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1995 was also the year that Prodigy began to raise his solo profile, by providing a guest appearance on LL Cool J's controversial " I Shot Ya (remix)". Initially compared to fellow rapper Nas, who took a similar approach lyrically on his Illmatic album from 1994, Mobb Deep released The Infamous in 1995, which was certified Gold by the RIAA within the first two months of its release. Music career 1995–1999: The Infamous, Hell on Earth and Murda Muzik In 1993, Mobb Deep released its debut album Juvenile Hell on 4th & B'way/ Island/ PolyGram Records. Under the alias Lord-T (The Golden Child), the then-16-year-old Johnson landed an uncredited guest appearance on the Boyz n the Hood soundtrack, for his collaborative efforts on the song "Too Young" by Hi-Five in 1991. The duo became Poetical Prophets before choosing the name Mobb Deep. While attending the High School of Art and Design in Manhattan, he met his future music partner, Havoc. His great-great-great-grandfather, William Jefferson White, founded Georgia's Morehouse College. His father, Budd Johnson Jr., was a member of a doo-wop music group called The Chanters. His mother, Fatima Frances (Collins) Johnson, was a member of The Crystals. Both of them are remembered for their contributions to the bebop era of jazz. His grandfather Budd Johnson was a saxophonist, and his grand-uncle, Keg Johnson, was a trombonist. Prodigy was born on November 2, 1974, in Hempstead, New York, on Long Island.
Almost all the songs here could’ve ended up on the syllabus of a rap-history class I took in college, and I graduated college more than a decade ago. But a song like Noreaga’s “Supethug,” for instance - absolutely one of the best rap songs ever - is never going to show up on a list like this, because there are way too many quote-unquote important artists who need to be recognized.
When we get into arguments about subjectivity, we call into question the very existence of best-of-lists, and that’s a bigger problem. But it also does very Rolling Stone things like praising old and obvious songs and, by its very nature, losing out on a lot of the things rap does well, like immediacy and visceral impact and blast-of-the-new what-the-fuckness. (Not “rap,” because it’s Rolling Stone, durr.) And I know that RS hasn’t exactly always been hospitable to rap, so this is a nice gesture in a lot of ways, and almost every song on the list is great. Rolling Stone, apparently not done with list season even after unveiling their mesozoic best-albums list, has now dedicated an entire issue to its list of the 50 best hip-hop songs ever. I swear to Christ, lists like this exist entirely to drive me nuts.