No homo but Tragedy looks good after all these year man. Like he survived the 80's and still look fresh. Salute to dude. Was always my fav dude out of the CNN camp.
i always talked about how there are lots of artists who could do this and the fans will go crazy, it helps with promotion. I hope more start doing this, so far Jeezy, Norega and Tragedy is all i have seen.
Y'all don't know about Trag because he stayed independent and didn't go mainstream! He stayed street!!! He's the general outta Qb. He paved the way for Nas and Etc
His father Percy Jr. my older brother..he never met..I remember when my older brother met his mother Denise, on the corner of 107th and 156th street..his father was one of the top ball players in Queens, he played for Springfield High...his first cousins David/Dennis Coles, Ghostface from Wu-tan..Ghostface father and trad..father was first cousins...they were very close when they were young...
T.M. (Message to Killa Black) Lyrics "What price are you talking about, sir?" Malcolm X: "The price of freedom is death" Yo Only one sperm cell survives out of millions Hustlers strive, the trades we learn by the buildings In Hell's Kitchen - projects burn the children Some get locked, lay in a box with no feeling On my back staring at the ceiling, through dealing Sweat dripping, hands together, my knees kneeling Where was God when my pops fell to his death bleeding? Was he trapped like Martin in his last cry for freedom? And when I die, will my soul ride 'til I see him? Never thought that I'd be overseas with Koreans Rockin' a vest, pushin' bulletproof Europeans In hot wheels - spit shit the crowd could feel Spendin' chips on Halal meals, ripping foul steel While snakes come behind me to lace my spine Say grace and at the same time, embrace my nine We ball like ghetto children in life tournaments Lusting for platinum chains and ice ornaments I strive for what I live for - cut from an iller cloth Plot like Hyman Roth in a loft Stack chips before the new millennium curse U-N-I-Verse, we true and living heirs to the universe Rep' the 41st 'til my heart burst Ready to die - 'til we seen Biggie ride in a hearse Yo, your comrades moving like wolves in sheep's clothing Friends are foes - hanging niggas cause they holding
[Hook] If you can't hold on, hang on - we can make it Whatever they don't give us in this life, we can take it Joy and pain - through the sunshine and rain As the world turns, life remains the same We escaped through the flames in this game we bled Pour some liquor on the ground - God bless the dead To my niggas still living, yo - hold your head To my niggas still living, yo - hold your head Yo, yo, yo I blow shots from a drop rover 'til the world's over Seeing Jehovah through the eyes of a young soldier Black Moses - literature in pure dosage From a landscape of Kuwait - Jakes and vultures Too many of us lose focus Due to the fact that we're all just a bunch of soldiers Foul cultures Funny how the streets mold us Allah told us - in the cages where they hold us, it's much colder Hear the pain through my words as I [?] in song See, the world's rotten like the veins in my father's arm Used to be a follower of Islam - niggas is sheist' Study my life - living in these days is trife Heaven and Hell, a thin line between paradise Rather than lose, some choose to take they own life Said a prayer for him, hoping that his soul was blessed Cause my hands couldn't cover all the holes in his chest What they do? Turn around and blame me for his death I'm like Malcolm X resurrected in a Lex', holding two tecs Holograms in the headrest, yo Shoulda knew what love is, before he learned what a thug is Now we leave the seeds to be raised by their mothers I've seen the 'hood raise brothers Kill too many of us A thin line between the freedom and the foul judges In the streets, where them snake niggas hold grudges [Hook] You might also like What Makes You Think Tragedy Khadafi Rolling 110 Deep DJ Kay Slay K-POP Travis Scott, Bad Bunny & The Weeknd Embed About Have the inside scoop on this song? Sign up and drop some knowledge Start the song bio Ask us a question about this song Ask a question * Who produced “T.M. (Message to Killa Black)” by Tragedy Khadafi? When did Tragedy Khadafi release “T.M. (Message to Killa Black)”? Who wrote “T.M. (Message to Killa Black)” by Tragedy Khadafi? Against All Odds (2001) Tragedy Khadafi 2. Against All Odds 3. Crime Nationalist 4. Lift Ya Glass 6. Bing Monsters 7. Live by the Gun 8. They Forced My Hand 9. Permanently Scarred (I Don’t Wanna Wait) 12. Blood Type 13. What Makes You Think 16. T.M. (Message to Killa Black) 18. In the Memory of (Missing Lyrics) Credits Produced By Nashiem Myrick Written By Tragedy Khadafi Release Date June 5, 2001 Tags Rap Comments Add a comment Get the conversation started Be the first to comment Sign Up And Drop Knowledge 🤓 Genius is the ultimate source of music knowledge, created by scholars like you who share facts and insight about the songs and artists they love. Sign Up
Salute my G tragedy for blessing us with a video to this timeless classic... Against all odds album stays in rotation in my whip one of my favorite albums...RIP Killa Black .... Free my Nigga Abe (BillyBagdat) Ahmed... QUEENS N.Y. Stand the Fuck up
Not to take away from the artist or ur much appreciated input but the song is not new but the video is! Might be that underground jam that (prior to this post) may have never had an official video.
+Kare Bear no doubt fam...i had made that comment on the video where he interviewed Trag about him and ghost being cousins and three days later i see this thats why i said what i said...great minds think alike cuz i always wanted a visual to such a powerful song...
this is y i love u bro...u drop so many jewels i'm sure fools'll never get,so many songs but this is one of your best...love lil dauzi/ lowa east...peace
It's crazy how u really will rap as ur environment dictates. The Queenbridge flow has n will only b mastered by its natives. A staple n hiphop to say the least. Good to c Tradgedy preserve himself n stick to his craft. This was real refreshing. Good shit Doggie...
see this classic shit no matter how old the trax is..this shit timeless..Trag pen is untouchable
factz -God✒
Real Talk my n**! Those Lyrics are certified crack!
No Doubt!!! - fatherama (hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!)
Man I wish incarceration didn’t kill his stardom. Every time he was gonna blow he got wrapped up. One of the most underrated emcees to touch a mic 🎙
🔥🔥🔥
On God
Peace to the God , msg to the president been aura check 25 since 02
Word is bond. Cats didn't get to see his evolution from Intelligent Hoodlum to Tragedy Khadafi mfers never got to see that.
Factz
Still listening in 2023! Real RAP
This been on repeat for 20 years n my EARS🔥🎶🎤
RIP killer black. ...mobb deep for life...tragedy that was timeless. ...
The Intelligent Hoodlum . One of my favorite emcees of all time . He could hold that Mic with any one
He could pac big anybody against all odds prob fav album ever
No homo but Tragedy looks good after all these year man. Like he survived the 80's and still look fresh. Salute to dude. Was always my fav dude out of the CNN camp.
Its so dope how you re-hash old records that never had a video. Salute
i always talked about how there are lots of artists who could do this and the fans will go crazy, it helps with promotion. I hope more start doing this, so far Jeezy, Norega and Tragedy is all i have seen.
Smokeout Atlanta
IT will be amazing. Doggie Diamonds if you're reading this...please find OC and do "Word....Life"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One of the best MC’s for sure ✔️🔥 always on heavy beats too as a standard ✔️🙌🏻
If u are here.... you are a true hip hop head and you experienced the best time to be a fan of this genre! Today’s hip hop and rap is garbage
I understand some of today's rap... but stuff like this is way more POTENT in my opinion.
💯
Y'all don't know about Trag because he stayed independent and didn't go mainstream! He stayed street!!! He's the general outta Qb. He paved the way for Nas and Etc
Respect my G. Truth be told.
classic track Trag one the most underrated MC's ever
Dope...He was always a true MC.Peace and Black Power.
Only 60k views?.. my man is spittin that realness. "They forced my hand" with Cormega is one of my favorites too.
killa black.... havoc of mobb deep brother
No flawed bars....this touches the soul ...
If u kno u kno
After studying Tragedy and Nas styles since 1995 I came to the conclusion Tragedy is the illest M.C outta Queens period.
One of the illest, no doubt. Kool G Rap too.
Percy...Chapman..Percy Coles...Denise..this is Family from Jamaica Queens..My Older brother son...he looks exactly like his Father..Percy Jr..miss
His father Percy Jr. my older brother..he never met..I remember when my older brother met his mother Denise, on the corner of 107th and 156th street..his father was one of the top ball players in Queens, he played for Springfield High...his first cousins David/Dennis Coles, Ghostface from Wu-tan..Ghostface father and trad..father was first cousins...they were very close when they were young...
homie still got it allot of old school dudes never evolve but this song is 🔥 just like his music in the 90's, glad to c him back.
This is old yo.
+HyborianAge smh
bulletsandcaskets45 I don't mean in the negative sense. It's just that I think he thinks this is new.
That sample is classic.
STREET CLASSIC ! R.I.P KILLA BLACK * R.I.P PRODIGY = HOLD YA HEAD HAV !!! QB DA ILLEST TRAG A LEGEND !!!
one of the best tracks from Trag... peace from Staten Island.
Peace to the God! This joint is nice.
Tragedy been nice since being a young pup rocking with the Juice Crew...a lot of cats are just now catching on...🔥🔥🔥
Tragedy Khadafi is underrated and dope
✊Salute A Vet💯
HARD!!! Salute Foul Mahdi
Should have knew Love is..before we learned what Thug is.
Now we leave our seeds, to be raised my they mothers. DEEP 🔥
This man is so underrated..
Flawless lyricism
like how he chopped up and added on to that verse from "calm down"..that was ill...and he found the fountain of youth😄✌
I was 10 when this Released
Now im 30.
Hey legend.
Underrated.
TRIBVTES FROM GERMANY.
T.M. (Message to Killa Black) Lyrics
"What price are you talking about, sir?"
Malcolm X: "The price of freedom is death"
Yo
Only one sperm cell survives out of millions
Hustlers strive, the trades we learn by the buildings
In Hell's Kitchen - projects burn the children
Some get locked, lay in a box with no feeling
On my back staring at the ceiling, through dealing
Sweat dripping, hands together, my knees kneeling
Where was God when my pops fell to his death bleeding?
Was he trapped like Martin in his last cry for freedom?
And when I die, will my soul ride 'til I see him?
Never thought that I'd be overseas with Koreans
Rockin' a vest, pushin' bulletproof Europeans
In hot wheels - spit shit the crowd could feel
Spendin' chips on Halal meals, ripping foul steel
While snakes come behind me to lace my spine
Say grace and at the same time, embrace my nine
We ball like ghetto children in life tournaments
Lusting for platinum chains and ice ornaments
I strive for what I live for - cut from an iller cloth
Plot like Hyman Roth in a loft
Stack chips before the new millennium curse
U-N-I-Verse, we true and living heirs to the universe
Rep' the 41st 'til my heart burst
Ready to die - 'til we seen Biggie ride in a hearse
Yo, your comrades moving like wolves in sheep's clothing
Friends are foes - hanging niggas cause they holding
[Hook]
If you can't hold on, hang on - we can make it
Whatever they don't give us in this life, we can take it
Joy and pain - through the sunshine and rain
As the world turns, life remains the same
We escaped through the flames in this game we bled
Pour some liquor on the ground - God bless the dead
To my niggas still living, yo - hold your head
To my niggas still living, yo - hold your head
Yo, yo, yo
I blow shots from a drop rover 'til the world's over
Seeing Jehovah through the eyes of a young soldier
Black Moses - literature in pure dosage
From a landscape of Kuwait - Jakes and vultures
Too many of us lose focus
Due to the fact that we're all just a bunch of soldiers
Foul cultures
Funny how the streets mold us
Allah told us - in the cages where they hold us, it's much colder
Hear the pain through my words as I [?] in song
See, the world's rotten like the veins in my father's arm
Used to be a follower of Islam - niggas is sheist'
Study my life - living in these days is trife
Heaven and Hell, a thin line between paradise
Rather than lose, some choose to take they own life
Said a prayer for him, hoping that his soul was blessed
Cause my hands couldn't cover all the holes in his chest
What they do? Turn around and blame me for his death
I'm like Malcolm X resurrected in a Lex', holding two tecs
Holograms in the headrest, yo
Shoulda knew what love is, before he learned what a thug is
Now we leave the seeds to be raised by their mothers
I've seen the 'hood raise brothers
Kill too many of us
A thin line between the freedom and the foul judges
In the streets, where them snake niggas hold grudges
[Hook]
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Against All Odds (2001)
Tragedy Khadafi
2.
Against All Odds
3.
Crime Nationalist
4.
Lift Ya Glass
6.
Bing Monsters
7.
Live by the Gun
8.
They Forced My Hand
9.
Permanently Scarred (I Don’t Wanna Wait)
12.
Blood Type
13.
What Makes You Think
16.
T.M. (Message to Killa Black)
18.
In the Memory of (Missing Lyrics)
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June 5, 2001
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Salute my G tragedy for blessing us with a video to this timeless classic... Against all odds album stays in rotation in my whip one of my favorite albums...RIP Killa Black .... Free my Nigga Abe (BillyBagdat) Ahmed... QUEENS N.Y. Stand the Fuck up
This Style is still the Fav...
Salute to Doggie for uploading this my shit
salute
a real legend,the 7 Gems album with Tragic Allies was sick
IN My top 5 of all Time... Durham North Carolina in the building ...Strapz... 👊🏿🔥💯
Everytime i hear Trag spit I get that 90's feel. This man should be as big as Nas. Still one of the illest out! Peace King!✌🏿
Definitely bro
PEACE TO TRAGEDY...SALUTE!!!
That 2nd verse one the realest ever Trag is slept on badly he been killing shit forever
He wrote that in the 90's, it's from Calm Down feat Nas and Noreaga !
Probably DD;s best video. And Tradg still No#1 from QB
Queens bridge GOD FATHER !!!
That beat is insane tho sheesh
Aura!!! Peace God!!!
Wow literally like listening to prodigy. RIP P.
Tragedy the intelligent hoodlum has always been a fav since i wanna say 89 around that time very underrated for many tracks n longevity peace
1990, is when he started recording.
@@abrahamsmith4248 tnx.. I just took a guess with 89. Was a youngn bag then
He brought the 90's Queensbridge era on,that LA LA verse is sick though
SPIT DEM BARZ BOY. SO OFFICIAL GOD!
classic barz
THE MESSIAH!!! another RAP GOD
Straight up Pyrex big up Tragedy the live motivator
one of the hardest songs ever Point Blank....
WILL SOMEONE POST THIS TO WORLDSTAR!!!
da raw shit...wake up people
under rated rap legend
Goosebumps ! Real as it gets
Rip killa black
Throwback helped get me through my manhood
Real hip hop
I see my comment was seen and acknowledged...salute doggy
Not to take away from the artist or ur much appreciated input but the song is not new but the video is! Might be that underground jam that (prior to this post) may have never had an official video.
sry bro wrong person to reply this to, it was the brother wit post beneath yours
+Kare Bear no doubt fam...i had made that comment on the video where he interviewed Trag about him and ghost being cousins and three days later i see this thats why i said what i said...great minds think alike cuz i always wanted a visual to such a powerful song...
+yungadizzle Salute God!
the realest out the juice crew
QUEENS BRIDGE 🗽🗽
This is one of my all time favorites man. This is massively underrated!
reminds me of home in far rock getting money while we was getting dusted in the back way in the building in 8414 in 1997 this is fire
Can we get a Big Daddy Kane - Set It Off video and Slick Rick - The Rulers Back video.
Legend.
The song is older
True hip-hop headz
From the beginning to the end
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Bout this this got released.
ONE OF THE GOATS
S/O T.K. & to my dude Doggie & the others that made this project to be shared!
He should be up there with Krs1, B.DaddyKane, Kool.G.Rap... Rakim is another level.
you are about az relevant+ as y/our comment backdated 14 - 17 years adjusted az required******
He will always be.. to me
my respects, sick flow. true wisdom
Half-A-Mill,Big.L,Tragedy Khadafi,Ransom,JadaKiss,and StylesP,Bandanna P top 7
Hector..peace king....i love that list ima interject all the way from Cleveland and add one...Black THOUGHT 👊🏿🎶🎧🎤 and yea i can count lol peace bro
Absolutely love u got Ran n ya shit...sometimes i wish mfs could HEAR FEEL ME🤣✌🏾👊🏿
U fuk wit Roc Marciano😥
YO! he said "I used to be a follower of Islam" Tragedy moved on to a higher level. my ninja.
this is y i love u bro...u drop so many jewels i'm sure fools'll never get,so many songs but this is one of your best...love lil dauzi/ lowa east...peace
DOPE !!! SALUTE DA FOUL MAHKDI !!!
Big respect from Paris
He's spitting some real knowledge on this, and you can tell him and ghostface are cousins
@Adam Gordon Thanks for the Hip Hop Lesson fam never knew that! But see it now clearly.💯😎👍🏼
GHOST IS NOT HIS COUSIN
@@mikelasso5114: Ghostface IS his cousin, and if you don’t believe me go watch Trag’s interview with Doggie Diamonds 💯
nice to hear that 2nd verse again Trag .. Bang!! QBs Finest
Queenbridge finest 41st side Tragedy 25 to life...
Queensbridge legend
Some of the realist shit ever written....
FAVORITE QB RAPPER 4 REAL.......
QB!!
Real talk
This track is str8 fire..
I'd say like 95% of Tragedy beats are 🔥he went on a crazy run in the early -mid 2000's and put out like 4 - 5 albums. All crazy.
Facts
yaah!
blessed be the pure in heart!!!
keep the flame going fam one!!!!!
It's crazy how u really will rap as ur environment dictates. The Queenbridge flow has n will only b mastered by its natives. A staple n hiphop to say the least. Good to c Tradgedy preserve himself n stick to his craft. This was real refreshing. Good shit Doggie...
HIP-HOP 🔥🔥🔥
Do a video with AZ. Bring back all the classics.
CLASSIC SUPREME MAGNIFICENT ACTUALLY TRACK
We need a T.o.n.y. 2
Salute the g.. 3rd verse of tragedy khadafi in memory of, he breaks it down.. Also in nas 1st interview ever.. There's footage of killa black
Big Hip Hop a gwan.
Always speaking that real talk,that pain and truth
Diamond in tha rough..
Tragedy and cormega do album together would be dope
Cain Abel Nas and AZ album would be nice too. But so much time has passed. I doubt that will ever happen.
Salute.
Tragedy Khadafi x Dead Monarchs - Tabula Rasa album from last year is classic it got no promotion or physical release
Fuego.