Prodigy Released From Prison, Heading To The Russian Tea Room

The great Queens rapper Prodigy was released this morning from Marcy, New York’s Mid-State Correctional Facility (where he recorded this harrowing ice-pick of a song, above, over the phone last year), having completed a three-year sentence for gun possession. According to the producer Alchemist, a frequent collaborator, Prodigy will meet Havoc, his longtime partner in the duo Mobb Deep, in a recording studio this afternoon to start work on new music. He has a book coming out, too — My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep’s Prodigy — set for release April 19 through Simon & Schuster. He’ll be reading from it at the Russian Tea Room on May 6th.