What is Mobb Deep?
{{Infobox musical artist | name = Mobb Deep | background = group_or_band | image = Out4Fame-Festival 2015 - Mobb Deep.JPG | image_upright = 1.2 | caption = Mobb Deep performing in 2015 | alias = Poetical Prophets | origin = [[New York City]], U.S. | genre = {{flatlist| * [[Hip hop music|Hip hop]] * [[hardcore hip hop]] * {{nowrap|[[gangsta rap]]<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/mobb-deep-rapper-prodigy-dead-at-42-w488890 |title=Mobb Deep Rapper Prodigy Dead at 42 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |last=Blistein |first=Jon |date=June 20, 2017 |access-date=October 17, 2017 |archive-date=June 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180630230203/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/mobb-deep-rapper-prodigy-dead-at-42-w488890 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}} }} | years_active = 1991–2012, 2013–2017 | label = {{flatlist| * [[4th & B'way Records|4th & B'way]] * [[Island Records|Island]] * [[Loud Records|Loud]] * [[RCA Records|RCA]] * [[Columbia Records|Columbia]] * [[Jive Records|Jive]] * [[G-Unit Records|G-Unit]] * [[Interscope]] * Infamous }} | associated_acts = {{flatlist| * [[Nas]] * [[Capone-N-Noreaga]] * [[Cormega]] * [[The Alchemist (musician)|The Alchemist]] * [[Big Noyd]] * [[Kool G Rap]] * [[Infamous Mobb]] * [[Raekwon]] * [[Ghostface Killah]] * [[Q-Tip (musician)|Q-Tip]] * [[50 Cent]] }} | website = | past_members = [[Havoc (musician)|Havoc]]<br/>[[Prodigy (rapper)|Prodigy]] (deceased) }} '''Mobb Deep''' was an [[United States|American]] [[hardcore hip hop]] duo formed in 1991. Its members were [[rapper]]s [[Havoc (musician)|Havoc]] and [[Prodigy (rapper)|Prodigy]]. Their best-known albums are ''[[The Infamous]]'' (1995), ''[[Hell on Earth (Mobb Deep album)|Hell on Earth]]'' (1996) and ''[[Murda Muzik]]'' (1999),<ref>Shapiro, Peter, 2005, ''The Rough Guide To Hip-Hop'', 2nd Edition, Penguin, p. 259.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/murda-muzik-mw000