Given we ignored it until now, I’m aware of the irony! The second of a touted trilogy, it’s a fascinating concept album of Prodigy tracks that, while flawed, is a satisfying addition to his catalog and confirms the Queensbridge icon as one of hip-hop’s biggest paradoxes.ĭJ Premier laces the menacing “Walk Out” which does what my favorite Primo beats do by switching it up on the hook and going ham with the scratches. “The Hegelian Dialectic 2: The Book of Heroine” is his first, and it includes some heavyweight collaborators so it surprises me just how ignored this project was when it dropped back in September. Unlike Sean Price, Prodigy hasn’t seen the posthumous releases you may perhaps expect from such a prolific and celebrated emcee. I just think the name of the album, the first of a trilogy, may have put some listeners off. The first album dropped as Trump campaigned and became president, so it makes sense that Prodigy wanted to release an album that leaned more into his feelings regarding paranoia. Funnily enough, if you were to name conspiracy theorist rappers, Prodigy might not automatically spring to mind despite him injecting countless references to Illuminati and secret societies throughout his lyrics over the years. I’m just making these examples up, but the gist of it is an activity leading to another, which leads to another.
An example of this would be doing nothing about obesity, because it means more profits for the healthcare industry, or encouraging crime to flourish, to make people buy more firearms, which in turn increases the need for more police. The problem here is that it’s a philosophical explanation often used to describe government behavior, in this specific case – the US government. It just doesn’t sound like something you’d associate with Mobb Deep, and yet when you understand what the Hegelian Dialectic is it makes complete sense. Prodigy was, and still remains, one of the bluntest rappers to have walked the earth, so 2017’s “The Hegelian Dialectic: The Book of Revelation” always sounded like a bizarre name for such a straight-talking thug.
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