This whole Mobb Deep beef situation is getting out of hand. First, we get tweets from Havoc dissing Prodigy and calling him gay. Then the next morning, audio is released of Havoc saying the exact same thing. Then he calls up The Breakfast Club, denies everything and says that Mobb Deep is still cool.
Now XXL reveal that they spoke to a source in Prodigy’s camp who confirms that the rift between Hav and P is very real. He also says that there will probably never be a Mobb Deep album again. Very interesting read as it gives a history of their issues together, starting from when Prodigy got locked up.
Read the full article, courtesy of Adam Fleischer, below.
According to the source, who works closely with the Queens veterans, tension has been building between Havoc and Prodigy for some time now. Prodigy was locked up from 2007 through 2011, serving a three-and-a-half-year sentence on a gun charge, and was determined to stay out of trouble when he came home; he stopped drinking and smoking and hit the gym. “While he was up there, 50 Cent came to visit him a couple times,” the source said. “And 50 had came to him and said, ‘Listen, man, when you come home, I wanna sign you as a solo artist. I’m gonna give you a $500,000 advance check, but I’m not fuckin’ with Havoc because Havoc has been dealin’ with alcohol issues for years. Since you’ve been in jail, he’s checked in a few times to rehab.” Mobb Deep had previously been signed to G-Unit from 2005 through 2009. With three months to go in his sentence, Havoc still hadn’t visited Prodigy, and though the G-Unit offer was enticing, P was willing to give Mobb Deep another chance if Hav visited him before he was released.
“A week before [Prodigy] comes home, Havoc finally shows up,” the source continued. “[He says], ‘Yo, listen, I’m sorry, man. I’ve been battlin’ alcohol again. I just came out of rehab. I really wanna work again. Let’s get money.’” Prodigy was open to getting back to work with his longtime comrade. He was released in March 2011, and the next month dropped his autobiography, My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep’s Prodigy. P and Hav hit the studio a few times—even releasing the Black Cocaine EP in November—but the two rarely interacted. “The only time Prodigy would see him is before a show—at the airport or however they’re gonna get there,” the source said.
Citing one instance in particular, the source says Havoc spent $20,000 at a casino, but didn’t remember the next day because he had been drinking heavily. “The next day, when he went into the account, the money was gone,” the source recalled. “He forgot because he has these little blackout moments when he’s drunk—that he spent all the money gamblin’. He accused Prodigy’s manager [of] stealin’ the money out of his account. So he knocks on Prodigy’s door, he smacks Prodigy across the face, Prodigy wrestles him down, beats him up a little bit. After, he remembers that he was gamblin’, so he comes back to Prodigy and apologizes and all that. But at this point, Prodigy is already tellin’ me and my other friend, ‘Yo, this is the last Mobb Deep tour. When I get back to New York, I’m gonna disappear. I’m not fuckin’ with H no more.’”
Havoc referenced an altercation on Twitter earlier this week, writing, “i had to smack P ask him.”
The Infamous Mobb hit SXSW in Austin for the first time last month, and though they performed multiple times, the tension was continuing to mount. “When he got back to New York, Prodigy kept his word,” the source said. “He stopped takin’ Havoc’s calls. He wanted to be out that whole situation.” The source also denied accusations that Havoc questioned Prodigy’s sexuality, and said it’s highly unlikely that the two work together again. “To be honest with you, there’s 120% certainty that there will never be another Mobb Deep album again,” the source concluded. “How do you come back from that?”
