i imagine this sounds to me how marcberg sounded to people who didn't like it.

it's like you got 1 song - you just keep making over and over and over and over again.

when i pressed play on marcberg in 2010, something like whatever whatever was fresh to me at that time.
the style of rapping, the cool delivery.
i mean it was already a throwback to stuff that cormega was doing 8-10 years earlier.
but it was all a match. it just worked.
this? i dunno.
nothing here is doing it like that for me.
roc is significantly older now than he was when he recorded the material for marcberg (06/07/08/09).
it's like watching an athlete in the twilight of their career.
theyre doing all the same things they used to do - but theyre just not as effective.
this is very much a going through the motions album.
it's like he's not even matching the beats at this point.
he's just doing his usual thing and whatever the beat is doing is an afterthought.
just no potency to me.
i don't know maybe i'll start listening to shit like "thread count" and "nine spray" and i'll start accepting it, but i don't think so.
this simply just isn't fresh in 2012.
plus he did it better himself in 2010.
just my 2.

you think i'm full of shit? compare the vocal performance on "snow" to "pistolier".
you know what's different? 5 years of youth.