Jack Trippa 3z company ho
Superstar
Great album. Can't believe this was 10 years ago
Prolific P's Return of the Mac is 10 Years Old
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InfamousThoro
All Star
Here's your answer:
“I learned my lesson from doing the Return of the Mack album. Because when I look back on it people were actually thinking that was my album. It sold whatever. So [you learn] that money is not always the most important thing. What’s most important when it comes to our music is making sure our brand has stayed strong at a certain level, and doesn’t come down from there. So when I was working on this EP I decided to make it for free this time. Because someone could have easily paid me a lot of money for a new Prodigy album after I just came home from jail. But I didn’t do that. I’m not going to have people call this an album
The Ellsworth Bumpy Johnson EP–Prodigy (2011) Vibe
Wait, so does P not even fukk with ROTM? Sounds like he thinks it had a negative effect on the Mobb legacy. Or am I reading this wrong?
InfamousThoro
All Star
He fux with it but doesn't see it as an album. This the mixtape, imagine how the album sound?
InfamousThoro
All Star
This is what he says about Return of The Mac
“Return of the Mac was really a set up. I wasn’t really looking for a check when I first made it. I was actually going to give that CD [away]. There were so many samples that it was like no way in hell we could put it out. So I was going to give it to Whoo Kid and put it out there for free. But before I even dropped a song for it, I shot a video for one of the songs [‘Mack 10 Handle’]. It was the first time anyone had ever put the video out first on the Internet before you even heard the song. So when I did that people were like, ‘Yo, what the fukk is this? There’s a crazy video on the Internet.’
It was real psychotic. The devil is in the video and I’m stabbing a couch, and blood is coming out the couch. It’s like a real crazy type of rock video. And that was my whole idea to make a video like that…because the Internet, in today’s world, you have to have something that stands out and to make people talk. So I did something controversial. I wanted to make people say, ‘What the fukk is this video about? Is he crazy now?’ [laughs] We did that and it worked. In three days it had 500,000 views. So after that, I started getting phone calls like, ‘What is this video you put out?’ I told them it was just a mixtape I got coming, getting people ready for my H.N.I.C. 2. So I started getting the money calls now like, ‘Yo, how much you want for that mixtape? Because that video is crazy.’
The offers were so much that I had to take it. I just felt, ‘Alright, you gonna give me $200,000 for something I was going to give for free? [laughs] Here, take it.’ So I took that. And of course the company that gets it is going to treat it like it’s an album. They are going to try to make some money off of it. But this was just a mixtape project.”
Return of the Mac–Prodigy (2007) Vibe
Lord Mecca
Eyes May Shine
Perfect timing for this classic 
So many bangers
So unexpected
I can't believe it's been 10 years
Probably the album that has gotten most constant spins since then
Even the first single was retarded
I was like "P really comin back!?!?"
So many bangers
So unexpected
I can't believe it's been 10 years
Probably the album that has gotten most constant spins since then
Even the first single was retarded
I was like "P really comin back!?!?"
TheDarceKnight
Veteran
Classic. Should have went triple
on the low, this was a pivotal record for P and the Mobb as a whole
After the G Unit extravaganza that was Blood Money :pdahellclean:
The Mobb were arguably at their lowest point :pwhitehat:
This album came out of nowhere
First thing I remember about it was the Mac 10 Handle video.
Pioneer :pdahellclean:perfectly profited off YouTube before anyone :psalute:
Add that to the list of shyt P did first :pdahell2:
Album is perfect start to finish :Pshades:
ALC laced the beats and P sounds great on them. :Pgroot:
@Billy Ocean @Illeye buckmatic @Demon @savoutch @TheDarceKnight @Walter H White @Asantehene @charmander @Columbo @Pinyapplesuckas @We Ready @Broke Wave @JuvenileHell @ISO @hustlemania @TEKBEATZ @SoulController @FreshAIG @That Singer Guy...
Yeah man, this really was special. If this never happened, we probably wouldn't have ALC lacing people with full albums. To add onto what you said, this was supposed to be a mixtape. Koch ended up wanting to do it as an album, Prodigy ran it by 50 Cent, and 50 gave him the green light to do it. Also, P wanted the project to be mostly Blaxploitation samples and gritty, simple loops. Songs like Mac 10 Handle, Return of the Mac, The Rotten Apple, Nickel and Nail, etc. Alchemist wanted to do some more soul chops on there, like Stuck To You, Stop Fronting, Bang on 'Em, etc. At first P didn't want to do as many of these, but P went along with the idea. Also, some of the joints recorded for Return of the Mac ended up on HNIC 2. Some examples are The Dough, Represent Me, Dirty New Yorker, and Veteran's Memorial Pt. 2.
Stuck to you just like glueee
Columbo
Lieutenant
I was going to a community college, I would drive around all the time bumlin this and not even skip any tracks
Cant believe its been 10 years
Cant believe its been 10 years
I'm shocked reading that
I think that's exactly what he's saying
Perfect timing for this classic
So many bangers
So unexpected
I can't believe it's been 10 years
Probably the album that has gotten most constant spins since then
Even the first single was retarded
I was like "P really comin back!?!?"
We all waited so long but he came back like Jesus :Pshades:
I was two years out of law schoolI was going to a community college, I would drive around all the time bumlin this and not even skip any tracks
Cant believe its been 10 years
I'm shocked reading that
I think that's exactly what he's saying
Cool so I'm not crazy. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of the sci-fI conspiracy stuff he was doing on HNIC 2 and Product of the 80s, but ROTM is like a masterpiece to me.
Imagine the dope blaxploitation concepts they could do for a ROTM anniversary reissue
