Eminem‘s 8 Mile movie was a huge box office smash, and Mobb Deep‘s Havoc has admitted to HipHopDX that it’s still paying some of his bills.
The Queensbridge-bred producer and lyricist said he was “taken back” when he first saw the iconic scene of Em’s B-Rabbit character freestyling over Mobb Deep’s “Shook Ones” instrumental.
“I mean I was really taken back because I didn’t even know if Eminem was a fan,” Havoc told DX on the BET Hip Hop Awards red carpet. “So to hear that, I found out he was a fan and then the cha-ching sound went off in my head. It bought this Fendi sweater.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Havoc was asked to list his favorite verse of all time as well as his favorite Prodigy verse. For both instances, he chose “Shook Ones.” DX asked if the pair knew they had a hit on their hands when they initially made the song.
“I mean Prodigy definitely knew that because I made the beat in my crib in the projects or whatever,” Havoc said. “I didn’t think too much of it. Prodigy came upstairs and said: ‘What the hell is this?’ I said, ‘whatever,’ and he said, ‘No’ and then we made ‘Shook Ones.'”
The original promotional single appeared on the B-side of Mobb Deep’s sophomore record The Infamous in 1994, and the less-explicit sequel “Shook Ones, Pt. II” made the original project, eventually becoming one of the duo’s highest charting songs and debuting at No. 52 on the Billboard 200.
The single is deeply embedded within Eminem’s 8 Mile film and appears multiple times throughout. The track has become one of rap’s most celebrated samples and has appeared in the Marvel TV show Luke Cage as well as video games like Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and NBA 2k13 and 2k18.
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Prodigy passed away from complications due to sickle-cell anemia in 2017. His first posthumous release, The Hegelian Dialect 2: The Book of Heroine, dropped on September 30. The project serves as the follow-up to 2017’s Hegelian Dialectic (The Book of Revelation) and will be followed by a third installment, The Book of the Dead, in 2023.
Havoc also confirmed over the summer that he’s producing a new Mobb Deep album. “I got the Mobb Deep album that I’m working on with a bunch of unreleased Prodigy verses,” he told Rock The Bells in August, calling it a “full circle moment.”
“The way LL [COOL J] crafted and put this thing together, I don’t think nobody else could have,” he said. “LL is a Queens general, salute to him, of course, he would put a production of this magnitude together and include your favorite MCs and producers.”
It bought an overpriced sweater, great way to invest dunn dunn
Hollywood Hav!!
Yes what a dummy
I don’t think he was implying that the sweater was all he bought with the royalties… I’m just saying… And do u even know if he has any investments??? Don’t judge cause of an “overpriced” sweater…
Eminem is the goat
The second is more popular, but I prefer the first Shook Ones. Under-appreciated.
You know Em a real one when he put Gang Starr and Rakim on a high budget soundtrack that sold millions. 8 Mile Road is one his best songs ever. He need to tap into that flow every once in awhile.
That battle song by gangstarr on that soundtrack was a fucking banger straight up Em knows his shit …..and Prodigy didnt die feom sickle cell he died choking on a hard boiled egg lmfao look it up straight facts
Prodigy died by choking on an egg while in hospital.
You can suck my egg now put it in yo mouf! das rite put my egg in yo mouf i said suck my egg you egg sucker
Y’all are sheep if you seriously think that P died from choking on an egg…
His death is either faked or he really struck a nerve in the zioniat community. I’m willing to bet that he was an industry plant. He has always been throwing esoteric knowledge in his raps as far back as HNIC. Talking about fluoride in the water. I love the hegalien dialectic but I cant imagine that would have been allowed to come out if he wasn’t well connected. His family background wasn’t full of nameless people either.
Side note (why does no one being up the bas album ‘untitled’ and how we never got that side of him again).
But I agree anyone who believes that he choked on an end doesn’t see the metaphorical symbolism of his hard to believe death
Zionist ***
My bad for the misspellings: Nas* and Egg*
Facts. Family is connected. He’s also a plant but not in the sense that were normally used to hearing. Isn’t it strange that there was another Havoc and Prodigy at the same exact time but on the westcoast? Side note, Google obama, brad pitt, hilary clinton, queen elizabeth. read. Feel sick yet?
eGG –> upside down e is 6 –> G is 6 = 666.
Look into Prodigy, Jay-Z, and Dr. Malachi Z. York. Go deeeeeeeeepp into the rabbit hole, I mean deep. These people arent just random guys who came up from the hood with better than average lyrics. Also read prodigys letters from jail about JZ.