Q-Tip paid tribute to Mobb Deep's Prodigy on his Beats 1 radio show with a two-hour play list dedicated to the rapper's classic tracks. Prodigy died Tuesday at the age of 42. Rapper Prodigy died at the age of 42, but his legacy of mixing street-level grit with emotional heft lives on "We lost a big one. I'm about to take y’all through ...