Quotes from Prodigy

Our first name was the Poetical Prophets before we changed it to Mobb Deep, and when I look back on it now, that was, like, a ill name for us because that is what we really were.

I'm a creative person, and I'm gonna be creative, so whoever's upset because of that, that's too bad.

I'm a big fan of Kurt Cobain. I put a picture of him holding a gun on my Instagram for his birthday. He's definitely one of my favorite rock artists.

It was the camaraderie and the friendships, too, that really drew me to Queensbridge.

I was a very serious child who never got to enjoy life to the fullest like a normal, healthy kid.

People of all races need to come together to control our government and run a giant comb through it so we can see the filth that comes out.

I think the sound of 'The Infamous' came naturally from our lifestyle and some of the criminal things we were doing. We always rap about what we're living, and to put a beat to lyrics like those is hard.

If you look at my rap sheet, it's very long.

I'm a fan of hip-hop. I'm a fan of rap, so anything new that's happening, I'm hip to it.

I was real serious when it came to rapping. I still do, but even more so when I was real young.

Premier was one of the first producers that we reached out to, and he was like, 'Hell yeah! Let's get to work.' He was showing us love and giving young, new artists a chance.

I like any shoot-'em-up game with guns in it.

When you are young and rebellious, you don't want to be in the house. You want to be on the block.

You got a lot of fradulent rebels and revolutionaries who are really false prophets.

You can never go back to a time and try to recreate that sound, because that time is done.

To me, I got a bunch of haters. Mobb Deep - and Prodigy, speaking for myself - I got a bunch of haters.

Anything that Havoc or I do is always going to point back to Mobb Deep.

All the 'Scarface' beats that you hear Mobb Deep sample, that was my idea.

The music is just real powerful when Mobb Deep and Nas work together.

When I was a kid, I used to love to play 'Dig Dug.' It was, like, this little dude, where he digs in the dirt and makes tunnels.

The aggressiveness of it attracted me to hip-hop because I was angry inside. I was an angry kid because of the sickle cell. So I liked the anger in hip-hop. That's what attracted me to it; that's what made me want to do it. It helped me get my aggression out.

Hip-hop music was our life.

Hip-hop basically controls the world through fashion, through music, through language, through culture. It's basically running the world, no matter what anyone wants to think, and that's just the way it is.

I always make hardcore songs, hits for the block.