Den bog jeg anbefaler nu, har jeg ikke engang læst. Til gengæld har jeg hørt Prodigy fra Mobb Deep læse op i 12 stive timer om sit berygtede liv, og jeg skal ellers lige love for at der er smæk for skillingen. Han lægger ikke fingre i mellem omkring noget som helst. Hverken da han som barn fortæller om kronisk at pisse i sengen og have elektronisk ble på, eller da ham og hans far skød alle fuglene i parken, for at være sikker på han ikke bliver en punk. Det hele bliver fortalt med overraskende meget selvrefleksion og man kan mærke at han på en gang vil distancere sig fra sin sindssyge opvækst og fortid men også har storyteller’ens behov for at udlevere sig selv. Vi hører om hans vilde beefs med 2pac, Jay-Z, CNN og Nas, men vi hører også om hans kone og barn, og hidtil ret ukendte begivenheder. Vidste du fx, at han var med på Boyz N The Hood soundtracket.

Du kan høre en snas her, fra en episode hvor Prodigy’s venner tæver NORE og ellers kan du købe bogen – eller hellere lydbogen – på Amazon!

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Mens jeg hørte historien, tweetede jeg til spredt begejstring og nogen surhed forskellige highlights til mine followers (følg mig) Her er nogle af dem:

“Ja Rule was on tour with us and we shared a dressing room one night. I never really liked Ja’s music”

“now should I shoot to kill, shoot to wound or shoot to just scare them? I decided to shoot keith murray”

“I suggested that we take it easy on our drugs and alcohol, as we were sitting around smoking and drinking and shit”

“if someone is waving a shiny chrome gun around he’s obviously trying to scare somebody if he was gonna use it, why would he wave it around”

OBS: Prodigy udtaler Mary J Blige som Mary J Blarhch… og har næsten været i kassen med hende

“Queens Bridge was tremendous. Almost everybody was a drug dealer!”

“LONS were performing and Busta Rhymes threw cassettes into the crowd. He flung the box into the crowd and hit me in the face. I was pissed”

“I spit, Nas spit, I spit some more. We passed blunts around between verses. His was way better than mine.”

“There’s no reason you should treat a person foul because they’re gay” – Prodigy dropper tung science!

“I admired Slick Rick for his jewelery… and for how he shot his cousin”

“we passed by the man’s dead body and walked to the store of 57th avenue, and filled our pockets with bendable WWF figures”

“>>what’s up with you and Michael Jackson<<, I asked Webster? >>Is Michael gay<<, I asked him straight up!" "Cousin Cecily was a very pretty girl... she taught me eat artichokes, watch WWF wrestling and speak Detroit" "pops took me to see Scarface with Al Pacino on opening night. Now THAT was a fucking movie!" "I wrote my first song "He's a crackhead" at age nine" "No, I'm not tired. No, I'm not angry, well maybe a little bit. I'm just not a happy go-lucky muhfucker!" "I was bopping my head to the beat so intensely that my pops would call med >>Bophead<<" åh for helvede P