The Making of Mobb Deep’s The Infamous

With today being the 16th anniversary of Mobb Deep’s sophomore album’s debut, ‘Plex Row did a “making of” piece on the album.

*waits for Pea$ to start bugging out over this*

Peep a small portion of what they say on my personal highlight of the album, “Drink Away The Pain (Situations)” featuring Q-Tip:

“We took it to Platinum Island, me and Hav did our vocals on it, and then Q-Tip did his a couple weeks later. When I heard it I was like, ‘What the fuck is he rapping about? It doesn’t match the song. He’s talking about clothes, we’re talking about liquor.’ It kind of threw me off at first, but then people was like, ‘Nah, that shit sounds good son,’ so I started liking it after a while.

“‘He was talking about ‘Polo is my dude, Tommy Hil is my nigga,’ and all that type of shit. So he flipped it. It was ill because we were doing the same thing about the liquor. We were talking about Hennessy and St. Ide’s like it was a female, like we was in love with it, and all our friends was like, ‘Yo, this is no good for you. Stop fucking with her. It’s going to hurt you in the end.’”

READ: The Making of Mobb Deep’s The Infamous [via Complex]

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~ by Meka on April 25, 2011.

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11 Responses to “The Making of Mobb Deep’s The Infamous”

  1. Funny, I just put it on my iPod Saturday.

    Re Rea Real Really Doe said this on April 25th, 2011 at 4:47 pm

  2. The greatest hip-hop album in my opinion. Word!…and just like Peas, i’m bugging out over this too.

    BoshJamesWade said this on April 25th, 2011 at 5:15 pm

  3. Sophomore? wasn’t this their 3rd album!?

    tyler said this on April 25th, 2011 at 5:26 pm

  4. @BoshJamesWade
    you really think this is the greatest hip hop album?? Not being offesnive, Ive just never seen anyone put it above the likes of Illmatic or Return to the 36 Chambers?

    Z Dub said this on April 25th, 2011 at 5:33 pm

  5. it was their sophomore, only album before it was juvenile hell. prodigy said he considers this his first album tho and considers juvenile hell their demo. i heard they actually jumped a DJ for playing “hit it from the back” in the club lol

    jerseykid said this on April 25th, 2011 at 5:34 pm

  6. @Z Dub

    No offense taken, but yeah you’ve just met a person who has put The Infamous over Return of 36 Chambers & Illmatic, nice to meet you.

    BoshJamesWade said this on April 25th, 2011 at 5:55 pm

  7. i think it’s above both of those albums too

    jerseykid said this on April 25th, 2011 at 6:04 pm

  8. the infamous to me was always great cos of the BEATS..i dont think they were that great…lyrically tho they did make MANY GREAT songs..

    BillyClint said this on April 25th, 2011 at 6:30 pm

  9. why you gotta mention peas in every fuckin mobb deep post? we get it, she’s a big fan or this little mothafuckas…

    D said this on April 25th, 2011 at 6:50 pm

  10. “why you gotta mention peas in every fuckin mobb deep post? we get it, she’s a big fan or this little mothafuckas…”

    lmao

    Realtalk said this on April 25th, 2011 at 7:24 pm

  11. Classic. I bump this at least three times a year. Such rugged and raw and atmosphere its one of the best produced hip hop albums I ever heard.

    dre3staxx said this on April 25th, 2011 at 9:10 pm

 

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