About the Author

Albert “Prodigy” Johnson was one half of the platinum selling hip-hop duo, Mobb Deep. Widely considered one of the most skilled lyricists in the history of hard-core East Coast rap, Prodigy lost a life-long battle with sickle cell anemia in 2017.

Reviews

"A surprising triumph, both as an archive of 1990s New York hip-hop folk tales and for its stirring sketches of a man who, on many occasions, could have made his life a lot easier on himself ... This is the kind of vulnerability that is fearless, especially within hip-hop." -Slate.com

"The legendary rapper unsentimentally details a life of beefs, brawls and murders during the heyday of East Coast hip-hop." -"The Washington Post"