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Mobb Deep have returned with their first posthumous single, ‘Against the World’. The song is set to appear on their upcoming album, Infinite, which is scheduled for release on October 10th.

Produced by Havoc, the track opens with a signature verse from the late Prodigy, who passed away in 2017.

He raps, “New York is just one crumb on the map, one crumb ain’t a lot/ You happy with that piece? I’m gonna need that pie/ To satisfy my thirst, pacify my greed/ For blood, money and power/ The feds turned me into a monster.”

The song is the first taste of their long-awaited album, which will be the follow-up to 2014’s The Infamous Mobb Deep. The project contains 15 tracks and will be released on Nas’ Mass Appeal Records.

Speaking on ‘Against the World’ to Rolling Stone, Havoc said, “This one feels like coming full circle. It’s that classic Mobb energy — dark, real, unfiltered. The sound that shaped who we are but also speaks to where hip-hop is right now.”

He added, “With Infinite, fans can expect nothing less than the essence of Mobb Deep – the gritty New York sound they know and love, unapologetically true to what we have always delivered, even in a constantly shifting musical landscape.”

Mobb’s longtime collaborator, The Alchemist, pieced the album together alongside Havoc. Talking about its creation, the producer said, “We all felt that at some point in time [we’d] figure out how to let it out to the world. Keep that spirit alive since it’s missing. I had songs with P on it. [Havoc] had some songs, we had some stuff that we mixed up.

“Some stuff we had to do beats, some stuff he was already on, and Hav just rhymed. But it really felt good that we put the energy back together and did it the way we were supposed to. That’s how we always did it. Hav does the majority of the album. I do a couple, I think I did four in the end.”