National Anthem is the debut album by North Carolina

North Carolina

North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...

 hip hop

Hip hop

Hip hop is a form of musical expression and artistic culture that originated in African-American and Latino communities during the 1970s in New York City, specifically the Bronx. DJ Afrika Bambaataa outlined the four pillars of hip hop culture: MCing, DJing, breaking and graffiti writing...

 duo The Away Team

The Away Team (group)

The Away Team is a hip hop duo consisting of MC Sean Boog and producer Khrysis, both of whom are members of the North Carolina rap collective the Justus League.-History:...

, released on 6-Hole Records in 2005. The album features guest appearances from Joe Scudda, Chaundon

Chaundon

Chaundon is an American hip hop artist from, South Bronx, New York City, who is part of Little Brother's Justus League collective. In 2008 he released his debut album "Carnage" and since has become an internet sensation with his website and his independent music show , as well as his internet blog...

, Smif-n-Wessun

Smif-N-Wessun

Smif-n-Wessun is a hip hop duo consisting of members Tek and Steele . Smif-n-Wessun comprise two-fifths of the Brownsville, Brooklyn supergroup Boot Camp Clik, with Buckshot, Heltah Skeltah and O.G.C...

, and Little Brother's Big Pooh and Phonte

Phonte

Phonte Coleman, better known as Phonte, is a Grammy nominated American rapper, formerly of the now defunct North Carolina trio Little Brother and one-half of the duo The Foreign Exchange. He has also recorded R&B-flavored output as a singer...

. It was described by ALARM

Alarm magazine

Alarm is a quarterly magazine based in Chicago, IL, USA that publishes "Music and Art Beyond Comparison." It covers emerging and mid-career musicians and artists with a focus on independent, underground, or otherwise non-mainstream music and art...

magazine as "a combination of consistent rhymes and better stellar production".

Release history

The album was originally issued in 2005 on 6-Hole Records. It was later issued as part of the National Mayhem Justus League

Justus League

The Justus League is a rap collective from North Carolina, that includes L.E.G.A.C.Y., The Away Team, Darien Brockington, Little Brother, Edgar Allen Floe, Median, Chaundon, Cesar Comanche, 9th Wonder, Buckshot, Sean Price, Skyzoo and Joe Scudda....

box set.

Tracklisting

1. And Now Folks...
2. The Competition
3. Likka Hi (Last Call)
4. The Shining
5. Come on Down (featuring Smif-n-Wessun)
6. The Blah Blah
7. So If I Tells The Bitch Right...
8. Fuck You
9. Let Off a Round
10. Me and My Fellows...
11. Make It Hot (featuring Phonte and Joe Scudda)
12. The End of the Day
13. UpNAtem
14. One-N-Only (featuring Percy Miracles)
15. Always Be Around
16. On The Line (featuring Joe Scudda, Chaundon, and Rapper Big Pooh)
17. Caution
18. Lights Out