“You shook ’cause there ain’t no such things as halfway crooks,” a phrase that, even twenty years after it saw the light of day, recalls the pain, paranoia, and inhospitality of the ghettos and the street life associated with them. The duo Mobb Deep, made up of producers and rappers Havoc and the deceased Prodigy, had a record out in 1995, Juvenile Hell (1993), despite its young age. Their magnum opus, however, was still taking shape.