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Roc Marciano's first full-length with the Alchemist is an easy success. The longtime collaborators share a similar production aesthetic, both having popularized rapping over loops with no drums or minimal percussion, and the two have a natural chemistry. The Alchemist's loops are often haunting yet leisurely, filled with dissolves and other production tricks, and even when he's chopping up vocal samples so that they're interrupted mid-breath, it hardly feels jarring and there's still plenty of space left open for the lyrics. Marciano's vocal delivery is similarly quick-witted but never forceful, balancing deadpan humor and clever pop culture references with stark narratives about drug dealing. The Action Bronson-featuring second track, "Daddy Kane," is one of the album's more boisterous moments, but later songs bluntly describe heartlessness and alienation. At one point, Marciano claims he didn't bleed after being bit by Dracula. Ice-T appears on "The Horns of Abraxas" with an especially grim story about finding dead bodies in a car trunk. Yet there's nothing sensationalist about the album's most brutal lyrics, and they're balanced out by the record's sly sense of humor and casually innovative production.
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A. Maman, ComposerLyricist - The Alchemist, Producer, MainArtist - Roc Marciano, MainArtist - R. Meyer, ComposerLyricist
2022 ALC / Marci Enterprises / EMPIRE 2022 ALC / Marci Enterprises / EMPIRE
A. Maman, ComposerLyricist - The Alchemist, Producer, MainArtist - Roc Marciano, MainArtist - Action Bronson, FeaturedArtist - A. Arslani, ComposerLyricist - R. Meyer, ComposerLyricist
2022 ALC / Marci Enterprises / EMPIRE 2022 ALC / Marci Enterprises / EMPIRE
A. Maman, ComposerLyricist - The Alchemist, Producer, MainArtist - Roc Marciano, MainArtist - R. Meyer, ComposerLyricist
2022 ALC / Marci Enterprises / EMPIRE 2022 ALC / Marci Enterprises / EMPIRE
A. Maman, ComposerLyricist - The Alchemist, Producer, MainArtist - Roc Marciano, MainArtist - R. Meyer, ComposerLyricist
2022 ALC / Marci Enterprises / EMPIRE 2022 ALC / Marci Enterprises / EMPIRE
A. Maman, ComposerLyricist - The Alchemist, Producer, MainArtist - Roc Marciano, MainArtist - R. Meyer, ComposerLyricist
2022 ALC / Marci Enterprises / EMPIRE 2022 ALC / Marci Enterprises / EMPIRE
A. Maman, ComposerLyricist - The Alchemist, Producer, MainArtist - Roc Marciano, MainArtist - R. Meyer, ComposerLyricist
2022 ALC / Marci Enterprises / EMPIRE 2022 ALC / Marci Enterprises / EMPIRE
A. Maman, ComposerLyricist - The Alchemist, Producer, MainArtist - Roc Marciano, MainArtist - R. Meyer, ComposerLyricist
2022 ALC / Marci Enterprises / EMPIRE 2022 ALC / Marci Enterprises / EMPIRE
A. Maman, ComposerLyricist - The Alchemist, Producer, MainArtist - Roc Marciano, MainArtist - Boldy James, FeaturedArtist - R. Meyer, ComposerLyricist - J. Clay Jones III, ComposerLyricist
2022 ALC / Marci Enterprises / EMPIRE 2022 ALC / Marci Enterprises / EMPIRE
A. Maman, ComposerLyricist - Ice-T, FeaturedArtist - T. Marrow, ComposerLyricist - The Alchemist, Producer, MainArtist - Roc Marciano, MainArtist - R. Meyer, ComposerLyricist
2022 ALC / Marci Enterprises / EMPIRE 2022 ALC / Marci Enterprises / EMPIRE
A. Maman, ComposerLyricist - The Alchemist, Producer, MainArtist - Roc Marciano, MainArtist - R. Meyer, ComposerLyricist
2022 ALC / Marci Enterprises / EMPIRE 2022 ALC / Marci Enterprises / EMPIRE
A. Maman, ComposerLyricist - The Alchemist, Producer, MainArtist - Roc Marciano, MainArtist - R. Meyer, ComposerLyricist
2022 ALC / Marci Enterprises / EMPIRE 2022 ALC / Marci Enterprises / EMPIRE
A. Maman, ComposerLyricist - The Alchemist, Producer, MainArtist - Roc Marciano, MainArtist - R. Meyer, ComposerLyricist
2022 ALC / Marci Enterprises / EMPIRE 2022 ALC / Marci Enterprises / EMPIRE
A. Maman, ComposerLyricist - The Alchemist, Producer, MainArtist - Roc Marciano, MainArtist - R. Meyer, ComposerLyricist - Knowledge The Pirate, FeaturedArtist
2022 ALC / Marci Enterprises / EMPIRE 2022 ALC / Marci Enterprises / EMPIRE
A. Maman, ComposerLyricist - The Alchemist, Producer, MainArtist - Roc Marciano, MainArtist - R. Meyer, ComposerLyricist
2022 ALC / Marci Enterprises / EMPIRE 2022 ALC / Marci Enterprises / EMPIRE
Album review
Roc Marciano's first full-length with the Alchemist is an easy success. The longtime collaborators share a similar production aesthetic, both having popularized rapping over loops with no drums or minimal percussion, and the two have a natural chemistry. The Alchemist's loops are often haunting yet leisurely, filled with dissolves and other production tricks, and even when he's chopping up vocal samples so that they're interrupted mid-breath, it hardly feels jarring and there's still plenty of space left open for the lyrics. Marciano's vocal delivery is similarly quick-witted but never forceful, balancing deadpan humor and clever pop culture references with stark narratives about drug dealing. The Action Bronson-featuring second track, "Daddy Kane," is one of the album's more boisterous moments, but later songs bluntly describe heartlessness and alienation. At one point, Marciano claims he didn't bleed after being bit by Dracula. Ice-T appears on "The Horns of Abraxas" with an especially grim story about finding dead bodies in a car trunk. Yet there's nothing sensationalist about the album's most brutal lyrics, and they're balanced out by the record's sly sense of humor and casually innovative production.
© Paul Simpson /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 14 track(s)
- Total length: 00:37:58
- Main artists: Roc Marciano The Alchemist
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: ALC - Marci Enterprises - EMPIRE
- Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap
2022 ALC / Marci Enterprises / EMPIRE 2022 ALC / Marci Enterprises / EMPIRE
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