Rome Streetz – Marathon Or Race feat. Westside Gunn | Official Music Video

Sock It 2 My Pocket keeps delivering.

"Marathon Or Race" is track eight on Rome Streetz's second full-length through Mass Appeal Records, released July 16, 2026. Produced by Denny LaFlare, who handles multiple beats on the project including "Cocaine Coltrane," which we covered a few weeks back. The album has been one of the strongest releases of 2026 and the official video for this one is the right choice to keep the momentum going.

The track demands to know how people view the game. Marathon or race. Longevity or speed. Two entirely different philosophies about what it means to build something in hip-hop, and Rome Streetz has always operated in the marathon lane. No major label shortcuts, no trend chasing, a catalog built project by project with the right producers and the right collaborators. Sock It 2 My Pocket is where that approach finally gets the platform it deserves.

Westside Gunn arrives in full Griselda mode. He sticks a man up, references Rey Mysterio versus the Big Show, shouts Griselda by Fashion Nova, and remembers eating lasagna in cell 055 at USP. That is Westside Gunn doing exactly what only Westside Gunn can do — stacking references that shouldn't work together and making them hit harder than anything more conventional would.

The full album is a murderers' row of production: Pete Rock, The Alchemist, 9th Wonder, Havoc, Conductor Williams and Denny LaFlare across fifteen tracks. Rome glides over a host of classic boom bap beats, forged and polished in a way few can match. Styles P, Lloyd Banks, IDK and OX OMNI fill out the feature slots alongside Westside Gunn. This is what a proper album looks like in 2026.