PRODIGY

The music is just real powerful when Mobb Deep and Nas work together.

I found that preparation is everything when you cook.

There isn't just one black experience out here.

You can never go back to a time and try to recreate that sound, because that time is done.

We gotta keep our sound alive, that dark hip-hop.

You have people there from all walks of life: people who made mistakes and have to deal with the consequences, mothers and fathers. You wouldn't expect them to be behind bars.

In the beginning, we might have been focused on totally just music and being famous, just wanting to have fame and make hot music, but as we got older, we had to understand that this is a business and that our moves need to be calculated.

Intellectuals that read a lot of books might not have been interested in Mobb Deep before 'My Infamous Life,' but now they might go, 'Who are these guys?' and check us out.

Obama represents one-world government, a.k.a. Neocolonialism. Presidents don't change anything locally - they only deal with foreign policy.

When I was a kid, I used to love to play 'Dig Dug.' It was, like, this little dude, where he digs in the dirt and makes tunnels.

Don't get 'Return of The Mac' confused as a solo album. That was just a mixtape.

With Mobb Deep, we have to agree on things. We have to agree that we want to use that beat or agree on the type of song we want to do.

I'm a fan of hip-hop. I'm a fan of rap, so anything new that's happening, I'm hip to it.

It took me a while to like Wu-Tang's style.

Growing up in bad neighborhoods, you see and experience a lot.

I just remember the feeling of being dropped from Island and having our hearts broken. Because we were given a chance to put out an album to the world. We got the chance for people to know who we were. We wanted to make our dreams come true and do hip-hop for a living, but we didn't do it right.

Music and physical activity goes hand in hand. Music and basketball, man.

Mobb Deep is a street-rap group. We from off the streets.

Our first name was the Poetical Prophets before we changed it to Mobb Deep, and when I look back on it now, that was, like, a ill name for us because that is what we really were.

I wanna like Obama, but he's all about the world government, world banking, war, and stuff like that. You know what I'm sayin'? He's a phony.

I just love his creativity; that's what I'm talking about as far as being unique and creative and different. Kanye is doing it.

'Cobra Clutch' was to let the world know we ain't going nowhere. We got the game in the cobra clutch.

My kids know they can't make the same mistakes I've made. They've been through a lot with me always being on the road.

I like any shoot-'em-up game with guns in it.

I been going to the hospital since I was born, about 10 times a year, for about a week or two each time.