![]() ![]() “Aiyyo ridin with my burner, rollin with my earner You combine his awkward rap flow, lack of depth, deep vocal tones with some great beats and suddenly you have a hit on your hands like the first single off “Noreality” entitled “Set It Off”: And yet everything that’s wrong about N.O.R.E. He even named his crew Thugged Out Militainment by combining the words military and entertainment. One of his most successful singles was built entirely around a chorus where he shouted the word “WHAT” a lot. There are times you could find more depth in a Dixie Cup full of water than in one of his rap songs. “Stuck” is often an apt word for Noreaga’s rap style, as he has a tendency to repeat himself while rapping and stay stuck on rapping nonsensical sounding shit. Capone has had a slew of legal problems which has left Noreaga on his own for most of career, which resulted in him adopting a whole series of other psuedonyms ranging from Melvin Flynt Da Hustler to N.O.R.E. If that’s not enough there are any number of people who would be happy to point out he was the weak link in Capone-N-Noreaga, popularly known as CNN. You can name any of about 20 reasons that all of those things should not exist together in the same place at the same time. He’s not going to fit into any narrow definition of rap music – he’s a reggaeton rapper, a hispanic hip-hopper, a superthug and a suave club pimp. Victor ‘Noreaga’ Santiago is the kind of hip-hop artist who could never come from a cookie cutter recording industry formula. ![]()
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