This is Hip-Hop.

[ChrisN]

Loving Wax Tailor's latest lately.

Wax Tailor – Dusty Rainbow from the Dark

[Michael J Glocks]

I saw Death Grips tonight and they were really, really good, even without Flatlander. Probably the most fun I've had at a gig this year. Two more songs would have been nice but then I would have missed my train, so...

The Bug was great too.

[Shoes]

[Calashnikov]

Just Blaze and Roc Marciano doin' that damn thing:

[SpagMasterSwift]

For some Action Bronson being Action Bronson.

[Boozy The Clown]

[Calashnikov]

Came out today:

Stream it here:

http://stereogum.com...d/album-stream/

Verdict: My personal favourite hip-hop artist of the moment has just released another ice cold nihilistic str8 gem classic, just in perfect time for the winter. Return to Marcberg, baby! This is on some light up a blunt, turn all the lights out, sit back and listen on repeat shit.

It sounds absolutely fucking brilliant. The beats are Can't wait to rinse absolute fuck out of this on the 80 dollar Walkman these next few weeks!

[Calashnikov]

The track produced by Q-Tip is like some quirky fucked-up NY 70s exploitation flick, as directed by David Lynch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2dFXfna8x4

[Dimahoo]

Tek to a mack sounds Flyyyyyyyyyyyyy. If you get me.

[Calashnikov]

Yeah, it kicks the album off nicely. I think my favourite tracks so far have been 'Flash Gordon,' which is the Alchemist-produced track, 'Not Told,' with the Funkadelic-style guitar wailing, 'Deeper,' which is this haunted beatless fucking thing, 'Death Parade', which wouldn't sound out of place on any of the first-wave Wu-Tang solo LPs, 'Peru' which is this off-kilter jaunty little jazzy moment, kind of like J Dilla embroiled in some blaxploitation-invoked PCP hallucinatory nightmare, the previously mentioned Q-Tip track 'Thread Count', the stripped-right back lazy bongo-tronic workout 'Nine Spray' and, well, fuck it, just about everything.

And that's just focusing on the production. Lyrically there are quotables every other line. Richard Gere, Ric Flair and Marvin Gaye all getting mentions. "Niggas" being told "fuck you with a horse's cock" in one unrelenting round. I just love his style. It sounds like he's just plucked these stream of conscious lines out of nowhere effortlessly and they just so happened to rhyme like fuck. Like he's just conversating his beyond fly lyrics. So cool, so detached. Works really well with the almost-not-quite-there sparse production. It's like listening to vintage Mobb Deep through the prism of catatonic dream.

[esar]

Oh man, that Roc Marcy album certainly doesn't disappoint, so so good. Wish I wasn't at work, I want to listen to it high

[Calashnikov]

Yeah, it's one of those albums you just need to immerse yourself in. It's one of those movies.

[The Mighty Ash]

Todays the day!

1. Big Body Bes Intro

2. Rare Chandeliers

3. The Symbol

4. Sylvester Lundgren Feat. Meyhem Lauren & Ag Da Coroner

5. Randy The Musical

6. Demolition Men Feat. Schoolboy Q

7. Eggs On The Third Floor

8. Modern Day Revelations Feat. Roc Marciano

9. Dennis Haskins

10. Bitch I Deserve You Feat. Evidence

11. Gateway To Wizardy Feat. Styles P

12. Bathtub 8 Feat. Deep

13. Blood Of The Goat Feat. Big Twin & Sean Price

14. Mike Vick

[The Mighty Ash]

Here it is:

http://vice-records-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/Action_Bronson_and_Alchemist-Rare_Chandeliers.zip

[Shoes]

I quite like this DJ Yoda feat. Action Bronson cut.

[Calashnikov]

A lot of the reviews seem to suggest that Reloaded is better than Marcberg. Not sure I go along with that, although Reloaded hasn't stopped spinning since I got it. The new Mr MFN eXquire EP and the new Action Bronson mixtape are going to have to wait.

"Is that Roc official like his last jawn? My best hip hop debate w/ hov was over that record."

That's a recent Tweet from Roots drummer ?uestlove, in conversation with hip-hop producer the Alchemist, describing an earlier argument with Jay-Z concerning rapper Roc Marciano's 2010 album Marcberg. Well, none of the above will be disappointed with the sequel.

The grimy, lo-fi Marcberg met with a curious reception: It notched a smattering of year-end accolades from critics and was hailed by a small group of New York rappers as a beacon of the city's enduring prowess, but it was ultimately dwarfed in a glitzy year defined by Drake's debut, Kanye's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, and Rick Ross' Teflon Don. Steadily though, the cult coalesced as the record became a classic of its type, born from the city's underbelly, nodding to its heritage, but willing to move on from its past. Now comes the superior follow-up Reloaded, which ensures ?uesto will be having another fireside chat with Jay about the evolution of Roc Marci.

Rave after rave after rave:

http://www.spin.com/...-reloaded-decon

http://www.xxlmag.co..._medium=twitter

http://consequenceof...ciano-reloaded/

http://www.unkut.com...d-album-review/

Nobody but me and esar bothering to listen yet? What's wrong with you?

EDIT:

"fuck a bank statement' date=' I've got over 400k in my basement"[/quote']

[Exit Chamber]

I just don't get the love for him. I wish I did.

I'll grab the album and give it a go though.

[Charliemouse]

I love his production and some of his lyrics but his voice really doesn't do anything for me I am afraid.

[The Mighty Ash]

I'm the same, just doesn't grab me for some reason

[Venice Cull]

Probably worth setting aside half an hour..

http://www.captainmurphy.xxx/

[Boozy The Clown]

Today I shall be rocking Marcberg, Reloaded & Rare Chandeliers on my ipod for my daily commute. So if you see a short arsed,balding, ginger,specky old dick strutting up & down Union Street, it'll probably be me.

Just signed up to dat piff .com (?) looking for some riff raff. I'm downloading "Birth of an icon" but there's a ton of other mixtapes featuring him. Any in particular I should be checking out.

http://www.datpiff.com/mixtapes-search.php?criteria=riff+raff&x=0&y=0

I'm OD'ing on new hip hop this week. It'll be the first new shit I've listened to in about 5 years.

[Calashnikov]

I just don't get the love for him. I wish I did.

I'll grab the album and give it a go though.

Here's the appeal: if Abel Ferrera's 1990 cold cult classic movie 'King of New York' could rap, it would be Schoolly D Roc Marciano.

Don't really get the problem with his voice. That's not the attraction here. I don't think it was Prodigy and Havoc's voices that made The Infamous such a classic. It's all about atmosphere. Mobb Deep and now Roc Marcy are dense with it.

I think what's interesting about Roc's production is that he's revisiting that dark boom-bap style, with the soulful psychedelic loops, but he's taken out the boom and the bap, if you get what I mean. He's turned the drums down and muffled them out a bit, even removing them entirely on one or two tracks, leaving you with the ghost of dark hip-hop's past and, really, what's darker than that? His music is freezing.

I'm always for stylistically cohesive long-players too and, while new jack rappers Action Bronson and Danny Brown (who I both love) might dazzle with their instant charisma, Roc is up there doing the beats and the rhymes. Immaculately on both counts. Really crafting his own world, like another lauded producer/MC, El-P. He's a bit of a rarity in this age of Mediafire mixtapes and viral YouTube videos, coming out with an immersive, entirely personal project. Yes, he got 3 or 4 beats from outside help this time around, but it sounds to me like ALC and Q-Tip have purposefully put on their Roc Marciano production hats for their two beats. The whole album, including those two tracks, still come out as a Roc Marciano scene more than anything else.

Also, I've got to thinking about that whole muffled-out drum sound. Seems to me Pete Rock was really starting to dabble with that sound in the mid-00's, right around the same sort of time that both he and Roc were producing the mad slept-on UN album. You might not necessarily hear the direct lineage initially, but it becomes clear that Roc truly is a pupil and descendant of Pete Rock's latter day style.

[Calashnikov]

Today I shall be rocking Marcberg, Reloaded & Rare Chandeliers on my ipod for my daily commute. So if you see a short arsed,balding, ginger,specky old dick strutting up & down Union Street, it'll probably be me.

Just signed up to dat piff .com (?) looking for some riff raff. I'm downloading "Birth of an icon" but there's a ton of other mixtapes featuring him. Any in particular I should be checking out.

http://www.datpiff.com/mixtapes-search.php?criteria=riff+raff&x=0&y=0

I'm OD'ing on new hip hop this week. It'll be the first new shit I've listened to in about 5 years.

Wow, Boozy. Glad to hear you're getting in on the new stuff, but I strongly doubt Riff Raff will be to your tastes

I can't recommend a mixtape. As much as I find the guy hilarious, I've never managed to listen to more than 3 tracks of his consecutively, and never twice without visual YouTube accompaniment for added lolz. Dizogg is big into the mixtapes though, maybe he can recommend one for us?

Also, make sure you check out Danny Brown's XXX album if you haven't already. That and Marcberg are without a doubt my favourite couple of rap albums from the last few years. Again, I just really dig that whole cohesive, personal sound across an entire album, with minimal guest appearances (I don't think XXX has any). While Danny isn't producing the beats on his album, he's definitely picked out and curated a special selection and they gel together, and with him, like glue. Bear in mind that the album is a real grower as well, like most great records tend to be.

[Camel]

http://www.complex.com/music/2012/11/action-bronson-is-my-favorite-rapper-of-all-time

[SpagMasterSwift]

I hear what you are saying Cal, I'm just not feeling Roc's voice - it's cool for a couple of tracks, but too much for a whole album.

Boozy, if you are ODing on the new Hip Hop - get Blue Chips, so much better than Rare Chanderliers imo (tho that has some good stuff on it too).

[Calashnikov]

Probably worth setting aside half an hour..

http://www.captainmurphy.xxx/

This looks and sounds fucking bananaz. Gonna give that a serious watch down the studio later!

[Calashnikov]

I hear what you are saying Cal, I'm just not feeling Roc's voice - it's cool for a couple of tracks, but too much for a whole album.

Yeah, but come on:

"I got Lamborghini dreams, Nissan nightmares/Moving white, my ice is cool as the night air/two five's flare, a glare through your Cartier eyewear/Knock ya newborn out of the high chair."

With rounds and rounds of darts like that, he could have the voice of Alan Carr and I'd still want to listen to his record on repeat for a week.

[SpagMasterSwift]

I'm shallow.

[esar]

The new Mr MFN eXquire EP

I didn't know about this So much good shit right now.

[Camel]

Count me as another who doesn't get the love for Roc. I feel like I should be all over his stuff as I live for classic NY hip hop, but his voice and rhymes just don't really do much for me. He's no AG.