This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
“Guns, money, cars, drugs, jewelry, clothes, rolls, killings, boroughs, buildings, disease, stress (and) N.Y.C.”
For Prodigy and Havoc, the two members of New York’s Mobb Deep, that pretty much sums up life in the ’hood. And it pretty much sums up the subject matter on their fourth album Murda Muzik, a dark, dangerous collection of bleak urban tales — like the one about the boy whose happy family memories include his father teaching him how to shoot a 9-mm handgun — set to heavy, pulsing grooves that have all the tension of a drug-corner confrontation. This is the real deal — no VIP guest spots, no poppy samples, no skits. Just reality. You are about to witness the strength of street knowledge.
