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mobb deep - the infamous (20year anniversary edition) - allcity - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Hip Hop

1. The Start Of Your Ending
2. The Infamous Prelude
3. Survival Of The Fittest
4. Eye For An Eye Feat. Nas, Raekwon
5. Just Step Prelude
6. Give Up The Goods Feat. Big Noyd
7. Temperature's Rising Feat. Crystal Johnson
8. Up North Trip
9. Trife Life
10. Q.U. - Hectic
11. Right Back At You Feat. Ghost Face Killah, Raekwon
12. The Grave Prelude
13. Cradle To The Grave
14. Drink Away The Pain Feat. Q-Tip
15. Shook Ones Pt. II
16. Party Over

One of the cornerstones of the New York hardcore movement, The Infamous is Mobb Deep’s masterpiece, a relentlessly bleak song cycle that’s been hailed by hardcore rap fans as one of the most realistic gangsta albums ever recorded.

Given Mobb Deep’s youthful age and art-school background, it’s highly unlikely that The Infamous is drawn strictly from real-life experience, yet it’s utterly convincing, because it has all the foreboding atmosphere and thematic sweep of an epic crime drama. That’s partly because of the cinematic vision behind the duo’s detailed narratives, but it’s also a tribute to how well the raw, grimy production evokes the world that Mobb Deep is depicting. The group produced the vast majority of the album itself, with help on a few tracks from the Abstract (better known as Q-Tip), and establishes a spare, throbbing, no-frills style indebted to the Wu-Tang Clan