The Realness is the debut studio album by American rapper Cormega.

The Realness was re-released in 2007 with The True Meaning, Cormega's second album from 2002, in a double special-edition package.

Cormega rose to fame in the mid-90s as an original member of The Firm hip hop group, along with Nas, AZ and Foxy Brown, appearing on the song "Affirmative Action" from the Nas album It Was Written.

The album was eventually shelved, and Cormega was dropped from label, joining LandSpeed Records for his first official release.

[4] Matt Conaway of AllMusic stated that the album paints Cormega as "one of the most promising thug poets to emerge in quite sometime".