Right before the indie hip-hop boom, the late 90s were dominated by Furious 5. Everywhere you looked, every remix or just every mixtape you bought always had Big Pun, Nore, DMX, Cam’Ron & Canibus. Personally, I never loved the whole Ruff Ryders thing. I definitely enjoyed The LOX, but more so after that movement ended. DMX, reinvented himself as a howling, hungry emcee who sounded totally different from anything we heard before. Anthems, this dude knew how to create them. Dame Grease killed this album. People are quick to associate Swizz with DMX, but Dame is the reason this album is so dope. Get At Me Dog, How’s It Going Down, Ruff Ryders Anthem, Stop Being Greedy & Niggaz Done Started Something just to name a few.
Nobody is confusing Nore for a lyricist. He is a witty rapper who is just extremely charismatic and entertaining. He is like the QB version of Biz Markie. BUT, N.O.R.E. is borderline classic to me and that’s based on just a handful of tracks too. The War Report IS classic to me, so let’s just say, Nore has had a remarkable start to his career. When the beat comes in on Body In The Trunk (another Dame Grease joint) we lost our shit. When we heard Queens legend Kool G. Rap redo Rikers Island with Noreage and Marley, we ate it up. When we heard those car bangers like N.O.R.E., Hed, Esta Loca and SuperThug, it was on.
N.O.R.E. vs. It's Dark And Hell Is Hot
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NORE is one of the best albums of the 90's
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DMX by far.
The guests are carrying NORE for most of the album IMO and the beats are good but a bit generic. IDAHIH has its own unique sound and feeling throughout plus the songs are much more personal and memorable. By comparison NORE seems pasted together by marketing people from his recordcompany. Noreaga is a fairly weak rapper and needs someone better to rap alongside him like Capone or Trag to hold my attention.
The guests are carrying NORE for most of the album IMO and the beats are good but a bit generic. IDAHIH has its own unique sound and feeling throughout plus the songs are much more personal and memorable. By comparison NORE seems pasted together by marketing people from his recordcompany. Noreaga is a fairly weak rapper and needs someone better to rap alongside him like Capone or Trag to hold my attention.
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yeah it's right up there with Illmatic and Ready to Dieadmiral wrote:NORE is one of the best albums of the 90's
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I loved the Bo Jackson's, the orange and blue...
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You meant to write 98, right?admiral wrote:NORE is one of the best albums of the 90's
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"I PLAY THE BEST 'HOOD, O.T WITH TIM WESTWOOD!"
I only dig Crime Story and N*ggaz Done Started Something on the DMX album.
I only dig Crime Story and N*ggaz Done Started Something on the DMX album.
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NORE was nothing amazing but it had some good moments, there is not a single track on It's Dark... I like...
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Dude, Blackout?Career Over Like Mike(NJJ) wrote:"I PLAY THE BEST 'HOOD, O.T WITH TIM WESTWOOD!"
I only dig Crime Story and N*ggaz Done Started Something on the DMX album.
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nore. nore vs don cartagena?
it's a cold world betta pack your own heat
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Easily DMX.... So much raw
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neither are particularly good but dmx is borderline unlistenable
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DMX album has classics like Damien and How's It Goin Down. But all of the not-great songs are terrible.
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Ruff Ryders' Anthem
Fuckin' wit' D
Get At Me Dog
Damien
How's It Goin' Down
Niggaz Done Started Something
Crime Story
All dope. While NORE legitimately one of the worst rappers of all time.
Fuckin' wit' D
Get At Me Dog
Damien
How's It Goin' Down
Niggaz Done Started Something
Crime Story
All dope. While NORE legitimately one of the worst rappers of all time.
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[quote="CarlosDelgothoes" NORE legitimately one of the worst rappers of all time.[/quote]
DMX is one of the worst rappers of all time, legitimately
DMX is one of the worst rappers of all time, legitimately
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Doogs wrote:[quote="CarlosDelgothoes" NORE legitimately one of the worst rappers of all time.
DMX is one of the worst rappers of all time, legitimately[/quote]
lol this
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DMX but it's close
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How's it going down>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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I imagine that if I listened to both of them now, I'd vote N.O.R.E. but for now I have to vote my childhood. It's Dark and Hell is Hot fucked me up mentally. Voted that.
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voted DMX and then remembered the way we live off NORE and changed vote
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after revisiting body in the trunk it makes you wonder how crazy or at the very least commercially successful the firm would have been with NORE in it instead of Mega...
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Love that NORE album. Always have.
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thats cuz u love hipPOP cRAP *shaking my head*WiCkEd22 wrote:Love that NORE album. Always have.
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Nope. Sorry. Try again.CarlosDelgotnohoes wrote:thats cuz u love hipPOP cRAP *shaking my head*WiCkEd22 wrote:Love that NORE album. Always have.
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Eh Wicked22 to be fair... It's pretty commercial... why are you allowed to listen to that unauthentic NOT real dirty gritty underground hip hop but everybody else is NOT allowed the same privilege? Seems like whatever you like is "real hip hop" and everything else is trash... Got news for you... this NORE LP is about as jiggy as it gets...
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holy crap the answer is so obviously NORE after relistening...
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gusty wingers wrote:Eh Wicked22 to be fair... It's pretty commercial... why are you allowed to listen to that unauthentic NOT real dirty gritty underground hip hop but everybody else is NOT allowed the same privilege? Seems like whatever you like is "real hip hop" and everything else is trash... Got news for you... this NORE LP is about as jiggy as it gets...
Let the record state that Wicked listens to NORE in a shiny suit while organizing his downloaded MP3 files.
Not very HipHop, brO.
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