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The War Report 2 |  | Artist: Capone-N-Noreaga
Label: Emi Distributed Label/Emi
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 8331
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
EAN: 5099964280226
ASIN: B003PIUCES
Release Date: July 13, 2010
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| • | Pain - Produced by Alchemist | | • | Bodega Stories Feat. The Lox - Produced by Scram Jones | | • | Dutches v Phillies v. Bamboo Feat. Raekwon - Produced by Scram Jones | | • | My Attribute - produced by Dreddy | | • | Favor for a Favor - Produced by BT | | • | Hoot Pride feat. Faith Evans - Produced by Neo the Matrix | | • | The Reserves Feat. Raekwon - Produced by the Bizness | | • | With me feat Nas - Produced by buckwild | | • | Live on Live Long Pt 2 - Produced by SPK | | • | The Oath Feat Raekwon, Busta Rhymes - Produced by Hazzardis Sounds | | • | Brother from Another - Produced by Kyze | | • | Thug Planet feat. Imma Thug. Musaliny - Produced by Heathcliff | | • | Scarface - Produced by Arab Muzik | | • | The Corner Feat Avery storm | | • | Obituary - Produced by Gree |
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Product Description
The Streets have demanded it and now it's finally here!! The long awaited and highly anticipated followup to their 1997 classic, "The War Report", Queens bred, Hip Hop Duo Capone and Noreaga bring you "The War Report 2". CNN Established themselves in the late 1990s as the voice of the streets, spitting gritty street corner commentary and giving the world a first hand look into the under belly of New York's ghettos. Now a decade plus later, they're back!
Album Description
Long awaited and highly anticipated follow-up to the Rap duo's 1997 classic The War Report. Capone -n-Noreaga established themselves in the late '90s as the voice of the streets. Now, they are back and offering the same true-to-life tales of struggle and victory. Features guest appearances from Faith Evans, Raekwon, Nas, The Lox and Busta Rhymes.
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 Back 2 the Future ! August 24, 2010
J. Combs (Indianapolis)
This is a great hiphop album that represents the 90's era well. Report the war or war report 2 whatever you wanna call it is one of the best albums out right now ! Only thing missing was a guest spot or two for tragedy khadafi. HIPHOP LIVES!!
 CNN On Channel 10 Live From Iraq 13 Years Still Reporting (Rating: 8 out of 10- -4.0 stars) August 21, 2010
Chandler (Atlanta (College Park), Georgia)
What can you say about Capone-N-Noreaga since 1997, aside from the fact they dropped the classic War Report? Sure Nore has been relevent since then (on a thin line though), and Capone has put out a few albums since his incarceration, and together they have released some since that point. Here in 2010, we have a sequel to the classic, but how can it live up to it's name without sounding outdated?
Well first of all, I have to give it to these two. They stepped up their rhymes up completely, especially Nore (we all thought he fell off). Here he and Capone take it back to the grimy lyrics like it was back in '97, only updated. Really starting from the beginning of the album "Pain". Production on the album is definitely on point too, not to mention. "Bodega Stories" featuring the Lox is definitely a standout. The album's concept follows closely to the first one, as each person takes you on a lyrical journey through the streets of NY. Further through the album is the catchy "My Attribute" as both CNN shine. "Hood Pride" featuring Faith Evans is another standout with great production. "Live On, Live Long 2" is a deep song dedicated to Tragedy Khdafi who is currently incarcerated (and he is greatly missed on this album). Further on is "Brother From Another" is a deep song between CNN as they look at eachother as like brothers from the day they were locked up together in the early 90's. The album's last song "The Obituary" is the one of the best as well as both dedicate to everybody, past and present, who are no longer with us.
CNN really stepped their game up on this one here. Lyrically are both on point, and this is the best I've heard from Noreaga since '98. Sure the album's concept lack originality as it follows their debut (at least Capone is not locked up this time), but the bottom line is that we have a great album from these two. I don't know if this is touching the classic first album, but it is a good contender. Definitely one of the best of 2010. Go pick this up. Peace.
Lyrics: A-
Production: A
Guest Appearances: B+
Musical Vibes: B+
Top 5 Tracks:
1. Bodega Stories (featuring The Lox)
2. The Obituary
3. My Attribute
4. Pain
5. Live On, Live Long 2
Wow August 3, 2010
Classiclou (TX, USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The album is 4 times better than I expected. They really bounced back from the Channel 10 album and put out some good work on this one. Keeping working hard and I can't wait for the next one. Go get the CD, support and hip hop! Downloading sucks!!
CNN drops a slammin Summer album, Capone N Nore are like Peanut Butter and Jelly! July 23, 2010
ED (Pennsylvania)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Great production.. that gritty, grimey, gutta NYC Queens sound we have been waiting for!! Dont even sleep on this album for a minute..buy it!! Give Capone and Nore some respect and BUY they album! Scrape together that $13 and go to the record store and buy it..dont just download it! Support the artists..heads be complaining there isnt any good hip hop coming out, only that radio 'Ish..Well you can change that buy buying CNN's new album!
Why isn't anyone reviewing this? July 21, 2010
iumak
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Capone and his partner Noreaga (More commonly known as N.O.R.E) are back with the long awaited sequel to their classic, late 90's debut, 'The War Report'. First, I want to say that it's unfair to compare this to The War Report considering the time period we live in, and how music has evolved since then. The original title for this album was 'Reporting the War' and I think I preferred that better because it gave this album "spiritual successor" status instead of it being a direct sort of follow up (I.e the Stillmatic to Illmatic and not OB4CL to OB4CL Part 2) that breeds high expectations. But the title is the title, and I'm not going to dwell on that, let's get into it.
Production is better then I expected it to be, and that's meaning all around good. Producer contributions range from The Alchemist who is no stranger to producing artist from Queens [Mobb Deep, Cormega Nas] to Scram Jones who provided tracks for the OB4L2 sequel, Buckwild, and a host of others. The beats range from really mellow and mysterious like "Dutch Masters vs. Phillies vs. Bamboo" to hardcore, head nodding, Timberland boot, kick you in your face type songs like, "Thug Planet". I was hoping they would have gotten DJ Premier for a 3rd CNN collaboration [First being 'The Invincible' then 'Grand Royale'], but I guess it didn't work out.
Guest features are prominent, but aren't enough to make you feel like they're too much. Well, maybe one feature feels like dead weight... I know CNN are in a partnership with Raekwon, but I thought he had too many verses on the album. Putting him on 3 tracks is a little much. Especially considering how one dimensional Rae's style/content can be. Other guests include Faith Evans, who we haven't heard from in a while, Busta Rhymes, The LOX, Avery Storm and other longtime CNN contributors such as Nas, Iman Thug and Musaliny. The song that features Nas sounds kind of old though, I have a feeling that it may not be a new Nas verse, but the world has never heard it before, so I guess it's okay.
Lyrically both Capone and Nore have matured but it's sad to see how Noreaga doesn't rap in his signature style anymore. I thought he would have brought it back for this album, but no dice. He's still capable, lyrically, but it would have been nice to hear him rap that way again, if only for just one more album.
If I had to rank this in CNN's discography I would probably put it 3rd after 'The Reunion' album, but it's a VERY close 3rd mind you. The best album being the original War Report and their last effort, Channel 10 in 4th.
If you're like me and you loved the first War Report you should appreciate this, but again try to go into it not looking for a direct sequel (even though it is one). You may be disipointed if you want a revision of the 90's, so it's best to look at this as it's own entity or if you want, "The Stillmatic to CNN's Illmatic". Iumak gives this album a 8.5/10
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