N.O.R.E.

Released: August 19, 2003

Featuring: Pharrell Williams

Songwriter: N.O.R.E. Chad Hugo Pharrell Williams

Producer: The Neptunes

[N.O.R.E.]
Star Trak (Star Trak)
Star Trak (Star Trak)
Millitainment!! Millitainment (Man)
My nigga David Banner in the buildin' (Man...man)
Bounce bounce (Man)
Bounce bounce (Man)
Bounce bounce

[Hook 1: Pharrell]
Are you a P-I-M-P?
But can't no nigga put the pimpin' like me
I get em up get em up (up)
I get them hoes and put em up (up)
I'm here with N-O-R-E
And can't nobody rip a club like we
Put em up put em up (up)
Get your set and put em up put em up (up)
Get your fingers put em up put em up (up)
Get your rag and put em up put em up (up)
Man

[Hook 2: N.O.R.E.]
Bounce bounce (Man)
Bounce bounce (Man)
Bounce bounce (Man)
Bounce bounce

[N.O.R.E.]
Now it ain't N.O.R.E. to be on time
But I rock a rhyme that's right on slime, it's N.O.R.E
(It's N.O.R.E., N.O.R.E.) I'm just chillin' wit my shorty (shorty)
Drinkin' on a forty (forty), private stock old English (English)
Bout to get some naughty, O.P.P. no D-E-D
All she need is me up in the N-Y-C

[Hook 1]

[Hook 2]

[N.O.R.E.]
Now it ain't N.O.R.E. to be on time
But I rock a rhyme that's right on slime, it's N.O.R.E
(It's N.O.R.E., N.O.R.E.) Half mo, full mo
Wear a thong, g-code
Gettin' bent off that liquor
Till our colons thick and old
Stay trippin' on them hoes...we be illin'
And them whores doin' shows...top billin'
Stay packin' fo' fo's...ain't no concealin'
Peoples throwin' those bows....so how you feelin'

[Hook 1]

[Hook 2 x2]

[N.O.R.E.]
Now it ain't N.O.R.E. to be on time
But I rock a rhyme that's right on slime, it's N.O.R.E
(It's N.O.R.E., N.O.R.E.) Bangin' goin' crazy
Bangin' black Mercedes
Why I'm bangin' on them corners
Bangin' all your ladies
And she just wanna ride
Get up in that coupe and slide
Run around the corners lyin'
Say she Bonnie, said I'm Clyde (What?)
But I'm that type of guy
Have yo chicken bakin' pie
And she really wanna fuck me
I can see it in her eye

[Hook 1]

[Hook 2 x2]

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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