Both albums come on the heels of 2006's Blood Money, the first album that Mobb Deep released under the umbrella of 50 Cent's G-Unit empire. And that's the biggest problem with The Kush: whatever its merits, it can't hold a candle to Return of the Mac. The duo became involved in It's going to be impossible to talk about The Kush, the first solo album from Mobb Deep rapper/producer Havoc, without comparing it to its unofficial companion-piece: Return of the Mac, the solo album that Prodigy, the duo's other half, released earlier in the year. Although the large commercial success often failed, the rappers were popular in the Underground scene of New York. The duo debuted In 1993 with the album Juvenile Hell , but in particular the 2nd album The Infamous was their big breakthrough. Mobb Deep is a hip-pop duo consisting of American rappers Prodigy and Havoc, active from 1992.

Mobb Deep - Eyes May Shine (Remix) 03.The Infamous, an Album by Mobb Deep. If Return of the Mac sounded like an artist reconnecting with his roots, The Kush sounds like an artist spending a few bored afternoons in the studio, waiting for his label to take him off the shelf.Among the first Bay Area rappers to sign to a major label, E-40 went platinum with his first release for Jive. Return of the Mac sounded completely at odds with rap's current commercial climate, but it brought Prodigy back to the sneering charisma that we loved him for in the first place. Prodigy responded to that failure by hooking up with the producer Alchemist and crafting some of the best work of his life: a murky and downtrodden record steeped in ornamental 1970s soul and hallucinatory paranoia.

On The Kush, virtually all his lyrics consist of limp talk about what a badass he is, deviating only to talk about how he loves a woman ('Be There') and how he absolutely under no circumstances loves a woman ('I'm the Boss'), a long with a somewhat confusing moment on 'Get Off My Dick' where he actually brags about the first-week sales of Blood Money. Over the years, both of them have become clumsier in their delivery, but Prodigy can still rely on his old-gunslinger magnetism, whereas Havoc just sounds like a big empty space. Featured peformers: Mobb Deep (executive producer), Schott Free (executive producer), Matt Life (executive producer), Leon Zervos (mastering As a rapper, Havoc has never been as compelling as his partner his clipped, low-key verses always worked best as a foil to Prodigy's weathered threats. Rated 3 in the best albums of 1995, and 153 of all-time album. Genres: East Coast Hip Hop, Gangsta Rap, Boom Bap.

On 'Balling Out': 'I'm right where I'm 'posed to be like feng shui/ Got 'em nervous like a kid in school on his first day.' And on 'NY 4 Life': 'I got an icebox where my heart used to be' if you're borrowing your badass quotes from Omarion, it's time to take a long look in the mirror. Sometimes, Hav can be almost laughably awkward. If you've spent enough time listening to New York rap, you've heard the exact same sentiments delivered in about a million different ways, and Havoc doesn't have enough assurance or style in his vocal to distinguish him from the hundreds of mixtape rappers who have come up in the years since Mobb Deep first hit the scene.

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On headphones, this stuff melts together into a comfortably cohesive unit.In their conversation with Ego Trip co-founder Sacha Jenkins, Mobb Deep. And with its quiet horn-loop and muted snares, 'Be There' is quietly gorgeous, a welcome reminder that this guy used to find beauty in menace regularly. 'What's Poppin' Tonite' is weirdly pretty, its gasping ethereal synth-tones sustaining for as long as possible. 'Balling Out' marries nicely tense drum-rattles to urgent organ-bleats.

As pleasantly unified as the album might sound, there's just no apparent reason for it to exist. It's tough to hate the album, but it's just as tough to come up with any sort of emotional response at all. About half the songs come with decent but indistinct guest-spots from random mixtape-rapper types with names like 40 Glocc and Nyce.

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