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Charts, Certifications & Awards
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| This album has not charted in the USA
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| This album has not received any certifications in the USA
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| This album has not received any awards in the USA
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| The Infamous Archives is a compilation of mostly previously unreleased music by Mobb Deep. The album was released without their permission.
The album contains 24 songs recorded between the mid-ninties and 2006. Some of them, were included more or less officially on various mixtapes including Young Luv, from 1995. Young Luv was considered for their third album Hell On Earth (from 1996) but ultimately not included on it as the group did not get the permission by Prince to use a sample of If I Was Your Girlfriend. The Infamous Archives includes Thou Shall Not Kill which contains an uncredited contribution by Prince on keyboards. Snoop Dogg and Tray Dee also appear on the track. Coincidently, Snoop Dogg was also refused permission by Prince to use a sample from If I Was Your Girlfriend for his track Head Doctor (featuring Raphael Saadiq), intended as the first single from his 1996 album The Doggfather.
Sessions and compiling
After Prince’s passing, Mobb Deep’s Havoc said that Prince happened to be in Electric Lady Studios in New York, NY, USA at the same time that Mobb Deep were recording, most likely in 1998 or 1999. When Havoc asked for his opinion on a work-in-progress beat (which ultimately became Thou Shall Not Kill), he just started jamming on a keyboard. Naturally, he walked out without even saying bye after he finished. Havoc kept in Prince’s contribution but didn’t tell anyone about it. The song was not included on Mobb Deep’s fourth studio album Murda Muzik released in 1999.
Promotion
Since the compilation was released without the group’s approval, no specific promotion was made.
The album failed to chart.
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Track listing
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Details given for the Prince-related track only:
- Everyday Gun Play
- First Day Of Spring - featuring Tragedy Khadafi
- Untitled
- Rep The QBC- featuring Infamous Mobb
- Reach - featuring Chingy
- In The Long Run - featuring Ty Nitty
- Young Luv
- Block Life - featuring ACD
- Shit Hits The Fan - featuring Godfather
- Murderers - featuring E-Moneybags and Majesty
- Thou Shall Not Kill (4:19) 1 - featuring Snoop Dogg and Tray Dee
- Perfect Plot - featuring Big Noyd
- QB Meets Southside - featuring Sticky Fingaz and X-1
- How You Like Me Now - featuring Rah Digga
- Cobra
- Mobb Run The Rap Game
- Gangstas Roll
- Bump That - featuring 50 Cent and Big Noyd
- My Priorities
- Backwards
- Gettin Moved On
- U Know We Don’t Stop
- Rock With Us - featuring Busta Rhymes
- All Mine
- Never Talk - featuring Mike Delorean
- We Don’t Love Them Hoes
- Make The Hits - featuring The Alchemist
- Baby Baby
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- Everyday Gun Play
- First Day Of Spring - featuring Tragedy Khadafi
- Untitled
- Rep The QBC- featuring Infamous Mobb
- Reach - featuring Chingy
- In The Long Run - featuring Ty Nitty
- Young Luv
- Block Life - featuring ACD
- Shit Hits The Fan - featuring Godfather
- Murderers - featuring E-Moneybags and Majesty
- Thou Shall Not Kill (4:19) 1 - featuring Snoop Dogg and Tray Dee
- Perfect Plot - featuring Big Noyd
- QB Meets Southside - featuring Sticky Fingaz and X-1
- How You Like Me Now - featuring Rah Digga
- Who Wanna Test - featuring Infamous Mobb
- Avirex
- Thugged Out - featuring Infamous Mobb, Big Noyd, Uno Dos & Ty Maxx
- Cobra
- Mobb Run The Rap Game
- Gangstas Roll
- Bump That - featuring 50 Cent and Big Noyd
- My Priorities
- Backwards
- Gettin Moved On
- U Know We Don’t Stop
- Rock With Us - featuring Busta Rhymes
- All Mine
- Never Talk - featuring Mike Delorean
- We Don’t Love Them Hoes
- Make The Hits - featuring The Alchemist
- Baby Baby
- How You Survive
- King Of Rap - featuring Illa Ghee
- Fire
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1 Written by Prodigy, Havoc, Snoop Dogg, Tray Dee, Gerard McMahon and Mike Mainieri
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2006: RS2 ◄
