Was CNN's War Report really that BIG when it Dropped?

[Black White Sox Hat]

Ummm Yes dikkHEAD.. If it got no Radioplay in the South, and there was no Internet, how else is one supposed to hear about it GENIUS?

Did it come out in 1920 or some shyt?Why is radio your only avenue for discovering new music in 1997?

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

Did it come out in 1920 or some shyt?Why is radio your only avenue for discovering new music in 1997?

i think he live in Europe. or Pakistan?

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

met papi by iraq..the wing by the back..

 

[Mr. Negative]

This is incredible to me. Never imagined southern nikkas feeling OB4CL or the war report.

Everybody felt X when he dropped

That Heaven and Hell+North Star (rare jewel) combo had them tranquilized. It was slow and bluesy sounding like the area liked at the time. From there it was like a gateway drug. Nobody really fukked with any other Wu projects other than that, though.


CNN.... I dunno. I think it had more to do with Nore rap style. He wasn't complicated in the "lyrical miracle in your stereo" way. He was rapping like a regular nikka. It wasn't TONY that got them, it was "Live Long Live On"


DMX.... was DMX

 

[raw613]

A lot of my circle that fukked with Nas and Mobb were into it, but it was like a cult classic or you could say largely an East coast one, N.O.R.E. is when mainstream cats and the rest of the world got on board

 

[bigbadbossup2012]

Since when are gold and platinum albums considered flops?

Sales were meh vs competition at the time. But east coast media will pretend they meant much more

 

[BmoreGorilla]

Sales were meh vs competition at the time. But east coast media will pretend they meant much more

But you said the albums flopped. Theres a difference between flopping and being out sold by the competition

In 95 Cuban Linx sold over 1 million copies with no crossover singles. By comparison Me Against the World sold over 2 mil with multiple crossover singles. Your telling me Cuban Linx wasn't a success?

Basically you hold a grudge against the east coast and you let it effect your posting

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

T.O.N.Y. was like the greatest song ever made to me when it hit mixtapes

 

[mbewane]

It was pretty big in the streets of NY but not commercially and I wouldn't think outside of the east coast many people checked for it.

For what it's worth it was kind of "big" in HH circles in France back when it dropped, I remember they had a big display at the Virgin Megastores in Champs-Elysées...but then again HH heads in France were way more into East Coast than anything else...not commercially but among HH heads, yeah

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

That Heaven and Hell+North Star (rare jewel) combo had them tranquilized. It was slow and bluesy sounding like the area liked at the time. From there it was like a gateway drug. Nobody really fukked with any other Wu projects other than that, though.


CNN.... I dunno. I think it had more to do with Nore rap style. He wasn't complicated in the "lyrical miracle in your stereo" way. He was rapping like a regular nikka. It wasn't TONY that got them, it was "Live Long Live On"


DMX.... was DMX

i think complex got it right... it was the grittiness of it. and some of the best beats ever at the time. you gotta remember biggie just died, puffy was running round with mase.. all that soft shyt was dominating

CNN dropped these fukking BANGERS.. it was a hood album front to back. and hood nikkas in the east, especially the 5%ers in NYC, was banging this shyt to death



In many ways, this is Tragedy Khadafi's best album. As the mastermind of this project, the Intelligent Hoodlum helped Capone and his boy Noreaga develop into the new blueprint for Queens Thug Rap, channeling their youthful energy with military precision. After leading the charge against Snoop and the Dogg Pound's disrespectful "New York, New York" video, CNN represented a new street science revolving around the Middle East, even going as far as incorporating Arabic vocals into tracks like "Illegal Life."

Boasting some of the hardest beats of 1997, The War Report proved that hardcore hip-hop could still be relevant and revolutionary, and launched the career of NORE, one of hip-hop's most entertaining personalities.

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

how the fukk can you celebrate a hip hop classic with this bullshyt discussion?
blood clooooot....

 

[Mr. Negative]

i think complex got it right... it was the grittiness of it. and some of the best beats ever at the time. you gotta remember biggie just died, puffy was running round with mase.. all that soft shyt was dominating

CNN dropped these fukking BANGERS.. it was a hood album front to back. and hood nikkas in the east, especially the 5%ers in NYC, was banging this shyt to death



In many ways, this is Tragedy Khadafi's best album. As the mastermind of this project, the Intelligent Hoodlum helped Capone and his boy Noreaga develop into the new blueprint for Queens Thug Rap, channeling their youthful energy with military precision. After leading the charge against Snoop and the Dogg Pound's disrespectful "New York, New York" video, CNN represented a new street science revolving around the Middle East, even going as far as incorporating Arabic vocals into tracks like "Illegal Life."

Boasting some of the hardest beats of 1997, The War Report proved that hardcore hip-hop could still be relevant and revolutionary, and launched the career of NORE, one of hip-hop's most entertaining personalities.

Mississippi delta, breh.

I, for one, understand exactly where you're coming from.

Everybody else that was only bumping Tommy Wright III, Crime Boss, Hitman Sammy Sam and Three Six Mafia? They ain't care about none of that shyt.

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

but yo i am going to be real..

cnn trag and plenty others on the east coast line spitting that islamic/allah shout outs but come 9/11..these same motherfukkaz bounced..lol..silence.

a-alikes called these fools out and said what's up but also NGE pulled that carde out..we are not Moslems or islamic..we are gods nge...COOL.

 

[bigbadbossup2012]

Yeah nobody remembers Capone and noreaga and a damn near top 20 rap album is a flop.

Internet done ruined you nikkas. I guess nikkas is just coming on the show to lie about shyt. It's not like we was actually alive and can tell you. It's not like we actually from the east coast. It's not like nikkas even heard the word flop or cared about album sales back then.

But yea. It was a flop that the label said, you know that shytty album that sold nothing and nobody cared about..... let's give the worst rapper in the group a solo deal and have him put out another one of his own

No idea why we're blaming the internet. That album sold NADA,facts not opinion.
More facts,nikkas had been talking record sales and charts since waaaaaaaaaaaaaay before 1997.
Are you doubting or denying this?

 

[Wacky D]

Ummm Yes dikkHEAD.. If it got no Radioplay in the South, and there was no Internet, how else is one supposed to hear about it GENIUS? The first time I heard of NORE was "SuperThug" which DID get Radioplay here in the South

the internet was poppin in 1997 breh.

i see what youre tryna say tho.

Sales were meh vs competition at the time. But east coast media will pretend they meant much more

wrong argument here breh/.

CNN weren't hyped in the media. they were more of a street thing.

the source kinda caught on from jump, having them in unsigned hype and all that, but i don't remember them getting a crazy high rating for the war report.

But you said the albums flopped. Theres a difference between flopping and being out sold by the competition

In 95 Cuban Linx sold over 1 million copies with no crossover singles. By comparison Me Against the World sold over 2 mil with multiple crossover singles. Your telling me Cuban Linx wasn't a success?

Basically you hold a grudge against the east coast and you let it effect your posting

ice cream was crossover.

i agree with your premise tho.