H.N.I.C. 3

Prodigy | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 3, 2012)
• Original Release Date: 2012
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Infamous Records
• ASIN: B0084O8OMA
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Music
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #148,654 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Without Rhyme or Reason

2. Slept On

3. Pretty Thug

4. My Angel feat Willie Taylor of Day 26

5. Co-Pilot feat Wiz Khalifa

6. Live

7. Make It Hot

8. Get Money feat Boogz Boogetz

9. Life Is What You Make It

10. Award Show Life

11. Who You Bullshittin feat Havoc

12. Skull & Bones

13. Smack That Bitch feat Esther

14. Let Me Show You feat Vaughn Anthony

15. Gangsta Love feat Esther

16. What's Happening feat T.I.

Editorial Reviews

2012 release from one half of the infamous Mobb Deep, the third installment of his H.N.I.C. series. H.N.I.C. 3 features a rejuvenated, but still strange and magnetic Prodigy aggressively debating about life, prison, religion, and conspiracy theories. Prodigy's gritty and poignant story telling is laid on a bed of captivating beats provided by familiar collaborators like Alchemist, as well as Ty Fyffe. Regarded by critics as a true poet, Prodigy's album is exactly what hip hop fans have been missing and waiting for.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 19 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Very depressing! July 3, 2012

By H T. Marriott

Format:Audio CD

From going to creating one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time (The Infamous) to making this album is quite extradionary! Its not that Prodigy has lost his talents at all, its just he's trying WAY too hard to be Wiz Khalifa and all those mainstream fakes who got famous purely by luck. Prodigy is better than this, just check out the majority of his Mobb Deep material and the H.N.I.C album (the original one of course, not this). The production doesn't suit Prodigy in anyway, and with all the rhymes being about prision, hoes and drugs, one has to wonder if Prodigy has offically lost his old-school touch and has gone for the awful mainstream style.

I wasn't expecting a 90s type style classic from this album, but i was expecting some killer underground grimmy beats mixing with Prodigy's flow, we unfortanetly get none of that. Rappers from the 90s have now re-vamped themselves a bit, just look at Nas, but Nas has done it to the point where he still goes hard on every track and shows much love for the art of hip-hop, but Prodigy obviously released this to get some cash, but he has sold his soul and his legacy is tarnished in my opinion. This album sucks, sorry, but it does! Do not buy!!!!!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars 2/10 - Disappointing August 26, 2012

By J. Richardson

Format:Audio CD

Not even sure how I should start this, so I'll just jump right into it. What happened to P? He used to be so ill, but this entire album is terrible. He sounds tired and the lyrics are lazy and generic. At least 90% of this album consists of him talking about women. It gets really repetitive, and it sounds weird coming from Prodigy.

For those of you who don't know, Prodigy is one half of the Hip Hop duo Mobb Deep. This is his third solo album, and third release in the H.N.I.C. series. However, if I didn't know this was Prodigy prior to me listening to it, I would've never guessed it was him. The album starts off with "Without Rhyme or Reason" in which P doesn't really rhyme, at all. After my second listen it hit me, "Without Rhyme or Reason" was a literal statement. Either way, it winds up being a terrible waste of an excellent beat from Alchemist.

That first song really sums up the entire album, it just feels really awkward. Now I understand why Havoc has been going for Prodigy's head in some of his new songs. What I want to know is why is Havoc on here if he had problems with how the album was sounding? That means he was there for at least some of the recording sessions, so if he thought it was sounding corny shouldn't he have opened his mouth? For all we know his opinion might have completely changed how this album came out.

The guests are nothing special. The only one worth mentioning is Havoc on track eleven "Who You Bullsh**tin'." For the most part the production is pretty nice, but it definitely could have been better. The only producer I actually recognized was The Alchemist, but you also get Ty Fyffe, Beat Butcher, The Colombians, as well as a few others. The main album spans 16 songs and runs at around an hour, but if you get the deluxe edition you get four bonus songs which stretch it to around an hour and ten minutes. Either way it's pretty lengthy, and the bonus songs don't really add much to the album. Honestly, by the time the final song finished on the main portion I already had enough.

Standout Songs: "Life Is What You Make It" & "Who You Bullsh**tin' (Feat. Havoc)"

Overall Score: 2/10 - This is terribly disappointing. I was really rooting for P on this one, but he wasn't able to pull through. In my opinion, whether your a Mobb Deep fan or not, I would suggest you skip this. Nothing about it is extremely memorable, and Mobb Deep fans will just be left with a frown on their face. This is not the Prodigy I grew up listening to.

2.0 out of 5 stars ...average listen delivering nothing new September 10, 2012

By Dutch

Format:Audio CD

I don't know what went wrong here but this album just takes a downward spiral as it progressed. It starts with somewhat of a bang and then just progresses into a sense of mundance listening. The production is a hit and miss, where it starts well but gradually becomes uninspired and then picking up at the end. There are some bangers but the majority of the beats are adequate. Prodigy performs like his typical self with his laid back flow and average lyrics. This mere fact combined with the uninspired beats, does not bode well for the enjoyability and replayability. Then add the fact that there is no real structure to it with a heavy bit of gangster and <u>love</u> tracks, isn't this the Head N*gga in Charge!?!? An average listen delivering nothing new.