You wouldn’t be able to tell that he was in as much pain as he was by the way Prodigy commanded stages and studio sessions. The founding member of legendary rap group Mobb Deep was not only from one of the toughest boroughs of New York City, but he’d suffered intense physical pain since he was an infant as a sickle cell anemia patient. The blood disease marked by debilitating bouts of bodily discomfort often caused painful spasmodic flare-ups at any moment.
