Someone explain Aesop Rock to me.

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I like the song "Daylight" but I seriously cannot understand what this man is talking about. I'll upload it if you like so you can share in the confusion.

Is this man one of the most cryptic/talented rappers alive or is the fact that he's underground because he is just so diabolically wack?

― Don Rowlando (Sam Rowlands), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 23:26 (twenty years ago)

The lyrics are all pretty decipherable to this song. Not any harder to understand than your man Fitty.

― jimnaseum, Tuesday, 31 January 2006 23:30 (twenty years ago)

The beats on Labor Days are perfect.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 23:36 (twenty years ago)

I personally think Aesop uses a lot more syllables than our man Fiddy, it's possible to not really listen to an entire 50 Cent song and still know what the content was about at the end, i dont think the same can be said about an Aesop Rock song.

― Don Rowlando (Sam Rowlands), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 23:40 (twenty years ago)

Yes but he is rendered quite indecipherable because he sounds like he's got a mouth full of potatoes.

― jimnaseum, Tuesday, 31 January 2006 23:44 (twenty years ago)

It's not that he's indeciperable, it's that the lyrics to tracks like "Daylight" are too deeply associative to pick much of it up from context. This isn't always the case with him, and when it is, I'm not sure it's a huge problem -- you can let a lot of the verbiage pass unexamined and still get a kick out of the more lucid lines that flash through here and there. But yeah, bits of "Daylight" are gonna be hard to pick apart beyond the images themselves:

"Dirty cooperative net platoon bloom head trip split ridiculous"
"Merit crutch stolen wretched refuse of my teeming resonance"

vs., say

"This origami dream is beautiful, but man those wings will never leave the ground without a feather and a lottery ticket, now settle down," or the oft-quoted "life's not a bitch" part.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 00:16 (twenty years ago)

Aesop's wife sure is cute. she was our agent for two months.

― Uncle Tom (Uncle Tom), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 04:10 (twenty years ago)

I love that Uncle Tom is posting on other threads now!

Dude, Aesop Rock/Blowfly duet! Make it happen.

Aesop: "My cock's a kabuki backflip dishwasher at an 80-degree star-spangled angle!"
Blowfly: "Get that titty out of your mouth and speak English, motherfucker!"

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 04:18 (twenty years ago)

I like Aesop, as long as he's not on "best MC" lists.

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 05:16 (twenty years ago)

Heck I like him even if he is.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 06:51 (twenty years ago)

I still say he is underground for a very good reason.

― Don Rowlando (Sam Rowlands), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 13:47 (twenty years ago)

I still say he is underground for a very good reason.

Thank you.

― Confounded (Confounded), Thursday, 2 February 2006 04:30 (twenty years ago)

Once, while hanging out with about eight stoned barely post-teens, I was given the reins of playlist making whilst the ragamuffins set about marathon game #29845 of that year's Madden and I slipped a few Ace Rock tracks in amidst the Jigga, Biggie and 50. Kill Em All and No Regrets and Flash Flood did fine, but when '9 to 5'ers Anthem' came to the part where he does the beatless "We the American Working Population Hate the Fact that Eight Hours a Day Is Wasted on Chasing the Dream of Someone That Isn't Us
and We May Not Hate our Jobs but We Hate Jobs in General that Don't Have to Do with Fighting our own Causes", etc. ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE. They threw ashtrays.
A personal favorite moment.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 February 2006 15:05 (twenty years ago)

^^^ gay

― ,,, Thursday, 2 February 2006 16:38 (twenty years ago)

Listen to one Company Flow.

― mcd (mcd), Thursday, 2 February 2006 17:05 (twenty years ago)

what year is it?

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 2 February 2006 17:10 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

I will explain aesop rock to you. He was a art school kid struggling with the idea that art school. He then released some real lyrical ... rap albums that based on their Burroughs scale reading of 4.67 weird white people found it entertaining. Upon realizing his mid-level rating in terms of It Sucks, he got the blues, seriously, for a damn 3 years, and emerged releasing more psychologically and socially adept verse with intrumentall samples so he wasn't unknowingly sampling bullshit avant garde wackness, which sort of embodies his folly. He's gone through discipline and suffering which shows and is proved on his albums-- his role is positive in that he gives you psychological aids and has a sound baseline of realness under his well-writ daytrips. he brings hip hop ethic to a demographic that needs it. in 2008 aesop is a serious rapper and a player on any level. if he works hard enough he could develop a serious movement after 2008. the problem is no likeminded mcs-- no one he respects. and that is where a good rapper has to be.

― Arms, Friday, 22 February 2008 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

he is a white guy who sucks but white people love to listen to because they can relate to him. he is so terrible, it makes me sad that he gets any love at all.

― pipecock, Friday, 22 February 2008 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

I predict serious movement after 2008.

pipecock is such a treasure.

― contenderizer, Friday, 22 February 2008 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

Scare quotes wherever you think best.

― contenderizer, Friday, 22 February 2008 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

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