Roc Marciano’s ‘Marcberg’ Album Review with Nicholas Craven | Ep. 90

Описание: This week we break our usual mould of 90s hip hop to focus on a classic album that’s roots run deep into the golden era - Roc Marciano’s seminal debut ‘Marcberg’. Bringing this album to the table is one of the hottest underground rap producers going - Nicholas Craven 🔥

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Show Notes
Least hip hop thing in the last 24 hours? (00:00)
Working with #RocMarciano on ‘Wolfing Down’ (07:20)
Is this Roc Marciano’s 5-Mic Moment? (12:32)
Why ‘We Do It’ with Ka is so good (18:25)
Love for ‘Thugs Prayer’ and explains why the sampling on #Marcberg is crucial to rap’s evolution (19:47)
Mad love for ‘Pop’ and how Axl Rose was in the studio session (22:59)
A deep dive into beats with no drums and sampling (24:24)
Love for Craven’s ‘Aurevoir, Francoise’ and ‘Jeudi & Francoise’ projects (33:50)
Talks his ‘Craven N 2’ project (38:50)
Breaks down his relationship with Ransom and their latest project ‘Seven’ (49:20)
What do Mach-Hommy, Navy Blue and Stove God Cooks bring to the table? (53:40)
Why he loves Ghostface Killah (1:00:55)
Breaks down why today is his favourite hip hop era ever (1:08:30)
Why GZA is integral to the new music in rap (1:12:55)
What attracted him about making hip hop? (01:14:45)
Love for Ka’s ‘Sins of the Father’ (1:29:45)

You can find #NicholasCraven work right here: https://nicholascraven.bandcamp.com/m...

And the projects we spoke on can be found here…
Aurevoir, Francoise    • Nicholas Craven - Aurevoir, Françoise (FUL...  
Jeudi & Francoise    • Nicholas Craven - Jeudi & Françoise (FULL ...  

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Ice Cube with Shawn Setaro (https://bit.ly/3kaYfOq)
Tupac with Andrew Barber (https://bit.ly/2HGr3QT)
De La Soul with Andrew Emery (https://bit.ly/324LJJn)
Gang Starr with Dart Adams (https://apple.co/2Vlx9t1)
A Tribe Called Quest with Rob Pursey (https://bit.ly/3oS73uX)
Redman with Take it Personal Radio (https://bit.ly/3tYFUcL)
OutKast with Justin Hunte (https://bit.ly/3b89bJh)

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