Man. Prod’s story always breaks my heart. I hope he’s well. He’s got such a sweet energy about him

I’m proud of prodigy for leaving the industry because he knew they were abusing him before it was too late. He saved his soul and mind from those monsters. There’s nothing wrong with living a regular life with self respect and a peace of mind.

Prodigy carried that group on his damn back.

What is up with this mindset of parents sending their kids off with perfect strangers without their supervision ?! Like cmon. This should literally be a crime .

Mindles behavior was the “one direction” for black girls , I remember arguing with girls at P.E. over who was who man 😂we loved them so much 💕💕💕💕

I still can’t believe the parents thought it was okay to be away from their kids so much, at the hope of fame. When they were kids they had no business being in the care of abusive managers. I do miss this time in music though, 2010-2014 music was so fun to listen to.

Unless one of their PARENTS was going to be living with them, they had no business being raised by strangers who saw them as a pay checks. Stories like this are so disturbing to me bc my child can’t go NOWHERE without family there to protect them. These people will never look out for the best interest of your child. It’s always a predatory relationship.

Let’s talk about how the fans were mean to Prodigy because of colorism. They would always criticize his physique and features because he’s the only one that’s not exotic/mixed looking. It happens with men too.

I’ll always be opposed to kids being in the entertainment industry. Kids should just be allowed to be KIDS. They don’t need to be paraded around and overworked for money.

Edit: WHY WOULD THEY MAKE THESE BOYS WORK WITH R. KELLY????

The issue with group was colorism. The person who did the most work actually received the most hate and the least amount of love. Many fans were more preferential to the 3 mixed members of the group. But I think colorism is still a big problem in our community so it’s not shocking.

How wasn’t Prodigy the “biggest” in the group? When he left the whole group crumbled. He was the talent and they were the prop ups. PERIODT

It's strange how a lot of y'all are glazing over the fact that that lady abused them with a BELT. Not even they damn mama at that.

it’s so crazy that the camp was treating prodigy like that, when this young boy was singing all the songs, and was dancing his ass off every video. like he was the backbone of this group, literally keeping it all together because princeton wasn’t really singing, and roc and ray got chances here and there to rap. like how you gonna treat him bad and he’s making ya millions. it will never make sense to me.

“Unique Look” = racial ambiguity

My god, it's so CREEPY how a handful of Hollywood executives scooped these kids up and essentially molded them in a laboratory

“Unique look” is really code for biracial, exotic, Eurocentric, non black, etc.

Aesthetically I always thought of Mindless behavior as the B2K of the 2010s.

My stomach twisted when I heard that they were being disciplined with belts during their "training" period.

My parents never let us do anything. I see now how that was the best decision. There is always someone ready to exploit talented kids and parents who will gladly hand over their kids to monsters and opportunists.
Childhood is so fleeting and precious, these industry kids are not given even a small chance just to be kids.

I went to middle school is prodigy aka Craig. He was little and he could dance so well. I think everyone knew he would be famous cause he would tell us about seeing people like missy Elliot and Timberland. He was alway so very sweet and kind. All the girl liked him cause he was the type to sing to you and bring the girl a flower at lunch. I wasn’t popular or pretty then, actually I was probably bullied by some of the girls looking back at it. But I remember one school dance or something he kinda danced with me.

When he left to Cali he told the whole 6th grade class. Everyone was so proud of him. He even came back like a year later and he was famous by then. As of me, I’m a fox now, so it all worked out. I hope for the best for him and truly hope he’s doing well.