According to Havoc Prince was at Electric Lady & at the same time Prince was in the studio. So Prince wanders into the Mobb Deep session & he hops on keyboards & he's on the track "Thou Shall Not Kill"

Most of you cats don't know who Mobb Deep is. But let's just say, it is pretty amazing he worked with a gully act like that for free & played Keys on it. Nothing terribly special sounding about it, just interesting how Prince & Mobb Deep have a collaboration. The beat uses the Lost boys soundtrack theme melody for the hook "Cry Little Sister"

Never before disclosed until Nore podcast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJO0-4c375c

Scan to 36 minutes to hear the story:

http://www1.play.it/audio/drink-champs/

Cool story... and interesting to hear this crazy Hip Hop connection. More evidence of sessions uncredited of Prince that are currently floating around. Prince and the infamous.

[Edited 7/1/16 12:16pm]

Yep, it's pretty crazy and cool.

I grew up a huge Mobb Deep fan in the 90's - "The Infamous", "Hell on Earth" and even "Murda Muzik" got a ton of play in my household. For me Havoc's production fell off after that and Prodigy started repeating himself lyrically, but those three albums are gems.

Absolutely crazy to hear that Prince just walked in and played keys on a Mobb joint.

Interestingly enough, Prodigy also rapped on an official remake of "You Are In My System" by The System which appeared on their album ESP............... So the Mobb have a couple different connections to the funk-sphere.

Militant said:

Yep, it's pretty crazy and cool.

I grew up a huge Mobb Deep fan in the 90's - "The Infamous", "Hell on Earth" and even "Murda Muzik" got a ton of play in my household. For me Havoc's production fell off after that and Prodigy started repeating himself lyrically, but those three albums are gems.

Absolutely crazy to hear that Prince just walked in and played keys on a Mobb joint.

Interestingly enough, Prodigy also rapped on an official remake of "You Are In My System" by The System which appeared on their album ESP............... So the Mobb have a couple different connections to the funk-sphere.

Oh, You listen to the podcast , everyone is LISTENING to tthat mf. The numbers are goddamn crazy. Nore is making a lot of people mad.

[Edited 7/1/16 12:19pm]

The Infamous was definitely one of my favorite mid-90s albums. Very cool that Prince recorded with them.

lastdance said:

Mobb Deep were really dark! Their first three ablums were awesome. I agree with militant on that for sure! They did loose it after and soundedc way to,polished for my ears though which was a shame. Did u hear the very first album militant before the infamous?

IIRC this emoticon was made in honor of one of the songs on that first album:

Deja vu. http://prince.org/msg/8/428682

lastdance said:

Mobb Deep were really dark! Their first three ablums were awesome. I agree with militant on that for sure! They did loose it after and soundedc way to,polished for my ears though which was a shame. Did u hear the very first album militant before the infamous?

You mean Juvenile Hell?

I didn't hear it until years after The Infamous and Hell On Earth. It wasn't a hit album, I don't believe, and I had never seen it in stores here in the UK so I didn't know it existed! Honestly, wasn't massively impressed with it. There was a couple good tracks but I didn't find it that interesting overall. Havoc hadn't really found his sound as a producer yet, and the stuff they got from Primo and Large Pro weren't a patch on the beats those same producers gave to people like Nas. It's an OK album but Infamous, Hell on Earth and Murda Muzik are all way better. I stopped paying attention after that.

There was a point in the late 90's where pretty much all the acts from Queensbridge were making really fantastic stuff. Mobb, Nas, Tragedy Khadafi, CNN, Cormega......... Cormega's album "The Testament" that he recorded whilst signed to Def Jam is absolutely killer. Def Jam never released it though, and it didn't come out til years later officially but it was heavily bootlegged at the time.