Seven years after dropping the original Yacht Rock, The Alchemist has unleashed a 12-track sequel to the project.
Yacht Rock 2 sees the acclaimed producer working with an impressive lineup of MCs. Contributors include Roc Marciano, Benny The Butcher, Conway The Machine, Westside Gunn, Action Bronson and Willie The Kid, among others.
Check out Alchemist’s Yacht Rock 2 stream, cover art and tracklist below.
1. Exclusive Vibe (Intro)
2. Uptown Aquarium f. Big Body Bes
3. Tropical Storm Lenny f. Action Bronson
4. Sex in the Fountain-Bleu f. Meyhem Lauren
5. Stugots f. Willie The Kid
6. Boat Shoes f. Gangrene
7. Ocean Prime f. Boldy James
8. Harry O. f. Roc Marciano
9. Sand Castles f. Benny The Butcher
10. Eastside f. Westside Gunn & Conway The Machine
11. Billy Dee f. Big Twins
12. The Floating Hotel (Outro)
[This post has been updated. The following was originally published by Kyle Eustice on August 10, 2019.]
As promised, The Alchemist’s Yacht Rock 2 is on its way. On Friday (August 9), the veteran beat magician shared a clip of “Ocean Prime” featuring Boldy James and revealed the project would be out before the month is up.
“Boldy James – ‘Ocean Prime,'” he captioned the video. “YACHT ROCK 2. AUG 30th.”
The original Yacht Rock EP was released in 2012 and featured Chuck Inglish, Blu, Oh No and more. The Beverly Hills native recently teamed up with Inglish once again on The Cool Kids’ Layups EP.
In another tweet last month, Alchemist promised the upcoming effort is going to rule the summer.
[This article has been updated. The following was published on July 31, 2019.]
The Alchemist has provided an update on the follow-up to his 2012 Yacht Rock EP, which featured the likes of Action Bronson, Oh No, Chuck Inglish, Blu, Big Twins and Roc Marciano.
The tenured producer hit Twitter on Tuesday (July 30) to inform his fans Yacht Rock 2 is on the way — and will apparently arrive in the not-so-distant future.
“YACHT ROCK 2 WILL BE YOURS VERY SOON,” he wrote. “I’M JUST BEING GREEDY ENJOYING IT BEFORE IT RULES THE SUMMER AND EVERYONE HAS IT. STAY EXTREMELY TUNED.”
The 41-year-old Beverly Hills native dropped the Bread EP last year and more recently, teamed up with Chuck Inglish and Sir Michael Rocks of The Cool Kids for their Layups EP.
He also dropped “W.Y.G.D.T.N.S.” with ScHoolboy Q on vinyl earlier this week.
Alchemist started stacking his expansive discography in 2000 with the Gangster Theme Music instrumental album. Over the years, he’s collaborated with everyone from Mobb Deep and Curren$y to Fashawn and Evidence (as Step Brothers).
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Alchemist criminally underrated as one of the greatest producers of all time, Russian Roulette classic both volumes of the good book classic the original yacht rock classic
Nah bro. He is underrated as the biggest biter of all time. Total Premier Pete Rock kicker to the death. Over time he’s played off his immediate copycat shit. Congrats on outing yourself as a new booty who knows nothing about Hip-hop.
Your way off base man. He has a completely different vibe. You really think Rare Chandeliers sounds like Rock or Premo? No way
You better change type of music . Hip hop is not your genre. You fuckin moron
You just outlined yourself Hahahahahaha
Alc’s production is nothing like Rock’s or Premier’s. Congrats sir, you just played yourself.
Imagine not knowing that DJ Muggs was Alchemist’s mentor.
No, Dry Statik is the Premo biter and 9th Dumpster is the Pete Rock biter. Racist Alan isn’t biting anyone but still makes trash ass beats.
Can’t this fool just go away already? He’s already shoved a bunch of his boring, drumless beats into our ears. Racist Alan, nobody wants to hear your shitty beats anymore.
You are clearly 2 eggs short of an omelette.
I’ll turn your brain into an omelette, fuck with me.
I’ll turn yo momma into an omelette, keyboard warrior!
I think you’re shot out brUH. Drumless beats ? Rubber Band and Weight. You obviously aren’t musically inclined at all. Guarantee you not only can’t read music but you have no foundation to make that statement – so no one wants to hear your untrue statements. You’re a no music wanna be- I’m sure you have fire bars brUH sick lyfffffffff. Keep some heat in your pocket brUH brUH. What a momo.
Alot of disrespectful in this discussion! Alchemist made some of the biggest bangers with your favorite artist! You guys acting like you, you wasn’t bumping his shit when your favorite rapper was on his beats……smh……
They some lil kids fam, never heard them rappers you talking about… Be easy fam.
Alchemist been dope. “The Realest” by Mobb Deep and “ We Gon Make It” by Kiss are proof. Plus he’s been lacing Benny with crazy beats for a couple years now. Alchemist been putting in work for years.
We need that Fetti part 2 with Gibbs and Spitta
Alchemist’s ethnicity rhymes with “bike”
Dyke is not an ethnicity though?
That beat sounds like elevator music
That’s essentially all hip-hop ever was. Sampled drum loops over sampled vocals and chords. Is it simple ? Absolutely. But producers like Alchemist have mastered that and shouldn’t be belittled. In fact, it’s actually considered more of a skill the less you have to add to a sample loop
It looks like you missed the point. Compare Alc beats pre-Russian Roulette like what hes done with Dilated Peoples, Mobb Deep, even early Curren$y stuff to what he does lately. A lot of it is straight naked loops without really much of “production” in it. I understand sometimes this shit works but overdoing it or basing your style almost completely just on looped samples is wack to me, especially when a lot of times the samples are pretty boring. The only producer that can really get away with looping shit is Madlib to me, cause he still often would add interesting chops and little details and simply cause his sample selection is better. And I’m saying all this as a long time Alc fan.
I feel what you’re saying. I’m also a long time Alc fan and can definitely see the difference in his style. Honestly I feel like he’s sampling better records now than ever and doesn’t always feel the need to throw that extra layer on there. He still gets busy though. Broken Bottles by Benny the Butcher is one of many examples
Number of summers alchemist has ruled: 0
Summer damn near over. Lol
Another boring ass album with biter MC’s and has been a litters all over it. Doesn’t this dude ever die from choking on all that East Cost dick?
Please send me a pic of a bbc my pussy will get so wet (440)228-7926 i will send pics in return
Hidden Elcamino verse is flames
Hard-headed like a nubuan ibex. bruh.
Only #BARS you can find on an Alchemist joint.
Lol. Big facts
Can’t wait for another gangrene album. He and oh no bring the best out of each other
Super boring ass album
Sound like dude looped the background music from a douche commerical from like 1985 then told some to rap over it
I dont know if Al smoked his brain cells up or maybe he thinks its innovative but this leisure rap music is played out go sip some cognac in your den with your Hugh Hefner robe on. White hip hop heads love this type of garbage tho
White hip hop heads and white rappers ruined hip hop
Your twat ruined hip hop
The album is cool i only like boat shoes and eastside tho
I bought this blindly, and I almost fell asleep at the wheel during my lunch break while riding around listening to it.
This album is fire, idk what these fools in the comments are talking about… ALC has different styles of beat making and the naked loops just happen to be one of em.. i fuck wit it. Lets not act like he hasn’t been doing this since around 2012.. U have producers like Daringer & Madlib making beats like this now.
sand castles is beyond sick both the beat and the rhymes holy shmidokes. top shelf real hip-hop for 2019