Roc Marciano - Marciology REACTION/REVIEW 

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Lmao ay you the goat for this one ✊🏾😂

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nah that comment is special, dawg!

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Hahah salute bro!! Really appreciate the love. I gotta get back consistent with the drops but I appreciate yall holding it down 🙏🏾

that's on gang 💯

Preciate the love dawg!! Had to pop out for Roc!

Salute!! Preciate you tapping in! Roc fasho one of the rappers I drop everything to react to. I honestly don’t really even have a huge bias about reacting to underground vs mainstream - I just like breaking down actual lyricism and underground guys run laps around mainstream cats lyrically and probably always will. We get exception with cats like JID and 2010s era Kendrick but I follow the lyricists lol.

@@BSideRapReviews Yeah i Agree, ever since i turned 19 years old i preffered the underground scene rather than trap music due to the interesting production and lyricism, Which lead me to check out oldschool hip hop like prodigy (rip) jay zs older albums biggie, big L and so on. And boom bap and drumless hiphop i feel like holds more art with the lyricism and the better production, just more substance overall rather than the mainstream with the exception of JID and kendrick as u said.

I feel you dawg! Roc got one of the best discogs in modern rap. I mean I lowkey hate Kaos lol but almost everything else is awesome…even joints that don’t really get a ton of love like behold a dark horse. Mt Marci 2.0 is accurate af!! Both albums have had some of my fav Roc production…I love him going down this more experimental route. I haven’t been the biggest fan of roc’s production…and I feel like he carries the production a lot…but mt Marci and this have joints that I would like even if the rapping was average. Facts! Off only 1 complete listen, my initial impression is that the rapping on this is more consistently better, but he has higher highs and standout moments on elephant man’s bones. And I do have elephant man’s both as slightly better off first listen. You’re talking about on Album of the year . Org right? Can you link me to your review? I couldn’t find it

@@BSideRapReviews He definitely does! I like Kaos but I understand that people may not be a huge fan of it. The Shit I’m on is a classic song though. What did you think of the production on RR2? I think that’s my favourite Roc Marci album.

Lmaooo roc single tryna singlehandedly make sure we keep pimping in rap 😂😂😂 Preciate you tapping in dawg!!

Same cadence as MF Doom.

Yezzir! Back and hopefully getting more consistent drops soon. Salute bro!!! 💪🏾

lol roc Marci I gotta drop what I’m doing tonight to react…if I gotta risk getting fired and neglect my son for a few hours - I gotta do what I gotta do 😭😭😭

Yo facts!! I heard Roc supposed to be on Mach’s album that’s dropping soon so that’s bout to be tuff af. I’ll say, bar for bar I gotta give it to Mach. I do gotta say tho, Roc’s most recent projects….say in the last 5 years….are better than Mach’s. But bar for bar they both aliens but Mach is slightly more absurd lol

​@@BSideRapReviewsMach dropping soon? Where you know that from cause im tryna get updates on mach but that dude living in batcave or something

@@RXKDonhe had a listening party for Rich Ass Haitian at the Aimé Leon Dore story in NY within the last month or so. It’s coming! Question is whether it’ll be on streaming day-one or an obscenely high price on his website first.

@@RXKDonhe had a listening party at the Aimé Leon Dore store in NY in the last month or so, so it’s coming.

@@BSideRapReviewsI got Marci up on the mic because the humor is unmatched BUT Mach IS a legend. Roc’s albums have way more replay value though

I’m with you on that! My first time hearing him was behold a dark horse cus it came out in 2018 as I was just getting back plugged into underground rap. His whole rap style of extremely intricate rhyme schemes with high level punching was insane to me. I had heard his name floating around before that as one of the best and it only took one or 2 songs for Me to see why. Been a huge fan ever since

Man I ain’t been consistent as I want but when roc drop, I gotta drop everything lol! Salute ✊🏾

Yezzir!! Ima get back consistent I promise lol!

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Hahah ay I was really thinking last month if it was too late! The only issue is im OCD about getting my list and there’s a BUNCH that I haven’t heard esp stuff that dropped after I moved and got a new job last fall. I can give you a top 10 off the top of my head though… 1. JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown - Scaring the Hoes 2. Billy Woods& Kenny Segal - Maps 3. Elzhi - Heavy Vibrato 4. Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Test Strip’s 5. Skyzoo - The Mind of a Saint 6. Mick Jenkins - The Patience 7. Rome Streetz & Big Ghost Ltd - Wasn’t Built In A Day 8. Mickey Diamond & Sadhugold - Death Threats 9. Noname - Sundial 10. Mike - Burning Desire 11. Madlib, Meyhem Lauren & DJ Muggs - Champagne For Breakfast 12. Ransom - Director’s Cut Scene 4

@@BSideRapReviews love to see that MIKE placement fr… glad you still postin tho n hope alls well with the job my guy

I actually did at first but it got annoying after for me about a minute in! 😂 It might grow on me after a couple more listens lol

I’m fasho late on it but had to pop out to cover roc 🔥🔥🔥

Big ole facts but tbh I think he got lackluster beats on every projects lol. For this project, even with the misses, I was just glad that he was stepping out his comfort zone lol. But yeah I got this joint a notch behind elephant man’s bones. Man when crime turn it on, he’s INSANE. I think his only issue is he ain’t the most consistent rapper. But if he rap like this on all his joints, he’d be one of the best in the underground

Mickey Diamond currently on an insane run, his projects with Sadhugold, Camoflauge Monk and Big Ghost are all top tier, but you right, this new album is some of his best. By the time track 3 hit on that Super Shredder joint I knew was gon be spinnin the album for the rest of time

His projects are fire, but I just think he's dropping too much now. They are inspired projects but individual ones are now just much less memorable with similar themes and content

Tonight 🔥

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🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 Might be a whole week late but we here lol!

@@BSideRapReviews naah don't even worry dawg, we'll wait Ps: PENALTY OF LEADERSHIP if you got the chance 🤲

@@chidodivisible24agree i’m still sad he never got to that

You know ball!! Yeah I can make a great argument for a few others too like Billy woods, black thought, ransom, etc, but the other thing bout roc and Mach is their discogs are both awesome as well!

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What is about Kaos you didn't like, the production or the rapping? Was curious​@@BSideRapReviews

@@Figleaf-Bicarbonate both lol very questionable production choices - especially given how awesome muggs is and roc did his lyrical acrobatics but he had some very questionable lines and landmines which is extremely rare for him. I’d have to relisten to the album to give you specifics (which I honestly don’t want to do lmaoo). It’s prob not that bad on the grand scheme of things but compared to other roc albums and given how good of a producer of Muggs is, it made no sense for that album to be what it is lol

​@@BSideRapReviewsI know what you mean but I think there's a couple of solid tracks on it via Roc's bars (Auntie Bonnie and White Dirt in particular)

You a real one dawg! Preciate that! 🙏🏾

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Preciate the love dawg! Yeah I busy but I’m tryna get back to consistent drops. I really just gotta get used to recording vids late at night. I think my energy is better and I digest the lyrics better during the middle of the day but if I gotta turn into a night owl for the culture I got yall lmao! Ima get back consistent very soon - preciate yall rocking with me! Man idk honestly. I think it’ll be a high chance I’ll react to his next album - especially if it’s good - but I’m not a huge Cole fan. I think albums like 2014 and Off-season are pretty good but I don’t think they’re nearly as good as they’re hyped up to be. And if the album is on pace with say KOD…my reaction might go very left lol. Anyways, I’m lowkey rambling, but I say all that to say the idea of reacting to j cole doesn’t excite me a ton, and if you’re a Cole fan, it might be way more critical than you hope lol. Edit: I didn’t even realize he dropped today when I responded (he didn’t announce this right?). I’ll actually try to check it out and react since it’s a slow week 💪🏾

@@BSideRapReviews I feel you bro, not as much of a cole fan as I was when I was younger. Just like the way you break bars down, thought it would be interesting to hear your thoughts on em. But yeah man if you not interested I get it.

Welcome, gang!! Preciate you tapping in!

@@BSideRapReviews THANK GOD FOR ROC MARCI 🙌🙏

Bro you spot on with that one!!! Funny enuff, I couldn’t remember the name of the song that flow was from but I knew it was the same song and flow that influenced the flow of Chinese Gunn by Westside Gunn, and chine Gunn ended up getting stuck in my head while I was editing True Love. Thats a sick flow - I love when other rappers have lil subtle nods like that. And bro for real! I didn’t like every single production choice but man Roc is VERY different with the rapping. Preciate the support brodie! Hope everything good your way!

The Boldy joint ain’t completely out of the question yet tbh. I prob won’t double back to the Rome joint (b/c at this point if ima review an album that I heard and not recent, I’d rather do death and the magician). I like the Rome Streetz album but I don’t think it’s as good as Kiss the ring or even Wasn’t Built in a Day which came out earlier last year…and I don’t even think it’s particularly close. I absolutely love his production choices on NK5 tho. I don’t think every beat was great but bruh went for it. Rome’s lane of rap can get a little cookie cutter, but Rome had a lot of beats that were creative af and out of the box but still stayed true to his sound. Reason I don’t like it as much as KIss the ring or wasn’t built in a day is b/c I think the rapping wasn’t as good as Rome usually is. Seemed like he had more emphasis on flow and content than just pure lyricism…and it wasn’t bad….just not quite as good. Boldy….i think I never want to hear him and craven together again lol. Album is fine tbh but I don’t think they pair well together. I think most the songs had pretty good rapping but the song and album overall was boring. One I didn’t like most the production choices from craven…def not as much as Fair Exhange No Robbery (a project that I thinked craven carried Boldy on). Craven essentially just takes a sample and loop them with very little change…and I don’t mind that at all but if he’s going to do that he gotta pick more interesting samples and find more variety. About half the beats sound like they coulda been sampled from the same source. I do think the album picked up at the second half. If the album dropped the first 4 or so songs I prob would be higher on it

This album is the closest to Doom I ever heard Roc sound… especially on Gold Crossbow

right ! i thought i was the only one who noticed .

Already recorded - just gotta edit!!

Faaaacts!! No official release date for the Mach tape but a lot of folks are speculating that his new take “richasshatian” is gonna drop on the weekend of Haitian flag day which is May 18th. He had a preorder for the physical copies of the album, and I think those are supposed to ship in May which would support a May release date.

that beat was cold af

I’m leaning Elephant Man’s bones VERY slightly as well. I think this album took more risks than elephant man’s bones from the production side but I can’t deny the Alc production was a little better, even tho I think it wasn’t the best alc and he played it safe. Bar for bar - I think it’s pretty even between the 2 albums. Side note: what you think the Steelers gon do this year with Russ? You think he gon even keep the starting job all year?

@@BSideRapReviews I think he’ll do good as long as the O line holds up. He’s got a pretty complete team around him. Only thing that’ll kill us this year agin is coaching but we’ll see

LMFAOOO im self aware to know im prejudice against strings 😂 Man it’s just a specific type of strings tho. Like I swear every other underground rap song in the 2010s had the same few strings and it got old years ago lol. Ransom is the worst offender of it lol…where with him I think that was a really popular production style when he first starting blowing up and he never stopped using em. Its like the OGs who still be wearing Sean jeans and South Pole 😂 Good string samples I still love like kitchen lights by Westside gun. The ones from roc here weren’t actually that bad by themselves, it just got repetitive.

@@BSideRapReviews No doubt it's redundant when you have a one bar loop with no switch ups that goes for the entire song ....cough cough.. Nicholas Craven!

I agree w you on “True love” appreciate it but not my fav

AOTY so far imo! Now tbh I don’t think it’ll stay that way. It’ll be top 10 for me…maybe even top 5 but I think it can be best. Bar for bar if might big be touched tho!

Yeah you’re 100% right - I knew I was gonna wanna take that comment back after I made it 😂 Yeah I’ll even go as far as to say Elzhi’s rapping on heavy vibrato is better than rocs rapping here and that’s saying A LOT. Elzhi had multiple points where he rapped every single syllable

Dang it’s wack??? I haven’t peeped yet, I was thinking I might rip the bandaid off for Cole fans and finally react to him (I ain’t a Cole fan lmao)

@@BSideRapReviews you should for the sake of good content because I'll know you'll break it down good and actually teach something to the Cole-miners lol Jokes asde tho, its your average mid Cole release where he actually responds to Kendricks diss ... and hes being clowned as a result. That should given you an idea