Mar 7, 2018 - Listen to and Download The Pimpire Strikes Back the new album from Roc Marciano. Notably, Roc Marciano appeared in the 2005 Wu-Tang. I didn't see a link for a.zip up there yet SO I MADE ONE MY GOT DAMN SELF. In a very limited quantity at Check out Marcberg and Reloaded.

Over the weekend, the legendary Long Island lyricist revealed on Twitter that his 2017 album earned him “sneaker money” from three million-plus streams. Each service offers their own payout rate for artists, but to the latest numbers, three million streams on Tidal nets you $38,520. On Apple Music, $23,490. And on Spotify, just $11,400. That’s considerably more than “sneaker money” for most people. Mind you, Marcberg Slim does have in shoes. So, in a system increasingly dominated by streaming platforms, who are generating billions of dollars for the music business but paying less than a penny per play to the actual creators, what’s an independent hustler like Roc Marciano to do?

Good thing he was chopping O’s since a snot nose. On February 27, Roc Marciano released his new album,, the fifth installment in his series of grimy, intricate and extravagant kingpin chronicles.

Instead of offering it up on your favorite streaming platforms, though, he’s been selling digital copies of the project exclusively on his website for $30. No streams, all sales. Just like the good old days. And it’s paying off. “It’s been amazing.

This shit is printing money. The return on investment happened in a day. Instrukciya po pravilam dorozhnogo dvizheniya dlya uchaschihsya 5 11 klassov.

I was in the black in a day. How you like them apples?” he says over the phone with a trademark sneer. Unsurprisingly, Marci isn’t willing to divulge specific figures, but rest assured he’s made more than sneaker money off Rosebudd’s Revenge 2 sales so far.

“Oh, hell yeah.

This reflects only my opinions. Subject to change tomorrow, yesterday, or when Big Boi, Black Milk, Freddie Gibbs drop an album.

Or when Jay Electronica finds the Ghost of Ebenezer Scrooge Christopher Wallace. If it’s not on the list, it’s because I blocked your favorite rapper’s Twitter feed. Short write-ups because the Double Dribble cheerleaders distracted me. Let me know what I missed. – [] Mini-album disguised as an EP continues Zilla Rocca’s ownership of the twilight hours. Raymond Chandler raps disguised by clumps of facial hair, clouds of cigar-smoke, and clogged lung South Philly pollution — interrogating impeccably chosen loops from Fela to Dungen to.

A broken clock is on-point twice a day or once a year. Download: MP3 9. – Cocainism [Ice Water] Two decades later, the Wally-rocking, pringle-eating lumberjack claims to be fresher than Ron O’ Neal and almost as old. But his “revlon raps” sound as starving as supermodels a week before a swimsuit shoot.

Covering so much ground as to make people forget about the “Immobilarity” era, Corey Woods kicks alphabet raps, politicks with Sick Wid It refugees and stops “Lizz” for a neo-soul interludes. Plus, he raps over Alchemist beats with Mobb Deep. Almost as complete as OB4CL2 and arguably more enjoyable. – – [] One third of Diamond District spends the first third of his album perfecting the neo-boom bap backpack raps that brought him to national attention — including a track called um, “Beats and Rhymes.” Somewhere before halftime, he discovers that when the going gets tough, the tough turn weird.