The Safe Is Cracked [PA]

Performer: Mobb Deep
Distributor: E1 Distribution (USA)

Notes: Book-ended by excerpts from a telephone interview between DJ Envy and an incarcerated Prodigy, Mobb Deep's eighth full-length finds the Queensbridge duo as hungry as ever, even with over 15 years in the game. Relying on their tried-and-true formula, Hav and P trade hard-boiled verses of gangsta nihilism and even rock over Count Dracula's theme music on "Watch Ya Self," chanting "Your life could end up like a horror flick" without a hint of self-mockery. Aside from the soulful Alchemist-produced ghetto love song, "What Goes On," the beats on THE SAFE IS CRACKED are all Havoc--vintage East Coast boom bap at its darkest.

Hailing from New York City's notorious Queens Bridge projects, Prodigy and Havoc, a.k.a. Mobb Deep, took the hip-hop world by storm with the release of their second album, 1995's THE INFAMOUS. An instant classic, the album was filled with raw beats, dark hooks, and brilliantly unflinching rhymes about ghetto life that, although filled with standard gangsta rap themes, emanated from a world entirely their own. Mobb Deep continued to record into the 21st century, and remain one of rap's most respected duos.

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