Roc Marciano “Three Sixty Five”

Hip-hop is an exercise in collage, but even that seems too complicated a way to describe Roc Marciano. Though descriptions of his music tend to place it in a particular time frame--one some 20 years past--Marci isn't a revivalist so much as he was suspended in amber, polishing his gun and compiling rhyming syllables.

"Three Sixty Five" is the New Yorker's contribution to producer The Dirty Sample's Raw Produce compilation, and the title is apt. Where other rappers are aspirational, climbing charts and social strata, Marci marches on in perpetuity, "European whips, wife beaters and kicks, Beamer with the kit, leanin' that shit."

Rumor has it the rapper-producer is working with the similarly bi-boardal Ka on an LP.

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