Infamy [Explicit Lyrics]

Mobb Deep | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 11, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B00005U2LE
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (102 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #88,896 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Pray for Me

2. Get Away

3. Bounce

4. Clap

5. Kill That Nigga

6. My Gats Spitting

7. Handcuffs

8. Hey Luv (Anything)

9. The Learning (Burn)

10. Live Foul

11. Hurt Niggas

12. Get at Me

13. I Won't Fall

14. Crawlin

15. Nothing Like Home

16. There I Go Again/So Long [*]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Has Mobb Deep gone softcore?, December 25, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Infamy (Audio CD)

I'm a Mobb Deep fan. The Infamous . . . is a hip-hop classic. Infamy, however, is not. The Edgar Allan Poe of hip-hop, Mobb Deep created a following who loved their macrabe imagary and all too real story telling. They would manage create reality rap while adding a human side to tales project life and gangbanging.

Now is sounds as if my favorite fight rhymers are tired, they live in the 'burbs now and there's probably not a lot of action out there. Their lyrics are repetitive and uninspired. Havoc hasn't written a decent rhyme since Hell on Earth, and he seems to by enamored by the concept of the refrain because he has on in every song. Prodigy's lyrics are lame also as he must be saving his good material for his next solo album. Even his disses on Jay-Z are uninteresting.

The only consistent thing on this album as compared to previous Mobb Deep albums is the production. Havoc does a decent job. All of the other elements of a good MD album: the awesome guest rappers, the story telling, and the all-to-real skits are all gone. Oh, but there is a song with 112 . . .GIVE ME A BREAK!

Like I said, I'm a fan and I bought Infamy. There are 3 good songs on the album . . . but this will be the last MD album I'll ever buy again.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not As Deep As Their Previous Albums, December 20, 2001

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Mishima Triad (Raleigh, NC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Infamy (Audio CD)

This album probably deserves 3 stars, but it's grown on me a little since I've been playing it out trying to cope with their change of style. I've have loved all of their previous albums (including H.N.I.C. and excluding Juvenile Hell) but I'm just not really feelin this one like the others. They trash Jay-Z pretty hard but they gotta deal with Nas now that he's seemingly turned on Prodigy after P's appearance on that Cormega song (I guess that was probably the biggest catalyst). Anyway, most of the beats are tight, especially tracks like Pray For Me, My Gats Spittin, Nothing Like Home, and a few others. However, the Mobb done tried to change their flow up and it sounds [like it]. Like in the first song, Pray For Me, the beat's awesome, but they use a simple aabb rhyme scheme pausing before the words that rhyme making those rhymes stand out which is kinda weak and it's slow. They do this on various other songs and it just don't flow very well. They're still hard but having guests like 112 on Hey Luv doesn't really keep that hard appearance making it look like they're trying to be a little more commercial than they have been. Don't get me wrong though, even though this really isn't up to the standards Mobb Deep has set in the past, it's still better than most albums, such as um...Blueprint, and any other Jay-Z album. Hardcore Mobb Deep fans will probably be disappointed but maybe this will get Mobb Deep more in the public eye, whether that be good or bad, I'm not sure. But if you want some classic QB representin harcore awesome beats and flows, go get Stillmatic, it's good. As for this album, oh well, might as well get it, it's decent enough.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Vintage Mobb Deep, by E-RYMEZ, Kansas City, MO representin'!, December 14, 2001

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E-RYMEZ (Kansas City, MO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Infamy (Audio CD)

Basically, "Infamy" is another hardcore release from Mobb Deep. It is a dope album full of bangin' beats, potent lyrics, and reflective thoughts from the classic duo. They stepped up their creative flavor with a mixture of East Coast beats and West Coast beats. Scott Storch mainly provides the West Coast layout for standouts like "Live Foul" and "Kill Or Be Killed" feat. Ron Isley. Lil' Mo blesses "Pray for Me" arguably one of the best songs on the album. "Get Away" has a soothing voice sample that just relaxes the listener and at the same time embraces the mental of a thug who is on the verge of killing his enemies. Mobb Deep also have something for the ladies on "Handcuffs"- Havoc solo, and "Hey Luv" feat. 112. The bonus cut, "So Long" is an uplifting song to all the homies who are locked up, and it's basically saying to all of them, "Hold Ya Head". Interestingly, Havoc outshines Prodigy lyrically on a lot of the songs, but Prodigy's calm, thug attitude mixed with his master, deep rhyme flow manages to serve as proof to why people demanded that P-Dolo come with a solo project. "Infamy" is EAST COAST GANGSTA RAP TO THE THIRD POWER!