Roc Marciano's "Baby Powder" is Vying For The Top of "Mt. Marci"

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The legendary run Roc Marciano is on is by no means a short story capturing a moment. This is hard work and master craftsmanship dyed-in-the-wool of chapters and volumes of a legacy still being written. And the latest chapter dubbed "Mt. Marci" holds a certain passage vying for supremacy atop "Mt. Marci" -- "Baby Powder."

Produced with Chuck Strangers, Roc Marci's "Baby Powder" has a split personality in its production. The sly loop during the first verse acts as a comfortable mat for meditative rapping, while on the second verse the beat is a dastardly loop scoring the festering disturbances in the mind of a comic book villain. Roc Marciano's rapping in both verses deal in the game of witty punchlines, boasting similes and lavish metaphors. The layers of the bars cook up memorable lines that leave the verses with personality and a piquant taste to point back to the images Roc Marci's painting of himself and his life.

Marciano's descriptive bars sound almost told in total recall courtesy of the stoical delivery stating things so matter of fact and bundled flows. Lines like "Spray your brain up like some S-Curl activator / Then get back to the paper / The face on the piguet is half a glacier" play in all his abilities as an emcee and make vivid use out of a namedrop/metaphor combo offering both sides of the same coin -- that luxury vs lethal talk. Opening "Baby Powder" with the lines "Red AMG GT with the beak / The V was looking like a Tahitian treat / The Tech-9 was beneath the seat / Check the time on the Patek Philippе" not only sets up the effortlessness Roc Marciano moves with in his rhyming, but makes clear a lifestyle and the importance of it. The bars paint a portrait of a man that could be myth or could be real, all we know is the intrigue is there. 

The lyrical execution is just immaculate. Rapping sounds like a game that comes easy to Roc Marciano, and "Baby Powder" is like watching the "MARCIELAGO" artist get a 50-piece. But it also reminds that the upper echelon of talent stays in the gym, too. And in order to score in a single game like that, "We talkin' 'bout practice" to stay in shape.

Listen to "Baby Powder" & "Mt .Marci" in full below.