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Back in 1993 when Notorious B.I.G. dropped his first hit "Party and Bullsh*t" almost everyone that heard it immediately recognized he had something special going for him. Prodigy of Mobb Deep was one of the few exceptions.
"As far as the Biggie thing, a lot of our people would come on the block back in the days when Biggie had 'Party and Bullsh*t,' his first record. And they would play it, I wasn't into it," Prodigy admitted in an interview with MTV. "I was focused on Mobb Deep. I had tunnel vision: I really didn't give a f*ck what anybody was doing in rap music, except for Mobb Deep and Nas and our little circle. Everything else was irrelevant to me."
Prodigy says he even turned down an invitation from Biggie to collaborate on a song with him.
"Hav started doing a lot of production for people, and he did a beat for Big - and Big wanted me to get on it. I told Hav I just really didn't want to do that. That was my opinion at that time," P said. "Unfortunately Biggie lost his life. I started liking Biggie after he started heating up, I started re-listening to it. I was like, 'This kid is alright. I like, son.' Sometimes that happens in life though."
A Prodigy and Biggie Smalls collaboration over Havoc's production would have been special. Too bad it never happened.
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