Interview conducted by Tha Hip-Hop Doc for Allhiphop. Link
H2D: Are you taking any medicines right now?
Prodigy: Nahhhh! I don’t take none of these medicines that they try to say is good to take for sickle cell. All I do is try to have a healthy diet as much as possible; I drink water like a fish, eat healthy, and I notice that since I’ve been doing that for the past seven to eight years, I don’t get sick as much as I use too. If I do get sick, it’s really because of something I’m doing wrong. I really know my body and how to control it.
H2D: Yeah, that’s what’s up. Now, in 2000, you wrote the song “You Can Never Feel My Pain” on your first solo album, HNIC. This song really dealt with the harsh realities of sickle cell and how it affected you. Almost like sickle cell 101. What motivated you to write that piece?
Prodigy: Basically because at every Mobb Deep show, I would see somebody in the crowd, and they would yell to me like “Yo P, I got sickle cell too.” And they would ask how I was able to perform and do all that I do. I always encourage my fans that they should reach for their goals and reach high when doing it; and to further this point I decided to drop something on my album to tell people about the pain that I and others with sickle cell suffer with, which is a handicap no different than living in poverty, but that its something you can escape.
you got sickle-cell because you’re a punk and die slow of it! i want to raise a question.
why didn’t you rap about this disease in ‘juvenile hell’ but only after Pac said, “don’t one o’ you niggaz got sickle-cell or somthin’”? then you reply Pac and said he wasn’t feeling the real pain. man you gotta be kidding the world!he was the one who feel the real pain!
hope God calls you sooner or later from it!
don’t confuse yourself with living in pain and born unhealthy!
haha sam1 is such a douche
sam1 stop riding pacs dick, born unhealthy ur living with pain you dumbfuck there beef is long done… faggot thinking hes like standing up for pac or something pac would laugh at you kid
lmao @ sam. that kids retarded. that shit ended ages ago. stop tryna start shit and get your own fucking life
I hope you (sam1) get kidney stones,VD,hemorrhoids, and every thing else iin life thats shitty. you are an asshole
Hahahahaha ya tha beef iz over cuz pac iz dead!! Fuck mobb deep, n prodigy u sickle-cell ugly motha fucka go kill urself!!! Haha blargle, lmfao@sam1, samisanidiotlol, Nicole go suck prodigy’s little sickle-cell dick!! Haha. Sam1 keep on keepin on!! At least some 1 can see how much of a piece of shit this prodigy guy iz!! FUCK MOBB DEEP!!
Sam1 and good-ol’Sickle-cell can eat a dick. What you don’t think u can get bucked again? Once again?
Haha Drop a Gem on u fools Pac was a fake ass mainstream bitch who was weak enough to get shot up twice. Even that bitch 50 survived 9 shotz. Even Dre and Snoop saw through Pacs act. Cos thats all he was – an actor.
How can someone rap about peace then get into scuffles and threaten to kill people all the time? Even threatens to kill kiddies – ‘my fofo make sure all ur kids don’t grow’. He was a LIAR who knew how to woo the crowd. And to make fun of Prodigys handicap is just fucked up. So much for the great hero 2pac. Anyone who ‘feels’ his music has been taken in by a glorified though rather intelligent actor/poet.
Fuck all u dumb bitchez talkin shit bout prodigy n pac az if he really meant that shit yall real dick ryderz n groupiez ova bullshit entertainment the real shit u should be discussin iz hiphop i dnt even know how the fuck i got here(bullshit blog n bloggerz)i hope sumbody publish bullshit bout u n all ur blooperz in the time mag n that u live long enuf 2feel the blooperz illbe the 1st n last motherfucka 2laugh @ur bitch ass than proceed readin my books,writtin n recordin my rapz while constantly yellin indie rap is the shit skynet enterprize n johnny23 4life n oh yeah 1last thing holla@me in south africa ahahaha!!!
Hope you all die
I luh Prodigy