While attending the High School of Art and Design in Manhattan, he met his future music partner, Havoc. His great-great-great-grandfather, William Jefferson White, founded Georgia's Morehouse College. His father, Budd Johnson Jr., was a member of a doo-wop music group called The Chanters. His mother, Fatima Frances (Collins) Johnson, was a member of The Crystals. Both of them are remembered for their contributions to the bebop era of jazz. His grand-uncle, Keg Johnson, was a trombonist. His grandfather Budd Johnson was a saxophonist who was inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame in 1993. Prodigy was born on November 2, 1974, in Hempstead, New York, on Long Island.
With Havoc, he was one half of the hip hop duo Mobb Deep. Albert Johnson (Novem– June 20, 2017), better known by his stage name Prodigy, was an American rapper.
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