Cormega Biography

Cormega Biography

Born in Bedford Stuyvesant, Cormega grew up in theQueensbridge Housing Projects in Long Island City, Queens, forming childhood friendships with future rappers such as Nas, Mobb Deep, Nature and Capone-A-Noraga. Along with fellow QB-native Tragedy Khadafi, Cormega is perhaps most respected for his candid and often poignant rhymes which characterize inner-city living without ever seeming verbose. Despite never garnering the mainstream appeal of contemporaries such as Nas and Mobb Deep, he remains respected as an emcee's emcee who tells it as it is without glamourising the world of crime as many other emcee's are known to do. Cormega recorded an album as MC Cor with Marley Marl in the late 80's, due to being convicted of robbery in the second degree he ended up in jail and the album shelved. Later, he was brought to the hip-hop world's attention in 1989. He was featured on Hot Day's "Going Straight Up" from his album "It's My Turn". He was also featured on Blaq Poet & DJ Hot Day's track "Set It Off" from their album "Without Warning" in 1991.