Havoc confirmed a brand new Mobb Deep album titled Infinite is completed and options unreleased Prodigy vocals with manufacturing from The Alchemist.
Havoc has formally wrapped a brand new Mobb Deep album that includes unreleased vocals from the late Prodigy and manufacturing from longtime collaborator The Alchemist.
“We obtained a brand new Mobb Deep album on the best way,” Havoc revealed, including that the undertaking consists of “official” verses from each himself and Prodigy. “This s### is official. It’s executed. S### is combined, mastered, able to go.”
The album, titled Infinite, marks the duo’s first full-length launch since 2014 and the primary since Prodigy’s passing in 2017.
It’s a part of Mass Attraction’s Legend Has It… sequence, curated by Nas, which celebrates Hip-Hop icons via unreleased and archival materials.
Havoc revealed how the undertaking got here collectively, crediting The Alchemist for serving to convey it to life.
“Once we first began engaged on the album, I flew out to LA. Began f###### with Alchemist, as a result of Alchemist most likely obtained a ton of Prodigy verses,” he defined. “Had some s###. So it was solely proper that I teamed up with him, as a result of, you realize, Al’s household, in order that’s how we did that s###.”
The Alchemist, who co-produced all the album with Havoc, teased the undertaking earlier this 12 months.
“They did a lot work, it was insane,” he mentioned of Mobb Deep. “You could possibly simply peel again layers in Prodigy’s rhymes. He was forward of his time.”
Alchemist continued, “P’s legend lives. He did greater than the typical individual whereas he was right here, and he even left behind lots of stuff so we’re fortunate sufficient to be engaged on a brand new Mobb Deep undertaking.”
The Alchemist and Havoc’s inventive partnership dates again to the late Nineties, together with their work on Murda Muzik and Prodigy’s solo catalog. Infinite would be the first official Mobb Deep launch in a decade.
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