Mobb Deep - “Peer Pressure” (4th & B’way, 1992)

It’s long been hardwired in the Mobb narrative that the Juvenile Hell LP is soft or at least cheesy or at least not fully representative of the true Mobb Deep sound. There’s some credence to this myth - you can definitely catch the rugged Kriss Kross vibe here (and well before Kriss Kross themselves caught the rugged Kriss Kross vibe, at that) and of course they everything on the follow up was considerably more refined and several shades darker - but let’s be real the whole album is pretty hard effort for a kiddie rap cash in from a couple of art school teens. 

Today we need more kiddie goon rap in the Juvenile Hell/Illegal mold and less Lil Chuckie. There is a serious gap in the Brick Squad roster and it’s shaped like a tattooed and dreaded 13 year old boy. NPJIC.

4:36 am  •  10 January 2012  •  28 notes