N.O.R.E.

Released: June 25, 2002

Featuring: Tyson Beckford Nelly Mike Kyser Ice-T Nas

Songwriter: Tyson Beckford Nelly Nas Mike Kyser Ice-T N.O.R.E.

[Nas]
Ayo... N-O What up baby this NAS..
Chilling nigga, chilling in Barbados you know mean!
Yo man I heard you working on the album
Man, I know that shit is going down crazy man
You know you got to smash niggas man...
You know how we do this shit here...
Got to the damn thing, but yo get at me man...
Hit me back man
Know waht I'm saying
Hit me up Slime and let's do this ......alright

[Ice-T]
Yo NORE wassup
It's ice baby, you know what I'm saying
Pimps up you know what I'm saying...
World renowned, internationally known locally accepted
I heard you, know what they saying
Y'all kats is licking shoot's out there man
You know don't even do that man
Don't even waste no bullets on them buster's man
They got the rap cops on us nowadays man
That shit's a joke really man
Hit a real pimp back man
Cause if they want to get down man I'm with you nigga, westcoast nigga
Yeah hit me back Slime

[Mike Kyser]
NORE what up man this Mike Kyser from Def Jam
Heard you just finishing up that album boy
I heard you got 2 joints with Swizz, two joints with The Neptunes
Heard you shit is hot man
Welcome to Def Jam welcome to the fam baby
I can't wait to work this project man
I'm ready to take this shit to radio baby...
Let's do this you in the N.B.A
Now baby, you ain't fuckin' with the other labels now
You fuckin' with Def Jam now boy...
You in the N.B.A
Let's do this nigga...out 1 time slime, hit me up slim, hit me up slim

[Nelly]
Yo what up baby, this your folks man, Nelly! Man I'm in the S-T-L Man
But I heard you was bout to start on the album folk
And what I need you to do is holler at me alright..
Yo why don't you return my old school too man!
It's been like a fuckin' week man
You been swervin' my shit for like a week, you know them N.Y. streets hard, bumpy and shit man..
I don't like my T's out there
On that shit man...alright return my shit man
And holler at your boy alright and get at me slim

Queens rapper Noreaga (also known as N.O.R.E.) was one of the most distinctive voices of the late ’90s hardcore hip-hop scene. He found critical and commercial success, both as a member of the duo Capone-N-Noreaga and as a solo artist, well into the 2000s.

Born Victor Santiago, Jr., to a Puerto Rican father and black mother, N.O.R.E. was raised in the Lefrak City housing projects in Queens, New York. In the early ’90s, while serving a sentence for attempted murder at the Green Haven Correctional Facility, he befriended Queensbridge native Capone. Once released, the two began rapping together under the mentorship of Juice Crew veteran Tragedy Khadafi, appearing in The Source Magazine’s “Unsigned Hype” column in 1995.

The duo attracted widespread attention in 1996 with the release of the single “L.A., L.A..” The song—a response to Tha Dogg Pound’s “New York, New York”—is considered a key record in the infamous East Coast/West Coast battle. Only 18 at the time, Noreaga’s unorthodox style of rapping immediately stood out. VIBE Magazine described his flow as “staggered, high-pitched parrot riffs.” The Source called it “word association-style poetics.” Capone-N-Noreaga’s debut The War Report was released by Penalty/Warner in June 1997 to critical acclaim.

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