The first official day of summer ’17 turned out to be one of the shittiest in recent memory. What should have been another joyous day (June 20) at the VIBE office turned into a bleak, gut wrenching ...

Eight years removed from Prodigy’s untimely death, Mobb Deep is heavily in the air right now. The NYC hip hop duo’s classic 1995 album The Infamous just topped Pitchfork’s The 100 Best Rap Albums of ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Rapper Prodigy, a member of the New York hip-hop duo Mobb Deep, has died. He was 42. The rapper's publicist said in a statement Tuesday that Prodigy was hospitalized a few days ago in ...

Before the legendary Prodigy‘s untimely death, he and his Mobb Deep partner Havoc were out on the Art of Rap Tour. The tour kicked off at the Downtown Las Vegas Events Center on Saturday (6/17), which ...

Debates in hip-hop are common; even those not crammed into the dark corners of rap-focused internet discussion forums know about the “top five” debate. Another common, but more granular, version of ...

On this date in 1996, the infamous crew from Queensbridge known as Mobb Deep released their third studio album Hell On Earth. The project, produced entirely by Havoc and Prodigy and released through ...

Prodigy, one-half of iconic New York rap duo Mobb Deep, has died, according to a statement provided to NPR by a publicist for the group. The statement goes on to say that the rapper, born Albert ...

Mumble Rap is a thing. The sub-genre has swept the Hip-Hop nation, for better or worse. The positive is that popular, oft criticized version of Hip-Hop, has made a pathway for lyricism to return. When ...

Like most of the world, I first encountered the rapper Prodigy in a debris-strewn lot outside a slumping, graffiti-covered building on a dimly lit and dangerous-looking corner of New York City—the ...

Rapper Prodigy, a member of the hardcore New York hip-hop duo Mobb Deep, was found dead on Tuesday in Las Vegas. He was 42. The rapper’s publicist said in a statement that Prodigy had been ...

NEW YORK -- Rapper Prodigy, a member of the New York hip-hop duo Mobb Deep, has died. He was 42. The rapper's publicist said in a statement Tuesday that Prodigy was hospitalized a few days ago in Las ...