I didn’t realize this was the same 30 second clip looped over and over, but it’s awesome nonetheless. I definitely miss Fresh Prince of Bel Air and I think season 1 might be my next download.

Percy Chapman aka Trag is a true master.
You can check his credentials in this documentary about…

“Queensbridge: the world’€™s largest housing project, with the richest legacy in hip-hop: from The Juice Crew, to Nas, Mobb Deep and the realest of them all: Tragedy. While still in his mother’s womb, Tragedy’s dad is shot dead. Thirteen years later, with his mom hooked on smack, Trag has to hustle to survive, but the kid’s a rap genius and is signed to the world famous Juice Crew ’til he’s busted and sent to Riker’s at 16. Trag emerges political, releasing his Intelligent Hoodlum album. ‘Nuff respect, but he’s eclipsed by young rapper Nas. Trag falls prey to the streets where he discovers teen rappers Capone-N-Noreaga. After dissing Snoop Dogg, they get a record deal. Trag is hailed as a genius for masterminding their geo-political War Report album.
Capone is busted and Noreaga finds stardom, leaving Trag to starve. Then Trag’s mom ODs. At first Trag turns to crime, then finds inspiration, turning pain to beauty with underground albums Against All Odds and Still Reporting. Trag meets Nore to talk about making music together again, but cops pull up on ‘em, throwing Trag in jail. Out on bail, Trag is still reporting from the hood, keeping it real in Queensbridge.“

Prison sentence: On December 27, 2007, Tragedy was convicted of selling narcotics and sentenced to a maximum of four years in prison.
He is scheduled to be released on January 21, 2011

Walking back from a shooting in Harlem, we bumped into Stretch Armstrong, right in front of WKCR (!)

That’s the station where he started -in 1990- what would later become the Stretch and Bobbito Show, which many consider the best show ever.The guy NORE used to call “the albino ostrige” recalls a number of great moments and a greater number of (then) unsigned rappers who blazed the show : cats like Jay-Z, Eminem, Big Pun, ODB, Big L, Biggie, and also a 16 y.o kid in shorts named Nasir…

JUGANOT FEAT. BUSTA AND NORE!!! DOUGHBOY REMIX!!!

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On reste avec Nore, nous offrant Club Is a Zoo de son vrai prochain album, N.O.R.E pt2, bientôt dans les bacs.
Et n’oubliez pas, n’achetez pas S.O.R.E!

Vous êtes fans de Nore, vous attendiez avec impatience S.O.R.E (Still On the Run Eating), son nouvel album?
Cool, mais ne l’achetez pas, c’est Nore qui vous le dit:

” N’achetez pas l’album sorti mardi. Fuck cette merde! Ce n’est pas mon vrai album, fuck that. Ce n’est pas ça, je l’annoncerai sur le net ou j’informerai le public mais ce n’est pas celui-ci!”
“Le pire truc au monde, c’est quand tu fais un hit et tu sais que c’est sait un hit mais personne l’entend ou tu sors un album et personne sait qu’il sort. Il n y a rien de pire au monde que de vivre ça. Je viens juste de faire le meilleur album de ma carrière. Et honnêtement, j’ai peur de le sortir. Pourquoi ne devrais-je pas l’être? J’ai besoin qu’un label crois en moi, et je n’ai pas ça pour l’instant!”

En clair, Nore serait en conflit avec son label qui n’aurait fait aucune promo autour de nouvel album, sorti mardi dernier, et aurait donc décidé de se lancer lui-meme dans un boycott de son album.
Noreaga promets cependant qu’un autre nouvel album, N.O.R.E pt2, arrivera bientôt, et on parle aussi d’une suite de The War Report, après que les deux compères aient sortis leurs solos respectifs.

“The real N.O.R.E. part 2 is being made… it’s coming soon”

Pleased to see this track’s getting a UK single release, having been with us for the best part of a year. Following on from the slick, radio-friendly smoochery of Heartbreaker, this one is back on more familiar territory – dirty electro, here accompanied by some fittingly filthy vocalising from an assortment of guests, led by NORE. Another version out there adds a bit of Pitbull to the mix. In any case, it’s all excellent dancefloor-enticing stuff. Ha. Ha. Ha. Haaa.

It’s going down at the Underworld-Shop tomorrow! Haven’t been blogging that much lately so I thought I’d drop a few of my favorite beats at the moment.

Don’t forget the extra money for the Brinada tees!

• Flo Rida ft. Nelly Furtado – Jump (Designer Drugs Remix)
• Kid Cudi ft. Nore – Floatin (Bird Peterson Remix)

Tracklist:

1. Take Ya Face Off
2. Get It In (Say What)
3. Move
4. My Girl Gangsta
5. Good Day
6. Set Trip
7. By Myself
8. On & On
9. Shorty Look Good
10. Phone Call 2 Heaven
11. Body In The Trunk 2
12. I Wasn’t Wrong
13. Fake Nigga
14. Letter 2 Norieaga

“these dudes is bologna smugglers…” *classic*
courtesy of noretv

LEGENDARY!

Austin bad boy Bird Peterson is no stranger to this blog or any other blog for that matter, so not much introduction should be necessary. Getting right into it, his remix of NORE + Kid Cudi “Floating” is big room electro at it’s finest and is definitely his most accessible work yet. Even though I could see a million Ed Hardy kids freaking out to this, it’s definitely a fun track. Check his myspace for tour dates, as he’s going to be all over North America the next few months he’s even hitting up Mexico and Canada.

NORE + Kid Cudi – Floatin (Bird Peterson Remix)

Sirhan

O-Kaaay. Last week was kinda like a tough one, and I caught a brick the other day. RESET.

SO… in ‘98, I was staying at my older brother Kawann’s apartment in Reisterstown, Md. Shit was cool for the most part, even though we bumped heads about certain stuff like my leaving lights on in different rooms and smashin’ all the lunchmeat. I mainly remember my time spent there because of three things: drinkin’ Bud Ice, eatin’ Oodles of Noodles every day, and runnin’ the shit out of Streets Is Watching on the VCR. I think every last person that visited the apartment saw that tape at least once, cause we watched that shit REGULARLY.

I was 18 and still not up to much except trying to get my money situation right. Most of the time, I was in the house- either tryin’ to convince a girl to come all the way out there via MTA, or watchin’ BET all day long. Wild to think that there was a time when I’d literally watch that one station from 9 a.m. to late in the evening, just tapin’ videos. Nowadays, I don’t even watch videos (or BET), but ‘98 was a whole ‘nother story. Other times, I chilled with my brother and his friends- at least when they went to places that I wasn’t too young to get into.

Also, during that time, I got back into watching wrestling. I had gradually lost interest in it since ‘92, and eventually stopped watching it altogether. One day, I happened to see Monday Night Raw on Prevue Guide (now the TV Guide channel), so I figured I’d check it out on a whim. What I ended up seeing was some shit waaay different than I remembered it. One of the main reasons I had stopped watching was because it was all kid-catered and I was getting older… but now it was about things I liked as a teenager (i.e. profanity and sexual innuendo). It was catchy enough to make me continue watching, so I did.

Near the end of the summer, I heard 92Q having a call-in battle segment of sorts called “The Cipha” (the same segment Cassidy held dowm in Philly when the host Neke was on their station). I called in to appear on the show one Friday night, and for the following month, I was the champion. I had to do it four times a week, but I was always ready to go in soon as 9:30 p.m. hit. Crazily, no matter how much I figure nobody remembers it, I’ve run into at least one person every year since then who still recalls that. I’ve tried to avoid makin’ that my Al Bundy/”four touchdowns in one game” story, but it never fails.

Summer ‘98 was fun, if not much else. Nothin’ to complain about here- I weighed about a buck-oh-five, ate every piece of lunchmeat and package of Oodles in the house, eventually got a chick to make the long-ass MTA trip, rhymed on the radio, rediscovered a childhood interest, and taped hundreds of videos. It was what it was.

The Danj! Summer Seven Series of 1998:

Aaliyah “Are U That Somebody”: With Timbaland still pushing limits with his beats (baby noises and no hi-hats), Aaliyah locks the summer of ‘98 all the way down.

Noreaga “Super Thug”: “What, what, what, what, what, w-what!” Nore makes a hot hook out of ONE word. On top of that, the beat was insane, provided by The Neptunes. Who knows what Nore was talkin’ about, but it didn’t even matter.

Big Pun feat. Joe “Still Not A Player”: Pun remixes his own “I’m Not A Player” with Joe rewriting his hook from his own “Don’t Wanna Be A Player”… and everybody goes crazy.

Tamia “So Into You”: If you watched BET between June and September ‘98, there’s no way in hell you didn’t see this shit. The homie Fabolous likes this song, and so do I, and so should you.

Goodie MOB feat. OutKast “Black Ice”: The Dungeon Family’s two strongest links collab for one of my favorite tracks by either group. This song also made me a SERIOUS fan of Andre’s lyricism.

Jay-Z feat. Memphis Bleek “It’s Alright”: When I say we were killin’ that Streets Is Watching soundtrack, it’s some real shit. Jay-Z, nigga- thaaat’s riiight.

Rell feat. Jay-Z “Love 4 Free”: Rell’s prob’ly still tryna find out what his album’s release date is… but at least he got a (turrible) video and a hot song out of his Roc-A-Fella deal in ‘98. More Streets Is Watching soundtrackery.

ANNND IN CASE YOU MISSED ‘EM: Check out the other Summer Sevens HERE.

-D! (one more week of the Summer Seven to go)