Mobb Deep Vinyl Records

Mobb Deep set the tone for future generations of hardcore rappers with terse, slang-filled rhymes depicting the harsh realities of New York street life. The duo of Prodigy and Havoc stood tall as East Coast figureheads on the basis of The Infamous (1995), their epochal second album. Released in the wake of Illmatic and Ready to Die, The Infamous joined the respective debuts of Nas and the Notorious B.I.G. as a crucial hip-hop text.