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Prodigy

As part of the legendary New York duo Mobb Deep, rap icon Prodigy was a confrontational, gritty voice of inner city struggle in the 1990s and, despite his endless battles and rivalries with other artists, he became revered as one of the defining figures of hip-hop's golden era. His grandfather Budd Johnson and great-uncle Keg Johnson were both renowned jazz musicians and his mother Frances Collins was part of the girl group The Crystals in the '60s, but Prodigy (real name Albert Johnson) grew up on the Queensbridge housing development in New York where hip-hop ruled, and he was s...