Hell on Earth is a 1996 album by hip-hop group Mobb Deep, released a year and a half after The Infamous. The album is largely a continuation of the style pioneered on its previous album, which was produced by Havoc, who also rhymes on the album with Prodigy. Only this time, Havoc would experiment with a more atmospheric type of production, using more classic piano and soul samples. The second track, “Drop a Gem on 'Em,” is a response to 2Pac's fe...
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Hell on Earth is a 1996 album by hip-hop group Mobb Deep, released a year and a half after The Infamous. The album is largely a continuation of the style pioneered on its previous album, which was produced by Havoc, who also rhymes on the album with Prodigy. Only this time, Havoc would experiment with a more atmospheric type of production, using more classic piano and soul samples. The second track, “Drop a Gem on 'Em,” is a response to 2Pac's feud with the group, recorded while he was still alive, is one of the album's most acclaimed tracks, along with "G.O.D. Pt. III" and "Hell on Earth (Front Lines)." Hell on Earth was met with positive reviews from music critics and is considered by many to be among the duo's best work. Since most of the album was recorded during the height of the East Coast-West Coast rivalry, many fans considered the darker songs to be subliminal disses toward 2Pac and other West Coast emcees, but Prodigy sends shout-outs to a list of west coasts artists such as...
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