Reloaded

The Long Island rapper's quotable second album features production work from the Alchemist and Q-Tip and improves on his 2010 debut in every conceivable way.

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Roc Marciano's been gaining high praise for Reloaded, the follow-up to 2010's acclaimed Marcberg. There's something about it which just doesn't sit right. Perhaps it's the lazy homophobic and misogynistic asides in the first track (“Homo swag, I wouldn't put it past you” and “Control a whore's mind like voodoo”), which speak of an unreconstructed, macho conception of what rap should be about. Not that this is a bar to enjoyment - it's just disappointing and lazy.