While serving a three-year bid for a weapons charge, Prodigy used his time to better himself as a person. Speaking on “The Monique Show,” the Queens, New York native explained that he had a moment of clarity while in the clink, realizing that he only had himself to blame for his mistakes.
“I’m sitting there and I realized that I got my career taken from me, my family, everything stripped of me, and I’m just like wow, I put myself in this position, I can’t even blame somebody else,” he said. “It really made me analyze my whole life and my decision making and my priorities and the things that I was doing before I actually got locked up, and I just came to the conclusion that I needed to change things around a little bit as far as how I was moving and the things that I would do when it came to rap music.”
He expressed remorse for his behavior towards other MCs in the game. “Beefing with other rappers. When it came to finances, spending money on jewelry and all kinds of craziness like that, just different things like that. I had to get my priorities together,” he continued. “And I realized that and I was like, I’m not going to get another chance after this because I’ve been given a lot of chances in my life. This was the last straw, getting locked up.”
With his Sickle Cell potentially acting up in prison, he knew he had to get his mind right. “I had to look at all of that and just really get my life together. When I went in, I said, you know what? I’m going to start eating right every day, I’m going to drink a lot of water every day, I didn’t drink no juice or soda. Just drank straight water, ate a lot of vegetables, got more in tune with God, get back in line with God and where I needed to be as far as my spirituality,” he said. “Work out every day. I was doing a lot of working out, exercising, and things like that. I really got myself together in there, all the way around. Mentally, physically, spiritually. All that. And it worked.”
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Ayo prodigy, holla at me for some dope tracks, big up, keep ya head up. http://soundcloud.com/black-ice-1/tracks
What’s up with all this non-musicial bullshit we’ve come to know about Prodigy in the last few weeks? Some of the would be okay, but you guys are overdoing it. You don’t need to post it everytime this guy decides to tell something to the media, especially if it ain’t about his music. Damn, get this shit outta here, anybody is aware that he went to jail, got outta there and acts like he’s the wisest man on earth. Maybe he should learn how to rhyme again before he tells the world all those things nobody is interested in.
WTF
i love prodigy man he’s one of my favorite emcees ever but ENOUGH ALREADY. this nigga came out of jail ready to GOSSIP like a hoe. where is the music p? i think he’s dropped more interviews since being home than songs. and he’s saying some real wild stuff, talking bout gays got a lane in hip hop. this is the same nigga that wrote “i count on one finger all yall rap niggas excite me”? mobb deep are in heavy promo mode and the album is nowhere in sight, fucking overkill. internet age got all these rappers feeling like actors, promoting their movies. not realizing the average person, finds them sickenig outside of their craft.
Couldn’t said it better myself.
you got a buy the real copy then they dont gota cater to all this other weak shit
What are ya’ll talking about? Prodigy release a mixtape like a month ago and has new songs ALL OVER the internet peep Dog Shit feat Nas. Mobb Deep said they are recording they’re new albunm right now and he started writing this book a while back!SMH!
gays do have a lane in hip hop, the whole of the mainstream, billboard chart topping hip pop artist’s and a percentage of the rap nation growing up on this genre which is actually packaged and passed off as hip hop
jason, stop flaming on every video dick ridin cheesy pop songs like how to love. stop dissing nas and eminem. get your head outta your ass, you 13 year old fag!
Mobb Deep is at Rock the Bells this year performing The Infamous so maybe he’ll see what the fans want and he’ll stop doing this bullshit of talking about everyone and write some real lyrics with some tight ass beats like Shook Ones pt. 2, Eye for a Eye, Give Up the Goods, Cradle to the Grave.
tell the boss man when you see i got beef with em. its 2011 we dont give a fuck about that religious bullshit