Yo yo yo, welcome to another episode of our Digging in the Crates Series - the Roc Marciano edition 💎 And today we travel back to one of his best opening cuts of all time, ‘Tek to a Mack’ from his 2012 classic ‘Reloaded’.

 

And to discuss the genius of Roc, we have a guy who’s personally worked with the underground icon (as well as constantly dropping fire himself), rapper MidaZ the Beast is in the house 🔥

 

Show Notes

• Getting into Roc Marciano (02:20 )
• Hearing Marcberg before it dropped (16:20 )
• Thoughts on drumless hip hop (33:20 )
• Hottest bars (56:20 )
• DITC catagories (1:22:30 )

 

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