Prodigy, whose gravelly monotone helped make Mobb Deep one of the iconic hip-hop duos of the 1990s, died Tuesday in Las Vegas at the age of 42. The rapper, who burst on the scene alongside partner ...

“I’m not even going to front…he got me,” snickered an unusually self-deprecating Albert Johnson. While it was true that the all-too-serious Hempstead, N.Y. born emcee known to millions as Prodigy of ...

Few rappers can claim to be as fearsome as Prodigy. The rap menace and member of the legendary duo Mobb Deep was a man who rubbed shoulders with New York’s gangstas and told their stories. His ...

It's just eight words — "I'm only 19, but my mind is old" — but it might be the most paralyzing rap lyric ever written, the kind of declaration that makes your pulse quicken while your blood cools in ...

Rapper Prodigy, a member of the New York hip-hop duo Mobb Deep, has died. He was 42. The rapper's publicist said in a statement Tuesday that Prodigy was hospitalized a few days ago in Las Vegas "for ...

Mobb Deep rapper Prodigy’s cause of death has been revealed as accidental choking, the Clark County coroner’s office confirmed to the Daily News, and reports suggest the culprit was an egg. The ...