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Track Listing
1. Jump Off, The
2. Banned From TV - (featuring Nature/Big Punisher/Cam'Ron/Styles/Jadakiss)
3. I Love My Life - (featuring Carl Thomas)
4. N.O.R.E.
5. Hed Interlude
6. Hed - (featuring Nature)
7. It's Not a Game - (featuring Maze/Musolini)
8. Fiesta - (featuring Kid Capri)
9. 40 Island - (featuring Kool G. Rap/Musolini)
10. Way We Live, The - (featuring Chico DeBarge)
11. Animal Thug Interlude
12. Change, The
13. Superthug
14. Da Story - (featuring Maze)
15. Mathematics (Esta Loca)
16. Assignment, The - (featuring Busta Rhymes/Spliff Star/Maze)
17. Body in the Trunk - (featuring Nas)
18. One Love
19. Outro
| Details | | Contributing artists: | Big Punisher, Busta Rhymes, Cam'Ron, Carl Thomas, Chico DeBarge, Jadakiss, Kid Capri, Kool G. Rap, Maze, Musolini, Nas, Nature, Spliff Star, Styles, The Lox | | Distributor: | Alternative Dis. Alliance | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Noreaga, Nature, Big Punisher, Cam'Ron, Styles, Jadakiss, Maze, Musolini, Kool G. Rap, Nas, Busta Rhymes, Spliff Star, Maze, Kid Capri (rap vocals); Carl Thomas, Chico DeBarge (vocals); Avon Marshall, Robert Mays (various instruments); Portia (guitar); Vinia Mojica, Tammy Lucas, The Neptunes (background vocals).
Producers include: Swizz, EZ Elpee, Poke & Tone, SPK, Marley Marl.
Engineers include: Martin Moor, Pat Viola, Chris Conway.
As one half of the critically acclaimed group Capone-N-Noreaga, Noreaga established himself as a true rap artist, lyrically talented and musically diverse. Within one year, he created a heavy demand for his vocal talents, which are incredibly distinct. His thuggish style brings a street flavor back to hip-hop, and with his solo debut N.O.R.E., Noreaga schools listeners on what rap music is meant to be.
The album N.O.R.E. is all about street credibility, lyrics that play with your head and beats that invoke serious head-nodding. "Banned From TV" is a posse cut that features only the hottest MCs, such as Cam'Ron, Big Punisher and The Lox. "I Love My Life" and "The Way We Live" show Noreaga's crossover potential, while production for tracks like "The Assignment" and "Superthug" make N.O.R.E. much more worthy of praise than the average debut.
Industry Reviews
4 Mics (out of 5) - ...Noreaga proves...that he can hang with the rest of the lyrical masterminds that have come outta the illustrious borough....It's his signature characteristic, his language...
The Source (08/01/1998)
4 (out of 5) - ...Noreaga maintains his post and continues to report from the streets with his choppy, stutter-step, spit-in-your-face delivery...
Rap Pages (09/01/1998)
4 Mics (out of 5) - ...Noreaga proves...that he can hang with the rest of the lyrical masterminds that have come outta the illustrious borough....It's his signature characteristic, his language...Rap Pages (9/98, p.119) - 4 (out of 5) - ...Noreaga maintains his post and continues to report from the streets with his choppy, stutter-step, spit-in-your-face delivery...
The Source (08/01/1998)
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