Mobb Deep

Mobb Deep, the duo of Prodigy and Havoc, raps about violence the way comics legend Frank Miller draws it: stark, scrupulous, and with deep slashes of shadow and consequence. On its 1995 masterpiece,The Infamous, Mobb Deep adopted the Wu-Tang Clan formula and carved it to the bone. The recent years have wavered through a few watered-down returns, and the duo was forced into hiatus while Prodigy served a three-year prison sentence on gun possession charges. Now that Prodigy is released, the duo’s understandably wasting no time returning to the rap scene—Mobb Deep is working on its ninth album and will release a new EP, The Black Cocaine EP, on Black Friday, Nov. 25.

Updated 10/12/2011