Albums Roc Marciano & The Alchemist - The Skeleton Key (Discussion Thread)
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the cac mamba
Veteran
looking forward to spinning this. especially hard drugz, i always liked dayz of wayback
Piff Perkins
Veteran
Mystery God
nikka rhyming like it's Marcberg
Knock It Off too. I been trying to explain why those shyts hit me so hard but it's just what you said. When he hits that groove it's like Jay over some horns or Nas on a break beat.
RalphKramden
Pro
Link me please.. waiting on vinyl drop
Whips-n-Chains
Chi
Finally able to listen
4 tracks in
4 tracks in
Whips-n-Chains
Chi
Rauf 
Beat is soulful AND gritty
Beat is soulful AND gritty
Whips-n-Chains
Chi
Just listened all the way thru for the first time, running it back again.
Album is about what you'd expect from these two artists. It's serious heat
At this point, Roc is my favorite rapper in the game. He can still make classic material 15+ years deep in the game. He has an absurd amount of classic songs at this point.
Alc is able to find such unique samples that he can have 7 piano loops and they don't get tiring or repetitive like some of the "griselda type beats" (I still love all those too, but Daringer has a few repetitive piano loops). Alcs mixing of subtle vocal soul samples and such is fukking unmatched at this point.
Rauf is my favorite song...classic Alc. Piano loop and vocal sample have a vintage RZA type feel to it ...but then the beat switches up to have a soul section to it, which is too ill. Beat is soulful yet grimey. Pure alc. This shyt is the type of song that I can keep running back over and over 20 straight times and not get sick of. This a 10/10 song to me.
Mystery God...heat. Vocal sample is dope, the piano loop is vintage alc.
Street Magic...dope af, darker vibe...winter night vibe... subtle piano loop and blaring jazz horn sample is fire af.
There's not any weak tracks on here... But imo, 5, "Acid" isn't as good as the rest, it's still solid, just not dope.
Knock It Off...BANGS...just dope af. bang in the whip type track.
At first I wasn't feeling "Cryotherapy" since the beat is such a cacophony, but it grew on me, the vocal sample is dope.
"Chateau Josue" is dope too, just not as fire as the others. The pounding war drum is fire.
"Skirt Steak" dope...wasn't my favorite track, but is still...more of an uplifting beat
"Bleu Mouson" fire...sounded like something prime Hov was lace.
"Hard Drugs" heat...that pimped out beat Felt like Curtis Mayfield or sum
"Make Sure" a heavenly soulful beat
"Chopsticks" dark, gritty, dope af. My favorite type of vibe from alc.
Favorite songs: Raul, Knock It Off
Least favorite: Acid
Album is about what you'd expect from these two artists. It's serious heat
At this point, Roc is my favorite rapper in the game. He can still make classic material 15+ years deep in the game. He has an absurd amount of classic songs at this point.Alc is able to find such unique samples that he can have 7 piano loops and they don't get tiring or repetitive like some of the "griselda type beats" (I still love all those too, but Daringer has a few repetitive piano loops). Alcs mixing of subtle vocal soul samples and such is fukking unmatched at this point.
Rauf is my favorite song...classic Alc. Piano loop and vocal sample have a vintage RZA type feel to it
...but then the beat switches up to have a soul section to it, which is too ill. Beat is soulful yet grimey. Pure alc. This shyt is the type of song that I can keep running back over and over 20 straight times and not get sick of. This a 10/10 song to me.Mystery God...heat. Vocal sample is dope, the piano loop is vintage alc.
Street Magic...dope af, darker vibe...winter night vibe... subtle piano loop and blaring jazz horn sample is fire af.
There's not any weak tracks on here... But imo, 5, "Acid" isn't as good as the rest, it's still solid, just not dope.
Knock It Off...BANGS...just dope af. bang in the whip type track.
At first I wasn't feeling "Cryotherapy" since the beat is such a cacophony, but it grew on me, the vocal sample is dope.
"Chateau Josue" is dope too, just not as fire as the others. The pounding war drum is fire.
"Skirt Steak" dope...wasn't my favorite track, but is still
...more of an uplifting beat"Bleu Mouson" fire...sounded like something prime Hov was lace.
"Hard Drugs" heat...that pimped out beat
Felt like Curtis Mayfield or sum"Make Sure"
a heavenly soulful beat"Chopsticks" dark, gritty, dope af. My favorite type of vibe from alc.
Favorite songs: Raul, Knock It Off
Least favorite: Acid
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Whips-n-Chains
Chi
Probably the 2 least strong songs on the album...I don't want to say they're weak b/c they're still solid. Acid, to me is without a doubt the song that I'll be playing the least. Cryotherapy grew on me, but it's not up there with the others.
Chateau Josue and Make Sure
choc_cardigan
Squad
That laugh with the effect behind it had me dyingDon't let these folks gas you, they casuals
You nicer than Marci? That shyt's laughable
Splurted on the scene like soda mixed with codeine
Up in the Rover lean, promethazine, I'm a dope fiend
The pole with the beam, more Nina's than Gino Green
D&G jeans, I got the jeans gene
fukk you mean? My pinky ring a bean
Squeeze the machine, OC is peeing Twinkie cream (???)
Alexander McQueen minks for the queen
Rich cuisines, live the King's disease
Can't just live to drink and eat and greet
The team agreed to keep the light green
Till I put blood on your clean tee
And cut tour cheek to the white meat
Too nice to critique, you should keep it quite like mice feet
Or a thief in the night tryna sneak ice in a heist
Type dudes to steal the ice out the Iced Tea
I peeped with my Left Eye while you Creep
While you creep, thought I fell asleep
Patek Phillippe rain hella sleet
nikkas jealous of me, even Helen Keller could see
But every freak I met, we had chemistry
I had the Skeleton Key
Stepped on the ki, did the pepperseed
bytches get vetted by the Pedigree
On my leather suit sniffing ketamine, that's a pet peeve
Enough with the pleasantries
Good grief
. Damn I love when the handful of rappers I actually like drop shhit, lol 🫡
phrank kastle
Pro
Won’t make the mistake of not copping some merch & a cd like i did with Elephant Man’s Bones