Aesop Rock is a man of ideas. So many, in fact, that it’s hard to keep track of them all. He hasn’t released a lot of records in the ten years he’s been around, but unpacking his dense lyrics could keep a dedicated fan busy for a lifetime–and with the addition of his latest, None […]
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Aesop Rock
With each album that New York rapper Aesop Rock puts out, his beats get more cluttered and his lyrics sound more like riddles. But his vocal style stays the same: he articulates every word but snaps off his rhymes quickly, practically warping them into a different language. On his latest EP, Fast Cars, Danger, Fire […]
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Aesop Rock
With factions of the hip-hop underground thinning out its beats until they’re as vestigial as folkie hand claps around the campfire and suckers like Anticon’s Sole claiming “I only rap because I ain’t smart enough to write a book,” you’ve got to wonder about indie rap’s priorities. No less wordy than his peers, Long Island-born […]
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Aesop Rock
If the song “Daylight” were the only decent thing on Labor Days, the second full-length from Brooklyn hip-hopper Aesop Rock (released by Definitive Jux in the fall), the album would still be notable, not least because the song contains perhaps the most widely quoted lyric in all the Backpack Nation: “Life’s not a bitch / […]