- Mon Aug 24, 2020 1:23 pm
#130664
Stove God Cook$ - Reasonable Drought
Here we have an album that caught me off guard, I wasn't sure what to expect I had never heard of Stove God and when I sat down and hit play on the album I was blown away. He has so much charisma, you can feel his personality bleeding through this album. At times he reminds me of late 90's era Mos Def but not in a way where he feels like he's ripping him off. It's my favorite hip hop release of the year and could very well be one of my favorite albums of the year. Roc Marci kills the production on it too.
Roc Marciano - The Pimpire Strikes Back
I loved Marci's first album, Marcberg, it was a return to the NYC rap I grew up loving. It felt fresh in 2010 and to this day still one of the best from that year. His follow up Reloaded came out in 2012 which I thought was great but didn't reach the level of Marcberg, the following year he released two albums Marci Beucamp and this one. Neither of them clicked with me and I honestly stopped paying attention to him. I reconnected with his album from 2018 and I've been revisiting his work. To my surprise this album is actually great, not sure what my issue with it was at the time but I was wrong. While it's not his best work it still is a great album and I'm really I happy I decided to give it another go. Also I managed to pick this up on Amazon for $14, it's a double LP. Baffling it's that cheap.
Here we have an album that caught me off guard, I wasn't sure what to expect I had never heard of Stove God and when I sat down and hit play on the album I was blown away. He has so much charisma, you can feel his personality bleeding through this album. At times he reminds me of late 90's era Mos Def but not in a way where he feels like he's ripping him off. It's my favorite hip hop release of the year and could very well be one of my favorite albums of the year. Roc Marci kills the production on it too.
Roc Marciano - The Pimpire Strikes Back
I loved Marci's first album, Marcberg, it was a return to the NYC rap I grew up loving. It felt fresh in 2010 and to this day still one of the best from that year. His follow up Reloaded came out in 2012 which I thought was great but didn't reach the level of Marcberg, the following year he released two albums Marci Beucamp and this one. Neither of them clicked with me and I honestly stopped paying attention to him. I reconnected with his album from 2018 and I've been revisiting his work. To my surprise this album is actually great, not sure what my issue with it was at the time but I was wrong. While it's not his best work it still is a great album and I'm really I happy I decided to give it another go. Also I managed to pick this up on Amazon for $14, it's a double LP. Baffling it's that cheap.