Since 2008, Roc Marciano has been working on his solo career, and to widespread internet acclaim, released his entirely self-produced debut album, Marcberg in 2010. In 2011, Roc Marciano collaborated with Gangrene, the duo of rapper/producers Oh No and The Alchemist, to release the collaborative EP Greneberg. Note: You can stream / download Roc Marciano & The Alchemist Rosebudd Infantry (The Marcberg Files) for free. If you like our website, bookmark it and share it with.

This reflects only my opinions. Subject to change tomorrow, yesterday, or when Big Boi, Black Milk, Freddie Gibbs drop an album. Or when Jay Electronica finds the Ghost of Ebenezer Scrooge Christopher Wallace. If it’s not on the list, it’s because I blocked your favorite rapper’s Twitter feed. Short write-ups because the Double Dribble cheerleaders distracted me. Let me know what I missed. – [] Mini-album disguised as an EP continues Zilla Rocca’s ownership of the twilight hours.

Raymond Chandler raps disguised by clumps of facial hair, clouds of cigar-smoke, and clogged lung South Philly pollution — interrogating impeccably chosen loops from Fela to Dungen to. A broken clock is on-point twice a day or once a year. Download: MP3 9. – Cocainism [Ice Water] Two decades later, the Wally-rocking, pringle-eating lumberjack claims to be fresher than Ron O’ Neal and almost as old. But his “revlon raps” sound as starving as supermodels a week before a swimsuit shoot. Covering so much ground as to make people forget about the “Immobilarity” era, Corey Woods kicks alphabet raps, politicks with Sick Wid It refugees and stops “Lizz” for a neo-soul interludes.

Plus, he raps over Alchemist beats with Mobb Deep. Almost as complete as OB4CL2 and arguably more enjoyable. Free download driver modem bolt e5372s. – – [] One third of Diamond District spends the first third of his album perfecting the neo-boom bap backpack raps that brought him to national attention — including a track called um, “Beats and Rhymes.” Somewhere before halftime, he discovers that when the going gets tough, the tough turn weird.

Handling most of the production himself, the 78er touches on street concerns, mortality, and the devolution of rap, ripping psychedelic loops that sound like Edan production — they even share a sample or two. The result is Beauty and the Beat made for the block. Download: MP3: MP3: MP3: 7. – Trunk Muzik [] Lover of Twista, Three Six Mafia, and Hiero drops tongue-twisted and trunk-rattling 808 claps, complete with guest spots from Bun B, Raekwon, to make the tent so wide he becomes the first white rapper that all white bloggers can agree on. Jimmy Iovine’s platonic hybrid of Bubba Sparxxx crossed with Eminem has enough trailer park appeal for the Juggalo crowd and lyricism for the backpack brigade. Truthfully, this album should be ranked higher, and would if not for a song called “Lick the Cat,” which is not about Yela’s love of Garfield without Garfield.

Download: MP3: 6. – [] Utilizing old news broadcasts and clips from the 2001 PBS Documentary, “The Fillmore,” DaVinci applies the neutral eye of a skeptical documentarian. He refuses to brand the gentrification sweeping his neighborhood as evil or good, watching with eyes both sober and stoned, reminiscing without nostalgia or glamorization of a childhood with an incarcerated father, surrounded by drug addiction and poverty.

The story isn’t so different from thousands of rappers — what is is DaVinci’s facility with words, honesty, and ability to sketch his own compelling story against the changing backdrop of a neighborhood in flux. Hard-nosed, raw, without compromise, and great.

Download: ZIP: 5. – [] Quoth the: “Marcberg, the debut album from Roc Marciano, feels like Tical. You’re transplanted into the room that spawned the album. Tical sounded like a hazy basement in Staten Island, blood-shot eyes, half empty 40 bottles filled with dead cigarette butts, rhyme books and blunt guts on the floor, kung-fu flicks on VHS playing on the mute in the corner.

Marcberg sounds like a living room set up with mismatched furniture, crumpled bills on the table, Timbs on the carpet, Styrofoam takeout rotting on an end table, Newport boxes vibrating from the speakers, records stacked up with no sleeves, a glock under the couch, fitted hats and polo’s on the backs of chairs, weed smoke under a 60 watt bulb, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadassss Song muted on DVD. There’s Roc Marciano alone, scribbling shit on a notepad, oblivious to everything, impressing himself with witty bars of pain and pizzazz.” Download: MP3: MP3: 4.

(tie) – [] Carving out a niche between the endearing eccentricity of Del tha Funkee Homosapien and the experimental hypersyllabism of his Project Blowed forebears, the former West Boast battle rap champion emerges as an avatar of LA’s “cool black nerds.” Beats from Low End staples Nosaj Thing, Daedelus, Free the Robots and Nobody; guest appearances from Busdriver and Nick Diamonds of Islands; and scratches from the Gaslamp Killer, the first rap record fully immersed in the Low End aesthetic. Impressive enough to make everyone forget that the former needed to be somewhere on Download: MP3: (Left-Click) MP3: 4. (tie) – [] The flip side to his fellow Blowdian’s Jimmy the Lock, Open Mike Eagle drops the funniest record since Lonely Island or maybe Party Fun Action Committee. Targeting his caustic wit at four-element worshipping backpack rappers, skinny jeaned My Chemical Romance fans, the racism of the record industry, and himself, the LA transplant (via Chicago) somehow avoids self-righteousness and drops the rare contemporary rap record that rewards (and demands) repeat listening.