Like last night we were on until seven in the morning just fucking around, working out in the studio, joking with each other, and playing songs, letting people hear all the new music that we’ve got. The whole month I’ve been home we’ve been doing that. We’ve been going on Ustream, and actually streaming live sessions of us writing and recording. Where have you been recording out of? We own our studio in Queens. Our home team is Havoc, Al, and Sid Roams, and right now I’ve been home about a month, and we’ve got about 70 songs done in that time. Since you’ve gotten out, how many songs would you say you’ve recorded? We’ve been working with other producers, but mostly Havoc and Alchemist. The importance of this shit for our families and our future. Compared to these other dudes, partnerships or whatever, they fall apart because of creative differences or whatever differences, but me and Havoc are different because we understand the power of our music, and the money that we make off of this shit. So that’s what we always do at the end of the day, and that’s what keeps me and Hav going so long. That ain’t going to put no money in our pocket, so we’ve got to try to think of an idea to make this work. And we went through our little back-and-fourth, tug-of-war situation about which way it should be, but at the end of the day we compromised with each other because it doesn’t make any sense for us to be arguing. We had our little differences of opinion when it came to certain things on how Mobb Deep should proceed forward after the Loud situation. Now you have the opportunity once again to be completely independent.
One of the themes throughout the book was you’re wanting to try going independent rather than signing to a label, especially after parting ways with Loud after Infamy, while Hav didn’t want to be independent. And the only way that you can do that is make sure the music is not just good, that shit has to be incredible. We’ve been in the game for like 20, and we’ve had a good run, so we’re just trying to solidify the next 20 right now. To basically solidify our careers, and our legacy for the next 20 to 30 years. We’re really concerned with making an incredible album. Are you looking for another label situation? Right now we’re not concerned with which label it’s going to be.
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And when that happened I was always talking to 50 the whole time while I was locked up, and I basically asked him “How are we going to proceed? How are we going to move forward when I get back?” And he was telling me he was interested in negotiating a new deal, with the new situation he’s got, and I was like, “Alright, cool.” Came back home, and we’re still talking about it, throwing ideas around now about how we want to do it, but as of right now we’re free agents. Just so if there’s no distributor for a label, you don’t get stuck languishing for two or three years. It’s in a lot of contracts for most artists. That was a protection that our lawyer put in the contract for us. I don’t know how long it took him, but whatever the period of time was in between the distributors, it was enough to void our contract. And there’s a clause in our contract that says if there’s no distribution for a period of time, in order to protect us, it null-and-voids the contract. Interview by Toshitaka Kondo ( you currently signed to G-Unit? Yeah, basically what happened was, while I was locked up, 50 switched distributors for the G-Unit label. With everything going on, when Prodigy stopped by the offices last week, we took the opportunity to speak with him about his current status in regards to G-Unit, and ask about some of the wild stories from his book.
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It is chock full of classic stories involving Nas, Jay-Z, The Notorious B.I.G., Big Pun, Mary J. Interestingly enough, even with all these new songs on the horizon, the thing that seems to have people the most excited is Prodigy’s revealing autobiography, My Infamous Life, which drops tomorrow as well. If the recently leaked Mobb Deep-Nas collaboration, ”Dog Shit,” is any indication of where P’s at creatively, then fans should expect a healthy dose of murda muzik. He’ll also be releasing an exclusive Complex-sponsored mixtape, The Ellsworth Bumpy Johnson EP, tomorrow. Since being released on March 7, after serving three years for a gun possession charge, P has already locked in features on the upcoming Curren$y and Alchemist EP, Convert Coup, and Jim Jones’ new album, Capo. If Prodigy ends up being another rapper who fell off after doing a bid in jail, it won’t be because he was lazy or lacked motivation.
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