↳ logo tee for Queensbridge rap duo sku: gr-29567-black-m sku: gr-29568-black-l sku: gr-29569-black-xl sku: gr-29570-black-xxl I got you stuck off the realness... Classic logo tee for Havoc & Prodigy aka the infamous Mobb Deep. 100% cotton tees, standard fit. Receive (1) email when this arrives in stock. get the TTL Insider NewsletterHoodie: Mobb Deep- InfamousAbout the Product About the Artist Customer Reviews XL Black Pullover Hoodie $ $ $ Ships in  100% Satisfaction Guarantee Infamous On Red T-shirt Men In Crest T-shirtYour current browser isn't compatible with SoundCloud. Please download one of our supported browsers. Made up of rappers Havoc and Prodigy, Mobb Deep is a hip-hop duo that formed in 1992 from Queens, New York, U.S.A. They are a success in the hip-hop world having sold upwards of three million records. The duo came together when they both enrolled at the High School of Art and Design in New York City. When they first formed, they were the self proclaimed ‘Poetical Prophets’, but changed their name to Mobb Deep to “reflect their reputation on the streets”.

Their reputation began to grow when they found success with their second album, “The Infamous” which was released on April 25th 1995. The album was described as a narration of street life, and it was the single “Shook Ones Pt. II” that received positive critical acclaim within the hip-hop community. With a career that was growing exponentially, Mobb Deep’s third album, entitled “Hell on Earth”, released on November 19th 2006, on Loud, RCA and BMG Records that climbed into the Billboard 200 and reached a peak position of #6. The two singles from the album “Front Lines (Hell on Earth)” and “G.O.D Pt. III” made it to 13 and 18 in the Hot Rap Singles Chart. Mobb Deep were on the front line of the East Coast vs West Coast hip-hop rivalry, which was of course promoted by the media. It began when Snoop Dogg and the West Coast group, The Dogg Pound released “New York, New York”, to which Mobb Deep alongside Capone-N-Noreaga and Tragedy Khadafi lashed back with “L.A L.A”.

They released the album “Infamy in 2001, which was a step in another direction musically diverting away from the raw and stripped-down sound. With change, comes criticism, especially fans claiming that their favourite act have sold out. Their career would go on to earn a place in the video game “Grand Theft Auto IV”. With a new label signing on 50 Cent’s G-Unit Recrods, they released their seventh studio album “Blood Money” on May 2nd 2006. The album features guest appearances from Nate Dogg and Mary J.Blige. On April 1st 2014, the hip-hop duo released their eighth studio album, “The Infamous Mobb Deep". The album features guest appearances from Busta Rhymes, Snoop Dogg and Juicy J.Albert "Prodigy" Johnson of Mobb Deep and Keizo Shimamoto, creator of the ramen burger, pose with Johnson's new prison cookbook. Albert Johnson, a.k.a. Prodigy, author and half of the legendary Queens hip hop duo Mobb Deep, is worried about security at the ramen pop up shop where we're meeting to discuss his new book, a cookbook for prisoners.

Johnson is sitting in the passenger's seat of his publicist's double-parked SUV on 40th Avenue in Queens, which separates Keizo Shimamoto's new Ramen Shack from the Queensbridge Houses, where Johnson grew up and where he lived with fellow Mobb Deep member Kejuan "Havoc" Muchita while recording their masterpiece, 1995's The Infamous. I chose Ramen Shack because Shimamoto is a big Mobb Deep fan—he serves a Ramen dish named "Quiet Storm" after the group's 1999 hit—and well, because there's a lot of ramen in Johnson's recipes.nike galaxy hoodie swoosh "We didn't realize it was this close to the projects," his publicist says from the driver's seat. hoodie bedrucken lassenThe rain is falling in sheets. nike salute to service (nfl packers) men's hoodie

"We don't usually come here." Johnson and the publicist want the Ramen Shack, which only seats 10 or so, to lock its doors while we do the interview. Johnson, who is wearing a blue Nike baseball hat, baggy jeans and a vintage Polo jacket over a gray hoodie, is still a big deal around here. "I don't like people knowing where I'm at," he said later, after Shimamoto gamely agreed to an hour long shutdown (it was the slow part of the afternoon). wychwood hoodies"I got a lot of jealous people," he said. jual hoodie pekanbaru"I got to move accordingly."cody rhodes hoodie Commissary Kitchen: My Infamous Prison Cookbook grew out of Johnson's experience in state prison, where he served a three-year sentence from 2008-2011 on weapons charges. 49ers kaepernick hoodie

He spent much of this sentence in the Mid-State Correctional Facility in Marcy, NY, about a four-hour drive from the city, and it was there that he became a cook and an author. While locked up he wrote an autobiography; Slate called the audiobook version "among the most riveting recordings any rapper will release this year, or any year." He also learned to cook using the spartan supplies and ingredients available to him: a microwave, toaster and toaster oven to do the actual cooking. No knives, so the top of a can (considered a weapon by prison authorities) was used for cutting. For ingredients, lots of ramen and canned fish, and no fresh vegetables. He learned stripped-down and adapted styles of cooking from fellow inmates, most notably a Rastafarian cook serving time for rape and an Italian police chief in for dealing cocaine. Experimenting with recipes and ingredients allowed him to become a kind of prison cooking expert, and he shares this expertise in Commissary Kitchen, which was co-written with journalist Kathy Iandoli and came out last week.

The book is a testament to the hip hop ethic: using creativity to create art and assert humanity in the most oppressive circumstances. "In a world where prisoners are treated like animals, we made our experiences there feel more human by how we prepared our food," Johnson writes in the book's introduction. "It was all we had really—especially on holidays." He says he still cooks the dishes he learned in prison, especially barbecue salmon, his kids' favorite. "When I had to go away for three years, I didn't know that cooking was going to be such a big part of my time away," Johnson said. "It got my mind off where I was at for a couple of hours. You feel like you're doing what you want to do, even though you're stuck in this place." Johnson performing in 2014 (Tobias Nelson/Flickr) Commissary Kitchen is part cookbook, part survival guide, with just enough anecdotes to make it a sort of jailhouse memoir. It's a slim 115 pages and contains recipes like "Shakira's Dirty Pie," "Sweet as Fuck Yams," "Rasta Pasta," "Fake-Ass Pad Thai" and "P's Barbecue Salmon," as well as stories about both thieving and generous corrections officers, raids on the guards' private fridge, anonymous pen pal benefactors and painful holiday meals spent missing family.

The incarcerated are not a large segment of the book-buying public, and people on the outside will have more than the very limited options that Johnson describes in Commissary Kitchen. But that didn't stop Johnson from joining other entertainers who have tried to capitalize on cooking skills earned from serving time. Brownsville MC Thirstin Howell III has a YouTube cooking series called "Jail Recipes," and last year Prison Ramen , a collection of prison recipes from celebrities, hit bookstores. Johnson pointed out to me that the recipes can be easily adapted by college students, whom he said have similar supplies and ingredients at their disposal as inmates. "They eat like prisoners almost," he said. Except they can eat whenever they want, and their cafeterias have green vegetables. Johnson suffers from sickle cell anemia, a congenital condition resulting from irregularly shaped red blood cells that can cause chronic fatigue and pain. Doctors recommend that patients with sickle eat a diet high in fresh fruits and vegetables, something that was nearly impossible for Johnson to do in prison.

Prison meals were served at 6:30 a.m., 9 a.m., and 4 p.m. (prisoners had to cook if they wanted to eat in the evening) and contained just one green vegetable—spinach—a week, Johnson said. Prisoners were allowed to receive 30 pounds of food a month from the outside. Johnson claims fresh food and vegetables were not allowed (though current DOC regulations say otherwise), so while other inmates were getting monthly packages of Twinkies and pudding cups, Johnson had his wife send him 30 pounds of canned vegetables each month. "I got to eat green vegetables every day," Johnson sad. I got to eat them every day to keep my body strong, to keep from getting sick…I was afraid of dying in there." Johnson cooked his own food to make sure he ingested as much vegetable nutrients as possible. But it was also a quality control measure, especially since it was often other prisoners preparing and serving the mess hall food. "All kinds of foul debaucherous shit that these motherfuckers are locked up for.

And these people are preparing the food," Johnson said. "So who's to say they aren't spitting in this shit? You know how much shit people find in the food in jail? Like pubic hairs and glass and just foul shit people be doing, because you locked up with a bunch of insane criminals and they are doing serious time." By drinking nothing but water for three years, working out, laying off snacks, and cooking his own food, Johnson avoided getting sick while incarcerated, something that had happened in his younger years during brief stays in county jail. He reported gaining 35 pounds of muscle as well, and preached the gospel of healthy eating to other inmates. "When they see how good I was eating, they started changing their diet," Johnson said. Johnson hopes to continue to evangelize healthy prison eating with Commissary Kitchen. He also hopes that healthy eating can help prisoner rehabilitation. "If prison is to reform people—prison is there to try and change people, to help people, that's why they got school programs and church programs—then help them with their diet too," Johnson said.