Though his fight with sickle cell anemia was well known for the better part of two decades, that knowledge did nothing to soften the blow of losing Prodigy at age 42. Hip-hop decided it would send ...

Albert "Prodigy" Johnson, whose death from complications from sickle cell anemia was confirmed Tuesday afternoon, was a true rap legend. As a part of the duo Mobb Deep with Kejuan "Havoc" Muchita, and ...

When the rapper Prodigy suffered a sickle cell crisis after a Las Vegas concert in 2017, his friends didn’t think much of it at first: they were used to him getting sick. But a few days later, he died ...

Prodigy is one of the fathers of hardcore hip-hop. As a teenager, in the early nineties, he and his partner Havoc formed the group Mobb Deep. Together they created music that was an east coast answer ...