Customer Reviews

Pain Time & Glory

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Queen's rapper Capone (AKA Kiam Holley) debut solo album is "Pain, Time and Glory" (2005). It's been over eight years since the duo of Capone-N-Noreaga (CNN) made their entrance in the rap game with "The War Report". Noreaga got three solo albums out, while Capone has spent a lot of time behind bars. The two reunited for a second album, and Capone has dropped some heat while doing guest appearances & mixtapes over the years. After making his intro, Capone starts things off with "What's My Name" (Soldier's Story). Capone talks to his love on the heartfelt "All 4 U". The first real standout on this album for me though is ""No Where To Run", Capone and Scarface combine for a deadly not to be missed collaboration. Capone reflects on tracks like "It's Been A Long Time" the deep "Ill Die For Mine" feat. Complexion and "Miss My Dogs". The first real banger that I am feeling is "Streets Favorite", Capone rhymes with hunger and delivers another memorable track. My favorite track is the album's closer, Capone shines while dropping some very on point rhymes on "Faith In The Streets". While there are a number of standouts on this album, there are also some let downs, production and guest appearances on a number of tracks are simply not up to par. I would of loved to see Capone include some of his outstanding material like "Throwback", "Lost Soldiers" and "Look at My Life" on this album. At same time I am happy to see that he got "Pain, Time and Glory" out, that in itself was a major accomplishment.

For starters I must say it's closer to 5 stars then 4, and should have given it a 5 star rating not the 4. After 5 years plus of push back dates Capone finally releases his solo debut album. Not as good, but very close to, the Capone-N-Noraga albums, but on about equal or slightly better then Nore's 1st 2 solo joints & much better then his 3rd. Finally after the long wait Capone gets his solo out to the streets, and it is a good albuim. Packed with 17 new songs (1 I have heard before), 3 are almost classic material (bit ablut 4 or 5 are very close as well), 2 are ok, 1 I skip, and the other 11 are good or great songs. Guests are on 7 songs, and rap on 5, so you get a lot of Capone on hear. Sadly enough no Nore or the Millitainment crew is on here, but some good guests, and alot of them are from the south. He introduces his crew, Da Block Militia, on this one on a solid song. Production is good. Heatmakerz & Screwface Music Corp each do 4 songs, SPK, & Frank Nitti each do 2, Dulo Z, DJ Twinz, Reefa, Karado & Roots, DJ Absolut & Frado all do 1 song. A good album to have for his fans or fans of QB rap.

#2 - 8.5 (short but solid intro)
#3 - 8.5
#4 - 7.5 (f/ C-Murder & Bun B of UGK)
#5 - 7.5
#6 - 8 (good story)
#7 - 8 (f/ Scarface -- about their hoods)
#9 - 9.5 (f/ Raydon Coleman)
#10 - 9 (great dirty song --- f/ Devin the Dude & Butch Cassidy)
#11 - 9 (f/ Da Block Milita)
#12 - 9 (f/ Complexsion)
#13 - 9 (about your Do's & Dont's)
#14 - 9.5 (f/ Meckey Memphiz Wright)
#15 - 9 (deeper song)
#17 - 9 (also on "Code of the Streets" compilation)
#18 - 9.5 (f/ Raekwon)
#19 - 5.5 (the only 1 I skip on here)
#20 - 9 (another deep song)

Kiam Holley -- b. 2/8/76 -- Queensbridge, NY
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I like the group of cnn they r great rappers and their debut was a classic which u should also buy. This album is really good and should be in anyones collection. Like every song on here and he really took his time to write the lyrics and it shows. I recommend that u buy this album it is very good and hopefully he can come out with some more albums. That is all i got to say and again buy this support good rap.

This is a really good album from Capone. With all the commercial stuff coming out of NY lately it's nice to see that Capone hasn't followed suit. It's pure uncommercialized gangsta rap for the streets. It's most certainly one of the year's best albums. Great writting although the beats could have been better, but the production is still pretty good.

This is his first solo album and nearly every songs are already classics and the others are good songs.
This is a must have in your cd collection.

I dont have a account but i will get one. Anyways this album is a banger u should own this if u call yourself a rap fan cause this is hot. My favorite song is with Scarface on Nowhere To Run these guys bring the heat on this song and this album is worth it for that song not that all the other songs r bad they r all good and banging. I am glad he finally got his debut out cause i have been waiting a long time and i am pleased with this and i recommend that u buy and support this guy cause he deserves it. Buy u will not be disappointed.

[...]Anyways dont listen to that f*ggot buy the album it is very good and worth a listen and it u a true fan then buy this and if u not then buy this anyway cause it is worth the money. The reason it took him so long to come out with this is because he was in jail. He is way better than 85 percent of the rappers that r out today so hurry up and buy this u wont be disappointed with this purchase that is all i got to say Peace