Prodigy Song Featured on Grand Theft Auto IV Game and Soundtrack

"Dirty New Yorker" one of the songs from the H.N.I.C. Pt. 2 sessions will be featured on the Grand Theft Auto IV game and soundtrack. Prodigy removed the song, featuring Mobb Deep member Havoc, from the H.N.I.C. Pt. 2 album so "Dirty New Yorker" could be placed on the latest game in the Grand Theft Auto franchise. The video for "Dirty New Yorker" has been added to H.N.I.C. Pt. 2 as a bonus feature on the album.

[Rick Astley]

Oh god I thought they were talking about the other Prodigy. You know, the Prodigy that's actually worth listening to. Not this rap garbage. Tch!

[MorganX]

Hardcore Rap isn't my thing either, but I'm not sure, if you play GTA, how you could be shocked that it has this type of music in it???

[Omegasyde]

prnewswire.com, damn you.

Speaking of which will this game have custom soundtracks on the ps3 version?

(Yes, i know the 360 won't it..)

Forget this wanna be urban underground crap. We all know K-fed is a way better rapper! ;)

[InYourMom]

I thought the same thing that it was THE Prodigy instead of Prodigy. I'm surprised The Prodigy hasn't sued this lamer.

We be a rappin and that's a lot of crappin! Amen for custom soundtracks on the 360!

[misterssippi]

Actually, Prodigy assumed the name before The Prodigy. Being that prodigy is a common english word no person can copyright it and therefore no one can sue anyone over it. Now if they were both going by Prod-A-G or something one could claim it was there intellectual property and therefore copyright it. That's why Marshall Mathers is Eminem and not M&M.

[mesh1]

shut ur mouth this prodigy is better than the ire starte prodigy MOOB DEEP FTW BLACK PPL FTW RACIST

[Ghoul]

omg

ban this user please

[Official General]

With a guy like you who is into Rick Astley, it does not surprise me that you probably have a VERY weak taste in music. Rap music is not garbage. Rap is only garbage to those who dont listen to it or understand it, well thats what I personally think anyway. I'm from the UK and I know The Prodigy you are talking about and they were very good, but correct me if I'm wrong since the 1990s are'nt they pretty much dead now? Nobody hears of them anymore that much from what I can see.

Prodigy is one half of Mobb Deep, a very talented rap duo and they make a really gritty, dark and cold sounding style of rap music with tales of New York City ghetto/gangster street life talking about shootings, killings, drugs, hustling and crime - which clearly suits GTA 4 and what the game is about. They do these things for a reason, it's just that you need to understand them and because you dont know anything about rap that's why you are so dismissive of this subject.

@ Everyone - Yes I do listen to mostly alot of rap music as you've guessed, but I'm not like this Rick guy, I really appreciate many other music genres too.

EDIT: I dont remember anyone complaining about that Russian RAP song that was used in the 3rd GTA 4 trailer called "Move up Ladies". Kinda funny dont you think?

[VirusE]

LOL i was thinking the same thing and then this garbage came on.

"Actually, Prodigy assumed the name before The Prodigy."

LOL god you don’t know crap about music do you. Then again most people who listen to rap don't. They live in a tiny little "i only listen to rap" bubble most of the time. Prodigy took up his name in 92. The prodigy took up there name in 90. The prodigy is one of the most influential electronic music acts in history and prodigy is well, a member of mobb deep a copy cat rap band with no innovation credit what so ever. The prodigy are pioneers and offered a truly original sound unlike this crap. I have yet to hear anyone copy the exact sound of the prodigy. Only The prodigy sounds like The prodigy. Mobb deep sounds like 30 other “groups”. Groups LOL at least they are honest about things and realize a band is for people who make music rather than sample it.

"Rap music is not garbage. Rap is only garbage to those who dont listen to it or understand it, well thats what I personally think anyway."

98% of rap is simply a single 4 bar loop of sampled garbage and presets (usual presets labeled "dre bass" or “snoop lead”) PLAYED OVER AND OVER with some kid whose iq is lower than the size of the speakers in the trunk of his cutlass saying "yeah", "what" and dropping teh N bomb every other sentence. God that takes talent! Copying a simple formula created by others years ago is hard work after all. It is so hard to make rap that every inner city kid under the age of 18 has a goofy name and crappy mix tape. Most rap fans don’t even know what a stereo image is or tonal balance (I doubt the original mix had a rattling license plate in it either) so quality music isn’t something most rap fans have ever properly experienced. Go sit down and listen to a pair of revel solons being driven by some h33 mono blocks an a No. 16 and then try to go and listen to rap. Music is supposed to be an art form based on creativity, originality and intelligence, not an infomercial about the newest clothes and gold teefff son. Rap is the v6 mustang of music. Sure its mustang but only the people who haven’t driven the v8 will want anything to do with the v6.

Official General going by your avatar you obviously have weak taste in life choices. You're some guys biatch and you conform to a "gang" and its ideals. You are a sheep in the purest form in both musical taste and life choices. You don't listen to or do what you want you let tv and others make your choices for you. I bet you are a sony fanboy onto of it all. Most rap kids are sony fans after all. Its not that we dont get rap its just that you cant see past it.

[Marceles]

Rap music isn't garbage at all...to each its own. No one even understands the thought process of a rap song since it has just as many moods as any other music.

A 4 bar loop of sampled garbage? Hip Hop samples come from everyone...Just Blaze sampled Breathe from Supertramp, an amazing rock group, and only the biggest fans of that group would even be able to tell that was from the group. There's some very talented hip hop producers who also pay these groups for sample use with their permission. There's some people also who don't chop up hip-hop samples at all like Puffy and just use the most mainstream song, pay the artist a HUGE amount of royalties to sample and still make a hit just by remixing it. There's also non-samplers like the Neptunes that make quality, fun, and different music. Most artists don't make their own music, sampled or played and also have songwriters to write songs for them while they sit in the studio and wait to sing out someone else's thoughts. The songwriter can even get a Grammy and the singer can end up not getting one. Rap is very creative, some singers sing about the same crap, some rappers rap about the same crap, there's 2 sides of the fence...being a music hater is no different than hating on a gaming system. Alot of people hate country, that doesn't mean it's just plain bad music. And who knows when Prodigy and THE Prodigy got their names..and Wikipedia might not even know the story, maybe one got their names once they were signed to a contract while another went by that name before they signed, who knows...good for Prodigy though. Maybe the Prodigy can find their music on a soundtrack or a game that fits to the mood of their music as well.

[The Closing]

End of discussion.

[Ri0tSquad]

GTA needs music like this. Rockstar can't just give GTA a heavy metal soundtrack, they need to have more then one music genre in the game so that anyone who listens to radio can pick this up and listen to what they would like to listen to (rock rap metal etc).

Besides that, a lot of rap songs do relate to shooting, killing, negative and positive. It just makes sense they would add this.

[MorganX]

Interesting. I don't know either one and am not a big GTA guy. I think GTA and Saints Row are a little thuggish for my tastes... but given the reaction, I wonder if the music could hurt the game...

[Atomic]

Voodoo people and Poison would make perfect tunes for GTA4

[BachelorBrit]

No-one is forcing you guys to listen to his music. Of course it makes sense to add Prodigy to the soundtrack he is from Queensbridge, Brooklyn, New York. If any of you guys know anything about Hip-Hop music Prodigy is one half of the duo with Havoc called (Mobb Deep) who have been around for many years. Prodigy's style is gritty It should fit perfectly with Grand Theft Auto IV's dark tone.

I like The Prodigy as well though I mean the group from Essex, England which is what most of you guys assumed "Prodigy" was. You could say I am a fan of both the group named Prodigy and the rapper.

[Official General]

Yeah totally agree with you and I've said a similar thing to what you have said in in my reply post above to that know-nothing Rick guy. I can see you are a guy who clearly understands this sh*t and me and you know what I'm on about.

EDIT: @ name, kingboy, Cherchez La Ghost - I totally agree with you guys too, well said!

[Frances-the-Mute]

hope they add custom soundtracks...lol

[kingboy]

Can`t understand why a single song is causing such controversy on here,given that the game offers a huge variety of music by default..Just Sad really sad

[name]

How could you people not know who prodigy is? Seriously you should try listening to more music. Non rock fans kindly listen to rock and metal songs on video game soundtracks without complaint, but some of you can't seem to tolerate something that's not about you. Music is one thing, but you can't have this "im the center of the universe and if it's not for me it sucks" mentality all the time. You're in for thousands of rude awakenings. Or you can just keep b1tching about rap, that's cool too.

[Sir Ken Kutaragi 4]

...The track...

...'FireStarter' by the 'The Prodigy'!!! ;-D
(i.e their xBroken360's keep burning people's houses down!!!) ;-D

[poos3]

helo, helo dey know dey know helo ,helo they know they know shorty loooo
HIP HOP MUSIC FOR EVER

[Cherchez La Ghost]

This is Grand Theft Auto we're talking about. We all know that Rockstar has been multi-cultural with the music. The city is New York. Yes Brit, you are right about that. So why not have some artist from N.Y.?!! People need to stop being closed-minded. I listen from Lord Finesse, BDP, Run-DMC, Little Brother, Jay-Z, Scarface, to The Beastie Boys, Kid Rock, Queen to Creed. If I just stayed on one side of music, I'll be missing out of some good songs. Remember this, all Hip-Hop is not about cursing every other word, money, cars, women, drug & crime life.

[okcomputer]

Prodigy fell off years ago. He's totally past his prime now. There are far better new york rappers out now that could have used the exposure from being on the gta soundtrack. If they really wanted to include prodigy though they could have gotten some of the older stuff from the infamous or hnic 1, back when he was actually good.

[BachelorBrit]

Prodigy was great around the time "Infamous" came out but him and Havoc were like 19 then. They have been around for quite a few years now all rappers pass their prime at some point. When they signed to G-Unit Records their debut release "Blood Money" on that label pretty much flopped it wasn't great. It's a shame Rockstar couldn't get Dr Dre as well to release a new Detox track for Grand Theft Auto IV that album is taking so long to come out. Dr Dre's style is more West coast Hip-Hop though.

[misterssippi]

Not much difference between Pantera and hip hop stereotypes.

1. Pantera members have done jail time.
2. References to drugs/sex/murder in songs.
3. Objectificaton of women (groupie love)
4.'Dime Bag'- naming yourself after drugs/paraphanalia.
5. Heavy use of drugs and alcohol.
6. Dime Bag got shot at a concert.

I guess they should join the G-Unit.
By the by, sampling isn't very prevalent in hip hop. That is yet another stereotype. Turn off the clearchannel radio station and MTV, cuz that aint hip hop coming out of there. When you hear real hip hop you'll know.

[socomnick]

Strange thing happened to me I stop listening to garbage rap music when I turned 18. Not sure why. Thank god for Xbox 360 custom sountracks cause ima be listening to some metallica, pantera, and megadeth while driving around in liberty city.

[MorganX]

Someone who listenst to Pantera calling someone's music garbage.... Now that does more to support "To each his own" than just about anything else anyone could say.

[okcomputer]

Yea seriously.. why do narrow minded people feel the need to put down other types of music. Just because YOU don't like it doesn't make it garbage.

[VirusE]

You may not like pantera (i personally do not) but they are talented musicians and that is the difference. Dime bag is a highly respected guitar player with legions of fans. His fans are his fans because he can play an instrument not because he has daytons and gold teeeef. Pantera play and write all of their music unlike rappers. When was the last time you saw a rapper sitting behind a drum kit or playing ANYTHING live. Liking a song and seeing the quality it took to craft a song are two different things to those who are musicians. I don’t like Jimi Hendrix but i can easily say he is an amazing guitar player. I am not a fan of the stones but there production is simply amazing. I can say the guy that Prodigy sampled was good at making 4 bar loops to impress rappers and that is about it. There is no substance or depth to it beyond the first 4 bars. Lets do an experiment. I will make a rap beat and you try to play an entire pantera song on guitar. Lets see who get a finished product first….. That again is the difference.

Ok computer we are not putting down other forms of music we are putting down rap. I like watching videos on youtube but that doesn't mean i think they are a quality product...... Personal taste and quality have nothing to do with each other if you have no point of reference as to what quaility is.

[okcomputer]

When was the last time I saw a rapper play instruments? Well rza can alone can play 10.. the roots, common, pharell, wyclef, beastie boys, dr dre, and yea even little jon can all play various instruments as well. Thats just off the top of my head with no research, i'm sure there are plenty more.

and btw, if you really don't think sampling and mixing can be a musical art in itself check out the dj shadow lp entroducing. 100% sampled and its a truly unique, amazing album.

[Marceles]

totally agree with you okcomputer

[dork0783]

SYSTEM OF A DOWN "WAKE UP" But realy is gta4 gonna have custom soundtrack?

[Kassanova07]

Grimey NY hip hop thunn.

[BigKev45]

Rick the d**k. lol.

[Cherchez La Ghost]

Look at artist like The Roots, 110% pure organic Hip-Hop. The most talented group in Hip-Hop that plays insturments. Wyclef Jean, multi-talented, international artist. Even Mos Def's last album was almost 50% Hip-Hop-Rock colaboration. If you don't know, you better ask somebody, LOL!!!

The Roots new album "Rising Down", April 29th.

Here is the video for "Get Busy (Feat. Dice Raw, Peedi Crakk & DJ Jazzy Jeff)"

[Cherchez La Ghost]

To each it's own. Rockstar has blessed gamers with a franchise everyone loves (and some hate). That's why they intergraded multi-cultural tracks that we all can enjoy. So there is no need to judge the next man's taste in music. Speaking of that note, I have to apologize for my past comments towards Sony Fanboys. For me to get into verbal volleys about Sony vs. MS brands is "FOOLISH" and uncalled for. I just fell into that "rhetoric cycle" of Fanboyism. So I just and take responsibility for my actions and learn from my mistakes.

[Official General]

I'm not even gonna respond to your comments about rap music because you are just a serious hater of the music genre and your sense of judegment is clouded by that. You are totally entitled to have your own opinion and tastes , but all I see in you is a guy who just picks on and really hates rap music with a passion - fine thats your business but it dont change the fact that rap/hip-hop music is a multi-billion-dollar, worldwide musical phenomenon and is immensely popular with many young people in every corner of the world. Your ranting and raving aint gonna change sh*t or do anything to harm the great heights that the rap music industry has reached.

And by the way I'm from the UK, I'm not from the USA and I am NOT a member of the Bloods or any street-gang, I just have that avatar beacuse I like it. Listen man, you don't KNOW ME. So you can speculate all you what about what type of a guy I am and what my tastes, life choices and ideals are. Say what you want, but I don't have to respond to it because you DON'T know anything about me b*tch.

And if you werent so stupid or blind you would see that I stated earlier in my first post that I do like and appreciate OTHER genres of music.

You really dont need to to make a big deal or feel suicidal about that fact that you dont like rap music, seriously it seems like you got some real big issues man. In fact, I think you are not well in your head, you are sick do you actually have some kind of a virus, VirusE ????