Capone-N-Noreaga - Halfway Thugs

[@Senakofi]

Nore went HAM on this joint and the entire album....his best performance of his career.....

[@issoufkama4743]

Shiiiiiiiit...for my life still that i dead

[@kareemcaver7kmb]

Totally agree 💯

[@HeartCocoCloud]

He was rapping

[@354allday]

This was a Prodigy diss that's why

[@kareemcaver7kmb]

@@354allday I don't believe he was dissing Prodigy at that point in time maybe Tragedy

[@keejay12]

One of the best albums to ever drop from NYC. Shame it doesn't get the credit or play it deserves. This joint was ahead of its time production wise.

[@CevynformelyMJEYEAm]

I believe it gets overlooked cuz Capone was locked and Nore had to carry the duo till he got out. Then came the Reunion. That shyt was certified tuff

[@forcedtohaveahandle]

@@CevynformelyMJEYEAm Their 2nd album was disappointing asf compared to The War Report

[@CevynformelyMJEYEAm]

@@forcedtohaveahandle what your saying makes no sense.. Capone wasn’t on the majority of the 1st album. That’s why he lyrically expressed himself on The ReUnion.

[@kevinmoreno1244]

Deadass b

[@kratosazar9759]

This is one one of my favorite hip-hop albums of all time!

[@trentyates418]

This beat is the illest! Definitely one of the most underrated beats in hip hop.

[@TrueKing]

Fax 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@rekkidink]

2024. Came looking for this song for this beat right here this night, for that reason.

[@mcpuffenstuff6213]

One of the sickest basslines out there, to this day son...

[@GrabinGears]

Word this used to slap in my two kicker tens

[@yvesantoinenadig4821]

"dum dum dum dum duuuuunnnn"

[@yvesantoinenadig4821]

2020 corona still here

[@dickslaughter2]

@@yvesantoinenadig4821 sipping corona

[@monoblock15beats51]

who makes the beat?

[@97knicks]

I’m from lefrak and This album came out 9 days before I was born. I’m 23 today and I listen to the war report 3 times daily and im never gonna stop

[@NSIWorld]

98-38 was my building..Melbourne, Section 4

[@wilmingtonrocha3603]

Pump da shit men

[@jayhinson3429]

Shit never going to get old 💪🏽💪🏽

[@squarecracker]

lefrak ain't shit queens soft as fuck

[@rossmonty1911]

Hahaha good fucking man 👏

[@Ronkarona]

One of the greatest hip hop albums of all time easy

[@amirthehammer240]

This song will blow your speakers away... 2020 still powerful

[@Wiggls882]

2022 still blowin speakers away

[@reilym979]

@@Wiggls882 2023

[@SpiritualNaz]

@@Wiggls8822024

[@dzejson8891]

2024

[@stuartpowell9960]

This is one of the best Hip Hop tracks ever made, CNN were slept on big time.

[@dropagemonem]

nore is underrated. he has so unique flow

[@ryandilts9654]

One of the dopest beats ever made.

[@MilanMilanoG]

One of the tracks that keep me alive during winter

[@bradshaw1996]

Even in a blizzard this would keep me warm

[@luisvelez6707]

Straight Blizzard, Project Hallway Hip Hop, Miss this so much

[@kemoluciano9011]

Winter time hip-hop

[@hiphopforever595]

Too right mate

[@drewmarshall2000]

I felt this!!

[@p.j.9099]

The 90s rap had best beats and bass of all time.

[@forcedtohaveahandle]

@Ausar AmenRa No fucking doubt

[@abrahampalmer8761]

Facts

[@tru1655]

How could you leave out the lyrics?

[@tru1655]

How could you leave out the lyrics?

[@gray3182]

​@@tru1655Lyrics to G 😂

[@shawnpine7459]

im 39 years old from New Jerz and when this album dropped it was like WOW this is what hip hop needed!! Fuck all that puffy shit that was going on at the time!! This was some real street hip hop!!! This is a very underrated album in my opinion CNN had there own sound repping queens you can never sau they sound like mobb deep or nas or anybody from QB, CNN had there own style!! And Nore held it down promoting and shows for this album cause capone was doing a bid!! Live on Live long was my crew anthem that track off this album is a fucking classic!! Lefrac city Queens you think of akinyele and CNN holding it down!! And im a str8 old school head i dont listen to none of these corny ass mumbling not making sence wannabe rappers its terrible! I need to hit the big game so i can buy my own radio station and play nothing but classic hip hop and R&B out here in NYC just like they got Q104.3 that plays classic rock, I want my station playing nothing but classic REAL old school hip hop!!!! Anyways great fucking album brings back so many good memories just hanging out in the park smoking mad Ls and drinking E&J and olde E and carrying my radio and my bookbag full of tapes, mixtapes, and extra batteries in that bitch!! #realhiphop

[@JiM1NI]

I can Only can dream about that time, love from Belgium

[@mrkeitt]

Salute king 💪🏽 Talk that shit. I'm from Essex county Nj and this shit had niggas in a zone back then #WhatATimeToBeAlive #YouHadToBeThere

[@supahotfire1594]

puffy is a shook bitch (I like east side)

[@cibida1]

Jersey here too (Irvington, Newark) Was only 9 at the time but catching up now. Yo that part at the end with the Ls and tapes sounds like a GREAT time.

[@MoMo-jo5pl]

Word 🔥🔥✌🏼✌🏼

[@methodman9639]

N.O.R.E is underrated

[@Nakaoboombap]

Nois

[@moisessalazar2490]

Dam! 2019!!! Anyone?!? Saddens me the tight grapple corporate America has on hip hop in present times😔😔..

[@clydeharris775]

Right back atcha! Took me a minute to remember and find this joint, but it’s definitely on heavy rotation once again!

[@Cosmicslopman]

This is my favorite CNN joint. Norega just killed it. Production is gritty and grimey. Haunting beat.

[@leemessiah7328]

Beat is SICK only REAL HIP HOP HEADS know

[@leemessiah7328]

Tune

[@miguelpatrick79]

Nahh underground still exist just got to search

[@rubinturner8233]

Very underrated production on this whole album. I love the sample bedded into it.

[@Carlos_Vegas]

Long live to New York rappers i'm from Paraguay

[@monoblock15beats51]

Aguante el fasito prensado amigo

[@NinjaDragonWizard]

Big up Paraguay! I lived in Aregua for two years.

[@Qhashbba]

One of the best tracks ever. No doubt.

[@gooseduk213]

Wow. I was 15 when this was released! Real hip hop

[@ronblessed7218]

I was 16 bumpin this back then

[@habboFreak58]

I was -2 years old at that time Miss good old days

[@joewhitaker9991]

Original hardcore NYC hip hop 🎤🎤

[@nazirpalacios4899]

FROM THE STREETS OF QUEENS BRIDGE TO THE STREETS OF CHICAGO / THIS ALBUM WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN

[@AmaruWXRLD13]

JOHN THE BAPTIST, OBSERVE MAD WATER 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@luisvelez6707]

YO Tragedy went BEAST MODE !! I miss this Hard, Simple Projects Feel Hip Hop, Angry and Unscripted Block Rap

[@CreativeLaelAsif]

Rico Risken Dnt sound like it at all dnt believe it

[@gabrieldavis711]

@Rico Risken no. Tragedy produced it, that's why he gets writers credit. Him and havoc produced most of the album.

[@MentalPistol]

@Rico Risken He definitely did not write NORE's verse.

[@stephmazice6181]

@@gabrieldavis711 no he didn't. Charlamagne the god was the producer

[@adamgordon2572]

@@stephmazice6181 : Not Charlamagne the god, another Charlamagne 💯

[@jamalcolesr91]

Still fire in 2018

[@hastalavictoria6094]

Yessssssssss ! The only one

[@FckPeace2]

Jamal Cole Sr on Life it is

[@newrometomorrow]

In 2019, man

[@FckPeace2]

RastaOne word bond classic hip hop 🎤music lives in forever

[@mayzalebriggs6109]

Always

[@Killahbagz]

One of the best songs of all time, super underated.. RIP to the 90's Yo I used to hang around with y'all, cover ground with y'all … Now I flip turn around and pull the pound on y'all

[@trewilliams914]

"we at war with the foolish, get deducted... " real spit

[@brkjeff]

5 percenter Nore was *untouchable* 🔥

[@kevthegoat8774]

Because Tragedy Khadafi was writing for him

[@younggodmoon]

@@kevthegoat8774 I think Nore was just hungry

[@djmenelyk]

The best CNN track ever. PERIOD. Yah bless!! 🦁

[@meka1896]

This album and track is FOREVER!!! God I miss 90s rap!

[@igorson6688]

NY HIP HOP IN FULL EFFECT!!

[@almalik3734]

I remember my dad playing this when I was younger.. 😍😍

[@infiniterhymes2251]

shit, thats a really good situation in 90s

[@BensenBensen-o8n]

This is easily top 5 hip hop albums of all time!!! I can not name many albums where there was not one bad track. Every single song was %100. Every one. Right from the beginning it's just 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 the whole way through

[@SpiritualNaz]

The War Report and Hell On Earth is in my top 5 best albums ever word.

[@astonbrissett9747]

“Illuminati be the new age...” absolute fire

[@astonbrissett9747]

Positive High Vibrations yea, people wanna deny the Illuminati but they favorite rapper talk about em in every song 😂

[@lamarjackson3563]

@@_positivehighvibrations_ highly talked bout back then actually. Mfs jus wasn't listening. Pharcyde, tribe, black moon, pac, the beatnuts.. everybody rapped bout it💁🏿‍♂️🧘🏿‍♂️

[@354allday]

@@lamarjackson3563 AZ, Camp Lo...the list goes on

[@timespacexploratory]

Which tribe track ?

[@kazesmith727]

"Illuminati want my mind, soul and my body" - Prodigy

[@kristinp8650]

Here forevaaaa 💯

[@Blueice555Dope-f5w]

Jesus Is king

[@Rg416-yx1qn]

Nore Bodied 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@211inprogress]

STILL FIRE IN 🔥2019🔥 PEACE 🎙️

[@mrkeitt]

I'm from the future and this shit still hard 🔥🔥🔥

[@nujxad]

Oh shit this is giving me goosebumps right now. Haven’t heard this since high school!

[@JonnyUK85]

Whole album is timeless ! This track is the definition of a classic ! 🔥🎶 been here since the start 😎✔️

[@terriblethunder1737]

I still play this track like it just came out. Literally ride around with this shit on blast in my car. I can’t get enough of it. Nore was cooking and this beat so raw! I can’t believe it never got the respect it deserves

[@datruth4032]

2024 shot out Capone and Nore. Just seen Capone at rim shop in Camden!! Cool brother.

[@talesfromthehoodtv503]

Havoc laced this beat,this album is a classic

[@unclebrother6244]

Charlemagne produced this (not to be confused with Charlamagne the God)

[@juacali1]

@@unclebrother6244 ha ha ha ha

[@urbancoyote4840]

The hole alum 🔥🔥

[@SatanDynastyKiller]

Bet you feel like an idiot…

[@354allday]

Havoc wouldn't produce a beat Prodigy getting dissed on.

[@chrystiensolon9520]

That snare, you know Havoc did that beat 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@mayzalebriggs6109]

I got nothing but Love 4 Capone n Norrega They put in a lot of work Fill me

[@2pacaIypseNow]

The War Report is a masterpiece 🎉

[@Digital_Space199]

Still fire 🔥 2024

[@bigmad3123]

one of the most underrated verses ever...

[@illmatic19892]

For those who are unaware, This song is a Prodigy diss. Due to Prodigy pulling his original verse off of LA LA (The verse which ended up on Nas's Album "It Was Written" on song "Live Nigga Rap".) Prodigy later commented about this move saying that he felt like his verse was too good to be featured on a CNN song.. So he took it off and used it for Nas's album which obviously would get more attention. Nore obviously felt insulted by this and decided to diss prodigy on this track. Although he never clearly names Prodigy, there are many lines here that are obviously about Prodigy. Most obvious is when he says "The Sixteenth Letter,” which corresponds to the numerical value of the letter “P” in the alphabet. Worth to note that Prodigy and him had some serious issues IRL which also caused Nore (or his associates) to shoot at Prodigy (never connected) and Prodigy noted this in his autobiography "My Infamous Life" years later which pissed Nore off. They ended up being cool after a while mostly due to Nore's and Capone's friendship with Havoc. But Prodigy still never appeared on Nore's Drink Champs although he was asked multiple times (unlike Havoc who appeared solo.) Also Prodigy had issues with Nore's groupmate Capone due to labeling him a Snitch but that's another long story...

[@novemberreign6023]

That’s why they threw da reverb in…👍

[@novemberreign6023]

The other one was Sweet P👍

[@efechief2659]

Wow. I didn't know that, but I definitely recall hearing Noreaga's verse on Super Thug when he said "you hate the law, nigga break it, I don't care but when you get caught remember that I don't care". It was obviously a response to Havoc's hook on Illegal life. That threw me off because I thought they were all cool. I had no idea all of this other shhhhh was going on behind the scenes besides the contract issues between Tragedy and Nore which was a separate issue. Nore and Prodigy definitely resolved things temporarily because Nore was on Prodigy's album. It was their song that really sparked the beef with Jay Z when Prodigy said "Live in the flesh, my niggas fresh out the bang, when I see you thun, new guns money aint a thing". Before that it was subliminal messages, but things started becoming more direct.

[@MikeWallace-r3x]

I'm not sure if thata exactly the reason why they had beef. In prodigy's book he mentions nore being real fake and claims nore got jumped by couple of QB dudes but I could be wrong.

[@EyesOnly88]

I bump this shit like its brand new

[@mariomcqueen849]

Classic hood album real shit

[@UnknownJ.3T1]

Hard, Grimy, Bass, The challenge against mobb deep

[@KevinbelUAPBelgium]

OLD SCHOOL FOR LIFE

[@Springfieldborn84]

This beat is a masterpiece

[@friscofunksta7528]

I recently bought me some BEN DAVIS baggy jeans, 1 size bigger to have it real baggy, Air Forces 1s and some white Tees... AND was blasting this track out of my car. Time to end this sissy gay tight jeans skirt mumble rap POP era.

[@YannCdube]

👊

[@bobbyvalentin3521]

Facts! 🤜🤛

[@spearPYN]

Vik B exactly... I still sport full body camouflage large army certified suits...killarmy style.

[@friscofunksta7528]

spearPYN that era was fire too!!! When rappers were on that military stomping boots shit. Well sombody has to rep the real hip hop culture...who if not us? I even saw Nore in tight jeans now smh

[@trentyates418]

Im wit u on that. Fuck this skinny jean shit. Every jean i got is baggy, and i was lucky to find some avirex jeans at the salvation army. I was obsessed. Nowadays you see some 90s rappers wearing skinny jeans. Most of them still sport baggy. This skinny jeans men dress pop rap era has to end and bring back real hip hop. U have my respect fam

[@yamilecalderon2085]

Real hip--hop un abrazo fuerte desde Medellín Colombia

[@HennieBalou911]

Max B n French killed this beat!

[@EstebanSerna-r1j]

Styles puro y letal un abrazo fuerte desde medellín Colombia My streef life real hip-hop

[@nicolasvermersch103]

L instru me hante jours et nuit !! Du lourd !!

[@devineeats631]

Still fire in 2019

[@abrahampalmer8761]

One of the illest hip hop songs ever undeniable classic 😈😈😇😇🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@haroonkhan8179]

What a tune! They don't make them like this anymore

[@Brooklyn7savior]

Nore killed it

[@backup1717]

TIMELESS ❤️❤️❤️

[@kennybauernfeind1839]

Another Just hit play album from Queens the GOAT Burrough

[@seancarter3564]

Noreaga was different

[@johnathancunillera3323]

best productions besides live long

[@tankingram922]

Been bumping this old school...my day

[@stockmarket5196]

New wave of internet's consumers are the new halfway thugs

[@Sonnenbaron]

Most Dynamic - I just listen this since years and was a life changer

[@kurtismarin1652]

Classic album y’all for real💯

[@hulkwavetv7461]

The hardest bassline ever !!!!!

[@stayswole]

🔥💪🎶 I've had this and heavy rotation since it dropped and it will still stay in heavy rotation till the dirt 💯 REAL rap always

[@eazygoinz3011]

OCTOBER 23, 2020 ..FOOTPRINT 🔥🔥..STILL BANGING..🏀🔥🎲

[@MikeWallace-r3x]

WHAT WHAT. Nore was the man during this time

[@j.leprechaunface.7367]

May9th still banging these classics

[@seanb12187]

When the war report dropped I was in high school never forget driving down 495 to head uptown for some haze and seeing the sign for lefraq city and my boy Lou saying yo let’s scoop NORE

[@joewhitaker6784]

Much respect NY🗽🗽

[@frankv7068]

“I’m tired of living on the fith floor! 🖐🏽“ (Four fingers up like Bro-man)

[@GautsLauren]

Still listen to this joint during warmup in 2019

[@Cautiesanrio]

Warm up for what?

[@thiagomacedo0810]

Viva o bom e velho boom bap, rap old School 🇧🇷

[@lukejones7164]

Nore's best song

[@galaxyglory1215]

HipHop foreva!

[@hiphopforever595]

Too right aha

[@gunot7599]

2019 whole album still fire

[@bigprecise81]

this whole album is straight 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 front to back. Just let it play and ride out.

[@RAISEONER]

on my top 10 fav albums all time

[@reymondmiramontes8916]

this is some real hip hop shit

[@trapinc93]

Timeless 🔥

[@tweeker108]

John the Baptist Observe Mad Water

[@FLIPMODE630]

Long live syke dog the original OG stomping the streets of Booker then taking over cressex big up

[@blckber207j3]

This what I grew up on..... I feel bad for youngins these days. Top 20 rappers today wouldn’t be able to breathe during these times. No hate just ALL FACTS!

[@Djaytiger]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@eme4790]

2020 Still 🔥🔥

[@jacktherhymer]

Was listening to this back in the days during my time under the flag in Ex-Yougoslavia

[@cibida1]

Damn

[@NewPossibilities]

“Eating like he live. He ain’t live.”

[@atnodtmaredwarsasdoowwiley9412]

New Possibilities wat does he mean by that

[@aerportwaveii9987]

@@atnodtmaredwarsasdoowwiley9412 it's "he eating like he live, he ain't live" meaning dude think he is the shxt..making money(eating)like he that dude but not...

[@Paaka]

Aerport Wave II that’s low key envy

[@cibida1]

@@Paaka it is. But it could also be the truth.

[@markandrews8501]

that entry dialogue is killa.... u know a song going to be ill when niggas is talking trash like that. "Eating like he live, he ain't live"

[@itsnotallaboutyou-ge4mh]

this song is crazy, completely forgot about it

[@draganpetreski7706]

Straight up power classic ,fresh blood on the wet ass concrete

[@christophbaumann6333]

is a classic, even in Switzerland... real shit

[@omegahtv6779]

Still banging this in 2021, yo.

[@zebratraffic5821]

Definetely a classic shit !

[@KashidRome]

Classic joint

[@Sonnenbaron]

I was always feeling strong when I hear this beat

[@Nino_J]

I always felt Mobb Deep would’ve destroyed this beat

[@GokuBlackkkkkk]

They would've, damn this beat is CRAZY

[@michaelgallagher6404]

Fun fact this song was originally a diss to mobb deep hence the name and the censored words more says are “sweet p “ fuck with papa get smoked properly and then next censored word is “16th “alphabet which is the letter p . Both p’s refer to prodigy but were censored when they squashed the beef

[@dickslaughter2]

You know nothing

[@nevafoldnique247]

Should've been a remix

[@upclosenpersonal100]

​@@michaelgallagher6404 Capone taking the stand against Killa Black had Capone's face crossed out on the Infamous album because of P, which caused NORE to disa Prodigy