N.O.R.E: “He wanted to be off of everything.”īack in 1995, tensions between the West Coast and the East Coast were reaching violent levels. Reggie Osse: “He wanted to be off the hook too?” Prodigy Had a Verse Removed From “LA, LA” Record, Video Shot On Same Day 2Pac’s “Hit Em Up” Debuts Long story short, sometime in the mid-90’s Tragedy was running through the projects ripping down Wanted posters. According to Osse, Tragedy informed him that one time on the train platform a few people recognized him from the wanted poster and went to approach him. Tragedy just did not expect people to take them serious. Famed Hip Hop producer/rapper/manager Tragedy Khadafi knew of Capon and Noreaga’s infamous reputation with guns and decided to use it to spawn a grassroots promotional campaign. In today’s age of social media promotion, flyer promotion is somewhat of an antiquated means of promotion. Every three or four days people would hit me on the two-way pager like ‘Hey, I just pulled down your poster sign.” I’m like ‘Nah nigg* that’s for promotion.”- N.O.R.E
purchased his publishing back and the rest is Super Thug history. P.A.P.I even jokingly says around 1998 he wanted to fight Osse after the Queens rapper had reviewed the original 1996 contract and discovered all his publishing was gone. At the time, The Combat Jack Show‘s host Reggie Osse was a famous entertainment lawyer who had represented everyone from Jay-Z to Notorious B.I.G and a variety of others. In 1996, two 20-year-old former criminals formed a group called Capone-N-Noreaga and signed to Penalty Recordings.
The Combat Jack Show host, Reggie Osse Messed Up NORE’s First Recording Contractĭallas Penn: “So basically you signed away N.O.R.E.’s publishing?”
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