Mobb Deep is considered one of the flag bearers of the gangsta rap. While many of their hardcore colleagues are seen as one-day flies who make clever use of the hip-hop favorable music climate, Mobb Deep can count on respect from the entire hip-hop community. Rapper Prodigy and Havoc paint a realistic picture of the ghettos in New York in their lyrics. Their street poetry is recited on lazy alienating
… beats; the aggression, which is indeed present, is nowhere discharged. It gives the music a subcutaneous tension that sets Mobb Deep apart from the one-dimensional screams of many other rappers. Mobb Deep is perhaps best described as the hip-hop equivalent of Lou Reed. On this record Mobb Deep is assisted by Lil Mo, 112 and Noyd, among others. (MS)more
