When people talk best sequels in Hip-Hop, it’s rare that Noreaga’s “Blood Money” trilogy comes up, and it’s a damn shame. Spread out throughout the better half of his career, N.O.R.E put a clever spin on each rendition of the crime saga.
With the crackling of the bleak piano on the opening of The War Report, the benchmark had been set. The first “Bloody Money” painted pictures of hustlin’ in hallways while pulling all-nighters on the streets across town. A stark contrast to the direction he took it on “Part 2,” where he enlisted Nas and Nature as their escapades of chasing dirty dinero took them overseas over more friendly, Hindi-inspired production.
Arguably the best of the series, “Blood Money Pt. 3″ saw a return to the grit that made the first one so riveting. If there was ever such a thing, this was winter music. The kind that made you drive with the windows down in the beginning of December, blaring it on repeat. It had a nostalgic value about it that was the perfect conclusion to a mini-legacy that made Nore’s catalog unique.
What happened to signature songs from rappers anyway? Noreaga got his. Dirty cash, hash, hunchbacks and all.
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What What
*lights a candle and runs laps around the English Channel*
paper trail anyone? i just heard them playing it on east village radio so it’s gotta be out.
I still can’t believe that Blood Money Pt.2 was done for Nore’s first album. I listened to the Cypha Sounds Penalty Mixtape and it was on there. Supposedly that came out before N.O.R.E. did so it blew my mind. I just remember flipping out when I saw it was on the Ride OST. Nore is second to none when he gets on that middle eastern sounding shit. Throw in Nature and Nas and you have a classic. I still don’t know what happened w/ Nature though. Dude was nasty.
dude look dead serious wen he said”do u take food stamps?”
brings bacc childhood memories
Bloody Money 3 was my shit! When those 1st chords hit as soon as the track comes on it still makes me jump! that shit would fuck you up if you inadvertently forgot you had the radio turned up from a previous song you was rockin’ too!
I loved the vid too! “you can order whatever you want just no pork” – nore
and I digged the lil’ dance ‘pone did and that RANDOM ass cameo’s i.e. Rev Run !?!? and LL (because this was during his hollywood ass In The House period).
p.s. I remember seeing those laker weapons ‘pone had on in the video and searching EVERYWHERE FOR EM’!!!
This is my SHIIIT! I got so amped when it comes on SMELL ME NIGGA!
DAAAAAMMMNNN I miss the 90′s!
^^GET
KWEENZ IN THE BUILDIN’ !!!
KWEENZ IN THE BUILDIN’ !!!
Hard. Although the production sounds “friendly” to me.
vernoooooooooooooon!
queens, akineyle, mobb deep and escobar, lost boyz, run dmc, pone and me
Yo I grown up in lefrak city, when blood money pt 3 hit it was an anthum u be bumpin it in your car riding down 99th st and hear it bunpin out the aptments all up and down the frak at the same time, classic trilogy when rap was still tril
This got a lot of love in California as well. When I had gotten my hands on this album, the blue album, I was ecstatic. I loved it, and I bumped this song endlessly, endlessly. we used to smoke big rolling down the way with this track banging out of the speakers in my old sweet ride.
For me, this was what what part 2, in the sense of the fresh shit that people turned their heads too. and I totally agree with the author about the winter music and other heads comments, because that is exactly how I used to mob my shit, rain or shine, winter or summer, bumping with my music up and windows down. FUCK YEAAAH. and shout outs to my old bitch too who I used to ride with. much love mami.