and wheil i agree he doesnt have Nores charm chasrimsa whatever u want to call it that makes you big i think Tragedy is entertaining on the mic hes not a total bore like some dudes he just didnt have crossover appeal
I could read about QB and Queens mc's all day.I remember when Will Smith referenced Intelligent Hoodlum on an episode of the Fresh Prince.
and an episode when Ashley wanted to become a singing star, they showed Illmatic poster in the record store. Will clearly fukked with QB rap
i haven't read all the messages in here but i will not take part in a debate about trag v nore, lmao. get the hell out of here..
i always suspected that trag was slightly jealous of nas since nas came out and took the spot that trag felt he shoulda had. that's just my theory though.
i did always find it kinda ill though that the one song that nas got clearance for with noreaga "body in the trunk", sounded like a tragedy diss or at least nas's verse did. and although nas singing the hook on "i love my life" was kindai don't get why columbia wouldn't clear it. as far as i know he didn't even drop a verse, he just sang the hook for that cut or at least he did on the snippet i heard off that noreaga sampler mixtape that dropped before the album. i'd love to have a full CDQ version of that jawn though.
either way, "Calm Down" and "Married To Marijuana" being cut from The War Report was a fukking travesty. that shyt fukking pissed me off when i copped the CD only to not find them anywhere on the album. I always add those 2 cuts to my version of the album.
Ehhh lets all just leave it at, Tragedy is a lot better rapper in every technical sense, taught Nore how to actually rap and structure songs, executive produced, picked the beats, themes, and coached the lyrics on the only NORE project that is actually respected in hindsight... meanwhile NORE is vastly more popular, and has more hit...
Like I said, NORE has one album that is rated as not wack, and thats the first CNN joint... and on that tragedy khadafi did EVERYTHING... Meanwhile Tragedy has a couple good projects, both old school from the late 80s/early 90s when he was intelligent hoodlum, and in the late 90s when he was tragedy khadafi (thug matrix was dope). So while I can see your point that NORE is a bigger star, and has more charisma, its not like NORE dropped a bunch of dope musical projects that just werent 'technically' tight but still were good. Basically NORE shoulda done himself on his singles, and he shoulda kept tragedy around as a ghost writer for all the other tracks on his albums if nothing else cuz NORE albums been disappointing ever since he stopped messing with tragedy. MUSICALLY not on some highbrow rappity rap sh!t
