Hostile forces - cops, rivals, neighborhood snitches - are potentially everywhere, and one slip around the wrong person can mean prison or death. Gangs are bound together by a code of fierce loyalty, relying wholly on one another for survival in a hopeless environment. Similarly, there's little pleasure or relief offered in the picture of the streets Mobb Deep paints here: They inhabit a war zone where crime and paranoia hang constantly in the air.

This is hard, underground hip-hop that demands to be met on its own terms, with few melodic hooks to draw the listener in. The group produced the vast majority of the album itself, with help on a few tracks from the Abstract (better known as Q-Tip), and establishes a spare, throbbing, no-frills style indebted to the Wu-Tang Clan. That's partly because of the cinematic vision behind the duo's detailed narratives, but it's also a tribute to how well the raw, grimy production evokes the world that Mobb Deep is depicting. Given Mobb Deep's youthful age and art-school background, it's highly unlikely that The Infamous is drawn strictly from real-life experience, yet it's utterly convincing, because it has all the foreboding atmosphere and thematic sweep of an epic crime drama. One of the cornerstones of the New York hardcore movement, The Infamous is Mobb Deep's masterpiece, a relentlessly bleak song cycle that's been hailed by hardcore rap fans as one of the most realistic gangsta albums ever recorded. A sample was also used in the song 'Beware' from Big Pun's album Capital Punishment in 1998 and a sample was used as the hook in Ice-T's song 'Forced to Do Dirt' from his 1996 album VI - Return of the Real.Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs. in 1994, the same year this song was released. Lyrics from this song were sampled in the song 'O-Zone' by O.C. The song was also released by Think Differently Records on its compilation Originals, which featured 24 tracks including original versions, uncleared-sample versions, and unreleased-verse versions. I.' The cut eventually made its way on the International version of the group's album Hell on Earth. 'Shook Ones' was featured on the b-side, retitled 'Shook Ones Pt. II' was the first official single of the group's second album, The Infamous. The song was the group's debut on Loud Records after being dropped from their previous label, 4th & B'way Records.Ī sequel titled ' Shook Ones, Pt. ' Shook Ones' (later also known as ' Shook Ones, Part I') is a 1994 promotional single by hip-hop group Mobb Deep.

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