I've never skipped the skit ever. That build-up, beat drop, and Tragedy's opening line. Cinematic shit. Incredible work by Naughty Shorts, and all 3 came with that heat goddamn
This is not the full 6 min song before nore last verse it's a second skit where he call the Dominican connect; I heard that's the tape version only, I had the cd ,the full version played on stretch and Bobitto show all the time
100% don’t-give-a-fuck shit that STILL bangs after two decades! Relentless hardcore hip-hop for the heads. The whole album is a certified classic! Peace.
I was in Queens when this dropped and stick ups were happening all the time. This felt like real-time music and it still applies today. This does happen
That’s crazy my pops grew up in Brooklyn and round this time he said he used to carry a bat when walking home from work. NY was crazy, you still in NY, we moved in like 09
This in the top 20 rap albums in history..the gritty beats,the vibe,the teal street life in NYC..is all I have to say...this should be on the mount Rushmore of hip hop period....Queens niggas don't play!!!!!
Tragedy is one of the best newyork MCs out there is so t care what anyone says! The most underrated! And Noreaga kina took his style if you listen closely.
Thats all trag talks about on bloodtype....he dope tho...most underrated tho🤔..if we talkin 90s shit...brother J from x clan was lit wit the word play, theres a few others..but trag def no joke
Graduated class of 95 from Queens Vocational H.S. I can't even tell you how much I and many of dudes from the bridge who went to school with me were so hype about NAS, Mob Deep and CNN. Can't tell you how blessed I am to have been in my prime during this era!!!
nonono whoa the music industry collapsed after year 2000... the whole world ended, but somehow we are still alive. This world has no future thats why I still bump music from the 80s and 90s...
Nowadays, it's all about glamour and glitz for rappers. They don't have that real lyricism like rappers did back in the day. But there are a few rappers today who are good storytellers.
I was like 9 when this dropped! My older homies used to always talk about it. Just getting treated to the full album now! hahaha, Thank God for TH-cam!!
This should have been a single. Could totally picture a music video shot in black and white, Capone/khadafi/nore dressed up like 1920’s gangsters, holding up a bank, riding around with Tommy guns.
I remember when I used to have cable by listening the music choice station they played this song and it was a real street banger. CNN should of did a video to this song.
can easily bump this track 10x 20x on repeat shits hypnotic, this beat is so dope, at the time this album was what made me turn my full attention to just east coast rap.
Damn ...the memories...... i was a sophmore in college when this dropped... a great time for music.... now im 43 w major responsibilities but still bump this whenever i can!
I’m from Boston I love this album but I heard nas hated it. Nas was jealous because niggas in the hoods chose this over it was written. It was written became a pop rap album most loved by white girls in the suburbs of New England while this was loved by the hood. At least here in Boston in the urban area during this time You heard this album being bumped all over Most heads didn’t like it was written. For some reasons too many radio friendly songs with a weak Dre beat nas is coming While it had some bangers yes it had some nice songs But those songs were just forgettable. The war report all had memorable hip hop tracks about the streets drugs beef and dope sick beats It was written had some boring beats and r&b With some alright havoc beats The best ones being shootout & live nigga rap & the message & watch them niggas. The rest were pretty weak for a street album it just didn’t click with the streets as much as the war report
BULLSEYE!!!!! This is perfect music, mixture of soul, jazz, hip hop, poetry......brothers I'm telling you us as b.people have incredible talent and creative ability. We would do even better and be even greater if we stick together, accept ourselves and each other. Imagine....we have produced the creativity but get exploited for it? By another group?
We used to grime to this hard! In the morning before anyone was out all thru the night, no responsibility, no bills just money and love and good times and hard. It's infused in my soul forever....
Imma 88 baby , this song rings MF bells. Me and my bro Jroc used to bump this and sniff coke~a~cola all night and smoke trees all night. Good times that I will never forget
Used to rock this tape big time in 97. Someone taped it off Hot 97 with Boogie and the Barber show. The mixing was so good. The piano hook made me walk around with a swag
There’s very little young rappers who can break a story down as well as the older guys and this coming from a young man but I still grew up with all this thanks to my OGs 😌
That Grimey ass piano 😍
With the rain in the background! “It’s rainy sim they gonna expect it” 👍🏾
I dont think that's a piano.
Some string instrument
I STILL BUMP THIS CD ESPECIALLY IN FALL AND WINTER TIME .... IT JUST FEELS RIGHT
This plays all winter during our snowboard sessions, it elevates the mind to do amazing things, CNN
I feel it's more a summer album and the reunion is more a winter album
@rubski 1978 , no doubt,, I hear u. This is Q.U.E.E.N.S. ANTHEM!!!
@CHI CHI GET THE YAYO the song yea but the album was summer 97
Talk your shit and im only 27!!!!
This is definitely one of the best hip hop albums to ever hit the streets.
real shit, so underated, literally gets better with time
Real talk 🔥🔥
Word up
My favorite album of all time
📠
This song is brilliant. These guys had no idea what they created in the studio that day / night.
number 1 album you can play without skipping a track, thats true hood music
A fact
And if you ever skip tracks on this album, it is definitely at the bare minimum
💯💯💯
True hood music or true hood music?
Capone's voice is Legendary
Legendary like any local bum standing outside of a corner store asking for change lol.
@@buddyboye4203 🤔
@@Jason-lv4uu 😂😂😂😂😂
You seem to have an issue with the guy. What's he done to you?
@@Jason-lv4uu 😂😂😂no issue at all buddy LMAO. It's s joke, but there's truth in it. His voice is as special as any random dude on the block lol.
QUEENS GET THE MONEY!!!Thhe beat got Hav written all over it.
exactly, it sounds like a beat taken from Hell on Earth.
No doubt God
thats wots upp! CnN, NAS, MOBB DEEP.
Havoc didn't produce this! Naughty Shorts did!
Capone's voice...chills
And NORE's voice too in his younger days gives me chills
@@NevaSellmySoul Nore got that gritty voice. His voice got more rugged over the years
Tragedy's voice man
Yep
I've never skipped the skit ever. That build-up, beat drop, and Tragedy's opening line. Cinematic shit. Incredible work by Naughty Shorts, and all 3 came with that heat goddamn
Naughty Shorts killed it 💯
Yes Sirr
just as dope as Cradle to the Grave - Mobb Deep... its dope because both groups are from queens
Tragedy Khadafi z Top 10
This is not the full 6 min song before nore last verse it's a second skit where he call the Dominican connect; I heard that's the tape version only, I had the cd ,the full version played on stretch and Bobitto show all the time
100% don’t-give-a-fuck shit that STILL bangs after two decades! Relentless hardcore hip-hop for the heads. The whole album is a certified classic! Peace.
I was in Queens when this dropped and stick ups were happening all the time. This felt like real-time music and it still applies today.
This does happen
That’s crazy my pops grew up in Brooklyn and round this time he said he used to carry a bat when walking home from work. NY was crazy, you still in NY, we moved in like 09
Noreaga killed the whole shit 😂😂🔥🔥🔥
Yo amigo him and Rico, they got périco 😆😆😆
this beat is crazy
DOPE AF 🔥🔥
@@adamgordon2572 🔥🔥🔥
Capone n Noreaga. Real G's. Realist. Real music.
No mention of Trag?
When the beat drops tho!...
BiddleBoy Rob : Classic 🔥🔥
BiddleBoy Rob. Absolutely that beat drop is fire they just go in
This and Half Way Thugs. Headbangers!
BiddleBoy Rob hell yea bro gives me goosebumps
Always felt that same since 2004 when I bought this classic , man
Tragedy made this album so hard pause 😂killed this verse
“Nah Kid We On Some Real Shit, Since We Here We Might As Well Get All Of It” vivid shit.
I still got this in my TOP5 east coast albums! #FACTS
Big Facts 💯
Lemar J this HNIC Illmatic - might be the best albums NY ever put out
@@godssonraymond8877 agree
This in the top 20 rap albums in history..the gritty beats,the vibe,the teal street life in NYC..is all I have to say...this should be on the mount Rushmore of hip hop period....Queens niggas don't play!!!!!
Tragedy is one of the best newyork MCs out there is so t care what anyone says! The most underrated! And Noreaga kina took his style if you listen closely.
Thats all trag talks about on bloodtype....he dope tho...most underrated tho🤔..if we talkin 90s shit...brother J from x clan was lit wit the word play, theres a few others..but trag def no joke
Inteligent hoodlum
Tragedy is definitely one of thee best godfather to the Queens movement for sure SUPER DOPE
This literally feels like the soundtrack to a robbery/murder. Vicious!
Rap will never be the same. Can't live w out this.
Underrated hard! This shit bumps even all the way down in Australia!
upside down land represent
Damn all the way in Australia...hip hop way over there..rock on...
Love itt
All th real ones wil ReKoNize💯🔥😎
You a real one ☝🏼
This was the high school joint!
Luckeyyyyyy
Had this bumping in my Sony discman in my super baggy pants
Facts! 10th/11th grade
Ultra mega classic.
89.9 FM WKCR - Summer '96
Thanks for the memories!!!!!
This track is something else. This whole album is perfect. Everything about it.
Love this tune. The way tragedy just drops and starts spitting with the beat.
Capone on some queens GRIMEY shiit....
The amount of man that got stuck to this tune 🙄🙄😂,, the good old days 🔥🔥🔥 CNN channel 10 boyy
Facts 😂😂😂
Graduated class of 95 from Queens Vocational H.S. I can't even tell you how much I and many of dudes from the bridge who went to school with me were so hype about NAS, Mob Deep and CNN. Can't tell you how blessed I am to have been in my prime during this era!!!
That background on this youtube pic dope..good job tommy boy records
They know what they doin gettin dat streaming $$$
@@BarzOverAll u kno they du
GRIMEY AT ITS FINEST !!!
BLINDFOLD PASS THE GRAY TAPE...REGALATE...COWBOY ROPE...STRAPPED TA DA CHAIR...STAY THERE...HE JUST A POWER RANGER🔥
....... Noreaga treat that ass like a stranger........
this album can very well be argued as a top 5 ever in hip hop or least the golden age of rap
I love Tragedy's opening verse
That was his album!!!
That Nore verse…🔥🔥🔥
Still bangin this jawn in 2024…..just as tuff as when I first heard it 🔥 🔥 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
This song should have won an Oscar for best short film.
This songs been hiding from me for a long time. I found you and i cant let you out my grip now. Thankyou capone n norega for this banger.
My thoughts exactly
Tragedy Khadifi???
shit gives me such nostalgic memories 🔥
That piano dun!!!!
I love Capone and noreaga music
This whole album was like a fucking graphic novel...
This song literally makes me feel like I’m there with them !!! Dam it’s like a movie 🎥
Why can't rappers tell stories in these days. Now and days all they do is make noise music. If you wanna call it music!!!??
Yea rite. Real Shit
Some do, you just gotta find the right ones Homie
nonono whoa the music industry collapsed after year 2000... the whole world ended, but somehow we are still alive. This world has no future thats why I still bump music from the 80s and 90s...
Nowadays, it's all about glamour and glitz for rappers. They don't have that real lyricism like rappers did back in the day. But there are a few rappers today who are good storytellers.
king von
Capone&Noriega the war report album is the shit I'm still rocking it....
Tragedy wassuuuup 💥😎❗️
I was like 9 when this dropped! My older homies used to always talk about it. Just getting treated to the full album now! hahaha, Thank God for TH-cam!!
macdabluepanther i was 5
Classic album from start to finish 💯 when the beat drops on this track tho ?? 🔥🔥
shit is crazy
Yes...Whoever did the track is so sick!!!!
@@ireneblack92 Havoc produced it
@@jameleason8200 : Nah.. someone called Naughty Shorts produced this 💯
Got me digging in the crates for this album and N.O.R.E's debut album
Laugh every time i play this track and hear Nore go 'Jerrycurl nigga'!
A 1 my generation can't get no better.never see these days again ✈️✈️✈️💯💯💯💯💯💯💯🆓💰🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼🐂🐂🐂🐂🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️bust pipes
This should have been a single. Could totally picture a music video shot in black and white, Capone/khadafi/nore dressed up like 1920’s gangsters, holding up a bank, riding around with Tommy guns.
I remember when I used to have cable by listening the music choice station they played this song and it was a real street banger. CNN should of did a video to this song.
remember 90's rap with the simple piano's that destroy any of the shit coming out today.
Damn! The memories!!! I was a sophmore in college when this dropped and was on repeat!
“Stick U” listen to Nore...The tightest flow I’ve ever heard from an MC. Ever...
This beat is fire. Overall amazing track.
Whole album is classic
2020 who still listening to the real shit ?
2021!!! Still
can easily bump this track 10x 20x on repeat shits hypnotic, this beat is so dope, at the time this album was what made me turn my full attention to just east coast rap.
Forever and always the #1 hip hop album in MY opinion ! 😎
The whole album is some real smoke.
Damn ...the memories...... i was a sophmore in college when this dropped... a great time for music.... now im 43 w major responsibilities but still bump this whenever i can!
CLASSIC HEAT!!!
Queen Crafts you are a needle in a haystack from where I am from if your appreciate this grimy shit. Big props from Cincinnati
@@cliffordcolvard9495 Peace from Grand Rapids, MI. Just now seeing this fam.
@@cliffordcolvard9495 I'm from Cincinnati too. What's up!?
I’m from Boston I love this album but I heard nas hated it. Nas was jealous because niggas in the hoods chose this over it was written. It was written became a pop rap album most loved by white girls in the suburbs of New England while this was loved by the hood. At least here in Boston in the urban area during this time
You heard this album being bumped all over
Most heads didn’t like it was written. For some reasons too many radio friendly songs with a weak Dre beat nas is coming
While it had some bangers yes it had some nice songs
But those songs were just forgettable. The war report all had memorable hip hop tracks about the streets drugs beef and dope sick beats
It was written had some boring beats and r&b
With some alright havoc beats
The best ones being shootout & live nigga rap & the message & watch them niggas. The rest were pretty weak for a street album it just didn’t click with the streets as much as the war report
Yes!
One of the best beat ever !!! 😍
NORE wigged 💪🏾🗣️🔥🎙️
So 90's NYC....so many memories..
Killer kev queenzflip interview brought me here...his lil bro naughty shorts produced dis track
This whole album is a classic
Damn. I never heard NORE so stressed. “The second TIME son did this, yo!” Don’t mess with niggas product on the pick up.
That’s how it be
Little do he know we sticking him for all of his dough!!!!
Cruisin on the BQE late night in da beamz blastin classic heat !! QGTM
BULLSEYE!!!!!
This is perfect music, mixture of soul, jazz, hip hop, poetry......brothers I'm telling you us as b.people have incredible talent and creative ability. We would do even better and be even greater if we stick together, accept ourselves and each other. Imagine....we have produced the creativity but get exploited for it? By another group?
We used to grime to this hard! In the morning before anyone was out all thru the night, no responsibility, no bills just money and love and good times and hard. It's infused in my soul forever....
Classic album
This joint was on EVERY Mixtape on the East Coast back then
Hip Hop..Love the entire album
THE JAM...AND THIS ALBUM IS A CLASSIC!!!!!!!!!
It's the money or the morge sun,
READY TO DIE!
So ill.
This beat is SICK&DOPE!!!👌👍
RESPEKT 4CNN FROM LUBLIN POLAND 😎✌
This is the hardest rap album ever i swear 😂 i used to wear this cd out
97 was a good year for hip hop.
it's been 20 years that i listened to this album...and it sounds like it was yesterday. milestone of hip hop and music at all.
That piano is incredible....
"...treat that ass like a stranger", love that hardcore shit.
Classic of all classics!
One of the most grimest beat ever heard in hip hop😈😈😈🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
REAL RAW RAP!!
Imma 88 baby , this song rings MF bells. Me and my bro Jroc used to bump this and sniff coke~a~cola all night and smoke trees all night. Good times that I will never forget
This is the Best song. Met Capone potorican parade 2001
Nore I love him in the beginning that's that's the second time sun he did that shit
This was the street anthem for the streets back in 96.
1997
@@davondennis9509 the single was on clue mixtapes in 96 champ
Holy shit that drop into Khad spitting actual fire
Used to rock this tape big time in 97. Someone taped it off Hot 97 with Boogie and the Barber show. The mixing was so good. The piano hook made me walk around with a swag
Real Hip Hop right here son.
Since I've been watching Nore on Drink Champs for so long now,I tend to forget the solid work he put in as a rapper. CNN was dope!
There’s very little young rappers who can break a story down as well as the older guys and this coming from a young man but I still grew up with all this thanks to my OGs 😌
Brings back carzy memories 🔥 🔥 🔥
my youngsta days growing up ☝ in NYC
salute to my 80$ 90$ DOMINICANO$
babalyon Brooklyn
Chico with the perico