1989. Ice Cube didn't know this and found this out on Sway.
- Slick Rick inspired Prodigy to level up his jewelry game.
- Prodigy already had some connections with Jive but wanted to include Havoc too. Jive didn’t want Havoc so Prodigy said fukk Jive.
- Havoc and Prodigy decided that music was more important than school.
- When he got in a relationship with Kiki, she already had a three year-old daughter. Prodigy was 18/19 here.
- Mobb Deep signed to Loud Records by their record Paddyshop and there Not giving a fukk attitude. They smoked a blunt in the bathroom and the alarm went off when at they're first meeting at Loud Records. This made Steve Rifkind sign them
- The Infamous Prelude wasn’t aimed at Redman and Keith Murray. Prodigy was just frustrated about the flopping of Juvenile Hell.
- Prodigy started sniffing Coke in 1995 and is high in the Shook Ones Part II video.
- Raekwon and Ghostface Killah inspired Prodigy to try PCP.
- P absolutely hated doing clean versions
- Prodigy wanted to record an Illuminati album in the 90’s but chose not to because it wouldn’t fit with his audience.
- Prodigy’s rhymes started changing on Hell on Earth. This is partly because he read Malcom X’s autobiography.
- At just 21/22 he already had a son.
- He lost his father because off Aids in 1996
- He lost Scarface Twin in 1996 plus his friend Harry because of a car accident.
- He lost Killer Black (Havoc’s brother) in 1997. Killer Black committed suicide
- He started drinking heavily and became addicted to prescription pain pills after these deaths.
- After his sickle cell started acting up and he had to get in the hospital he swore to never use Cocaine again. This was in 1997. Quiet Storm was written just after this. >> "I spent too many nights sniffin coke, getting right, wasting my life. Now I'm trying to make things right"
- Prodigy is in the 'I'm Not A Player' video from Big Pun
- He supposedly dissed DMX in 1998 on “Power Rap”. (you growling all over the tape)
- There’s some epic footage of Prodigy and NORE performing in 1998.
- Prodigy started eating right and cleaning up in 1998 during the making of HNIC and Murda Muzik.
- He didn't trust The Alchemist when he first met him, he even thought he was cop. After he saw Alchemist make a beat he knew he was legit
- He opened an Infamous Clothing Stores in 1998. Placed Ads in the Source (1,2 and 3) to get it popping. But he chose to close it and put his money in his movie Murda Muzik.
- Keep it Thoro wasn’t aimed at anyone specifically. It was a fukk You to the entire industry.
- He rapped Keep it Thoro while having a cold.
- Alchemist and Big Twins walked around with a boombox at the Puerto Rican Day Parade June 1999 blasting Keep it Thoro. This was a year before it came out. people walked up to them asking WTF they were listening to
- Prodigy bought a lot of Liquor for his friends at a club (he didn’t drink at the time) with fake hundred-dollar bills from the Keep It Thoro video.
- Big Pun teared up when he saw Prodigy having a heavy Sickle Cell attack
- He made a song with his wife Kiki called “Trials of Love”.
- The Quiet Storm video clip was about $400.000, It's Mine $1.000.000 and Murda Muzik the Movie $500.000 - $700.000.
- Prodigy didn't like that Jay-Z's Big Pimpin video looked like the It's Mine video
- Lawrence Page (director Murda Muzik) supposedly put out a gun on Prodigy and demanded more money
- Many people think Prodigy was drunk during the Quiet Storm live show on the Source Awards from 2000.
- Prodigy's performance on the October 27, 2000 Rap City was one of his last Prime P performances.
- Prodigy hates Lakey the Kidd. He even called him Fakey in his book My Infamous Life
- In 1999 Worm snuffed Prodigy from the side. This left a scar on Prodigy's face around his eye. You can see this on the Source cover from October 2000. But Prodigy had the last laugh because soon after Worm got caught shooting someone and currently does life in prison.
- Littles called Prodigy out for being on The Source cover while having a scar on his face.
- In 2000 Prodigy got rhyme of the year for his first verse of Quiet Storm
- Prodigy took a big dislike in Steve Rifkind after he sold Loud Records in 1999 to Sony Music. He called Loud out in the Source of October 2000.
- He thought about not giving Loud Records his first solo album HNIC
- Wanna Be Thugs was supposed to be the first single of HNIC. But people kept telling Prodigy that it had to be a solo song. He later changed it to Keep It Thoro.
- His favorite album of all time is Raekwon’s Only Built 4 Cuban Linxs
- Mike Delorean from Bars & Hooks had the ABC’s on the wall in his apartment in Queensbridge The letter P had a picture of Prodigy’s face.
- Prodigy got the MOBB DEEP tattoo on his fingers in 1999 and in 2001 he added BARS + HOOKS on the top of his fingers. Although Prodigy and Bars & Hook split up in the end of 2001/early 2002. Prodigy never removed the tattoo.
- He didn’t aim Thun and Kicko at Nas. Thun and Kicko was a song Mobb Deep had laying around
- Prodigy dissed Lakey the Kidd on his own album
- He wanted to light up Fakey’s car but didn’t because Cormega was in it.
- He didn’t like the Infamy album. Supposedly because it was still part of the Loud Deal and he wasn’t too happy with loud since 1999.
- The woman Prodigy was with in The Hey Luv video is his actually his wife Kiki.
- Prodigy knew he didn’t respond strategically to Jay-Z. He knew he didn’t implement the 48 laws of Power (said it in an article can’t remember which one)
- He lost his cousin because of 9/11
- Prodigy wanted to go independent forever after they got off Sony Music in 2002.
- Mobb Deep weren’t Free Agents when the Free Agents mixtape got released. They already signed to Jive on the strength of the promo.
- Mobb Deep and 50 Cent made music way before Mobb Deep signed to G-Unit.
- Camron went Pink crazy after he saw Prodigy wearing a pink Polo in 2003
- Prodigy saw a UFO
- The driver of Mobb Deep’s car was coked out of his mind when the cops stopped Mobb Deep’s car for a regular check up. This was in 2003.
- A lot of bullshyt behind the scenes of the Free Nas concert in Central Park on August 15 2004 was going on.
- He wanted to step away from Mobb Deep in 2004.
- Prodigy dissed 50 Cent on the track 'We Got This' after 50 Cent dissed Mobb Deep on the Piggy Bank track. Prodigy recorded an entire diss track to 50 Cent but this never came out since 50 Cent and Mobb Deep squashed any beef they had and started working together.
- Prodigy would sell G-Unit shoes with a fake 50 Cent signature for a lot of money in the G-Unit Days.
- Prodigy also thought Blood Money was too G-Unit. He realized this in jail.
- “The Infamous” video (from Blood Money) wasn’t a music video. It was Mobb Deep, G-Unit and 50 Cent chilling at 50’s Crib with a lot of woman and liquor. Someone just happened to film it all.
- Prodigy snapped back to his grimy hood shyt when poor kids in Baltimore bought the Blood Money album and he was there just chilling, being rich.
- His mother was his biggest fan. She collected all the posters, photo's and other rare Mobb Deep stuff in her house
- If Prodigy would’ve bought security camera’s for his SUV he wouldn’t have gone to prison.
- The Infamous Allegiance DVD was used against him in court
- Return of The Mac was supposed to be a free mixtape but he got offered $200.000 for it and even promoted it a little bit. He wasn’t as happy about the deal later on.
- One eye could go blind when he was having a heavy sickle cell attack
- After the Mac 10 Handle video he decided to get his teeth fixed. This cost him $20.000:psmiley:
- He acted in multiple movies. Including Blackout, Waters Rising, Full Clip, Murda Muzik and A Talent for Trouble.
- He never battled Cormega in Queensbridge.
- He looked out for Illa Ghee and sent money to him for his entire 6 year prison bid.
- He wanted the artwork of his single "Keep It Thoro" as the book cover of My Infamous Life. But the publisher disagreed and won that battle
- There's a not widely known Havoc diss track where Prodigy showed that he didn't lose his rap-skills
- While he hated Loud Records a lot for leaking Murda Muzik. Years later he reminisced and said it did help promote the album and made sure it hit Platinum.
- The performances Prodigy did in the Blue Note in Manhattan earlier this year were special because his father took him there when he was a kid because his Grandfather (Bud Johnson) was a Jazz musician and performed there.
- It’s known that there have been 100 situations that Prodigy almost shot someone but chose not to.
- He had two of the most iconic chains in Hip-Hop. The solid gold Mac-10 were you could take the clip out. And of course the famous Infamous Records chain.
- Prodigy had a poster of 2Pac on the wall in his home studio
- Prodigy shot Lakey in one of his muscles and he's not been seen since
He helped put the following people on the map:
- Ty Nitty
- Godfather Pt 3
- Big Twinz
- Big Noyd
- Illa Ghee
- Littles
- Chinky
- The Alchemist
- Cormega
- Bars & Hooks
- Un Pacino
- Boogz Boogetz
Never forget
Prodigy known as/for:
- Bandana Clip P
- Capital P
- Columbo
- H.N.I.C
- V.I.P.
- P
- Don P
- P Double
- The Quiet Storm
- Crime Rhyme Houdini P
- The dude that popped more guns than you're holding them
- The only rapper that could get away with the following line: "Look at my chain, look at my anklet"
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@mobbinfms @shopant @TheDarceKnight @Xtz23 @Walter H White
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