Blood Ballads

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Blood Ballads
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Compilation album by
ReleasedApril 17, 2006
Genre East Coast hip hop
Label Nocturne Records/25 To Life Entertainment
Tragedy Khadafi chronology
Q.U. Soldier
(2005)
Blood Ballads
(2006)
Thug Matrix 2
(2006)

Blood Ballads is a double CD album by the New York City rapper Tragedy Khadafi, released in 2006 on Nocturne Records. [1]

Percy Chapman, known by his stage name Tragedy Khadafi, is an American rapper and record producer. Chapman hails from the Queensbridge Housing Projects in Queens, New York, who helped spawn other hip hop artists such as Cormega, Mobb Deep, Capone-N-Noreaga, Nas and many others both through production and influence. His name is a reference to the former leader of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi.

Nocturne Records was an American jazz record company and label founded in 1954 by Roy Harte, a drummer, and Harry Babasin, a bassist. Based in Hollywood, California, Nocturne concentrated on West Coast jazz.

Contents

Track listing

Disc 1

  1. Kay Slay Intro
  2. You Can Find Me
  3. American Me
  4. Blinded By Science (featuring Havoc)
  5. Phone Time
  6. Ghetto Med (featuring Nature)
  7. Don't Shit Where You Eat (featuring Immaculate Millz)
  8. It's The Funk (featuring Havoc, Large Professor)
  9. The Hit
  10. Dollar Signs (featuring F.T., Jane Doe, Royal Flush)
  11. Real Live Freestyle (featuring K-Def, Larry-O)
  12. Soledad Brothers (featuring Castro, Shinnobi)
  13. Non-Pulp Fiction (featuring Headrush Napoleon, Killa Sha)
  14. Three The Hard Way
  15. Stretch Armstrong (Freestyle Part 1) (featuring Littles)
  16. Stretch Armstrong (Freestyle Part 2) (featuring Littles)

Disc 2

  1. Thug Paradise
  2. Hood Wars (featuring Headrush Napoleon, Rasco)
  3. Halfway Thug (featuring Havoc)
  4. What Makes You Think (featuring Killa Sha, MilkMurda)
  5. Bling Monstas (featuring Blackchild, Headrush Napoleon)
  6. Street Life (featuring V-12)
  7. 16
  8. Live Motivator
  9. Bloody Murder (Inside My Head) (featuring Black Thought, Chuck D, Pharoahe Monch)
  10. Usual Suspects (featuring DMX, Ja Rule, Mic Geronimo, Styles P)
  11. Doowop (Freestyle)
  12. Get It Together (featuring Solomon)
  13. Kay Slay Freestyle
  14. Ape Something (featuring Killa Sha, Littles, Pretty Ugly)
  15. We Gonna Take It There (featuring Ava Dinero)

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