Prodigy says new album is just a mixtape being treated as an album

By: Yves Erwin Salomon

Mobb Deep's Prodigy will release an independent album, Return of The Mac, on March 27th. The album will be released through Koch Records, although the rapper is signed to 50 Cent's G-Unit Records as one-half of Mobb Deep. Prodigy will release his official sophomore album, H.N.I.C. 2, later this year.

Prodigy explained that Return Of The Mac is really a mixtape. He said: "Just getting people ready for H.N.I.C. 2, you know what I'm sayin', but Return Of The Mac, it's just like a concept, you know what I'm sayin', mixtape basically. You know what I'm sayin'? At the end of the day, it's getting treated like an album, you know what I'm sayin', but when we made it was just like a concept mixtape you know what I mean?"

The lead single from the new project is "Stuck On You." The album was produced by Alchemist and only features one guest appearance.

Prodigy explained: "Basically there's a song on there called 'Seven Heaven.'On that it features my man Un from Far Rockaway. You know he was like the only feature on there. It just happen naturally like that. It was nothing that we planned. Everything was just natural. That's one of the crazy ones on there.'