That is the thirteenth studio LP from Lengthy Island, New York emcee/producer Roc Marciano. Starting within the very late 90’s as a member of the Flipmode Squad, he then went solo in 2008 to drop traditional albums that may pave the way in which for these like Griselda reminiscent of Marcberg & Reloaded. He would start specializing in producing tasks for different artists like Flee Lord & Bronze Nazareth following Mt. Marci & in fact returning to enlist The Alchemist to totally produce The Elephant Man’s Bones & The Skeleton Key couple years aside from one another, each of which I gave good scores to & the identical goes with The Coldest Occupation produced by DJ Premier. 5 months later, he’s persevering with to prelude Prison Jazz with 656.
“Trick Bag” begins by sampling funk & jazz commanding thou shall not trick irrespective of how thick your pockets wind up changing into whereas “Infantile Issues” hooks up some naked synthesizers speaking about reaching the finer stuff in life. “Hate is Love” instrumentally takes a extra soulful method suggesting those that choose ought to clear their very own yards up previous to “Yves St. Moron” speaking about his greatness not taking place haphazardly.
As for “Prince & Apollonia”, we’ve got Marc carrying over the drumless vibes recalling a man ready for his lady in his whip blasting the Prince monitor “If I Was Your Girlfriend” simply earlier than the soulful “Vainness” continues to color photographs of the Mafioso life-style Roc has turn into renown for. “Rain Dance” that includes Errol Holden groups up over some vibraphones speaking about turning base metals into gold whereas “Tracey Morgan Vomit” explains you don’t must be a barber to get your wig parted.
“Trapeze” that includes Errol Holden begins the final leg of 656 with a crooning beat speaking about each of them shifting perpetually whereas the chipmunk soul-flavored “Good for You” boasts of him being able to steal your aunt & make her his child mama since he’s been easy like that. “Straightforward Bake Oven” continues to pattern soul music speaking about being the trendy day Frank Sinatra & lastly, “Melo” sends all of it off boasting he’s fucked the identical quantity of baddies retired NBA ahead Carmelo Anthony has.
Not solely are we mentioned to be getting Prison Jazz in a while sooner or later in 2026, but it surely was additionally confirmed by Roc Marciano himself that he has one other full-length deliberate for this yr referred to as Mt. Magneto & presumably a whole album absolutely produced by Animoss. And for him to get the brand new yr began, 656. Regardless of Errol’s visitor appearances being merely satisfactory, Marc’s drumlessly jazzy manufacturing matched & the mafioso/gangsta themes over the course of a half hour are sturdy sufficient to make me need to hold it in rotate.
Rating: 9/10