A review by prettypious
My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep's Prodigy by Albert Johnson

4.0

Rounded up from 3.5. This is one of the first memoirs or autobiographies that actually made me like the person less. I thought this memoir/autobiography lacked humility and vulnerability and I remembered things happening in real time differently than his updates and therefore I was unable to trust or believe a lot of what he said and I thought the editor or his co-writer should have pushed him more on his historical family connections and the choices he and his mom made and the resulting impact and implications. I love hip hop especially growing up in the golden era that Mobb Deep was a part of and while I’ve always been more partial to Havoc I thought Prodigy was fine but the memoir showed aspects of him that I’d rather not have known and with the lack of vulnerability it didn’t make him more sympathetic just more seemingly manipulative and untrustworthy. I recommend this book to anyone who grew up during the golden era cause I did love the nostalgia and there are a lot of other artists mentioned so it’s helpful to get more background information on them.