Mobb Deep’s Prodigy takes issue with Mother Goose, non-bloggers, his caps-lock key

A 3 1/2-year jail term would give anybody a lot to be angry about (and plenty of time to mull it over), but Mobb Deep's Prodigy is making especially fruitful use of his time inside the clink. While serving his term for a 2006 gun charge, he's taken up biweekly blogging for Vibe magazine, and he's a reliably great read, particularly for his fevered tangents like this one against Disney films (profanity redacted for the kids out there) ...

"NAME A BLACK CHARACTER IN ANY CLASSIC WALT DISNEY STORY? ... YOU CAN’T EVEN SEE A BLACK EXTRA UNLESS IT’S A MAID OR BUTLER. AT LEAST NOT WHEN I WAS GROWING UP AND I DOUBT RIGHT NOW. RECENTLY THEY MADE A FEW ANIMATED MOVIES LIKE: POCHOHANTAS, ALADDIN, AND LILO & STITCH. IN THESE MOVIES, THEY HAVE INDIANS AND ARABIAN CHARACTERS BUT I HAVEN’T SEEN A BLACK ANIMATED DISNEY MOVIE YET…WHAT ABOUT ALL THE OTHER GREAT INDIAN WOMEN?"

... And this one on childrens' stories:

"I’VE NEVER READ A DROP OF FICTION IN MY LIFE. BESIDES THE CHILDHOOD DR. SEUSS & MOTHER GOOSE STORIES THAT WE WERE ALL SUBJECT TO AS CHILDREN, AND I AIN’T EVEN MAD AT THOSE. DR. SEUSS PROBABLY HELPED INFLUENCE MY RAP CAREER ... I’M NOT GONNA EVEN GET INTO WHAT I WANTED TO DO TO SNOW WHITE. BUT, IT WAS THESE BOOKS AND SOME CARTOONS THAT MADE ME REALIZE WHEN I GOT OLDER, THAT THIS WORLD & SYSTEM IS SET UP TO: ANNILIATE, HUMILIATE, ILLUMINATE, RAPE, & PILLAGE THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF THIS PLANET. AND THIS IS MAINLY THE NATIVE AMERICANS & BLACK RACE OF PEOPLE. "

... And this one on blogging vis-a-vis gangsta-dom:

"P.S. ANYBODY THAT GOT SOMETHING AGAINST KEEPING A BLOG, YOU SHOULD STAY FARRRRRR AWAY FROM THE FOOL AND NEVER TRUST EM’. A BLOG IS NOT FOR EVERYBODY, JUST LIKE RAP MUSIC ISN’T FOR EVERYBODY. A BLOG IS INTERNET SLANG FOR A LOG AND IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT A LOG IS — IT’S WHAT BOAT CAPTAINS WRITE AND KEEP IN ORDER TO DOCUMENT THE DAYS OF LONG VOYAGES AND TRAVELS ... IT’S LIKE A DIARY.

SO FOR A YOUNG, VETERAN, HARDCORE RAPPER LIKE MYSELF, THAT’S BEEN IN THE GAME FOR OVER 16 YEARS TO KEEP A BLOG ON MY OWN WEBSITE MIND YOU, IS GROUND BREAKING AND VERY INTERESTING. AND WHOEVER TELLS YOU THEY DON’T DO THE BLOG THING, THEN THAT’S THEIR CHOICE ... BUT IT’S THE CHOICE OF A DINOSAUR WHO HAS LITTLE TO NO PLACE WITH THE COMPUTER TECHNOLOGICAL FUTURE ... I CAN’T WAIT UNTIL SOMEBODY SAY’S ‘GANGSTAS DON’T KEEP BLOGS.” HOW MUCH MORE IGNORANT CAN PEOPLE BE????? HAH!!!!! I’LL SPEAK TO Y’ALL LATER."

I guess no one knows better than Prodigy, whose battles with sickle-cell anemia are well-known, that the blogging that doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.

-- August Brown

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Comments

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