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Watch Mobb Deep Deliver an Electrifying Performance of "Shook Ones Pt. II" at Roots Picnic 2017
Watch Mobb Deep Deliver an Electrifying Performance of "Shook Ones Pt. II" at Roots Picnic 2017

Watch Mobb Deep Deliver an Electrifying Performance of "Shook Ones Pt. II" at Roots Picnic 2017

Lenny Kravitz, Grace Jones, Lauryn Hill, Lion Babe, Thundercat, SZA & More Rock The Afropunk Festival 2015 in Brooklyn, NY.

A special performance of the Mobb Deep classic from Roots Picnic 2017

Just a few weeks prior to his sudden passing, Prodigy joined us on Penn's Landing to shake the stage and the crowd to the tune of his 1995 Mobb Deep icono-cut, "Shook Ones Pt. II."

READ: R.I.P. Prodigy: What The Mobb Deep Legend Meant To Me + Hip-Hop

Alongside Black Thought and J Period during the Live Mixtape portion of the program, the Queensbridge legend grips the mic and delivers an electric performance that left all bodies bending to the gritty call of the track's title, one of the last times he'd see the stage in a life and career cut much too short. Thought caps the clip with his own fiery touch to the classic, joining in chorus with the QB duo as they recite the infamous hook.

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Watch Mobb Deep make Roots Picnic shake one last time below. Hold tight for an upcoming installment of The Questions with the group in the days ahead.