Aesop Rock - Zero Dark Thirty (Official Video)
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- Опубликовано: 30 апр 2012
- From "Skelethon"
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Director: Isaac Ravishankara
DP: Kevin Hayden
Producer: Brooke Kennedy
EP: Danielle Hinde
Editor: Isaac Ravishankara
Artist: Coro
Production Company: Doomsday Entertainment
Lyrics:
Unsigned hype, front line aeronauts flurry, zero dark thirty, zero friends, minotaur-fugly stepchild, evoke lunch jumped over plunging necklines, up, beside tongue-tied hungry enzymes, devolved into mothmen munching textiles, punisher, out past go-time, back 10 fried worms chubbier, brown grass both sides, canned food, manmade tools, Lanacane, band-aids, mandrake root, bindle on a broom stick, pancaked shoes and handshake-proof campaign, can't lose, can't gain, smoke out moles like a force of nature, pray fortune return to his favor, swiftly, maybe in the form of a nest egg, maybe in the form of a tesla death ray, or a solid gold scene with something better to celebrate than powder on your face like a flat foot on jelly day, m-m-moral compass all batshit, spinning in the shadows of immoral magnets, are we supporting the artist or enabling the addict, I mean, I guess it matters to me, I wish it mattered to you, how a thousand virtues, kick the same bucket like chinatown turtles
Roving packs of elusive young, become choke-lore writers over boosted drums, in the terrifying face of a future tongue, Down from a huntable surplus to one
(check his own) Breakneck pulse over colors in a drain that emote sugar skulls in the rain, flower-eyes melting, guided by a levy made of bath tiles tilting, quarter up and headed for the kill screen, no corner cut, no build team, only a particularly menacing, angle perpendicular to everything, boys room cherry bomb, boy/goon very much runnin' with the devil in the mellotron, hello, here's where a tale of caution, pounds coffin nails to bootlegs of Hawkwind, saw tooth, nevermind straw to gold, spin hearts on sleeves into heads on poles, arm in the maw, fish out pith like a business card from a jar at the mall, A-alike androids dreaming of carbon applause get stuffed with cartoon cigars, cold pack, neti-pot, home to roost, around folk backed into what they most lampoon, shook to the fevered brow and broke ankles, daisy, declawed pound, no thank you, fade me, failed all basic training but I spent a couple groundhogs days with a changeling, silouhette the god last cigarette, anything less would be re-god-damn-diculous 
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"I don't like seeing people who don't like my music dismiss it as "gibberish" or "nonsensical." It quite simply isn't. I get that the wordplay and overall verbiage can be pretty swelled up, but to dismiss it as nothing because it isn't for you is a bit strange" - AESOP ROCK
me, finding out people think it's gibberish: okay first take off that fall out boy shirt you fucking hypocrite
Aesop's lyrics are anything but gibberish. He conveys more meaning in one bar than most rappers do their entire careers.
it is gibberish until you understand it...then its fuckin profound
@@12201185234 right on. They start on you before birth to get you that way. backfires. time is always on one way or others'
People get threatened when there are too many words sometimes...and they have to study the stuff to get the multiple layers of meanings of stuff and over time of course things change.
"Failed all BASIC TRAINING, but I spent a couple GROUNDHOG DAYs with a CHANGELING" -- He references 3 80's films in 2 bars, holy shit.
+Urine Denial FUCK I NEVER NOTICED THAT
I figured it was a line about a failed long-term relationship ... but, y'know, it's Aes so of course it's gonna work on multiple levels......... damn
unless the Changeling remake A Jolie was in that later 90s if my memory right. if not...f it
im talkin the original with George c scott
+Curt Nix Groundhog was the 90s too, no matter, still impressive.
Nice Aphex Twin picture; great minds think alike :D
1:58
Aesop: "Hello!"
*English subtitles: "Hello! :3"*
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hello :3
Can anyone acknowledge that one line that is brilliant? "Moral compass all batshit, spinning in the shadows of immoral magnets." Thats incredibly deep.
One of my faves, also enjoy his delivery of the line.
Rly!
So many unbelievable lines like that in the song!
I think my favourite from this is:
"Beside tongue-tied hungry enzymes,
Devote one into mothmen munching textiles"
So little says so much. He's describing the US military as enzymes; entities fit for a single purpose which speeds up the rate of reaction, converting one thing into another. Converted into mothmen, chasing a light with futility.
I don't understand what he's talking about half the time tbqh, but i never think he's spouting nonsense.
Fish out pith like a business card from a jar at the mall ...
The fact that I listened to this 24/7 when it first came out EIGHT YEARS AGO is tripping me out right now, damn. Still just as fire as the first listen honestly.
"Time waits for no man" I feel you
So true. Everyday to and from work plus lunch.
Still and always 🙂
Every lyric is like 5 references, most of which are obscure. I think I've found my favourite artist.
they need a love button for some of these comments
@@juniorc1521 mm.ust.possess.skelethon.cd.gnggngngngngngngngnnnn
Lmao, listen to das racist, it really twists your perspective when aesop rock is held to the high standard of lyricism that he is. I came to appreciate the stupid, it's just a facade. lol. I can listen to Kool AD all day.
Is he still your favorite artists?
I've been listening to him by for years he's so underrated. I love Aesop Rock
that moment you absolutely love his music but you're just a little too dumb to understand what he means... Aesop Rock is one person I'd love to sit and just talk with.
true
Sometimes it might be like Beck, not meaning anything but sounding great. Although, I kinda doubt it.
There's a gigantic amount of meaning packed into each line, that forms a coherent narrative.
The TL;DR is that he's astonished at how bad the mainstream rap scene has gotten (which he's recently expanded on further in Dorks off his new album) and feels like the whole thing has devolved into violence and alcoholism (hence the Hawkwind play on words with bootlegging).
For a line-by-line analysis, check out RapGenius, really excellent site: genius.com/697932
barbariandude, I could tell it was about frustration with something. thank you very much though, he is one of my favorites but now that I have a way to get what I'm too dumb to puck up on, that may be the nail in the coffin to make him my favorite.
He's absolutely my favorite rapper :)
If you really want to be impressed, go check through the lyricism of Daylight and Nightlight, where in Nightlight he's essentially portraying an asshole version of himself to contrast with the optimism of Daylight while still maintaining almost exactly the same rhyme scheme, structure, and flipping around all the wordplay.
Thank God for Rap Genius
TheLastSliceOfPie same
TheLastSliceOfPie if people need a thesaurus to look up what you mean, are you really reaching anyone? Being intelligent doesnt mean using big words. It means getting your point across with the most simple and mundane, so that anyone can understand it. If you can do that, youre truly gifted. Anyone can write something and change every word to something more complex. It doesnt mean anything though.
nizmojoeblows If you can communicate a complex idea to an idiot then its not really a complex idea
+nizmojoeblows Do you mean dictionary instead of thesaurus?
+nizmojoeblows you think mundane is gifted? the complexity of what he is saying match with an amazing rhythm and flow is what it means to be great. Aes is on the top end of the spectrum. He is saying stuff in the most unique way, other rappers are good, but this guy is a goddamn acrobat flying through the air doing all sorts of flips and shit miles above other rappers.
Aesop Rock is always a go-to for me. It ages well and never gets "old". One of my favorite songs. His humility and assertion are like yin and yang. Dualities forever vying for the spotlight.
"His humility and assertion are like yin and yang. Dualities forever vying for the spotlight." That's heavy bro
He sounds like he holds all the knowledge and understanding.
Which creates a paradox; the more abstract and cryptic he goes, more things makes sense for my point of view. The amount of gravity he can bring into simple words is really captivating.
Hello Brother, Ive been focusing on my humility to be the best version of myself and I want you to know that the notion of my humility battling with my assertion as been heavy on my mind since I first read this statement a few months ago
Part of what makes aes great imo is that his beats are always incredible, his voice is great, his flow is impeccable, his vocabulary is massive, and he looks very normal/average to me which makes it all hit home a lot more like "woah, this is a real person"
I can't remember how long ago it was but it was determined through some kind of algorithm he has the largest vocabulary of any rapper/emcee.
I don't need a dictionary when I listen to Aesop.
He IS the dictionary.
hes a fuckin genius, im shocked.....i recently knew about him
This guy has literally found his way in describing life in his songs better than anyone else.
I honestly don't get how people can say this song is mysterious. A lot of Aes's stuff is, but this is just incredible, melodic, deep, true poetry over an insane beat.
Zero friends minotaur-fugly stepchild
Evoke lunch jumped over plunging necklines
Up, beside tongue-tied hungry enzymes
Devote one into mothmen munching textiles
Punisher
Out past go-time
Back 10 fried worms chubbier
You don't understand this song. You just want to pretend like you do to sound smart
@coreyholt3338 Poor hungry kid in hand me down clothes getting sick of people looking down on him.
It's not that hard.
@@jchaz904 Man really roasted himself there lol
I listen to mostly metal and rock stuff, but this is honestly one of the best things I have ever heard. I immediately liked it. I have nothing but respect and admiration for Aesop Rock.
The true story behind this song is sad and incredible. This one has a heart ruclips.net/video/lwoyo0Rt4Bw/видео.html
this guy is a 1000 years ahead of his time bruh
He 1000 years old
@@AnonymoudKid Died a 1000 deaths
@@_Jake.From.Statefarm_ He dies once a year??
@@argentino39 No he did em in a row at the start
@@UnEv3n He died 1000 times, then was born 1000 years ago, and made music more recently?
I slept so hard on Aesop that I don't even know if Im even awake. Stoked I found him this year but feel like I robbed myself of watching the growth of such a eclectic and talented artist.
Ayyy I really respect seeing someone say this here so much- that said would you be willing to tune into someone (me) who's only really starting with taking it on seriously full time though I've technically been rhyming and backpacking around on it on and off almost a decade now...?
The channel with all the albums is there for you and anyone else for $FREE.99
Can also get me on social media to see some photo-op stuff and if you got any questions-
Also if you end up hating it and me just make sure to let me know how much 🙏
#THEENDISNEAR!!!
#MAKEART
~{{#PsYcHoKiNeTiCs!¡!}}~
Fuck me, it's been 4 years already...
I didn't notice until I saw your comment, jeeeeeesus. I remember the day it came out!
dude, wow, i was 16 back then...
G H
I was 20, it blew my mind then and the way he writes still stuns me now. Aesop is a rapper for all ages I swear
just 18 forever ago
I was 15 when this came out, put this shit on listenonrepeat.com for days.
Welp, I've hit the pause and rewind about 100 times in 3 minutes, must be an AES song. This man is a genius from a different planet
The beat reminds me of what Mike Shinoda was doing with Fort Minor. Complicated drum schemes, odd bass, beeping keyboards.. i love it, the instrumental is just mind blowing. And of course, Aesop and his concrete like flow and expressive voice.
Underrated fuckin' comment
"Aesop Rock is the Picasso of Rap." -theneedledrop
Aesop rock is the Shakespeare of rap.
I cant be the only one who understands this song? he's writing about himself and flaunting his natural talent which is poetry, don't assume the fact you don't understand something it has no meaning that's ignorant.
He's the rapper we deserve...
Dave Berg But not the one we need right now... LoL
People who think aesop rock raps poetry don't understand what poetry is. Contrary to what school may teach you poetry isn't usually cryptic or hard to understand. Most of it is quite relatable one way or another. Aesop rock's streams of esoteric symbolism don't qualify as poetry.
I know a lot of people that don't get Aesop... And I can somewhat understand their standpoint. Personally I think his lyrics are untouchable as far as flow and depth as well as vocabulary... But that being said they're also pretty inaccessible at first glance. For some people this is a major turn off because they listen to it and can't decipher a black and white, clear cut message on their first listen and are left saying "What the fuck is he on about?" . To me, and many other people that appreciate lyrically heavy hip-hop it only increases its longevity because I'm able to pick out something new and profound with each listen. He can describe normal and even mundane everyday occurrences and concepts that pass most people by in a way that...well.... passes most people by. That in turn forces the audience to actually listen and think about each word before coming to a conclusion about what they've just heard. It's the sign of a true lyrical genius. Especially in a genre overflowing with absolute bullshit. OK I'm done sucking his dick for now. This song is dope, yo.
farmerbob hack Honestly, I went to french school and i have no clue what the fuck he means, barely ever. I'm far from stupid and i do read his lyrics and make a real effort...so i think a lot of people who have a hard time, may not have english as a first language or are really young.
Wikipedia says this guy has been active since 1996? Ashamed I haven't ever known of him until now. Entire track is heat, Half tempted to buy large portions of his catalog just based on this track alone, but Im deadass broke after Christmas here, so I had better pace myself.
Youre here because of watch mojo huh
Don't know what mojo is? I found this from a link on a forum.
Watch Mojo put up a video including him
+cipherrrr he has a fantastic catalog, I would start with Skelethon (this track is on it and its my personal favorite album by him) or Bazooka Tooth/Labor Days which are his most acclaimed/best projects
You keep up with Rhymesayers, you'll hear the illest shit!
The internet is so wierd. To be able to see what he looks like after just hearing him for all these years. Just huge how good you are. Bangers every time.♡ love you Aesop.
glad i found that rap study I cant believe Ive never heard of this guy hes good!
Truly amazing visuals. The strength of his vocals combined with a fast-paced beat, the dynamically changing background compared with the calm he keeps throughout the video altogether make an amazing effect. One of the best impressions a music video ever gave me I think.
Go watch every single other one of his now 😭
Shouts out to Aesop Rock, Slug, El-P, Sage Francis, and Brother Ali for keeping it real. And, of course, R.EYE.P.
Shout out to the whites
hybridcypher i used to think eminem was the only good white rapper but cage, EL-P and brother ali proved me dead wrong.
I think Everlast was always pretty sick. When i heard Aesop rock "Abandon all Hope" i thought he was the greatest rapper...period...those verses are from the next dimension.
No one is making you like Eminem. I think first three albums (Infinite, SSLP, and MMLP) are brilliant, and everything after has sucked. If you don't like him, you don't have to.
Aesop is great, but the single greatest rapper? Try again.
Nit picking comments on comments and miss reading are we? Very Naughty
Em's vocab and poetical potency has nothing on Aesop
This man is the shakespeare of rap.
Are you mad?
hi troll :)
***** not the shakespeare of hiphop.
shakespeare of rap - there is a difference. one is a movement and a way of living, the other is an artform of expression.
second i know shakespeare and i am refering to his poetic talent
+Zeefu M we have a real Hiphop head here
+Zeefu M not similiar to Shakepeares style at all, hes more like James Joyce of rap.
Kills every line, every time. Genius.
8 yrs later this song still slaps
Still 🙂
@@Nomad_Skateboarding forever
It goes on
@@ssoare3864 yes
10 years my dudes
I can't believe thise dropped 9years ago🔥🔥
When this song came out i was 22 now im 33 and still watch this on youtube regularly
💯💯💯🔥
Dude, me too. This is still on my rotation constantly. Now that I'm older and things have played out like they have, this song hits differently and still gives me chills.
My god his vocabulary is just voluminous. The intricate design of his lyricism astounds me, I don't even listen to rap that much but god this is great
Back when rap was poetry and not bragging about material objects.
this video embodies everything about my life i don't have the words to express.
I don't have enough thumbs to so my appreciation of the CRAFT
This song got me into Aesop Rock
me to and it just got suggested, i remember the fucking MOMENT, hip hop took a different form that night holy fuck stay up brother.
Skelethon is excellent entry-level aesop
Thank You Asop
It would take me quite a research to fully appreciate it, but from what I got from the go I can tell that lots of people just won't understand how dope this actually is.
This is what's called artistry.
Indisputably, the most authentic and original MC in Hip-Hop history.. The way Aes constructs his rhymes in the raps/stories he's spittin is just too beyond the level of, not all, but most, rappers of all time. You really have to listen to each track several times over to actually get the message behind it, but, to me, I think that's dope as hell.
Genius creativity. Mad respect.
I've been stressed out of my mind for finals. Last night I listened to Skelethon start to finish, and wrote a verse on what I think about the current state of hip-hop, with the stress that I had.
I don't think I have ever been as influenced by any other artist, ever. Aesop is Hip-Hop.
I find solace when this man speaks, it the few years that I've listened to him he rapidly climbed my list which brings me here
"Down down from a huntable surplus to one"
I hope Aes comes to New Zealand.
the "Hello :3" in the cc made me grin.
This song still gives me goosebumps
7,392 brought me here.
haha me as well
Blair Davis lol Me 3..never heard of this dude before..but thats dope!
Bob Farts This article has been making the rounds, so tons of people are discovering this guy's rap. rappers.mdaniels.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/
Yeah, the 7392 impressed me too!
Next link: iTunes
This is my all-time favourite rap song
Unless you're British you'll never understand how hard this track goes...
I can't even begin describe my love for him and his musical impact on me everyday
"Evoke lunch jumped over plunging necklines" another way to say he vomited. This is just an example, maybe you prefer other type of lyric but that doesnt mean it doesnt make sense, for me this are the kind of lyrics that make you think, doesnt give you everything pre-digested, and is open to your very own free interpretation.
Almost every aesop track makes me feel like I've watched a quality movie in 4 minutes
I feel If we protected each other as much as we protected our own we would have more of a "surplus". We would be stronger and safer too. I love this song.
Then stop dismissing freaks as freaks and give every word everybody says an ounce of thought. You'll find geniuses and idiots are everywhere
Aesop is a mad man O_O how does he come up with this stuff?? It's incredible! A true lyrical genius!
I really like Aesop rock’s music although it’s something difficult to understand but it’s damn good
Not only is the music on point but he's always got some awesome visual art in his videos.
Once it clicks, you will spend the rest of your life attempting to piece together an infinite and subjective puzzle. The art that this man has bestowed upon us is unparalleled.
ill admit that while i never had listened to a full Aesop project until The Impossible Kid ( which is my album of the year currently) i first heard him a year ago on the hook of Mr Lifs Success ( i know I Phantom came out in 2002 but im REALLY late with hearing music) and thought he was dope as hell. So once Kid came out, i took my time to listen to some of his other projects ( Labor Days, Daylight and Skelethon) and i think this guy is one of the most brilliant and forward thinking rappers out right now. Him, Slug Ali and EL-P are keeping my faith in hip hop alive along with Lupe and Kendrick.
This is real hip hop right here. This guy is incredible. This shit hits like water flowing down a mountain.
Aesop Rock is a poet before he's anything else. He works off of Emily Dickinson's recommendation to tell the truth, but tell it slant. He never lays out his exact meaning for you. It's more about your experience of the line while you try to piece together the meaning. If depth and serious artistic passion are what you're lookin for then Aes is your last stop. You found what you were lookin for.
Aesop rocks the GOAT
Glad to see his music is reaching more people. I remember when you couldn't even find his stuff unless someone else showed you it. I've been up all night praying he would re-release Music for Earthworms ;)
I guess Im not the only one who was brought here by an article on large vocabulary
Nope, you're not.
same
We are in this together, my friend
We are the first of many
yeeep...and i am watching this when i am suppose to study for software engineering :/
Been loving Aesop for years
His delivery has improved so much, he's no where near as monotone as he was in the beginning of his career.
"I guess it matters to me; I wish it mattered to you, how a thousand virtues kicked the same bucket like Chinatown turtles."
I listen to a whole lot of music, but after every couple of weeks or so I always end up back at this song. My favorite Aesop Rock song to date.
I think we all need to take a step back for a second. Art can be anything. Art can be typing at a computer all day, cleaning, arranging furniture, etc. Art is what the individual makes it. Art is so much more than painting, writing, dancing, singing... The sooner we realize that the more we can appreciate it. To say something is not "art" is ridiculous! Anything can be art! And you have to be a little crazy to make art, in any form. And we all have an art, so we're all a little crazy in that sense I guess. Art means many things. Art. ART.
for sure, he has a heavy use of metaphors. I don't catch much when I'm listening casually, but if I've smoke weed and I take some time reading through the lyrics, everything clicks and I'm really blown away.
All of Aesop rock's stuff is artistic and creative I wonder if he directs his own music videos
Good question 4 real
Fuck.. this guy is beyond brilliant. I challenged myself to journal every word I don't know the definition of, for this song alone, and I got 20. Some of these words/things are concepts or nouns etc I've never even heard before..wow...
I was high on a couch going through alot of things a long time ago, and this song popped up. my first introduction to aesop rock. the best rapper alive or dead in my opinion. my ilfe was literally changed after this discovery.
This is his best track too
What I like about him is that I'm trying to understand one line to the next.
I come watch this video every so often. The imagery vs the beat vs the lyrics!!! Woah!!!!! Each can be taken apart and still feel like a whole. 🔥🔥🔥🔥
I love how Aesop Rock's videos attract more intellectually insecure numbnuts than a Modern Art gallery
RileyBlackfox hahaha^
RileyBlackfox hahahahaha yes!
RileyBlackfox lmao
weak aha
+RileyBlackfox hahahah u right bruh.
If you don't understand what the lyrics mean he's singing about zero dark thirty (like the actual event that happened more so the helicopter crash), hence canned food, manmade tool, and how it relates to someone wanting to be alone or being outcasted. There are a few spins to his childhood referenced here, about trauma and seeing death, but for that you have to know more about him.
Actually it seems like he is rapping about hip hop itself and what happened to mainstream music.
Moral compass is all batshit, when it is spinning in the shadows of immoral magnets is like saying that everything is also subjective and even the most garbage artists have their own fan base. Most of these modern rappers are spitting about the drugs and lot of people don´t even care so he is asking if we are actually supporting the artist/the art or enabling the addiction within? He cares about this unlike other people.
"choke-lore writers over boosted drums" everyone is rapping into these awful trap snares with cheap hi-hat and are choking lore of the genre or interesting topics, like the lyrical content is piss poor.
One the dopest videos i ever saw on mushrooms 🍄 ❤
I got the privilege to see this man live in Chicago years back, still my fav.
im 2 years late? dammit. all metal here. my brother told me about this dude. i dig it. Just in case of rough waters...i wanna put one up for my brother."
love this album. previously I've only spent time listening to 3 or 4 songs off the album but now bothered listening to the whole thing through and started appreciating the rest of it a lot more.
I do that a lot with Aesop's music. It takes a few listens in a different mood before i start enjoying a number of other songs
I listen to Doing It Stealthy when I'm experiencing existential dread. It makes it worse but... I just can't stop.
I don't care if its too complicated or not complicated enough, the effects of this song still sink in.
aesop rock looks like jimmy fallons older brother
+tgms177 I had to scroll way to far to find this
+tgms177 Not like his older brother.
- He looks exactly like Jimmy Fallon, just with longer hair and a beard
+Andreas Mejer Plot twist: He IS Jimmy Fallon
+Andreas Mejer Aes has green eyes, Jimmy has brown.
Aesop Rock looked like me when I was in my 30s.
Roving packs of elusive young become
Choke lore writers over boosted drums
In the terrifying face of a future tongue
Down down from a huntable surplus to one
*hundred plus surplus to one
The original guy had it right, it's huntable. Check Genius.
@@ceetruth4709 It means there used to be a whole lot of them, but now there's only one left
a little less than two years ago i listened to this track and could not believe that it had not hit million of views and now that i am back watching/ listening im glad the 1 million plus could enjoy the creative mind that IS Aesop Rock
Aesop says so much but nothing at the same time, its beautiful
probly just my small brain
he says everything and nothing, experience it a thousand times and it's clear as daylight
They did not know how long they had been there
They did not know how long they had been there
They did not know how long they had been there
They did not know how long they had been there
They did not know how long they had been there
They did not know how long they had been there
They did not know how long they had been there
Look
Unsigned hype
Front line aeronauts flurry
Zero dark thirty
Zero friends minotaur-fugly stepchild
Evoke lunch jumped over plunging necklines
Up, beside tongue-tied hungry enzymes
Devote one into mothmen munching textiles
Punisher
Out past go-time
Back 10 fried worms chubbier
Brown grass both sides
Canned food
Manmade tools
Lanacane, band aids, mandrake root
Bindle on a broomstick, pancaked shoes
And a handshake-proof campaign, can't lose
Can't gain
Smoke out moles like a force of nature
Pray fortune return to his favor
Swiftly
Maybe in the form of a nest egg
Maybe in the form of a tesla death ray
Or a solid gold scene with something better to celebrate
Than powder on a face like a flatfoot on jelly day
M-m-moral compass all batshit
Spinning in the shadows of immoral magnets
Are we supporting the artist or enabling the addict
I mean, I guess it matters to me
I wish it mattered to you
How a thousand virtues
Kick the same bucket like chinatown turtles
Roving packs of elusive young become
Choke-lore writers over boosted drums
In the terrifying face of a future tongue
Down down from a huntable surplus to one
Down down from a huntable surplus to one
Down down from a huntable surplus to one
Down down from a huntable surplus to one
Check his own Breakneck pulse
Over colors in a drain
That emote sugar skulls in the rain
Flower-eyes melting
Guided by a levy made of bath tiles tilting
Quarter up and headed for the kill screen
No corner cut, no build team
Only a particularly menacing
Angle perpendicular to everything
Boys room cherry bomb
Boy/goon very much runnin' with the devil in the mellotron
Hello
Here's where a tale of caution
Pounds coffin nails
To bootlegs of Hawkwind, saw tooth
Nevermind straw to gold
Spin hearts on sleeves into heads on poles
Arm in the maw
Fish out pith like a business card from a jar at the mall
A-alike androids dreaming of carbon applause
Get stuffed with cartoon cigars
Cold pack, neti-pot, home to roost
Around folk backed into what they most lampoon
Shook to the fevered brow and broke ankles
Daisy, declawed pound, no thank you
Fade me
Failed all basic training
But I spent a couple groundhog days with a changeling
Silhouette the god's last cigarette
Anything less would be ri-god-damn-diculous
Roving packs of elusive young become
Choke lore writers over boosted drums
In the terrifying face of a future tongue
Down down from a huntable surplus to one
Down down from a huntable surplus to one
Down down from a huntable surplus to one
One
One
One
One
One
One
One
This dude deserves Asap Rocky's fame Rocky deserves to be working at the fucking mall.
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I guess Hip Hop is not totally dead. It is breathing through the veins of rappers like Aesop Rock and there is still a lot of hope indeed.
The scene in The Last of Us ep 4 where they're hiding out in the shop with newspapers covering the windows and the little girl is sitting on the floor against the wall completely looked inspired by this video. "Down from a huntable surplus to one" (Two in the show though) fits pretty well too.
Pray fortune return to his favor
Swiftly
Maybe in the form of a nest egg
Maybe in the form of a tesla death ray
Love these lines.
God, still love this song so much Aesop is an artist in its truest form nearly every emotion he has is expressed in musical and artistic form so complexly and articulately beautiful bumping Aesop through headphones loud enough to burst your ear drums is the best part of any day
Aesop Rock is the definition of Esoteric! No.1.
Damn, 10 years sure fly by fast
This dude is a fuckin lyrical MONSTER!!!
I definitely recommend "Eyedea & Ability" for anyone who looks into deeper lyrics but that are less confusing and irritating to understand. Most tracks of Eyedea are far more relatable. Got to love Aesop and Eyedea, both are amazing.
irritating???? cause you'e not smart enough or patient enough to decipher it?
Not everyone likes deep and sophisticated lyrics and prefer something more relatable to listen to. Which is totally understandable and fine. Also for anyone who likes to get into deeper lyrics, Eyedea is the perfect gateway.
***** Not THAT hard, dude. I studied poetics and poetic theory in University... No harder than any Joyce or Wordsworth. lol
It is a matter of preference if you like sophisticated and deep lyrics and furthermore not everyone is privileged to go to university and study poetic. Albeit you do not really need to study poetics to understand this.
Most of Aesop's lyrics are like abstract art. They'll mean different things to different people. Don't bother trying to decipher the songs like they're some hidden code with only one correct translation. Just listen and take it in for what it means to you. You don't need to major in English to enjoy it.
To all the people bitching about hiphop, Aesop has said before he does not represent hiphop and that he only considers himself a rapper making rap music.
This guy has the game under his boot for years and he's still slept on FML
This dudes brilliant holy fuck.
I admit I didn't like it when I first heard it BUT NOW IT HAS TAKEN OVER MY LIFE!!! 😍😭😍👌👌👌🎤🎵🎶👑
I've been listening to Aesop since '06. He still got it!
I gotta say the beat is insane, the lyrics even more so, but the constant flow of the graphis around Aes is just downright. Sick AF ! There he is, back against the wall, contemplating his life probably a little lost and disconnected the only thing that changes is the graphics, which is probably a visual metaphor for his emotions and thoughts
this hole video went right above my head