Track Listing

1. Start Of Your Ending
2. Survival Of The Fittest
3. I For Ai (Your Beef Is Mines)
4. Give Up The Gods (Just Step)
5. Temperature's Rising
6. Up North Trip
7. Trife Life
8. QU Hectic
9. Right Back At You
10. Cradle To The Grave
11. Drink The Pain Away (Situations)
12. Shook Ones
13. Party Over

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #46891 in Music
• Released on: 1998-01-19
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics

Amazon.co.uk Review
It's hard to believe that the second Mobb Deep album was created by teenagers, but the fact remains that this 14-track masterpiece puts many of the duo's older rivals to shame. With a grim, cinematic feel, underpinned by sparse snare beats and ominous bass rumbles, their raps give a depressing, but poetic account of life in the crime-ridden housing projects of Queensbridge. The quality of guests they attracted (Q-Tip,Nas, Raekwon) is a measure of the respect the pair commanded on the strength of their only hit single that year, "Shook Ones Pt II". That track, with its catchy bassline and hummable guitar sample, shows Mobb Deep at their sinister best, delivering lines like "I'm only 19, but my mind is old / When things get for real my warm heart turns cold"--lyrics that go far beyond crude gangsterism, and provide an irresistibly chilling thug's-eye view of the world. --Chris Elwell-Sutton

Customer Reviews

Brilliant.
I am heavily into rap and i have many of the classic artist albums such as dr dre, noop dogg, nwa, eazy e, tupac and the rest, im mainly into mainstream but ive gone down to the outside now. This album is absoutely stunning, there are around 10 tracks i could listen to over and over again. Forget 50 cent, forget even eminem! This is the real stuff and possibly one of the best albums ever made in any music genre.

THINGS DONE CHANGED
This album is one of the grittiest, rawest that was out and out today. Some of the songs are classics, in every sense of the word. If you are a fan of the Mobb Deep in their current fake 50cent wannabe tryna make money stage, then this aint for you, but if you appreciate hip-hop in all its finest works, you will enjoy this album for both the lyrics the beats and the energy then you will enjoy this. Up there with the greatest hip-hop albums, a must have.

MOBB DEEP-THE INFAMOUS-CLASSIC
this undoubtedly is one of the best rap albums ever made, it basically takes you through a day in the life in the new york projects, the production on this is gritty but really good, it has haunting piano samples and drum loops which really suit the dark mood of the songs and the album, havoc and prodigy are really good rappers as well, they may not be as charismatic as say, biggie, nas, or Big L, but they are still great, they both have really good flows(especially prodigy), really good lyrics, multi syllable rhyming and wordplay, the subject matter on this album is really dark too, mobb deep rap about running from police, friends in prison, depression, and various other things, although now mobb deep have signed to g unit and are really bad, back in 1995 they were great, if you are a rap fan i would highly recommend this, if you dont already have it, you will not be disappointed