Nice mixtape from N.O.R.E. - After being relatively quiet and really not dropping anything special since the CNN Reunion album (I think Gods Favorite only deserved 3.5 stars) and after his B-S Raggaeton album, N.O.R.E. finally makes a step in the right direction. Since his One Fan A Day album was hit with numerous pushbacks and may never see the light of day, he released this which has a few tracks from that album. With 14 songs the version I have doesn t have #4), but you get 2 almost classics, 5 good songs, 3 ok songs, and 3 that are borderline ok/pretty good. Guests are on 8 of the 13 songs and are mostly the normals from his camp. Production is great on some songs and average at best on others. Scram Jones does 3 songs, DJ Cut Throat, Midi Mafia, Heatmakerz all do 2 songs, EZ Elpee, Kyze, Vin teh Chin and Militainment all do 1 song. A nice album for his fans to grab.#1 - 7.5 (16 bars)#2 - 9.5 (f/ Nature, DWNLZY, Maze, Cardan, Musolini, Baby Sis -- great beat)#3 - 8.5#4 - (not on the mixtape I have)#5 - 9 (f/ Musolini, DWNLZY, Nature -- nice Journey sample used)#6 - 7.5 (f/ Nature -- they rap back & forth for a lil over a minute)#7 - 7.5 (f/ Nicole Wray)#8 - 9 (f/ Beanie Sigel -- deep song w/ nice beat)#9 - 9.5 (f/ Nature, Young Chris, Baby Sis, DWNLZY -- tight beat)#10 - 6 (f/ Final Chapter)#11 - 7#12 - 6 (f/ Musolini, Maze, DWNLZY)#13 - 8#14 - 8.5Victor Santiago -- b. 9/6/76 --- b. Bronx, NY moved to Lefrak City, Queens, NYcheck all my reviews
nice mixtape from N.O.R.E. - After being relatively quiet and really not dropping anything special since the CNN Reunion album (I think Gods Favorite only deserved 3.5 stars) and after his B-S Raggaeton album, N.O.R.E. finally makes a step in the right direction. Since his One Fan A Day album was hit with numerous pushbacks and may never see the light of day, he released this which has a few tracks from that album. With 12 tracks and 13 songs (# 2 is 2 songs), it s ratehr short at just over 38 minutes, but you get 2 almost classics, 5 good songs, 3 ok songs, and 3 that are borderline ok/pretty good. Guests are on 8 of the 13 songs and are mostly the normals from his camp. Production is great on some songs and average at best on others. Scram Jones does 3 songs, DJ Cut Throat, Midi Mafia, Heatmakerz all do 2 songs, EZ Elpee, Kyze, Vin teh Chin and Militainment all do 1 song. A nice album for his fans to grab.#1 - 7.5 (16 bars)#2 - 9.5 (f/ Nature, DWNLZY, Maze, Cardan, Musolini, Baby Sis -- great beat)#2 (2nd song) - 8.5 (Cuts From NORE)#3 - 9 (f/ Musolini, DWNLZY, Nature -- nice Journey sample used)#4 - 7.5 (f/ Nature -- they rap back & forth for a lil over a minute)#5 - 7.5 (f/ Nicole Wray)#6 - 9 (f/ Beanie Sigel -- deep song w/ nice beat)#7 - 9.5 (f/ Nature, Young Chris, Baby Sis, DWNLZY -- tight beat)#8 - 6 (f/ Final Chapter)#9 - 7#10 - 6 (f/ Musolini, Maze, DWNLZY)#11 - 8#12 - 8.5Victor Santiago -- b. 9/6/76 --- b. Bronx, NY moved to Lefrak City, Queens, NYcheck all my reviews