![]() Before publication, there was a disagreement with Simon & Schuster over the cover art and extensive legal reviews of potentially incriminating text. The book was pieced together from four years of interviews, the bulk of which were recorded while P was in prison. “I’m so thankful that we were able to do that work,” Checkoway tells me, the day after Prodigy’s death.įinishing the job was no easy task. ![]() The resulting tome, My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep’s Prodigy, was published upon his release from prison in 2011. In the months prior to getting locked up, the rapper had begun collaborating with Checkoway, then a freelance journalist, on a book about his life. At the time, Prodigy was days away from beginning a three-and-a-half-year prison sentence for gun possession. The quotes above appeared in a February 2008 cover story for the Village Voice, written by Laura Checkoway. On Tuesday, Prodigy passed away at age 42, the median life expectancy for men with his condition. ![]() “I feel like my life is gonna be short anyway because of my sickle cell,” he said. ![]() ![]() It’s a sentiment expressed often enough in rap music that it’s become a cliché - but in P’s case, it wasn’t just the usual live-fast-die-young pessimism. “I’m not scared to die, I’ve dealt with enough,” said Prodigy in 2008. ![]()
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