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Nov 20, 2012Grim and exultant at once, this is low-profile hustling on wax at its finest.
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Nov 14, 2012Marciano has emerged with an album that doesn't so much use long-established sounds as insurance as remind why they're tried-and-true in the first place.
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Nov 14, 2012NYC's Roc Marciano follows up his 2010 critically celebrated solo debut, Marcberg, with a sequel nonpareil in its originality and craftsmanship.
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Nov 14, 2012Marciano's outright refusal to relinquish his old school ways and broaden his reach results in enjoyable glorified crime fiction that could render him archaic sooner rather than later, but for right now it's perfect.
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Dec 20, 2012At it's best, Reloaded rocks like Evidence liberated from the jungle of Premo beats and given enough space to go believably gangster.
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Nov 21, 2012If you simply want a rap album that will inspire all-caps quote sprees on Twitter or hourlong Gchat exchanges with your fellow microphone fiends, it really doesn't get any better than Reloaded.
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Q MagazineJan 24, 2013It's a powerful record that reconfigures the classic mnid-90s New York sound more skillfully than anyone's done for some time. [Feb 2013, p.103]
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Jan 8, 2013Reloaded is a brilliant album but it is one that requires a certain mood.
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Dec 21, 2012His second album will thrill anyone who loves hearing a great writer in any genre do not-nice things to the English language.
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Nov 14, 2012On Reloaded, he's written perhaps the most vivid rap album of the year--and possibly of his lifetime.
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Nov 26, 2012Reloaded is the sound of the impressive talent behind 2010's Marcberg blossoming into greatness; one of the best written rap records of this young decade.
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The WireDec 7, 2012More impressive is how well he and his production circle weave their microfibre soul samples as to draw perpetual tension out of complete simplicity. [Nov 2012, p.73]
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Nov 14, 2012Truly, a thrilling upgrade of signature East Coast delivery in the new age and one of the best albums of the year to date.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 15
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Mixed: 1 out of 15
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Negative: 3 out of 15
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Dec 24, 2012
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Jun 7, 2019
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May 21, 2016