''Heavy Is The Head...'' is the first solo

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by American rapper and producer

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, released October 16, 2012, following up from his 2010 album '' Wayne Fontes Music''. Signed under Mr. Porter's My Own Planet imprint, this nine-track record featured

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-based artists Royce Da 5'9" (of Slaughterhouse), Fat Killahz and Kon Artis (of

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), whose production is primarily presented, along with Jay Oliver, Young Roc, Pzuvmynd, and Trox. In 2013, Marv dropped a single for "Talk Cash Shit" and a video directed by Mario "Khalif" Butterfield. In 2014, he shot another video for "What Up". A free digital version of the ''Heavy Is The Head...'' project is available to download on the Internet.

Track listing

*†The song "Winner's Circle" contains samples from Chanson D'Un Jour D'Hiver by Cortex (1975)

Additional personnel

Mario Butterfield - cover art & design

References

{{reflist, 30em 2012 EPs Fat Killahz albums Albums produced by Mr. Porter