Drug wars, recessions and record violence in the 1980s had US cities in crisis. Hip hop artists responded by shifting... more

Prodigy is supposed to fly back home right after a show in Vegas, but he never gets on the plane.... more

It's The Alchemist's birthday, but thanks to the NYPD's "Rap Intelligence Unit," he and Prodigy are forced to celebrate in... more

When Prodigy goes on trial for violating parole, his lawyer files over 90 pages of P's medical records in his... more

Roxanne Shanté is the queen of Queensbridge rappers. As a teenager in the 1980s, she lyrically demolished all comers. In this... more

Someone is shot inside Def Jam. A rap star chases Mobb Deep through Lower Manhattan. And Prodigy convinces a hip... more

As a kid with sickle cell anemia, Prodigy was told he'd barely make it to adulthood. The work of doctors,... more

Prodigy and Havoc first begin laying down rhymes together in high school. When their first album flops, they come up... more

When the rapper Prodigy suffered a sickle cell crisis after a Las Vegas concert in 2017, his friends didn’t think... more