N.O.R.E. at Transit Lounge February 19

For those street-heads whose chronic-sucking, crip-walking heyday is 15 years behind them, Queens-born Puerto Rican rapper Victor Santiago Jr. will forever be known as Noreaga.

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Transit Lounge

729 SW First Ave.
Miami, FL 33130

Category: Closed

Region: Central Dade

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With Mayday!, Quest, Rich Kid Soundsystem, Ketchy Shuby, and DJ Entice. 9 p.m. Saturday, February 19, at Transit Lounge, 729 SW First Ave., Miami; 305-377-4628; transitlounge.us. Admission is free. Ages 21 and up.

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• Victor Santiago
• Kiam Akasi Halley
• N.O.R.E. (Rapper)
• The Neptunes
• Capone-N-Noreaga

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Partnered up with fellow New York City product Kiam Akasi Halley (AKA Capone), Santiago co-owned the East Coast rap game for a solid minute in the late '90s. After meeting in prison, the pair began writing rhymes together and then hyphenated their names to officially form Capone-N-Noreaga, signing to Tommy Boy Records and releasing the classic 1996 call-to-arms War Report. But then criminal charges, jail time, and label troubles killed the tag team's momentum. And by '98, Halley was back in the pen while Santiago had taken a new nom de guerre and launched his solo career with the eponymous record N.O.R.E.

During the last decade, there have been some strange detours: Santiago dabbled with reggaeton for a few years, moved from New York City to Miami, and got busted by cops at Fatburger in South Beach. But still, he scored a couple of chart-crushers such as the Neptunes-produced party track "Nothin." And now it seems he's deep into that old groove again, reuniting with Capone for last year's War Report 2.

There's even a rap-world rumor he's going to go back to calling himself Noreaga. Keep dreaming, street-heads.