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Boston University
Boston University (often initialized as BU) is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers. The university is nonsectarian, but is historically affiliated with The United Methodist Church.
BU is categorized as an RU/VH Research University (very high research activity) in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. In 2009–2010, BU had research expenditures of $407.8 million, or $553 million if the research led by the Medical School faculty at Boston Medical Center is included. BU is a member of the Boston Consortium for Higher Education.
Among its faculty and alumni, BU counts 7 Nobel Prize winners, including Martin Luther King, Jr. (PhD '55); 22 Pulitzer Prize winners, and numerous[quantify]Guggenheim and MacArthur fellows.
The university offers bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and doctoral degrees, and medical and dental degrees through 18 schools and colleges on two urban campuses. The main campus is situated along the Charles River in Boston's Fenway-Kenmore and Allston neighborhoods, while the Boston University Medical Campus is in Boston's South End neighborhood. BU also operates 75 study abroad programs in over 33 cities in over 20 countries and has internship opportunities in 10 different countries (including the United States and abroad).
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California
California (pronounced
i/kælɨˈfɔrnjə/) is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third most extensive (after Alaska and Texas). It is home to the nation's second- and sixth-largest census statistical areas (Los Angeles Metropolitan Area and San Francisco Bay Area), and eight of the nation's fifty most populated cities (Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, Fresno, Sacramento, Long Beach and Oakland). The capital city is Sacramento.
California's diverse geography ranges from the Pacific Coast in the west, to the Sierra Nevada mountains in the east – from the Redwood–Douglas-fir forests of the northwest, to the Mojave Desert areas in the southeast. The center of the state is dominated by Central Valley, a major agricultural area. California contains both the highest and lowest points in the contiguous United States (Mount Whitney and Death Valley), and has the third-longest coastline of all states (after Alaska and Florida). Earthquakes are a common occurrence due to the state's location along the Pacific Ring of Fire: about 37,000 are recorded annually.
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Daily Nexus
Coordinates: 34°24′45.34″N 119°50′52.73″W / 34.4125944°N 119.8479806°W / 34.4125944; -119.8479806
The Daily Nexus is the university newspaper for the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).
Student journalism has always been a part of college life in Santa Barbara, even before the existence of UCSB. Before joining the University of California system, for example, Santa Barbara State College had a newspaper called The Eagle. As the institution slowly transformed into the modern UCSB, it adopted various other named for various other news publications, including The Roadrunner, El Gaucho and The University Post. The paper reverted back to the name El Gaucho by 1964. In 1967, former El Gaucho editor John Maybury started a competing off-campus paper called "The Isla Vista Argo". Protesters burned down the Bank of America building in Isla Vista in 1970. In the wake of that incident, the paper's editors decided to change the publication's name to the Daily Nexus, in order to "keep with the changing nature of the university." The name was drawn by the paper's 1970-71 editorial board from a quote attributed to Robert Maynard Hutchins: "A free press is the nexus of any democracy."
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Long Island
Long Island is an island located in the southeast part of the U.S. state of New York, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are boroughs of New York City (Queens and Brooklyn), and two of which are mainly suburban (Nassau and Suffolk). The term "Long Island" often refers only to Nassau and Suffolk counties in order to differentiate them from New York City, though all four counties are on the island and part of the New York metropolitan area.
As of the 2010 census, Long Island had a population of 7,568,304, making it the most populated island in any U.S. state or territory. It is also the 17th most populous island in the world, ahead of Ireland, Jamaica and the Japanese island of Hokkaidō. Its population density is 5,402 inhabitants per square mile (2,086 /km2). If it were a state, Long Island would rank 13th in population (after Virginia) and first in population density.
Both the longest and the largest island in the contiguous United States, Long Island extends 118 miles (190 km) eastward from New York Harbor to Montauk Point, and has a maximum north-to-south expanse of 23 miles (37 km) between the northern Long Island Sound coast and the southern Atlantic coast. With a land area of 1,401 square miles (3,629 km2), Long Island is the 11th largest island in the United States and the 148th largest island in the world — larger than the 1,214 square miles (3,140 km2) of the smallest state, Rhode Island.
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Manhattan
Manhattan (/mænˈhætən/) is the most densely populated and the oldest of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the U.S. state of New York. The borough and county consist of Manhattan Island and several small adjacent islands: Roosevelt Island, Randall's Island, Wards Island, Governors Island, Liberty Island, part of Ellis Island,Mill Rock, and U Thant Island; as well as Marble Hill, a very small area on the mainland bordering the Bronx. The original city of New York began at the southern end of Manhattan, expanded northward, and then between 1874 and 1898, annexed land from surrounding counties.
The New York County is the most densely populated county in the United States, and one of the most densely populated areas in the world, with a 2010 population of 1,585,873 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles (59.5 km2), or 69,464 residents per square mile (26,924/km²), more dense than any individual American city. It is also one of the wealthiest counties in the United States, with a 2005 per capita income above $100,000. Manhattan is the third-largest of New York's five boroughs in population, and its smallest borough in land area.
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Massachusetts
Massachusetts (i/ˌmæsəˈtʃuːsɨts/), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a U.S. state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. Massachusetts is the 7th least extensive, but the 14th most populous and the 3rd most densely populated of the 50 United States. The state features two separate metropolitan areas – the eastern Boston metropolitan area and the western Springfield metropolitan area. Approximately two thirds of the state's population lives in Greater Boston, most of which is either urban or suburban. Western Massachusetts features one urban area – the Knowledge Corridor along the Connecticut River – and a mix of college towns and rural areas. Massachusetts is the most populous of the six New England states and has the US's sixth highest GDP per capita.
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New York
New York (/njuː ˈjɔrk/; locally IPA: [nɪu ˈjɔək] or [nuː ˈjɔɹk] (
listen)) is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. New York is the 27th most extensive, the 3rd most populous, and the 7th most densely populated of the 50 United States. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east. The state has a maritime border with Rhode Island east of Long Island, as well as an international border with the Canadian provinces of Ontario to the west and north, and Quebec to the north. The state of New York is often referred to as New York State to distinguish it from New York City.
New York City, with a population of over 8.1 million, is the most populous city in the United States. Alone, it makes up over 40 percent of the population of New York state. It is known for its status as a center for finance and culture and for its status as the largest gateway for immigration to the United States. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, New York City is also a destination of choice for many foreign visitors. Both the state and city were named for the 17th century Duke of York, James Stuart, future James II and VII of England and Scotland.
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New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. The city is referred to as New York City or The City of New York to distinguish it from the State of New York, of which it is a part. As a global power city, New York exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment. The home of the United Nations Headquarters, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural capital of the world.
Located on one of the world's largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, each of which comprises a state county. The five boroughs—The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island—were consolidated into a single city in 1898. With a Census-estimated 2011 population of 8,244,910 distributed over a land area of just 305 square miles (790 km2), New York is the most densely populated major city in the United States. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. The New York City Metropolitan Area's population is the United States' largest, with 18.9 million people distributed over 6,720 square miles (17,400 km2), and is also part of the most populous combined statistical area in the United States, containing 22.1 million people as of the 2010 Census.
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San Francisco
San Francisco (/ˌsæn frənˈsɪskoʊ/), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.6 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland. The only consolidated city-county in California, it encompasses a land area of about 46.9 square miles (121 km2) on the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, giving it a density of about 17,179 people per square mile (6,632 people per km2). It is the most densely settled large city (population greater than 200,000) in the state of California and the second-most densely populated large city in the United States after New York City. San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 13th most populous city in the United States, with a population of 805,235 as of the 2010 Census. The San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont metropolitan area has a population of 4,335,391.
In 1776, colonists from Spain established a fort at the Golden Gate and a mission named for Francis of Assisi a few miles away. The California Gold Rush of 1849 propelled the city into a period of rapid growth, increasing the population in one year from 1,000 to 25,000, and thus transforming it into the largest city on the West Coast at the time. After three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. During World War II, San Francisco was the port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. After the war, the confluence of returning servicemen, massive immigration, liberalizing attitudes, and other factors led to the Summer of Love and the gay rights movement, cementing San Francisco as a center of liberal activism in the United States.
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United States
The United States of America (commonly abbreviated to the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west, across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Pacific and Caribbean.
At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km2) and with over 312 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest by both land area and population. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the world's largest national economy, with an estimated 2011 GDP of $15.1 trillion (22% of nominal global GDP and over 19% of global GDP at purchasing-power parity). Per capita income is the world's sixth-highest.
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Aesop Rock
Ian Matthias Bavitz (born June 5, 1976), better known by his stage name Aesop Rock, is an American hip hop artist and producer. He was at the forefront of the new wave of underground and alternative hip hop acts that emerged during the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). He was signed to El-P's Definitive Jux label until it went on hiatus in 2010. The music site betterPropaganda ranked him at number 19 at the Top 100 Artists of the Decade. He is a member of the groups The Weathermen, Hail Mary Mallon (with Rob Sonic & DJ Big Wiz), and Two Of Every Animal (with Cage). Regarding his name, he said: "I acquired the name Aesop from a movie I had acted in with some friends. It was my character's name and it sort of stuck. The rock part came later just from throwing it in rhymes."
Bavitz was born at Syosset Hospital in Syosset, New York and raised in Northport, Long Island, New York to his father Paul and mother Jameija. Ian has two brothers: Chris (born 1975) and Graham (born 1977). Ian, along with his siblings, was raised Catholic but later on in his life became agnostic. Bavitz attended Northport High School in 1990 and graduated in 1994. He married Allyson Baker, guitarist and vocalist of rock band Dirty Ghosts in 2005. They now reside in San Francisco, California. The couple has now since divorced.
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Camu Tao
Camu Tao (born Tero Smith, June 26, 1977 – May 25, 2008) was an American rapper and producer who was signed to the Definitive Jux label. He was a member of several groups: S.A. Smash (with fellow rapper Metro), the underground hiphop supergroup Weathermen, Central Services (with fellow producer El-P), and the music collective Cardboard City.
He was also part of Columbus, Ohio's MHz crew with Copywrite, RJD2, Jakki Tha MotaMouth & Tage Proto. Partnering with Cage to form The Nighthawks, the two crafted an album during a single-three day creative session.
Smith died on May 25, 2008, after a two-year battle with lung cancer. At the time of his death, he was producing a song for Cage's I Never Knew You EP and working on his first solo for Definitive Jux. On July 9, 2009, El-P announced via Twitter that the album, King of Hearts, was finished, and would be released on October 20, 2009.King of Hearts was released on August 17, 2010 by Definitive Jux in collaboration with Fat Possum Records along with a free download EP from Central Services. About the album, El-P said:
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Cool Calm Pete
Cool Calm Pete is a Korean American rapper and producer with a sometimes hypnotically slow, lazy-sounding rapping style. Pete was born in Seoul, Korea and raised in Queens, New York. Pete is one of the three members of the hip-hop group Babbletron. Cool Calm Pete's debut solo album Lost was released in the United States on Embedded Music, and released in Europe on Definitive Jux. He has since released a 9 track EP entitled "Loosies," featuring several remixes of his older work. Cool Calm Pete has been profiled in major publications such as Urb, and XXL. Cool Calm Pete is known to be an avid New York Mets fan. He can almost always be seen wearing a New York Mets fitted cap. Cool Calm Pete attended Cooper Union and received his BFA in fine art.
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Doseone
Doseone (born Adam Drucker) is American rapper, producer, poet and artist. He is a co-founder of indie hip hop record label Anticon. He has also been a member of numerous groups including Deep Puddle Dynamics, Greenthink, Clouddead, Themselves, Subtle and 13 & God.
Doseone is known for his extensive collaborations with other Anticon members, forming numerous groups and performing guest spots on others' releases. He has recorded with many musicians including Mr. Dibbs, Aesop Rock, Slug, Sole, Alias, Jel, Odd Nosdam, Why?, Fog, Boom Bip, The Notwist and Mike Patton. He has also released several solo albums, including the spoken word album Soft Skulls and a combination audio CD and poetry book The Pelt.
Early in his musical career, Doseone once competed in a freestyle rap battle with then-unknown Eminem at Scribble Jam in 1997.
Doseone is also an artist. He has worked on the cover art for many of the albums he has performed on. He has contributed the artwork on Jel's album Soft Money in 2006. He has also done work in animation. He worked on an online animated cartoon NOTGarfield. The series consists of characters from Garfield involved in surreal dada situations.
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Evil Nine
Evil Nine is a DJ duo comprising members Tom Beaufoy and Pat Pardy. Their musical style is primarily classified as breakbeat, although it additionally encompasses other influences.
The pair first came together in 1998 after meeting in Brighton. After sending in a demo cassette they were signed by Adam Freeland to his Marine Parade record label, with their first release being the single "Less Stress". According to Beaufoy (in an interview given to Fabric Nightclub) part of the reason that their demo cassette tape was actually listened to rather than thrown away (by 1998 cassettes had become virtually obsolete in favour of CDs) was because of their friendship with Jemma Griffiths, who worked for Marine Parade at the time. She has since gone on to achieve chart success as a singer-songwriter under the stage name "Jem".
After further single releases their debut album You Can Be Special Too was released to critical acclaim in 2004, winning the breakspoll 2004 award for best album. Prior to the release of You Can Be Special Too, Marine Parade suffered financial difficulties as a result of one of its distributors going into liquidation. This resulted in only 1000 copies of the album making it into stores initially, causing it to be a highly sought after item on eBay. The record eventually had a full release in greater numbers after the financial problems had subsided. The album featured collaborations with Aesop Rock and Juice Aleem, amongst others. The album track "Hired Goons" features in the video game Test Drive Unlimited.
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Howard Stern
Howard Allan Stern (born January 12, 1954) is an American radio personality, television host, author, actor and photographer best known for his radio show which was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2005. He gained wide recognition in the 1990s where he was labeled a "shock jock" for his outspoken and sometimes controversial style. Stern has been exclusive to Sirius XM Radio, a subscription-based satellite radio service, since 2006. The son of a former recording and radio engineer, Stern wished to pursue a career in radio at the age of five. While at Boston University he worked at the campus station WTBU before a brief stint at WNTN in Newton, Massachusetts.
He developed his on-air personality when he landed positions at WRNW in Briarcliff Manor, WCCC in Hartford and WWWW in Detroit. In 1981, he was paired with his current newscaster and co-host Robin Quivers at WWDC in Washington, D.C. Stern then moved to WNBC in New York City in 1982 to host afternoons until his firing in 1985. He re-emerged on WXRK that year, and became one of the most popular radio personalities during his 20-year tenure at the station. Stern's show is the most-fined radio program, after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued fines to station licensees for allegedly indecent material that totaled $2.5 million. Stern has won Billboard's Nationally Syndicated Air Personality of the Year award eight times, and is one of the highest-paid figures in radio.
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Jeremy Fish
Jeremy Fish is an illustrator and artist currently living in San Francisco. He was born in 1975 in Albany, New York. He lived in upstate New York until he moved to San Francisco in 1994 to attend art school. He received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1996.
In 2006, Nike Skateboarding released a version of the Air Classic shoe with artwork designed by Fish.
Fish has collaborated with Aesop Rock since the latter's move to San Francisco in 2005. In the fall of 2006, the pair created a book entitled The Next Best Thing, which also included a 7-inch picture disk. Fish later created the artwork for Aesop Rock's fifth studio album None Shall Pass, released by Definitive Jux. In 2009, they again teamed up to release Ghosts of the Barbary Coast on Definitive Jux.
In 2008, DRAGO staged Rome-antic Delusions, an exhibition of Fish's paintings, drawings and screen prints. The exhibition was held in Rome, and much of the art was created there as well.
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Kimya Dawson
Kimya Dawson (born November 17, 1972) is an American singer-songwriter, best known as a solo performer and as one half of The Moldy Peaches. In Swahili, "Kimya" (كيميا) means "silence" or "silent".
Dawson became well known as Adam Green's counterpart in The Moldy Peaches. Since the Moldy Peaches went on hiatus in 2004 Dawson has released a string of lo-fi homemade albums and toured widely in North America and Europe.
Kimya's most recent album is "Thunder Thighs", released in October 2011. It contains collaborations with Aesop Rock on songs such as "The Library" and "Walk Like Thunder" and Pablo Das on "Unrefined".
Dawson's children's album, Alphabutt, was released on September 9, 2008. Song titles include "The Alphabutt Song," "Seven Hungry Tigers," "Little Monster Babies," "Wiggle My Tooth" and "Pee Pee in the Potty," and collaborators include former Third Eye Blind guitarist Kevin Cadogan and a number of Dawson's other musical friends and their children. She has also been invited to participate in the Sesame Street television program.
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Percee P
Percee P (born John Percy Simon) is a hip hop artist from the Patterson Projects in The South Bronx, New York City, United States. Percee P has been writing and performing since 1979, yet his debut album Perseverance was not released until September 18, 2007, produced entirely by Madlib.
He is known in the underground for selling his mixtapes himself in front of the Fat Beats store in New York, a practice he continues today by selling his Stones Throw album and his other mixtapes at his shows.
A rare video exists showing Percee P trading freestyle verses with Fat Joe and Eminem.
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RJD2
RJD2 (born Ramble John "RJ" Krohn on May 27, 1976) is an American music producer, singer and musician. RJD2 was born in Eugene, Oregon, and raised in Columbus, Ohio. He currently resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was signed to the Definitive Jux label where he released two largely instrumental hip hop albums and has produced tracks for many prominent rappers. However, he has now left Def Jux and has signed with XL Recordings. His 2007 album, The Third Hand, is a striking departure from his usual style and features RJD2 singing and playing instruments on nearly every track.
In 2009, RJD2 established his own label, RJ’s Electrical Connections and reissued three early records as well as a box set. RJD2’s new full length The Colossus was released on January 19, 2010 on his new label, which is distributed by The Orchard.
RJD2's work has been used heavily in media and advertisement, particularly the singles "The Horror" and "Ghostwriter". Since 2007, RJD2's "A Beautiful Mine" has been the theme song for AMC's Mad Men.
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Rob Sonic
Rob Sonic is a hip hop artist from The Bronx. He is a member of Sonic Sum and Hail Mary Mallon.
As a child growing up, Rob Sonic devoted himself to many styles of music. He was a follower of artists such as The Beatles, Run DMC, Kraftwerk, Talking Heads, Led Zeppelin, Public Enemy, Muddy Waters, Ultramagnetic MC's, The Clash among many others.
In 2000, Rob Sonic gained critical acclaim as the front man of the group Sonic Sum, whose first album The Sanity Annex won rave reviews in the United States, Europe and Japan, with Spin voting it the "2nd Best Album of the Year that No One Heard". Word got around and soon came offers from artists like DJ Krush and Funkstörung to work with them on their albums, a collaboration with Slug and Mike Ladd, as well as shout outs from Radiohead, Bobbito Garcia, Autechre and others.
During 2003, Rob Sonic signed to Definitive Jux after he and label head El-P realised they shared the same management. He released the first solo album Telicatessen on the label in 2004, along with the second solo album Sabotage Gigante in 2007. The song "Sniper Picnic" from Telicatessen was featured in the game Tony Hawk's American Wasteland. Also, the song "Brand New Vandals" was featured in the game Skate 3. He appears on the tracks "Dark Heart News" and "The Harbor Is Yours" from Aesop Rock's album None Shall Pass in 2007.
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Vast Aire
Vast Aire (born Theodore Arrington III on February 5, 1978) is a rapper from New York City. He is one half of the New York hip hop duo Cannibal Ox, which consists of him and fellow rapper Vordul Mega. He is also a member of the rap group Atoms Family. He was born in Mount Vernon, New York, then lived in Jamaica, Queens before moving to Harlem, and became acquainted with the underground rap scene, performing in many clubs while still a teenager. He was once a part of the underground hip hop group The Weathermen.
Vast Aire's fame increased significantly as part of Cannibal Ox with Vordul Mega. Together with producer El-P, it recorded its debut album, The Cold Vein, and released it in 2001. The album was a critical success. Since then, Vast Aire has pursued solo interests. His first solo album Look, Mom...No Hands was released in April 2004. This was followed by The Best Damn Rap Show, a collaborative effort with DJ Mighty Mi from the High and Mighty in 2005. These solo projects did not break Vast Aire from his obligations at Definitive Jux with Cannibal Ox. Vast has since gone on to work with members from the Megahertz crew, and was a member of The Weathermen alongside Copywrite, Yak Ballz, Cage, Aesop Rock, the late Camu Tao, and Tame One. However, he was kicked out of the Weathermen by Camu Tao after allegedly stealing from both Yak Ballz and Tame One.[citation needed] He has recently[when?] denounced the Weathermen group as a whole after the rapper and Weathermen founder Cage wrote the song "Nothing Left to Say" about Vast Aire trying to profit from Camu Tao's death, and then called him out on his Myspace page. He is also a part of a group called LXG, the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
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Wikipedia Persondata
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- Limelighters (Feat. Camp Lo) - Aesop Rock
- I'll Be OK - Aesop Rock
- Holy Smokes - Aesop Rock
- Hold The Cup - Aesop Rock
- Freeze - Aesop Rock
- Flashflood - Aesop Rock
- Easy - Aesop Rock
- Drawbridge - Aesop Rock
- Daylight - Aesop Rock
- Cook It Up (Feat. Pfac) - Aesop Rock
- Coma - Aesop Rock
- Boombox - Aesop Rock
- Big Bang - Aesop Rock
- Bent Life - Aesop Rock
- Same Space - Aesop Rock
- Prosperity - Aesop Rock
- Oxygen - Aesop Rock
- One Brick - Aesop Rock
- Ny Electric - Aesop Rock
- No Splash - Aesop Rock
- No Jumper Cables - Aesop Rock
- Night Light - Aesop Rock
- N.y. Electric Hunter Interlude - Aesop Rock
- MARS ATTACKS - Aesop Rock
- Make it rain till the levy breaks - Aesop Rock
- Maintenance - Aesop Rock
- Limelighters Flunkadelic Interlude - Aesop Rock
- Winners Take All - Aesop Rock
- We're Famous (Feat. El p) - Aesop Rock
- We're Famous - Aesop Rock
- Wake Up Call - Aesop Rock
- Troubled waters - Aesop Rock
- The Yes And The Y'all - Aesop Rock
- The Tugboat Complex - Aesop Rock
- Skip Town - Aesop Rock
- Sinister - Aesop Rock
- Sick Friend - Aesop Rock
- Shovel - Aesop Rock
- Shere Kahn - Aesop Rock
- Save Yourself - Aesop Rock
- Battery - Aesop Rock
- Basic Cable - Aesop Rock
- Babies With Guns - Aesop Rock
- Attention Span - Aesop Rock
- Alchemy - Aesop Rock
- Abandon All Hope - Aesop Rock
- 89.9fm Nighttrain Promo - Aesop Rock
- 6b Panorama - Aesop Rock
- 11:35 (Feat. Mr. Lif) - Aesop Rock
- 11:35 - Aesop Rock
- 1,000 Deaths - Aesop Rock
- 1 Of 4 (Thank You) - Aesop Rock
- No Regrets - Aesop Rock
- 9 5ers Anthem - Aesop Rock
- Commencement At The Obedience Academy - Aesop Rock
- Preservation (With Del Tha Funky Homosapien) - Aesop Rock
- Float (Make it rain till the levy breaks) - Aesop Rock
- Zero Dark Thirty - Aesop Rock
- Water - Aesop Rock
- The Substance - Aesop Rock
- The Harbor Is Yours - Aesop Rock
- The Active Element - Aesop Rock
- Take Me To The Basement - Aesop Rock
- Spare A Match - Aesop Rock
- Ruby '81 - Aesop Rock
- Racing Stripes - Aesop Rock
- One Of Four - Aesop Rock
- Numb (to The Guns) - Aesop Rock
- No City - Aesop Rock
- Nightlight - Aesop Rock
- Meter Feeder - Aesop Rock
- Mayor And The Crook - Aesop Rock
- Limelighters - Aesop Rock
- Keep Off The Lawn - Aesop Rock
- How To Be A Carpenter - Aesop Rock
- Gun For The Whole Family - Aesop Rock
- Getaway Car - Aesop Rock
- Garbage - Aesop Rock
- Fumes - Aesop Rock
- Fryerstarter - Aesop Rock
- Five Fingers - Aesop Rock
- Fast Cars - Aesop Rock
- Face Melter - Aesop Rock
- Dead Pan - Aesop Rock
- Dark Heart News - Aesop Rock
- Cook It Up - Aesop Rock
- Coffee - Aesop Rock
- Citronella - Aesop Rock
- Catacomb Kids - Aesop Rock
- Bring Back Pluto - Aesop Rock
- Blue In The Face - Aesop Rock
- Blacklist - Aesop Rock
- Appleseed Intro - Aesop Rock
- Antisocial - Aesop Rock
- 39 Thieves - Aesop Rock
- The Greatest Pac man Victory In History - Aesop Rock
- Save The Day - Aesop Rock
- None Shall Pass - Aesop Rock
- Labor - Aesop Rock
- Homemade Mummy - Aesop Rock
- Float - Aesop Rock
- Fascination - Aesop Rock
- Dryspell - Aesop Rock
- Bazooka Tooth - Aesop Rock
AESOP- Pain cave uno, smoking a broken blue note. Tar pit escape artist carcass linger in the bull doze. Rose radio Lazarus via linear bark screaming 'I'm back to kill the video star and I'm double parked!'
CHIBA- You can kite this or yet maybe baby you won't. Corvette, green Mercedes, daddy one hundred four. When I'm stunting simply stunnin', funkin' with twenty monkeys. They can be like I'm talkin' 'bout we. Slap that orangutan, drop her on her knees. Please be very cautious the funkin' makes me nauseous. Hate the bogota, The target it ain't off. It's right here and the volume's on three.
SUEDE- See, we keep the black plastic stuck in the elastics, even Chevy's heavy hallows lift you higher legend has it. White crows crossing broken bridges double deucy clickin' but the rounds never runnin' out, pounds of ya blood's just comin' out.
CHORUS
We limelighters. Up until the ugly unplug me. We limelighters. Kill it now, fade to black comfortably. Spark the dynamite 'til the limelight's gone. As far as I can see the limelight stays on. And on and on and on the limelight... so we got something built if we all die tonight.
CHIBA- She pissed champagne and shit caviar. Don't the watch the stars, the stars ain't fallin' any sight of glimmer... lo. Shimmering king, spring, they're trembling.
AESOP- O.K. the web spread from Brooklynites to born-in-barn kittens who's gimpy half step hid behind Noah's arc systems. Inconspicuously clustered with the boas, sharks, and pigeons like Zoo York won't clock them rusted crutches up mopping the ship deck. Texas hold'em pocket ace investment. Totem altimeter tiki torch it. Freak abort. Fold or hold a cold cell in peak enforcement fortress. That's a sheep corpse who under penumbra turned tail like a sea horse.
SUEDE- We got that permanent ink, that's staining the paper. Murderer's drink steam in my soul, I'm breathing green vapors. We're the last of them falcons that's soarin' beyond your altitude. Please show us some gratitude. We're carvin' your grave for you.
CHORUS
AESOP- 16 D batteries. See the halflings flee the shire before he tore open the packaging. Plus, minus, in proper Panasonic alignment. Pseudo Pliskins o.d. on kick drums, snake, escape that environment.
SUEDE- Wave that colt 44, bolts of lightning with Travolta grease. Strip your skeleton, it's swelterin' inside Miami Heat. Your fishnet and red vette are sizzling. Shoot through chocolate city, Wonder Woman wind whisting. Freeze, presidential sleaze, with Egyptian cuts, Valentine Ave., Jack Daniels out of them plastic cups. Winter white pinstripe lookin' Hugo. Poison ivy out the windpipe blowin' the crucial.
CHIBA- First they line up, we'll divide them. Suede get roscoe, then design 'em. Aesop rock box drop the hot rod getaway car, and head up the rock highway.
CHORUS
[Slug]
Burn it down...
Pad the circles 'round your life
To capture all the sides you sight
Magic tricks where skeptics sink
The ice is thin, stay off the lake
Waiting for a clock to punch
Wish I could breathe and stop for lunch
If I stop to count the leaves on only one of these here trees
Not sure that I know what's pure
Born to kill the insecure
Some respect, some resent, some remain from start to end
Wear my heart on my short sleeves
I'm stuck out here, I lost my keys
From the roof I watch the street
And pray for those that's caught beneath
[Chorus--Slug and Aesop] 2x
As long as I know right from wrong
I'll be ok, I'll sing my songs
[Slug]
I dunno what I have to left
To give other than truth and breath
Angel when she shuts her eyes
Like we will leave to my demise
Between my time is short
About to start my last resort
Wake me up when it's time to make babies
Talkin' planet earthquakes
Tied the laces, touch the ground
Let emotions ruptured now
As long as I know right from wrong, I'll be ok I'll sing my songs
Chorus 4x
[Aesop Rock]
I wanna lift every yellowbrick
I've never felt pressure to have to justify my selfishness
At least not to your and yours
Maybe just my friends and fellowships
As long as the mood is somehow linked to my enhanced development
I swear they'll understand!
There's a storm outside my tenament
Beats upon my windows with Mother Nature's adrenaline
I guess that's why my homey Blockhead stays glued to the television
Now I look less intelligent
'Cause I'm the one that tried to bear the elements and lost
Well it's warm by the filament
Huddled up close in the company of all my relatives
Stories lash like coffee and honest-to-God sentiment
Cucooned inside the unified efforts to all get settled in
Away from where the rain pours
Well count your delegates
Weed out the bums who practice migration under the elegant
Of course I realize to fill the ring, procedure's delicate
But lead devils inside to collide with your overzealousness
And fall to rock bottom
Spot em with their carelessness
The urge could burst to turn even those hazardous to militant
You can't even have half of free second
The beat comes gelatin
You gotta aim, fire and the spider be model veteran
Buried in merit badges
I'm stuck in the center and could care less
About the eye of the storm and its monstrous measurements
I got a defense that I call coolin' with my brethren
Sometimes I get wet
But it's better than risking life and limb to me, don't you agree?
Chorus 4x
[Aesop Rock] *repeat to fade*
If you wanna push, than I'm ready to push
But if you pulling while I'm pushing
voice over: give him one of these pills if he has any pain
a parable what is it? well its a little story with a lot of truth, and earthly sotry with a heavenly name he told them simply and sincerely
in words every one could understand and learn the lesson he wanted to teach
well they were selfish with the helmets on the little bus
to break fluid which crippled up the get retarded nickle punks
slowly copas wore as lowly robot to raise to be holy pope and one day rise to interigate the holy ghost (i knew it)
holy smokes father black suit white collar
kiddie porn dungeon guns and 3 fingers for your daughters cunt belly up
andtique nazi pariphinelia
cannot pay your bills wiht holy water and hail mary luck
shut up fucker enjoy the alcatraz shower fun and mommys madam cliche generation X agnostic front
not the nify faith since ninteen fify eight before the new new testament approved altar boy kissed then raped
and take me to your leader as long as he dont manipulate toddler fever
call me crazy but i bet that wasnt gods demanor
sodomizing pink and (mee too)on long island was jesus and every weekend wed approve traditional love bringing of a middle pennsylvenia shit hole where elders movements stressed stellar theraputic bible cycles
from church with the bait and tackle store next door and not much more, so the two moved to New York and raised babies based on what they saw
christmas morning smelled fresher then angle pussy but immaculate conception came second to playful goodies
like lazer tag wasfar more spiritual then blood and body waifer bags and mangers stabs as long as santa ate the cookies
when i was a saint i ate paitn with snakes a bullies
said if only you memorized your prayers like your cool G's
byt he time i was old enuf to know what religion was i was catholasism numb and truly diddnt give a FUCK
94' ,oved out the crib and aint seen a steeple since
once kenivil evil seeps and the christian leaders pitch to preists
who lap slap with parental advisory warnigns
ill be auditioning gods in my office on monday mornings
uh oh and yet another ill slips downt the hatch hittin the kill switch
i need a couple A's for Q's im not an asshole just a little confused
voice over
this story reminds us of the one jesus told about people who were kind and helpful to others
he said that oneday the kind would say to these people would say come and inherit the kingdom prepared for you for when i was hungry you gave me food i was sick u visited me when i was in prision you visited me
and the people asked lord when did we see you sick or hungry or in prison
and he saqid in the least you ahve done unto you you have done unto me
Yeah
jsut a litle bruise in the back of the pews
actin amsued in the maskof the vatican blues
for in the eyes of the organization iw as raised in
ace is jsut another sinning brick in hells basement
cubical clolors ajacent tot eh killers and rapists for what?
drugs and fuckin thats part of growin up
like cups for the dumn shits better then the school im nto an asshole im jsut a little confused
just a lit fuse int he back of the pews waching a thousand flavors of the same god feud
i figure ultimate peace is the common theme so its a no brainer peace whent he blood hits the screen
i gota basic good and evil sensibility born
good neighbor known that a halo woulda been over horns
more science hen faith and more karma then bread and booze, im nto an asshole im sjut a little confused
not and asshole im jsut a little confused
not and asshole im jsut a little confused
not and asshole im jsut a little confsued
Verse One:
And the saints come marching in
Serpentine regime ordered by response sort of fell this population
Caboose humming no fence me in a van with common patriots
The parody plastered every red brick in site
Where had to keep his plights from ticking
I'm slipping my key and whim dim by dirty tap water and that
Roach on my ceiling circular fins round a bed of pushpins
Let's connect the thrill of volume to a flat earth
J-walkin a hook the past just passed the mere dragon bandwagon passages
I'm sorry, we've never met, my name is driftwood
Thanks friend, good looking, I'll never see you again
Feeding frenzy, catfish stomach, empty oceans
Spangled in hooks dangle by anglers off the plank of burning books
And if you're, not gonna eat that
Kill joy inherited by spirits lacking harnesses
Merchant, Goliath dipped in slip shy posture conceived evening
So I feed idea turn sun dial to bastards son adopt the reroute dreaming
Oh I'll ride the plain bow in flare gully yellow rain coat
Heard a harp but sunny ways my lifeline searching for the same note
Oh please, I know butterfly wings ain't fit to auction
Dig my tossing sturdy walking head hung
Skylark litigants strung out like cats straight up participants
I am the triant diaries of a low life siphon through that vein
Anti-diligence movement, here the hunger habitat
Working class trash raped where racist hit their high
I spy a toddler on the corner with her bubbles and her dipstick
I witness the fusion of her breath and her amusement
And it killed me and it stabbed me and it cut me clear open
The notion that this child timid in her sins embraced pleasure
Within a token of a moment, retless arrested but not a twirp
Strip the Bonabo Disclosure, so close yet so much closer
I'll take the hint but still she's never known cold
Call me in twenty when those bubbles explode it's like that
Verse Two:
Back to back to back to stacking a brick match
With the fact that I've sipped the dripping sap tap
Casually out the limbs of captivated blends back
Tracking the patterns that trim friends to thinning savages
Take one down, pass it round among us
Lick a tipper drink, drink, drunk, drunk, and drunkest
But you quest tore your floorboards and the carpet turned marbles
Naw the carpet turned charcoals and made skeletons of warlords
Snake charmer, hate farmer, gave you the rations
With an eyedropper a poison passions hoist above the masses
And interrupts homeostasis seeming flow scapes
Like a symmetric snow flake visits and with her symmetry blizzards
I'm sleepy, one wing more and I promise to pay homage
To those who stand truly deserving and the list ain't long
Sink or swim, ravalor ascension
Even birds of our combines float if you let them
They'll be dodging more than quiddles when the bowel breaks
Note the affiction slip clip to your little visions into cloud shapes
Oh my left hand is a brick layer my right hand is a plow face
We build and destroy in response to every sound the crowd makes
Sling blanks sprayed it with apathy magic balance
On the palette of the almighty for painting the first half of me
Honor find it with monster mashing in text casually
On the palette of the almighty to paint the second fraction
I'm collapsed under the relic rainbow with seven sepriet
Succulent aqua marines hide the in by sweetest elixir
Star heckler and leaders start gawking at yet another
Real conceived green fetus beating parallel sterile fixture
Urgent, the serge is like venom and over kill, kill, kill, kill
The over spilled theory's all faucet
For real, how many leaves your clover got? Mine's got eight
It goes welcome the pop off, some pop soft. We bang b-bang b-bang bang out loud. Ready on the left with a face full of death. We slanged out fang mouth bang out now.
This is a never dug disco, Zoo York tycoon, memorandum bonanza banter clamp crunk out the fish bowl. Gorgeous how struggling gills wriggle out water, ain't it? Same scape as the walls crawling with paranoia's plaintiffs. The robo-komodo promo Zen patience a-alike to this jittery drooling mess. Bitterly unruly on mud hugger alert, he usher dirt to the kick circus. Deflected labor ethic questions peeled at the field workers. Is it raw? Please... does a priest need a ten-foot pole to baptize little Linus minus the lap ride and tease? Evolution is a leader depleter, seeker needy sheep idol feeder beware, once complete you might not want to be there. Dead straw to gold bar spin fiber. Lost and fond in a smitten kitten's incisors. They Aphrodite all over the burgle of a purple heart compartment. Marched a burgundy carpet alarmed and far to parched to bark it. Lil' Abner. A real firecracker. Grows to throw 'bows with vehicular hijackers. To eavesdrop plots cops hired a wire tapper. That's a whipper snapper trapped beneath my grip on the fire ladder. Took drums over to deril' to once over the line tones. Punch toothy ticks 'til they find homes like three ruby clicks. The roof is on fire where snoopy sits right now. You should have shot yourself in the foot when it was in your mouth.
CHORUS
Thieves in the strobe deep freeze your pose. For the disease that grows underneath your toes holds up a reason y'alls gold never seems to glow. Now we can all breath slow once the fiend's exposed. It goes heave ho. You never got the grit right. Bark fame but you never put the grit down. Hawk styles but you never got the grit right. Put the grit down. Grit right. Get down.
This is a never dug disco defamation of dog and pony grappled out chincey, chipping Leo Da Vinci phonies pushing kill of hill bloated. Nobody got you. While biggest brother's watching bigger brother watching big brother watch you. Nothing says circus fun quite like nuclear holocaust over breakfast on the terrace. Hash browns and peril. Old ironsides or good ship lolli-popper, Davy Jones still got a locker, ak, the opera's more than docs and soccer moms. Now before you kick your feet up, I married and divorced mother nature after sweet-talking that old hag out of a pre-nup. This information's neither braggadocio nor secret, just know as of now the world is technically not yours, peanut. It's a day in the life of the carnie dog-faced boy escapist. Living large, watching Springer, smoking beedies wrapped in bacon. At night his get busy disease leakage peaketh. Merk the he say/she say, BK Jesus turn peg legs to Adidas on the down stroke. And they like 'what's up with the name?' I tell'em y'all made Bazooka Tooth I's about to ask the same. But before you curfew the city and shut down every block, I'd like to say I still Aesop the fuck out of the Rock
CHORUS
This is a never dug disco. Spread feelers. Tonka zonk Gepetto bred beezers. Jeepers, gee wilikers, goshes galoshes, Christ, god almighty. They tore his limbs off kilter, still the hostage moshes slightly. Hung off the balcony by the skin off his doctor's psyche. He hopes it holds but knows the locusts kamikaze nightly. He woke, corroded buggy facial, insect chopper biting. He's only bones by the time the ungodly body's sighted. He saw the puddle, full color hideous monster Viking. He used to survey if the vermin dined on others like him. He found the fucks indigenous to him and awfully feisty. He grew old awkward grinch and settled into bonkers nicely. I alert vital spider works to cultivate grit, ship the bulk rate shit. Herbie the love bug drugs pulsate whips. Tie in spite for commoner idiocy and good old-fashioned biblical plague. We move units off your pagan escapade. And it's pits to the peg legged. Megas eclipse cripples so that pimp limp's wheel chair basketball when 15 minutes fizzles. Your flimsy frame marks hip-hop's second most tragic event and will 'til Jam Master Jay's resurrection and second death.
"We'll have more news after this commercial word"
(As so it goes..)
"At least I think I was here asleep...
Is it possible, conceiveable that I sleepwalked out of my apartment
And went berzerk?"
[Aesop Rock]
In slipped rhythm
Fed a cycle bound by dilemma-debting vendetta
Escaped briefly back to my apartment
Parked in front the fan
And reminesce about the day I ran a mile with your heart in my hand
'Tesants get the New York home game
With real life shoot-em-up action
Thug, vagrant, yuppie, and art
Free game piece all included
I told this cat the earth was flat
He walked till his beard grew long enough to strangle himself for being stupid
Brick-a-back novelty
Spliced with that sixth pack odyssey
Godspeed Tequilla worm future, be concerned
My feelings spread across the land reporting avalanche sightings
While my introverted side is flying cadavers on kite strings
I'ma never give, I'm juiced off ejection
I'm stubborn as a thousand born agains avoiding questions
From the alpha to the sand
I bake the date up for my pledge
To 'bay the traitor in the twice-forgotten favors that he bled
Not a creature stirred, it reaks of subway metal
Feather lecture journalist chin on fish shenanigans
Recording mayhem with voices
Benefit to break room
Mummified manequins with future cleanse adamant
And skeleton in cabinet
This a Malcom circus, got a ring of fire
Just big enough to shove my purpose in a circle
I'm known to dip dusk in a broken city curfew
Release the hounds and see which one can tractor trail and serve you SUCKA!
I lay the Lord down upon its belly
With my foot dug in between the third and fourth disk
Yelling 'Break yo'self!'
I'm the actualized data commission past penny tip jar donation
Been arranged, made by the farfetch from stability
Took a heart pledge early on
Bled onto the drum doser
Plow in the metronome, home
Lone caddy corner to cock-eyed sound booster
Sensation'll leave siesomgraph stabbin away on stone tablets
To sketch up out your future
I drifted out the main spelunking unit with watered down sand
But have canceled developed, courtesy America
Land of the free base
Home of the triplicate grill character
My sorta sideways tilt called pinball blinker
It citizens wander through ex-warrants steady bleed
With dilapadated winter jacket
I rock a crooked lid piece
A sweat a bit to make my Wookie ends meet
Pascifist willing to step into a friend's beef if needed
Wing clipper, I hierarch compassionate
Where they whine on some 'Daddy's gonna kill Ralphy' shit
Sucked the proverbial silver spoon to the parents quit apparently
Parasol spinnin casually like 'I'm an artist, please don't laugh at me'
Ok, time to buckle the fuck down
Side of the wobbly system back to original form, pumpkin
You can catch the memoir in several dimensions
The joy of life logic, don't employ the spite process
Hence, your plight botches
"I don't know what got into me
I didn't even cause all that destruction
I'm sorry...so sorry"
[Chorus] 4x
This be the big
F-L-A-S-H-F-L-O-O-D, Flashflood
"Possible" "Conceivable"
"Possible" "Conceivable"
"Possible" "Conceivable"
"Possible" "Conceivable"
"Possible" "Conceivable"
"Possible" "Conceivable"
(Thank you)
Cameras or guns one of ya'll is gonna shoot me to death
Just know that shit
I take it...Easy
(That's how we doin' this)
(I like that)
I take it...Easy
(Ya'll say that shit)
I take it...Easy
(Where we goin' with this)
I take it... Easy
(Here it go)
Upside down
I pick wigs for beetles
Pry em out and pin em to the pole over the seesaw
Solar Coke'er shimmy out crater cradle my way in double wishbone suspension verse am clock radio bangers
Down side up in crippled acres and still the fountain that spittle's sliglets quicker than quditch seekers snatch golden snitches
(You can be a part of it)
Just park your bark at twenty paces, hold this target, while chorus picks apart your shit
(Man)
City bread the brittle cheap old little Lego people squeezing little like a Polaroid in key hole
Media breather needed mural to hide all while your friends 'n neighbors press stethoscopes to the dry wall
To the worm tongue tight (tongue), bitten behind a vamp chopper foaming, lamb chopping the sock puppet in fear and loathing
Who faulters ASAP to build careers out of misquoting sorry Aesop introducing a school of my own motives
This pocket full of nickels, like cool han-loop decapitating parking meters when the pigs blew the whistle like Winslow
I went to jail over night for putting a sticker on a phone booth, now by the time ya'll did that paperwork, how many new rapists float
Panicky banister Silver Surf over the wobbles where the potholes are a holster on the stomach of the God show
Blinded by the light, you might just plummet through the cosmos to see Apollo standing and function before a board hits a high note
I take itâ¦Easy
The ice is thinning in the valley of the G Beats
And when the freaks come out I hug a TV (uh)
Some how a channel zero benders less...Creepy
's bliss, repeat with a twist
Easy
When every Martian in the market holler "Be me"
You're a sitting opinions bigot
Ya learn more when your mouthpiece...Retreat
's bliss now listen to this
Oh ok
All day every day
Oh alright
All night every night
Who's cat 'n tongue gonna spew stale venom (uh) not mine I hung my hammock in the bed room
But when the potentially lucrative race wars get steaded I wake up for a second and help the betters count thier blessings
But instead I grab the clutch then at my knees are limps much longer
A plastic flimsy songbird plastic busy long turns for the long term
Got dragon all achy, torn between the lending of a helping five knuckles and a charge that won't escape me
(Tha's life)
Sufferin' suckatash buckle ducks in the trunk with belts-ten four on them-sting of operations-wingman-double packed
(Funky)
Let em roam to the home to the main crib in emaciated slave pancake children game-not all players feel the same
(Learning)
We don't learn shit my radio was on regardless
(Yes)
I tune out parties, I tune in starlets
Carbon and pre David-Goliath live Paleolithic bias who walks on all fours draggin' the cadaver of King Midas
Now this tort dwarf war hammer Elvan bow and arrow waivers documents preaching the rain of which narrow tappers
Hermit crab, honest cat, trying to raise the roof in my own tv room but still get the security deposit back
Pull with me Skippy (Hi) Motor head dope fixture what's up-go to bed-no dinner hold for the cold winter
Is it bad if the gas leaks, desert dozer clicks, stranded on cloud eight proud of the pogo stick
I stayed then along came a spider sprung and alert (I stay deaf)
He makes records with his tongue in the dirt
Suckin the dirty earth crisis with a license to flirt
Buffer the mighty tightly sequins with a price on the Murs covert
Mr. Blizzard shoulder (Cold) he always acts all pissy
Plus your friend said I was an asshole when he met me
No bad moves aloud when you're in the public eye
Kill it; you are the weakest link goodbye
I take itâ¦Easy
The ice is thinning in the valley of the G Beats
And when the freaks come out I hug a tv
Some how a channel zero benders less...Creepy
's bliss, repeat with a twist
Easy
When every Martian in the market holler "Be me"
You're a sitting opinions bigot
Ya learn more when your mouthpiece...Retreat
's bliss now listen a sip
(What)
(Huh)
(Sip one)
(Get busy)
Oh ok
All day every day
Oh alright
All night every night
Mutaeo
Murs
(Like dat)
El P
Mr. Lif
Def jux
TheBassHipOne
INTRO
This is not your ordinary ballad with a perfect little bow around the middle and a black knight on a white horse or a white knight on a black horse. It's got all these tired parts where we don't even sing and random princess raise the drawbridge we don't serve your kind. It ends where it begins and the beginning isn't pretty, can't forget that not-so-perfect little bow around the middle... and it goes a little something like this.
AESOP- Moon walking a broken soul pedigree incessant. Gut the cruddy frame. The zealots enveloped inside the belly of the blame. Cutthroat's the result of pulp joke soaked in poacher constants, and not a jewel amidst coal wander prominent. Honor. I barter silk worms by the bucket like starter kits. Sew your first martyr stich. Join damaged brigader caper. Nurse the tantrum with a fantasy chaser. I keep a spare wing strapped to my fuses incase the hackers snatch the plumage.
DOSE ONE- so you mean these things are worth money now
drifting off this is the who you calling homeless mighty fearful twisted and tonight I got front row tickets to the dead concert and you're in it icabod running out of morals for my allegory... moseying and my kind of people will only sell circles... with my eyes patched in a not so new universeso I beckon and bray but my pretty bird just ain't muting the many...
AESOP- Oh, it'll be soon. Balloon immune to doom blend. I ain't ditchin' the kitchen 'til every spoon bends. A glance along tomorrow's sorry looking lot of hopefuls was the rain dance my little flint never dreamed would flutter potable. I sanitize nothing for the sake of contemporary taste, contemporary taste made my lip drop in the first place. Incoming. You want to be a Czar? Idolize fallen heroics, recognize root of the worship, search and hold it. Who put the fun in dysfunctional? I, prodigal son combustible. Donkey punchin' pinholes in uncomfortable Zen conjunctionals for good. The bear cubs slob a goblet of dirt wine. I nurse a single application of introvery serpentine.
DOSE ONE- A sunset without a scrape of red and a plastic bag noise sunk down around his head sick. sick sick... stealing a peak... there's sickness in the roofer's eyes and his alone and nothing terrible happened to the bag... wrongs spilled off in and brought on out the clouds the hiss cut's out spills its voice into me and the window full of star is fresh kept from where I'm going or the only other way art
AESOP- I got charcoals in my heart, I got charcoals in my heart, I got charcoals by the armfuls that burn my armor apart.
DOSE ONE- and before when I said "shut the fuck up it's none of your business" that was to be in vein... be sure to lock that up when you're all finished... uhh... well you see I usually finish this number with... my skull open.
AESOP- Everyone rally 'round the novel burner, spit, murder the matches where the junkies trade diseases and the gullible trade passions. Now the masses wanna lean on me like 'oh captain my captain' not considering maybe this orphan hosts morbid attachments.
DOSE ONE- "button button who's got the button" take my name... please... leaks the little gentle man made of lightning inside my lockbox... oh you like to help with coats... wait until you see what I got in this here locket.
* Yo...put one up shackle me, not clean logic procreation
I did not invent the wheel I was the crooked spoke adjacent
While the triple sixers lassos keep angels roped in the basement
I walk the block with a halo and a stick poking your patience
Ya'll catch a 30 second flash visual
Dirty cooperative net platoon bloom head trip split Ridiculous
fathom the splicing of first generation
fuck up or trickle down anti hero smack (Cracking!)
I paste me game to zero hour completion greeting (Splash!)
Duke of early retirement pick a dream
American nightmare hogging the screen
I'll hold the door open so you can stumble in
if you'd stop following me around the jungle gym
Now it's honor and I spell it with the 'H' I stole from heritage
Merit crutch stole the wretched refuse of my teaming resonance
I promise temperance toward breed with a leaning conscious
Here the creed acts since responsive but my sports the war's the wattage
And I'm sleeping now (Wow!) Yeah the settlers laugh
You won't be laughing when your covered wagons crash
You won't be laughing when the buzzards drag your brother's flags to rags
You won't be laughing when your front lawn's spangled with epitaphs
You won't be laughing
And I hang my boots to rest when I'm impressed
So I triple knot em and forgot em
This origami dream is beautiful
but man those wings will never leave the ground
Without a feather and a lottery ticket, now settle down
All I ever wanted was to pick apart the day,
put the pieces back together my way.
All I ever wanted was to pick apart the day,
put the pieces back together my way.
All I ever wanted was to pick apart the day,
put the pieces back together my way.
All I ever wanted was to pick apart the day,
put the pieces back together my way.
Slacker bound intimate tabloid headlined with the pulse
Shimmy cross the centerfold, at a dead time engulfed
Diddy crumbs for the better souls with seven deadly stains
That hit a flame to crystal conscious
To results a low life counting on one hand what he's accomplished
Ok, link me to activism chain activate street sweep
Plug deteriorating xenobit Pendragon
I hock swords cores for the morbid spreading of mad men
(alley gospel)
Sinking their lincoln-log cabin and Charlie Chaplin waddle
I could zig zag and zig 'em again for the badge gleam
Sparker than my brick wall windows another thick installment of one night in Gotham without the wretched
Houston we have a problem
Attach an infested batch of city goblins
Who split holiday freak on a box cut cinema high road bellow
Head rips Watch red bricks turn yellow
Sort of similar to most backbones at camp Icarus
Were all feeling crimes congregating at pamper for bickering
Life's not a bitch life is a beautiful woman
Your only call her a bitch because she won't let you get that pussy
Maybe she didn't feel y'all shared any similar interests
Or maybe you're just an asshole who couldn't sweet talk the princess
Kiss the speaker wire Peter Pacifism pagan thresh hold
Stomach full of halo kibbles
Wings span cast black of porn visuals hear the duck hunt ticker tape
Vision and pick apart the pixels
I got a friend of polar nature and it's all peace
When I seek similar stars but can't sit at the same feast
Metal Captain!
This cat is asking if I've seen his little lost passion
I told him: "Yeah, but only when I pedaled past him"
All I ever wanted was to pick apart the day,
put the pieces back together my way.
All I ever wanted was to pick apart the day,
put the pieces back together my way.
All I ever wanted was to pick apart the day,
put the pieces back together my way.
All I ever wanted was to pick apart the day,
'Yo that movie sucks ' 'Whack.' 'Bull shit' 'i wanna keep my fuckin money in my pocket 'oh snap' 'hold up' 'damn'
Cook it up
spooky talupla
Shoot the local when he cook the looky
low brow low brim
she asked me whats your name
i flashed the grossest fang in show biz
young falgary so ben
What is yours umm jenny um
body block in the ten penny sum
sprung collosal ms may i process your pentium
but they is hesistating, my princess pidgeon holding lunacy in the
........
"We now present to you...music" *cut up*
"Music to make you stutter"
[Aesop Rock]
I've been a biplane dog fighter Henson invention
Trooper burst result of Dragon Ball Z/Speed Racer gene splicing
Mach force, blind the extorted style from the common dirty
Destiny dream sighting, important as split the prints
God shit the planet screaming "What on Earth is that?"
I sit back five dimensions
Only to muscle the overcooked specimen
Fending tragic fatality successful dodging violets
All hail Mary and hello dollies!
I flow ridiculous, indigenous to now
Who holds the fifth golden ticket?
Saw the wicked war phantom mansion beyond the pickets
The house next door to when the stickball clears the fence
Y'all hesitate to fetch it!
I was walking through a pinball tilt built landscape
Terradactle circling turtle
I bite the bullet in a wingspan shadow
Suck and rust the oxygen gulps
And spit the metal directly back up the barrel
We icegrill the silhouettes (right)
The common decency factors a lowball estimate of zero
My testament is striking b-boy stances
Dancing past the foggy mirror
With wipes clean the billy goat beard, camoflague the spirit
I'm at six degrees of sexy sarcasm
Yeah never swam up inside summerjam classic
Under the bed backwards bastard
Scaverning the carnival grounds for an outlet
WHO THE FUCK IS AES ROCK?
I'm not a name to keep at arms length
Adjacent to little Linus quilt makeshift
Sick security mechanism, check your mission
I am not a vision, check your mission
Just a simple sourpatch delinquent
No it will not help you shove your Lincoln
[Chorus] 2x
I alone settle
I alone peddle in the mud
I alone, I condone rebel zone planting
I alone stand in a social coma
All up to your dome, follow I alone
"Now you see me, now you don't" [Method Man]
*Scratches*
[Aesop Rock]
Well he was maverick enough but still scraped up
Taki 183 innovation for the kids
Brick foot ironlung honor
Escape through the night like a disgruntled teen Krylon bomber
Without a care inside from posting the roster
Mal-adjusted blank faced civilian dispersed feelings
Reeling in several separate defunct fame-booster modules
This nervous twitch mark the most delectable ingredient
See Aesop starving troops in cell blocks with strap-on feeding bins
(More like) Like I'd auction off a fuck for that blind cause you ride in
I'd rather find the floors and watch you hide them
Feel the haggered look penetrate brain castle
Blasting clear out the back of this batches sour wind collection
(FLASH FLOODER!)
You're a fuckin wind-up toy
A goddamn four string criminal trading card
The reason they decorate the fonts of closing credits
To boost on-looker amusement after fading hard
Catch more Z's than Rip Van Winkle's 12 Step Narcolepsy Seminar
The action, we all compete the masked illusion
The commonfolk, I provoke em all
Challenge thirty balance
I alone pour talent while they fidget
If the revolution ain't gon' be televised
Then fuck, I'll probably miss it
Raw, I'm going to give it to you
With no trivia
Raw like that Aesop rock iron-fisted list militia
While bent funny bone grown community
Spit a thousand and 1 ripples to cripple the continuity
Tap water builds character
Right I irrigate it straight to mainline
You want to do the same? Fine
These pretty profit grommet teams solidify the clot to slippery city salt piston pump drain
But hold those incredible console with the Russian roulette baboon spin-off
Where everyday a thousand strangers pray for empty chambers
One-sixth buckle
Five Sixths sweat bullets trying to keep it subtle
But I'll get you (I'm going to get you)
Wobbly rope bridge
Broke inches tired of dry land
But duck skull stepping-stones suit the mix-down well
Well, when the rumor spreads that y'all stupid
I'll be the cat with guilty look on face and shirt that reads: I didn't do it!
Is it on, is it beyond basic
Does it ice grill you or is every song faceless?
Does it have a title? If didn't would you name it?
Does it babble about nothing like a drunken atheist?
We could run that Orwells '84 war
For the room 1 on 1 z-tour
Till he try and fidgets with his or her own work spear specifics
Swerve around the cobra kisses
See if the venom overloads this vision
I'm going to suck the poison out and spit it
Stole my sneakers but your features never fit in
Servers you right for trying to walk a mile outside your limits
I'm going to tiptoe across this yo-yo string
Until you walk the dog out from under my feet and skip town, sit down
(Chorus)
It goes boom boom boom
Boombox
Earth to a-r vertical burden has increased at an alarming rate
Bliss is down a point
Murder up, glee down and still falling
Still crawling out of bed at 2 on Saturdays
Came this blind soldier-burning confessional
Ease back; let a heart thump echo normalcy for 10
Let the back burner boiling point descend
I race the derby in the first heat (strike personal)
Strike personal space with the most utterly putrid version of grace
Spit the gimmick, sit and fidget
While we try and jump through hoops
Like Coney Island freak show midgets
Want to be a fighter pilot
Driving that childish early Wright brothers experiment
Prototypic model fossil
Sit and sweat bullets on a console
Busting accidental dirt bike donuts
Outside the most ridiculous poison tongue brain silo
Dead before the chubby debutaunt conquered the high note
Schooled by the cruel intention inventions pensive sideshow
See contrary to popular certainty
I alone advance without an earthly poem
And dance on a handful of zoning fans
Holding every chance to own the land I roam
With dome in hands
Truly be its only camper happy with the scrap heap
See I convinced myself it's on
Therefore it is and the melody settles
Beneath the fact that I'm just spitting for these kids
I tried to get them all open
And once I quit and said I didn't care
Thats when they all threw their hands in the air
(Chorus)
It goes boom boom boom
[Aesop Rock]
Well, so we meet again
(He said he's grown spiritually since the last one)
Ok, this is the dawning of the book of bitter aspects
Where the jackals sit and watch the pedigods last flesh
Poison functions accompanied by six armorclad
Black horse and buggy mechanism
Tugged a portion of my severed vision
The gathering of loose ends in a bucket
Wit a shoestring budget
Every man's got a field to plow (I know that now)
But it's like, man I really can't afford the oxen
Fee fie et cetera
I smell the warm blood of the bill collector knockin
I get awkwardly sturdy with a frigid liquid backbone
I get swept in the pressure cooker tryin to paddle back home
I get sprung with a vibe and alliance of clean intention
By eclipsing doom midigons hatched to bash these picket fences
Now I'll attend the wedding of the open sword festering
Now when the groom presents the ring
The bride commence to blistering
This textbook magnificently crude
Prototype king beserker modulate
Serve the vertical thirst, burst horizontal
Treasure, loose cannons span the starbit power
The clippership dipped in truth famine pressure
Cabin fever meter pegging ludicrous
Beautiful cartoon trooper
swallow brutal futility with a teaspoon full of sugar
I rock ready aim fire, while y'all rock ready fire aim
Then blame the stationary target when the prey escapes the frame
Merit badge marksman, a poacher, it's all the same
So I lay across the woods perpendicular to the grain
[Chorus] *rapped in doubletime*
I gotta be a big bang, gotta be
Never wanna be hear a probably, I wanna see or hear a "Yes sir, sir"
YES SIR!
Armed with a tome, cross, sore to the bone
Warn the other brothers that was born forlorn
Big bang, sharper than a big dick
Hotter than a tunnel of big dreams that think big things
I'ma burn with this little light of mind
and a prime concern to earn thanks, I'ma be a big bang
*repeat except 1st line is "I wanna be a big bang, gotta be"*
[Aesop Rock]
I'm just a survivor of the wooly mammoth population
Bottle neck effect, sorta born deaf
Alien of shallow alchemy
If you gon' metamorph the basemetal to precious
Might as well steal from the rich, bewitch the pesants
I'm floating the hoaming pigeon out hell's kitchen window
Left an SOS infested bottle nestled in his grip so
With a prayer circle release party and hardy wild bellow
I observed him fly ten feet then dropped the bottles to the devils
Fertile circle turn pertal crescent via bad investment
Despised every second, but I GUESS I LEARNED MY LESSON!
If I made an angel in the snow for every rotted victim
There'd be wings to float this mothership up out the goblin system
Sticky panoramic contaminate planet
In conjunction with phantom assumption
Gutterbug alumnus candidates
Well, I promise you I man the lighthouse
Just to help guide in your ship
If you promise to help pull this hook out my lip (bitch)
Godspeed, straitjacket and ragged approach
To circle suns via folklore pollutants to rhyme strictly
From a BC generation disgust
Community movement alluding to a
"No blood given, no recognition"
Life matter, I was us up all night with a rusty hammer
Trying to build a fence around these magic beans my dreams are gathered
But uh, that certain lack of avail
I sail a choppy lie with bouancy like a bucket of rocks (a bucket of rocks)
Chorus 2x
[Aesop Rock]
Big bang, bi-big bang
It's gettin bigger by the second
Check it
Ok, I'm here to rock the tugboat and bare the others farewell
I shook the buddy system wisdom till the similairs repel
I sell a barrel of spirit to dummy dimwits syndicate jackals
I'm broken arrow to the fuckin bone (broken poem)
I don't really believe in God
But God, I'm scared to death of God?!?
I swear to God, I never meant to spill the beans
Nor tear the pod
It's like I hike an acre unimpressed
And slept on the sabre's edge
Enough times to splice anti-Christ's favorite pledge
I wanna know myself
Sorta solo sheep amidst wolves
And still my shepherd can't administer the proper push and pulls
I push the ghouls to man overboard
Pull the bulls onto my sword
And buckle down in a corner chair with a round table floor
Got an angel on my left shoulder, a devil on the polar
Got a mug a frigid, got a mug a solar, sliiidde over
Therecipe's design unplug the appetite continuity
By stitching together esteemed congruents (beautifully)
I peel back carts and lodge Greek physics in the chambers
Quartarized the wound and heads like "Gimme gimme something major"
Road side prophetic, ascend well
enveloped in a mummy ribbon system
Blistering in a wishing well
Yo...I take ten steps with a bedlamped vision,
Study the disorders we've absorbed inside the village,
I understand the plagues and while they shake hands with my grimace
that remains up in my face like top to bottom train car feelings
Let's question the ascension of a broken social icon in various domino affects
Imma blow this hex over the mission
Just to administer the indoor sucker punch for what its pitiful condition.
(C-Ray Walz)
With no alibi love is used as a guide by the civilized
Some see it as the body heat you feel when you close your eyes
That's so much of a lie, you can leave you hair dyed and scored you roots
As the truth hits your ears begin to cry
"Why is it like this?!" Why the fuck do I care?
I don't have the answers, or at least the ones you want to hear
City lights look bright groups of fire flies
Many see the truth (the proof) only when the liar dies
Tires screech to a halt, the ground cries
Split sparks speak to the streets
The skid marks are replies
Read discussions of what we rode through entrenched in the vocals
The hopeless stay hopeful (the toxic fumes choke you)
As I walk out my door, step into the pollution
I breathe in the problems, exhale solutions
Physically the situation's hard to stop
I had a wicked jump shot and sold crack rock on back blocks
Casualties in this apocalypse (street chronicle)
abnormal abdominals (push-up phenomenal)
Relaxin' drinkin my 6-pack maxing
faxing my thoughts on the satellite, via Donahue (push it)
Table talk, salt and pepper conversation
Integrated sectors, metropolis and mecca
It's a conspiracy (you know), I can't lie dukes
Sometimes I feel the rats got a better deal than I do.
(Aesop Rock) (Chorus)
It goes thieves, bandits, lowlives, scum
Punks that buckle under the rumble of my drum
Steadily searching for something new under the sun
But its stagnant, act of developing first of madness
It goes thieves, bandits, lowlives, scum
Punks that buckle under the rumble of my drum
Steadily searching for something new under the sun
But it's hurtin', act of developing first of madness
(C-Rayz Walz)
A new universe in ancient, so I stay patient
In a gravel pit, travelin' thoughts and ravelin', pacing
Embracing light of America, and found a shade of darkness (underground)
The traincar used to be my apartment
Sick of people rushin' in the doors before I get out
Conductors closing the doors before I get in, I shout
"The Biz is coming, The Biz is coming!"
Don't get worried now (We've been in a cold world!)
We just getting flurries now?
(Aesop Rock)
Yeah, it's like slooow dowwn,
You're movin' much too fast to bust through the finale fashioned glass
It's delicate demeanor and I teach you how to hang
But we like 1970 something 20 clicks outside your name (tear obedience)
I apologize for the faulty academics
but they placed us in a miserable stasis
I let bygones be bygones
But tryin' to see eye to eye with the face life
Just ain't working the way the manual paints it
See I soak in a blue not factory
While most cats hassle bandits lamping solo
And when the last red brick topples over the earth
to intercept your crooked little mess
I can be found in a social coma directly to you left
Engaged in a conversation, a marvel with my breath
Regarding how to document the shady baby steps
I bounce checks like a modern
Sleep with one eye open while the other two drift
together specimens from the promised land
This' for the thinkers
This' for the erchants allergic to they own stingers
This' for the absurd verdict linkers
This for that cat at my shows that's always got prophetic opinions
But can't remember where his drink is.
I'm wallowing, shrugging I'm plugging your corporation
Cause we alley cats addicted to the sickly warped sensation
Answer this: when all that's said and done
are you a memorable troop or just a lab rat on the run
Choose one
(Chorus)
Killaz reflect the destiny of the village
So when 20 count regrets float down futility spillage
See I'll pass the broken arrow this time for certain
Yea but from here on out its hoof the mare the bare footed urchin
Dig it in person
Now exhibit true audacity and passively hack grease into ribbons
Your excused from the roundtable admissions committee
Activist legends turned hostage in fallen cities
Dirty earthlings circling vision immaculate
Spin me dizzy in a crosswalk
My too far gone mastodon senses inspect relentless
For fitted boogie systems and crook addictions
Well sure my crown is formed of thorns
Yea but my thorns are formed of sound
And I have found sound will keep me warm
When the mornings born with frozen ground
Put a rope down pull me from where the buzzards cleared
I mean from the bones you and your little badass mad max musketeers
When the silhoettes of emaciated frames dance on a highwire
Mistook for aspiring third world poster children
But is inserted ghost with dealin
Dead to administer links like chief then whats your forte
Devil dragger in disguise seeking the match made in your eyes
Friend it don't take the wise this minute triplicate pace unified
I don't condone the blasphemy naturally its procreation
From the floods, to the fires, to the droughts, to the cyclones
Tidal waves, the twisters, tornadoes, and hell stones
Whirlwinds, tropical storms, blizzards and monsoons
All of which I witnessed prior to waking up inside my room
Look at the crook as I panic episode tantrums
Fuck hugging my cool
The edginess readies the mock knock quick draw hence the duel
The company of similars couldn't excite the motor
But hermit crab Ace home alone-uh
One barrel of idioms and charcoal stick, courage under desire
Canopy draped beautiful messiah reluctant
Stuck in the pluck in the haul buzzing the fuzzing televison mixer
Book of saturated matches and a half-made bed
Pick of the litter, litter of the pick
Pack leader will huff cannibal fumes, mechanical zoom
There's ample room
Stowaways inside the cargo bed
Said leech prior to firing up his barnacle magnet
Instincts leashing himself to where the wind splitting ice storms
And termite swarms are commonplace
I'm a trace this silver lining winding round the profit chase
I know there is good in you if one peels back the opulence
But I also know its ratio the bad don't feed my confidence
The nutrients will be intense circle
The clues units of success being personal
Then sucked basic diversion
Rusty anchor budget for nothing
Wedged between aesop rock and a scarred face of frustrated fuck yous Bound by concern
I can't believe I'm still concerned
I can't believe side children turn in their sleep over one-liners
Well I yield to hear your burns
Color me out of my skull draggin a wagon of creature features
And all I ever wanted was to aggravate the sleepers
Look self-crafted heroics murder worthless
Crash test ideologies, catalog alien doctrines type disturbance
Got em out, killing machines turn belly up
Buckled, the troubles I've seen
Coax twenty four sevens of wide eyes from day dreamers
Clean or dirty serpents in turn wish preference for the latter
Justified the germs burn cauterize the gashes after
On my left, one finger for each burrough I can touch
On my right, one finger for each time that I wake up midsummer night
Who's cloaked in a pristine mantle of hellfire
But A-capital glaciers out the east slide lateral
Born for one task indeed
To spoil the citizen kane emote self this ugly duckling seed
Look I aint too attired of draggin the baggage over the seasaw seeds
When the reapers turns mortals to caspers
See the plain and stone conjurable can't mimmick the null
Of a billion troops holding matchsticks to empty cannons
Stand of a many moons when the sun hit the mountainside splendidly
Bask in the last warmth that be known to man's tangents
In the wink of an innocent starchild's eyelid drop he vanished
Managed to carve initials in the granite wall the damned it all up
I hung with cats that do the donts
Cats that forage through the moats
Hoping they open with soveriegnty and a cantine deemed with prodigies
I love the wake, the watch, the walk, the work
The well its almost six o'clock
sulking and bulking a half
sulking a laugh crash test
figure the mixtures digging up his last breath
grief leaf thief briefly turned chieftan
the tapwaters on the waters off the waters leaking
so this is blue
my frame reportedly spotted garden variety burners and lost to normalcy
my terms the memoir obligation in the boodoir crystalize impurities to zero on the
autograph dirty characters sponges hunches hurling murder abundant lunches with the
city suppers punching (hurdling) tomorrow since I sit in consquence merging brings to
bubble up along the edges of precious child fantasy broken hi, my name is hazardous
tobaccanist im on the brink im purgin dirt and spit my lung in the sink as for the
product well its drenched in a barren backward wasteland of shimmering moral tension
and venturing the plaza pleasant i saw it all from pixie dust to crepid pins and
voodoo dolls and 99 dreams later the shooting gallery wall its like not a wave crash
similar to last or next heckle me not already doctored by regrets gray rain
beligerant fragments bomb acid ushering the pixels till the image burned classic
bliss in a barrel and motivation in a basket ima cast it out to sea and wait for my
comma to grasp it I left my crutch over the rainbow with my riches and I know the rat
race of the bad taste once his grimmace cringes an iron butterfly will float if given
good condition but im still fisihing the same worm from the same faulty posistion
prosperity
im tryin to walk alone and miss the bliss inide the accidental meeting of the pencil
and the ceiling and the censures started meeting breathing at a rappid calibur at
that a line so gray will last forever more dusting off the dreams to be an autopilot
still a silent understudy funny how the opposite will throttle and the different
stroke and model to the prison is innacurate portrayal of an addequate betrayal of a
wish gonna wanna coulda shoulda woulda did it isnt it amusing choosing and a plan of
cybernating waiting till the mating means of motivation took a fine posistion dishing
only after every little kiddy has performed I just wanna be a general he said I just
wanna I just wanna I just wanna be a general he said I just wanna sleep yo what a
long capitol crust gallop my charriot burning and aweful enigma sprung by the sling
of david appears gutterbug batch prior to hatch dismiss it as a soul condensing
excuse to decorate maps with thumb tacks this gold star product pushing hate boogie
themes enter the smoke screen blazing saddle remnants alive analyze pensive connect
all picket fences like chain gangs linked digging trenches to candy land image
factory sold ah I wanna be an astronaut I got the merits and heart and I bought a
starship with hard earned money from one hour selling dreams to dummies when they
raise the lights ja ja ja jesus christ ive never seen so many goblins in my life (oh
my lord) vibrate through the fog and then some dragging bent circuits on a short
leash like organ grinder primates dancing for bread crumbs well did you touch that
slugger banging on the table with an old tin cup thin luck I can raise the dead when
the shark settlers fled the place brung out they bed of nails to spread the sails
racing for milk and bread but I got big big plans i ride a big boat with a big ol
motor and I aint really that big on helping you turn your leaf over (lets sing) bring
out your dead a quarter pile sky high (lets see) what if your miserable saw the plant
fly by my name is try to deny magnificent doom craft my records so built and ima show
you why this fuckin globe tilts
take me where the air is clear i dont really know where but I know its not here and
every little step she takes makes me speak cause I know ill never have to sleep alone again
I'm twice born, once and seven something
Once is the resurrection of honorable function
Been shoveling a coal as the engine's doctor
Long enough to see my silhouette acquire a permanent kink in a posture
The metenance of icicle spirit by the warmth of true endearment
Was, is, and forever will be a luxury
I'm a soubrette columnist fathering doom document
Cursed version of a certain Virgin Mary womb occupant
[Verse One]
I know swamp rats who never suckled oxygen purification
Sure it's blurry may have had them speeennnd breeezzzzze
Stuck until my friend leaves puppet for the plummet committee
Sputtering bum numb enough to stomach the city
Who's that hugging a silhouette of willows with a hill's crest pan out?
On the candy coated crab apples, sugar dipped deadpan outs
I got a plan, I'll turnaquet my quest
Defeat a needle into battling to mute the mess
With patience galas with absentee balance I shove in the button
Strutting to exhibit mankind's hostility function
With a, ppppppppp paling in comparison a methias Goliath
Live to riggedy frame in a wicked silence
I top and ate my nameless square then I bumped eyelids
With a Christ we saw the same thing through a second
What's that? The grand mosaic depicting historical glory in a legend
Nurse me through the time stick and stone mixes hex my fertile crescent
Now all's well, I'm laughing on the inside I swear
Just trying to keep my head above red tide despair
My imperfections pair off with buddy system symmetrics morbidly
So every second the discontent's locked accordingly
Let's turn mummy's shut up affection a berserk glory condition
And pray for the day a star child tugs the ribbon
Meddle in a two-hand grip when that spoon full of sugar medical chaser
Credible crasser antidote's terrible taste the
Water with a stolen soul pen left picture mad rhythm pinned
Never set a grin and fly health
Consider me a mobile advertisement for that hybrid plan of fabrics
I deemed practical, now is you is or is you ain't compatible
I feel a wind in my opinions plus hyper clutch
Crush one's ginger bread tenement awful,
It's like the date of Grado Methasawmill
A lifeline of spectacular expansion leaves the reaper
At the hand of what man's hand jokes
My friend's got a book about dreams, I look and laugh
I dream a book about my friends and still can't decipher the half
Ch-chatter boooox, now let a soothe sayer major
Cater to a king green battered on the brink of disease
I am, skin and bones, I am, sin and poems, I am, tin and chrome
You grin and groans fuck it I'm tinted when accrete zone
Blow the pedals off a dandelion trying to make my little gypsy blush
And felt as if I'd actually accomplish something
Fortify the bullies of the jokes soaking in treatment
Sit and watch the percentages teeter on the evening
On a ghost up in a fuse a lot second before the cock dropped
In the Styx and stared him down until he fixed it
Fashion, it's cool and all but what about God?
[Oh God, well he's the man, but what about reading?]
What, like novels, man that don't hold my attention, what about television?
[Television hurts my brain, how about walking in the rain?]
I hate walking, it's boring, how about some old fashioned gone fishin'
[Yeah, fishing's great but I can't stand hooking the bait, lets dance]
I've got too left feet plus motion sickness, how about breakfast?
[Man, I'm hungry, but that means I'mma have to borrow some money]
Let's fly a kite [Let's burn the generals]
Let's sell lemonade [Let's drink]
Let's poke a hole inside the tugboat, ease on back and watch it sink
[Naw, lets scare a pupil once a year just to shake the academy]
Casually note the blossom of phantom alignment strategy
[Verse Two]
I'll make the waterfall out of order in autumn saw the quarter
When the gods mimic the vintage knuckle drag sacked in a coffin
I affiliate my rag dummy appearance with a most cohesive spirit
Clattering the yesterday ain't shed a tear since
Hear me, wrote the Old Yeller community cartoon
The carousel balloon extravagant aware, inviting it
I'm swore to Adam and matter and saddling
Warhead thorax and abdomen to primitive horse back galloping
My index fingers rest in my talisman branded up in the jackals skin
One must pardon yee old common street detour
Weaving graceful through the prom directed column
Greater virus retreats to a lot in Valom
Bean stalk where the fiend walk and my name is mud
But that's got a ring to it so my swill welcomes the flood
I walk through God's practical joke on man practically broke
And if they raise my rent again I'll spend my nights practically soaked
Who spits silk dimensions with a noose looped by the raft?
After lack of reasoning jedi 3, 2, 1,
Oooh I'm hung, I've clung to hope but see you in hell
I'll be that clear blue icicle that simply refused to melt
Sturdy eye krulin, tin can skeleton,
Skull of a thousand dilapidated dream remnants
Here to convict based on a tin bucket of evidence
[Aesop Rock]
I start my city with a brick (one brick)
Then add another brick (two bricks)
Brick by brick, I manufacture homes for fallen angels
I ain't no great Samaritan, that's just the way the game goes
Respect the polars but acknowlege middle-value rainbows
My snout turned up from dream factory eyelids
Slingin bottled prosperity for the kamikaze colonels
Yeah rocks the match that burned the Nazi journals
And plottin verticals amidst blatantlly horizontal
Models then swallowed by famished potholes
And I'm tired
Tied up on these functions
Killer cottoncandy clouds and huckleberry justice league
Another knuckle-dragger dungeon breed
Run, breathe, sit, bellow
Wild Aes scream through your style to hear the echo
Aight then, flinch for the great granddaddy payback
When Little Billy bought a Tugboat
Now he thinks he's Captain Ahab
Facist takes more than pegleg's birds and eyepatches
Learn that lesson, you'll be swashbuckling with the best of them
Wonder why you wept over spilled milk
And got your crayons wet, the room reaks of a thousand bayonettes
I'll fision vision with a lie longer than your most walked meridian
Connecting life with that little species of idiots
We've now officially scraped barrel bottom
Aesop Rock an Apple to the core but ya'll ignored him
I know a planet made of porcelain
And once I get tired of holding this gavel up
Ya'll prayer circles met him up born again
I ain't too good for tap water
Play "Taps" out of order
For a ballad, corpse a dead man walkin
You can lead a man to a city but that don't assure civility
You can beat a man to death with Aesop Rock bootleg cd's
(That's more fun anyway)
Some cats Float, some cats don't
I speak in Farenheit and burn off colon lyric
Diss blatant harassment, spit honor, whistle fearless
Don't dismiss the billygoat appearance for that common sheep
Chorus*Aesop overlapping Illogic, fading in and out of each other*
[Aesop Rock]
Platforms have been erected
Effigies built
Slogans coined, songs have been written
Rumors have been circulated
Autographs faked
The hourglass smashed and didn't leave me an escape
Moving boxes have been worn out
Mantlepieces dusted
Idols idolized, the sands have been shifted
Curtains have been closed
Sleepers all waked
The hourglass smashed and didn't leave me an escape
[Illogic] *overlapping Aesop, fading in and out*
Now with my trusty paperclip
I picked locks of thoughts vault
Finding the garden barren
The harvest fruitless
Only the Tree of Life flourishing
Wanting to take a bite but I'm toothless
Is that, predestination or is it by design?
That I'm trapped in time sand
Show radio mission control but for my rhymes
Man 'cause I can like aluminum
And I recycle my consciousness
This is just a note
For any action or lack thereof there's a consequence
[Illogic]
Wingless angels
Stroll a top shapeless cottonballs
With halos in your syringe
Celestial ground is found broken
Exposing a bottomless depth
Where heartless spines awake to devour
The small piece of your soul that's left
You're immersed in sound floating
Aimless destination
Drop anchor to gain stability
Stare out potions, restrain fertility
Pedestal talk is a token
Soaked in pockets where lives topics lack conceptual, ridicule
The night breathes but light's choking
Darkness occupies the throne
Where poems are persecuted
The purity at times dilluted
Rhymes are executed
For genre I'm told when has-beens attempt
To cause heat to rise and wonder why they're trapped in cold
Life's an oragmi box and I'm hidden within the fold
So when the yarn unravels, I won't be caught by surprise
And as society's fabric of orthodoxes dismantle
I'll see you embracing the pentagram within this crucifix disguise
See when the canvas stands before me
I'm compelled to spill a vision
For the sinners that listen, I got three spikes and a thorned crown
It seems I need a new soul 'cause mine is worn down
But from the pregance of my hardship was born style
Still my pen bleeds and stains the paper with thought
Finding me lost among statues of mainstream idols
Drowning in melted ice to reinforce that breath is vital
If your father and his father were fish out of water
You must break the cycle
How many times must a plant be uprooted for it to die?
When it's smothered with lies that abolish the potency of the sky
So when the stars burn out and God replaces the bulbs
With a million watts
And throws the switch, sparks filament
Hurting new giants and flocks
I stand on my own two aura illuminated in red
Showcasing the agony held within this welded spirit
Sacrificing itself for the health of a masocistic culture
Yearning for the truth that we speak but refuse to hear it
New York (indistinct)
Stanton Isle, up state, Tri state
{Just for my people} x 4
{Get down}
I cut the ropes (breath)
Fresh cut as a pigeon blooded smoke
Load bazooka
Stoke the cobra coats over a broken hookah
Got rabble pants with psycho dance and cook because the wattage
Electric yoke N.Y. there's guna be movie sluts in gospels
Finish the bodega rode in moment composure to echo
Nammen uncommon
Doubt monkey polish
My 23's lean over a cobra motor milligram bender
Book novelty
A tip lives prior to clipin the camaraderie
Check the muck out
When metal maggot's borough in Promised Land vein division I tug my friend down to my astigmatism
Low Bro
Packs and rows, Max a golden butcher
Last catapult standin in a land of coke and hookers
King cotton common, no problem for brick shawl lows, sock puppets and sitcoms describe long pages bread in a hotbox wigwam
Debra tone hit the dish where the teens demonstrate ease in the hot days when she purchase the foundations of the last remix of ???? service
Me oh I checked into the murals to see sub numinous fucker and um respect
Find out what it means to me New York
Walk knots with electric ninjas who bark bounce with punked out whip
Like my company Delorean's the shit
Skipper's out of happy pills again, he's in the neighbors garbage (ah Skippy)
He's making paper dolls decorated with targets (don't do it)
He's labeling the dolls with the names of shitty rap artist (no)
Then tearing out the still beating heart from the loose-leaf carpets
I ordered a hovercraft off the back page of an RC comic
Built it in three days and thought about starky comics
My gills call the east river rock bottom home in three eyed guppies and sea horses mutations
See New York as ancient Rome, basic
Basically stoned, faith is
My friend jumped of the empire state building while I hung 10th grade head cases
(suck ???? fame is)
Some of them lost the base hit
While they all read brims in the metal die cast Voltron cadence, what
N.Y. electric, cannibal, burners, pigs, magnums, crack, bag baby, roach bait
Pristine kicks spread in the iris of the needle (Just for my people)
I'm a thread the needle (just for my people) 4x
here we go
Da da da, da da da, da da da, da da da 2x
Beaker 1-9-9-11-0-1 witness, maybe you don't get this
(let's go)
kill 'em all slow
I was on a serious tree bender with my hands up but as she raised wall's show
Never circuit bacon don't police me anymore
You're a trained professional ??? 41 shots over par
Least common denominator
Raise truth like Charlie within a grants raise roofs in a glass wankavator
Monster maker
Operate wild by the company of the turnstones and thinner
Talk his way out of a sunburn and be home in time for dinner
Paid dues since the door two days of bad acid and Quaaludes
While a boom box talks trash to the Richter
Sulkin awkward
With a zip lock on a pill hole
Bitter fucker
Nothing is free
I'll spend my last dollar on me
Put one up for my family â should have made time to thank them
Put one up for my crew â for recognizing the sanctum
Put one up for the socially broke choke stoke me
New York pissed hits bleed Dolby homie
N.Y. electric, cannibal, burners, pigs, magnums, crack, bag baby, roach bait
Pristine kicks spread in the iris of the needle (Just for my people)
I'm a thread the needle (just for my people) 4x
Here we go again
Da da da, da da da, da da da, da da da 2x
It go: beaker 1-9-9-11-0-1 witness, maybe you don't get this
Bitch
I didn't expect it dog
Yes people
NY Electric
Welcome to NY Electra
Where buildings fall and hopes crash
Yeah, I'm vast air from can nox
Peace to Adam's fam
Juggernauts, strong hold
That's my mother fuckin word
You've been all over the world
You've hunted just about every kind of game
You've stalked elephant, lions, tigers, polar bears, dear
You've been within 15, 20 yards the most deadly game in the world
You've been everywhere
You've been with some of the most famous guides and hunters in the world
What's the biggest thrill you've ever had out of all of that?
Well I think I can answer that best by calling attention to the
Bazooka Tooth Be-atch
I say bazooka tooth right?
[Aesop Rock]
January, I fell to the cobblestone
In April, I cut little paper flowers
In August, I drank cold tea all my lonesome
In October, I was introduced to scourers
I love New York Saturdays
But Mondays last longer
And since I plan to live a long life
Maybe I'll serve a thousand Mondays and swallow the burn
To merge the week for all its got
To get my shoddy rotten ribs stick, forgot my ribs
I got a lil' something called a spirit crisis on my skull
And it's nothing short of ferocious but I swallowed the dosage
I got a mantle, and the mantle is a candle
And my candle is a flame that burns to symbolize the day Gretel met Hansel
Then I settle in a stand still
I live forever reaching for the sun
Hoping some lucky day I'll clutch and get a hand full
Rope ladder, I'm a swinging anvil
And I wanna turn scullies and summings with pretty lullabye, bye
The way my gypsy dances makes a monster retreat to fetal
I never felt so damn young
But you don't look a day over zero
And you don't look a day in the times cuz it'll make you realize
The night is near so
Well then go, dream, I clean around the edges
I tidy up the tabletop, and lectured all the pledges
I never really knew the true definition of precious
Till my angel wit the beautiful red locks gave me the message
I'm a fully animated life tree
See the root of the mute button was dug up bug up on a song
Of I'm a fully animated life tree
With branches for the heavens to admire actually
Chorus [Woman speaking]
Fame, war, love, honor, crime, innocence, tragedy, sunshine
Cringe, death, passion, heroism, God, suffering, joy, fate
Destiny, treasure, stars, gall, hunger, murder, silence, mayhem
Health, pain, suspense, breath, sound, guilt, pride, time
[Aesop Rock]
We all know what a halo is
But we all don't know the horrors if your halo tips
I be the matador making your pretty little heels click
I be the Sword in the Stone of the contemporary eclipse
I'm incredibly exhausted
You can't imagine, got my warm spirit stuck in my teeth, I'm obsolete
Freedom freedom freedom fighter beginning
Better stay competitive, meter in such to bust, fuckin fantastic
Every little steps you take breaks the tangles
In the chest, developed in the abomidable trouble
Settle for a cruel second, loud for an hour
Screamin to the beats to leave until my whole weekend turns sour
I ain't been around the world but I been around the block
I ain't seen everything but I seen enough to talk
I ain't a prophet, I ain't the Second Coming of Christ
I'm just a mason with a will to build and a little advice
I wanna weave a web, I wanna set of knitting needles
Villain with a theme dream silent
Paddle in the hole divy to where the portraits astonish
You won't regret a single solitary step, I promise
Look, in a situation where a dragon guards the gate
I make a true spur of the moment grown decision
Which in turn allows me to be something normal
With the prefix of the abbot
I can kill every monster if I gotta, that's that
Rockin it, rockin it, clippership rockin it
Be the little guinea pig, dig?
I'm tryin to make an exit with no ripples in the water
No splash, let the poison slide down down the hatch
It's like that
Burn train buffers
My fancy
Up jumps the boogie delivering eye jammies
Walk through the muck with a clutch on a trident
Never give a fuck how far Pi went
You are dealing with a reborn icicle age poltergeist
Uprock, sidewalk cycles stuck at the bus stop
Wookie foot must not sleep
Under the invaders
No batteries
No jumper cables
Wired underagers play box cutter facelift
Rock utter makeshift spirit
To y'all I'm just a funny moniker with a couple of fresh records
And a bangin' hand style to put the jukies On the guest list
Walk for that
Metal train graf brainiac
Walk for them
Not a limelight
more to blush alizarin crimson
when the multi million
Tin men suck traditional rituals
Out the homes of starving children
And I bet they can see the city bleeding from the satellites
Formed by the corporate war drums recorded poorly
Dirty dub vamp.
Bruised by the hues of wicked pallets
Chewed by the tooth of livid maggots
Dino DNA and cola, straight no chaser
Mars attacks colorfulness
I piss raptors on motherships
Hazy days will stay purple
Cause Cips with a Z bargain
Like Crazy Eddie commercials
Go Ah AH AHH AHHH
network with a dirt devil
Burn train buffers.
Cute the way your little parasol spins.
Bye!
Suck my Neanderthal dick.
Catapults spit.
Losing the screws and bolts
and all they heard's crews gulp in bulk and sulk in volts
Zap!
Radio m-m-m-m-mayhem, fine.
Suicidal eye full of plastic nine.
Bang!
No batteries etc
Come on
Catapult
Jump motherfuckers
No batteries
Catapult
Jump motherfuckers
No cables
They only came to buff the name stuck to the train
That's a textbook page
for my seed up in flames
Catapult
Jump motherfuckers
No batteries
Catapult
Jump motherfuckers
No cables
Curators cater to killers of innovators
I'm a staple
No batteries no jumper cables
Choke train buffers like a headlocked Ed Koch
Nurture the craft of concrete visionaries
Cave painters screaming "Loosen the cuffs!"
Cave paintings get the natural history feather dust
Pick a lust.
Limo tint stretch delorian chrome sittin on twenties
Then I walk to the stouge, burning my laundry
Lo Pro,
fucked up jeans back at the party spinning Kane meets Flight of the Valkryies in a heartbeat.
Saber tooth, catalog, city art, liturgy
Ranger Ricks endanger the clique maximum efficiency
And isn't that dope?
The line of blind winged Pygars and how they wallow planks into the matmos.
Binder bibles and a graphite prison violator
with Joshua for the war gamer systems.
Now the architects are rioting cause we built something different
I'm like how the fuck sure shot evolution not my business?
My elephant television was on.
Grape soda, Grape ape, Great space coaster,
DnD, GI Joe, Transformer, Herculiod, ThunderCat, Voltron, Speed Racer, Space Ghoster.
Kiss the flickering images with Carroll Ann fingertips,
C-4 to four chamber skips,
Ohh shit...
They say his eyes were spiraling back when he hit the mat
Woke first words: "Oh it's like that?"
Started bendin spoons and rippin arrows outa lady hawks
With a C3P unit tryin to interpret the baby talk
Burn train buffers
Right turn woulda missed the iceberg, fine.
But you don't like our kind. Do you?
Junkyard Dog. Hot tin roofs cradle kittens with them sub par flaws.
Rappin is my radio, graffiti is my TV.
B-boys keep them windmills breezy.
Catapult
Jump motherfuckers
No batteries
Catapult
Jump motherfuckers
No cables
They only came to buff the name stuck to the train
That's a textbook page
for my seed up in flames
Catapult
Jump motherfuckers
No batteries
Catapult
Jump motherfuckers
No cables
Curators cater to killers of innovators
I'm a staple.
No batteries no jumper cables
Catapult
Jump motherfuckers
No batteries
Catapult
Jump motherfuckers
No cables
They only came to buff the name stuck to the train
That's a textbook page
for my seed up in flames
Catapult
Jump motherfuckers
No batteries
Catapult
Jump motherfuckers
No cables
Curators cater to killers of innovators
I'm a staple.
No batteries no jumper cables
Don't get cooked by the pilot light
I can smell metal in the air tonight
I can smell metal in the air tonight
I can smell metal in the air tonight
Don't get cooked by the pilot light
I can smell metal in the air tonight
I can smell metal in the air tonight
Voice: "Day turns Night" x8
[Aesop Rock]
Night Light suckas..
Put one up shackle me, not clean logic procreation
I did invent the wheel, in a previous generation
While the triple sixers lassos keep angels roped in the basement
I locate my old halos and pass em out to the pavement
Y'all catch a 30-second flash frame
Dirty cooperative Neptune bloom head-trip split
Fantastic! Fathom the splicing of major league low lifes
With anti hero earthworm mentality (Godzilla!)
I paste my game to zero all completion
See a cretin's still a cretin even speakin' altered moniker
American nightmare lost in the monitor
I'll hold the door open so you can stagger through
Then ten berserk and bread cookies in after you
It's the gutter and I spell it with the 'G' I stole from "Get the fuck up"
Noise crutch stolen wretched refuse of my teaming dumb luck
Still I promise temperance storm breed still bleeding Amish
See the freaks sucked out the bottom dropped 3 bears and a baby in a cottage
And I can't sleep now
Yeah, the police'll laugh
You won't be laughing when your covered wagons crash
You won't be laughing when you're hosted by the ghost of Christmas past
You won't be laughing when your blow up doll's
got a headache and won't give up the ass
And I lay my kicks to rest when I'm impressed
So I staple-gun them to my feet
This origami dream is beautiful: pull the tail watch the wings flap
But you really can't do a thing with that
All I ever wanted was to pick apart the day
Swallow up the pieces
Spit 'em at your species
Reachin' the city of lost barnacles and leeches
Night-light got me when the daylight went to evening
Night (Light) Day (Light) x8
I'm pretty sure I got a pulse.. plus
We Shimmy cross the centerfold, and our night light engulfed
Just let me keep the crumbs (Please)
With seven deadly stains
To hear the plane to crystal conscious
The results a dead-beat trying to make a dollar off a bomb threat (OK)
Lift me to activism chain activate wild-style Pluto orbit
Set a course then push the button
I swallow spores born by the laws of a morbid glutton
I can spot a drunk battalion by the Charlie Chaplin waddle
Zig zag and zig 'em again before they can pull a badge out
But I lash out
Another thick installment of one night in Gotham like
"Houston we have a problem"
They're buffing the trains the same days the graffiti writers bomb 'em
Who split how many freaks on box cuts of a high road bellow?
Heads ripped! Watch red bricks turn yellow
I'll try to meet the wizard
But a tailgating tit-man holding an oil can
won't let a hermit crab break in his new shell-toes
Life's not a bitch, life is a beotch
who keeps the villagers circling the marketplace
out searching for the G-spot
Maybe she didn't feel y'all shared any similar interests
Or maybe you're just an asshole; maybe I'm just an asshole
Kiss the speaker wire, seaming swashbuckler or pagan thresh hold
Stomach full of diner food
Wings span cast black upon views
Here to help release the rabbit hounds or pick apart your mood
I got this friend of polar nature and it's all peace
When I seek similar stars but can't sit at the same feast
Metal Captain!
This cat is asking if I've seen his bit of lost passion
I told him: "Yeah" I gave him one last look and smashed him
All I ever wanted was to pick apart the day
Swallow up the pieces
Spit 'em at your species
Reachin' the city of lost barnacles and leeches
Night-light got me when the daylight went to evening
[Verse 1:]
I cut the ropes, breathe fresh puddles of pidgeon blood and smoke
Load bazooka, scope the culprit hulks over a broken hookah
Got rebel camps with siphons amped to cookie cut the wattage
Electric ilk NY raised on b-movie sluts and gossip
Condition the bodega rodent moment composure
To echo numb and uncommon, dumb monkey pollen
My 23's lean over a cobra motor milligram bender
Novelty, I tip lids prior to clipping the comradery
Check the muck out, When metal maggots burrow in Promised Land vein division
I tug my brim down over my stigmatism
Lo-pro, Paxil Rose, axel broke and butchered
Last catapult standing in a land of coke and hookers
It's King Kong potluck, no parking for rickshaw loads of sock puppets and sitcoms
Just Krylon pigs bred in a hot boxed wigwam
Serotonin deficient teens demonstrate ease in the modern day uzi purchase
The foundation of their alacrity makes the umis nervous
Me? Oh I check the newest murals to see whose still bombing this fucker
and um... respect, find out what it means to me
New York, walk blocks with electric ninjas who bark bounce for trunked out whips
Like my company Delorian's the shit
Skipper's out of happy pills again, he's in the neighbors garbage
He's making paper dolls decorated with targets
He's labeling the dolls with the names of shitty rap artists
Then tearing out the still beating heart from from the loose-leaf carcass
I ordered a hovercraft off the back page of an Archie comic
Built it in three days to float above snarky comments
My gills call the East River rock bottom home with three-eyed guppies and seahorse mutations
See New York is ancient Rome basic, basically stone faces
My friend jumped off the Empire State Building while I hung with 10th grade head cases
Some of them will blossom famous, some of them will blossom base heads
but they all rep rivets in the die-cast metal Voltron cadence, what!?
[Chorus:]
NY Electric, catalog, burners, pigs, magnums, crack, bag lady, roach bit, pristine kicks
Threading the iris of the needle. just for my people
Im'a thread the needlem just for my people
Breaker 1-9, 9-11-01 witness, maybe you don't get this
[Verse 2:]
Kill 'em all slow, I was on a serious tree bender with my hands up at a C-Rayz-Walz show
Nether-citcuit bacon don't police me anymore, your trained professionals demonstrate
41 shots over par
Least common denominator raise truth like Charlie, Willy, and Gramps
Raise roofs in a glass
Wonkavator, monster maker
Operate wild by the company of unturned stones and litter
Talk his way out of a sunburn and be home in time for dinner
Paid dues since before the days of bad acid and Quaaludes
While the boombox talks trash to the richter
Stalking awkward with a zip lock on the pill hole
Bitter fucker, nothing is free, I'll spend my last dollar on me
Put one up for my family, should've made time to thank 'em
Put one up for my crew, for recognizing the sanctum
Put one up for the socially broke, choked and smokey
New York piss hiss bleed dolby, homey
[Chorus]
These lil', lil' fuckin' Martians
You gotta love em' though
Mars attacks wit' electric gats
Not for sapien abduction (what's up then?!)
Billy took a laser to the mug piece; hallowed out the mandible
Channel headquarters order the cannonballs (Mars attacksssss)
We have high demands column to this pigeon ankle
And boomeranging' our harvest; 51st area sickness
Not a threat, an area witness won't injure the promise
Monster lead- carry your ligament fanged in the mosh pit
Dodge vapor, labor days are major A sir
Cater the alien decomposer soldier platter like cabbage check eight
I told her "go for C4 magic's"
Smolder as the Bazooka Tooth holster fabric
(This fucker's rabid and still breathing!) (Hiding cabbage!)
Oh, the heater claps to leave me
I'ma ninja this shit wit' sugar in the fuel tank of a saucer
Buddy up and head down to the metal corporate tunnels
Ice pick the soldered ship wiring; pissed of the mother and um,
I'd be lying if I said I knew your intentions
See my sexy sabotage seeks defensive action to save the race
You land in hand on board to mention magma (Blaze the place!)
Red five revival there's wires in the bible
Obviously, ultra take advance when I point counterpoint
Comparison of ET verse little old freak me (She be on somethin')
Hey riddle sweet peas wit' your nickel PCs; fickle CDs, miserable TV sitcom (typical!)
Pathetic. Ritual. Collective slackership
Beautiful establishment; you aint established shit! I consider you foul
Prowl back to the numbers under burnt pride in the dark (sup yall!)
They want us dead or alive without the 'aliiivee' Part
The sun rose over a body bag shortage
Last week I was like 'god bless the saint that invented the cordless'
This week I saw the re-wrap of the bull's-eye of my worship
Temple body slash bull-cabinet Mastermind diversions (Fuck yall!)
Lets do this shit, my movement soothes any space invader practice
Stomped under enemy like "Hey what now, bitch!?"
Hiding human hear me rise above material and cardinal sin
They shot me in the face
Mars wins (X5)
(Puffin' smoke) Run around with your face on fire
(Jet-black smoke on the horizon) Black smoke in the air.
Maaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrsssss wins! (I thought you would like it)
(We gon' make it) Who you screaming at dog?
I got this! (Lets go)
Zig zag zookah, pinnacle stitch
Unleash the unlimited edish primitive piss
I'm singin' cynical maybe the most military ops
Monkey! Here's elephant, and it drops
We on a three-ringed prong ancient elephant tusk
Bitter, at fully (break bread!) you shruggin' it off
Keep it electric, sure, But NY Electra's not about electric wars
Never seen a poor man's glimpse set fake (Last page!)
Three, two, one, domesticate!
In the corner of the cave reinventing the wheel and roll out funny
Sittin' on them Barney Rubble twenties, subtle
Sippin' Saber tooth blood puddle-
I could roll with the lackey's, that's if we hustle
Knuckle in the mud, hell's bells in the chuckle..
Red-berried face means smugger round the muzzle
I'm allergic to the now-born solo panel cutters stole quo to the core (dirt mess!)
Stone cold's hands out core cryogenics, stubborn
Can't talk shit wit' a tongue full a' rug burn!
Bad cholesterol through blood sugar
Four-piece heartbeats wit' a subwoofer!
I'm not asking you to act like you notice (Oh Aesop's SO Mesozoic.)
Now what if in the cabin built the old pulping?
Opened the mirror, stole a pulse with the voltage
Keeping me alive is the vibe with the Vulcan's (hope!)
I'm the divine catapult (Catapult!)
I break it down to the bunk for the crooks wit' the goals of a angel
Eat. Sleep. Fuck.
Structural droids; more bangs for the buck
But they want a last stegosaurs - thorns in the glove (buck wit' it!)
Prehistoric land shark business, cradling the arms of the car man's kidney
Swarm to the sickly thawed out the glacier
Beggin' for the freezer burn; back every day sir!
Sir, your science loves to fuck nature
Sir, your right to the dawn of my day sir
Sir, your violent laugh homing beacon's never set;
Who chase till we all catch vapors
Don't call it a sound-off, "Mars Attacks" be the malarkey downfall
It's not a game no more, run from the flash, leave your penny at the door
A lot of magic gadgets; give em' all back just to nullify the savage
Mic's crumble we be rockin' right; in the year of the Troglodyte
Saw a grey mouse rabid poured on a board to the dull morose world like a lull in a storm
And I know you was hopin' that the piece for the ox was a dull sword, ah
(Guess what, it's not!) Guess what else, I transmit from the block!
T-Rex - X-Ray with triple X Hex (give it up!)
For the yesterdays, or the next I can assure you if the RZA got the sword, (dead flesh!)
Aint no time left. (Keep ya head up now)
Maaaaarrrrrrrrssss wins! (I thought you would like it)
Your head will be down in the dirt
We'll end it real quick
Maaaaarrrrrrrrssss wins! (See how strong you are then..)
Your head down with a mouth full of pebbles
That's it man, no time left.
so I heard y'all wanna float...
yo, this fallen angel could stitch a wing with a shoestring
prime directive selects reflective aviation bathed in mood swing
I'm broke; I know a walking corpse that spit icicle dagger to slit throat
quicker than you can prove there's four letters in hope (h...o...p...e)
I paint a portrait of myself, bored life inside the tortoise shell
tortured, orbiting Hell's orchid, intrigued but not compelled
I smell a hint of charred child flesh sweeping through my corridor
more than one canteen, a liquid caffeine and eclipse the slaughters
now ? is the villain of my Kabuki hologram
as I hobble with hollow hands, please pin the nozzle
we see intent to reinvent dream application with homage to ancients
but honor modern replacements circling now basics, fresh
I'm Bilbo Baggins, with stilts tippin' the peatree dish
beached fish on the shores with a feast of wits eats the corpse
divy the servings and study the traits that deemed killer breed credible
that's a harp of a different color, yeah, but the song remains identical
I am not a crook (crook)
I cook the wick at both ends just to blend that element of chance with my
tight rope leaf
life, sight beyond, I reign where hunger pain got begone
elong to something civil saint 'cause this Rembrandt paints on
and it's a tall canvas, lodged in the gut of Atlantis
I'm pretend(?), impressive lungs, some truly learn what a death chant is
I alone personify man kinds collective soul
as the result of one angry Zeus fist blistering pulp cult evoked
face it, place it on the shelf next to the portrait Mommy gave you
and the day it rains but y'all pose by the slave ship anyway (how sweet)
make it rain 'till the lead be grain
my face is a combine of Father Tom and his sweetest concubine
whine, and it saddens me like televised casualties
I'll be hung in the village square in exactly five minutes
you don't want to miss it
I've been soaking up my discontent regarding the equation
I'm officially closed for consultation
I float
when everyone around me's busy drowning, I float
when everyone around me's busy drowning, I float
when everyone around me's busy drowning, I float
[Aesop Rock]
Count that for me...thanks
[Robotic voice] 4x
One, two, one, two, three, four
[Aesop Rock]
Well any asshole with a book of matches can light a fire fresh
Make that sucker burn for days, I'll be impressed
Circlin past the culture's bigot, procreation baked in advanceable
Then ball and scurry up the grass to roll his marbles off the anthill
I know gerth and nature but recognize absentee ballot
And sappy ballads couldn't fill the void
This game's in the giant Tugboat Complex and HE'S ANNOYED!
(No one's asking you to feel the narc, brother!)
Hmm, it's fashion
I'll find my own bullies to shake a finger wrapped in
Realigned mine knives in divine justice
Plus this uncontrollable laugh with those ample waves of brain finally crash
Brimstone clone with legs and dim poems
Ten little Zen crafts
Things cooperate like paper dog participants litigans
Picket well or ride or burner style clinic
Acid with the basics
P-H imbalance to burn the malice martyrs spaceless
Then fabricate daytrips
I want to be the halo that jumps off the brain
Of the genius who decided some pictures deserved frames
(God and I are on a first name basis)
Yeah I call him God, he calls me Jesus
When I lost my religion, he fell to pieces
Blade, dragon, up hell's creek
Interrupting a devil pagent
Starfighter settling to madness
I keep my ghoul spirit concealed
Until the warriors return to the Coney Isle Wonder Wheel
[Chorus] 4x
My momma told me there'd be days like this
Days like this, days like this, days like this (yes she did)
[Robotic voice] 4x
One, two, one, two, three, four
[Aesop Rock]
Okay, tell me who you chill with and I'll tell you who you are
I walk a mile with a leash attached to your freak seminar
It's a modern sensation on the boulevard of maintenance
To sweep your broken hopes under the rugs then hug the playpen
This revolution pushing through the loose pins and a strait jacket
A maverick classed in a bunk category
They had him parallel with a tattered glory division
(I could devil drink dreams out of thermos)
Yeah, with a whiskey afterburn
It's like, nine o'clock wake (I'm up) spit obscentities
My girl ties on my cape, smoke a bone then work my dental tree
The clear day's laced with a classic mother nature thunderchaser set
That got my papergrain's wings wet
Voyeurist amendments lack expansive coverage in the syllabus
I dance with shuckles while you man the keyhole grilling code
I've done my chores according to God's schedule
With coffee holding the wheel and nicotine working the pedals
Metal edge kings that tends to rapel the pebble
Kettle screaching out the operetta
I live to autograph the iron curtain with doveback feather pens
Spurting magma, cursing television urns to burn until my Cleopatra
Minor (Major) dispersed slap on the wrist
For the tennants lacking the arms to harbor the rarity of thick friendship
Stuck with a "Yes sir"
Change of fatigue to ankle
Each beneath the angle
I'ma call home until the rock meets the angels
Chorus 4x
[Robotic voice] *repeat to fade*
(feat. Camp Lo)
[Aesop Rock:]
Pain cave uno
Smokin' a broken Blue Note
Tar pit escape artist carcass, linger in the blue doze
Rose radio Lazarus via linear bark screaming
'I'm back to kill the video star and I'm double parked'
[Sonny Cheeba:]
You can kite this or yet maybe baby you won't
Corvette, green Mercedes, steady one hundred four
When I'm stuntin', simply stunnin', funkin' with twenty monkeys
They can be like 'I'm talkin' about WE'
Slap that orangutan, drop her on her knees
Please be very cautious, the funkin' makes me nauseous
Hate the Bogota, the target it ain't off it's...right here
And the volume's on three
[Geechi Suede:]
See, we keep the black plastic stuck in the elastics
Even Chevy's heavy hallows lift you higher, legend has it
White crows crossing broken bridges
double deucy clickin' but the round never runnin' out
Pounds of your blood just comin' out
[Chorus:]
We Limelighters
Up until the uglier unplug me
We limelighters
Kill it now, fade to black comfortably
Spark the dynomite till the limelight's gone
As far as I can see the limelight stays on
And on and on and on
The limelight stays on and on and on
The limelight stays on and on and on
The limelight
So we got something built if we all die tonight
[Sonny Cheeba:]
She piss champagne and shit caviar
Don't watch the stars, the stars ain't fallin
Any sight of glimmer...Lo
Shimmering king, spring, they're tremb-ling
[Aesop Rock:]
OK, the web (web) spread (spread) from Brooklynites to born in barn kittens
Who's gimpy half step hid behind Noah's Arc systems
Inconspicuously clustered with the boas, sharks and pigeons
Like Zoo York won't clock them rusted crutches up mopping the ship deck
Texas hold 'em pocket ace investment
Totem altimeter tiki torch it
Freak abort, fold or hold a cold cell in peak enforcement fortress
That's a sheep corpse who under penumbra turned tail like a sea horse
[Geechi Suede:]
We got that...permanent ink, that's stainin' the paper
Murderer's drink steamin' my soul, I'm breathing green vapors
We them last of them falcons that's soarin' beyond your altitude
Please show us some gratitude, we're carvin' your grave for you
[Chorus]
[Aesop Rock:]
16 D batteries (back it up)
See the halflings flee the Shire before he tore open the packaging
Plus, minus, in proper Panasonic alignment
Pseudo Pliskins O.D. on kick drums
Snake, escape THAT environment
[Geechi Suede:]
Wave that colt .44
Bolts of ligtning with Travolta grease
Strip your skeleton, it's swelterin' inside Miami Heat
Your fishnet and red vette are sizzling
Shoot through chocolate city
Wonder Woman went whistling
Freeze, presidential sleaze with Egyptian cuts
Valentine Ave., Jack Daniels out of them plastic cups
Winter white pinstripe lookin' Hugo
Poison Ivy out the windpipe blowin' the crucial
[Sonny Cheeba:]
First they line up
We'll divide them
SUEDE get the roscoe, then design 'em
AESOP Rock box, drop the hot rod getaway car
And head up the rock highway
[Chorus]
[Verse 1]
Parachute ratty, one bunk cord now the air is scooped badly
Dripping out the sticks like a twig-tweed hammock
Miter cut the cables for that quick, clean transit
Miser took the big screen; Panic made a business card
Ankle out of whack, painkiller tobacco scrap
We navigate the yellow corn hype for the barn
When the spotlight swiveled hard right over the farm
Post up, 3 cheers for the gimp
Spread thank you (3 on the right)
Limp to the door, splint what he mangles (3 on the left)
Yea I knew the percentages
But the numbers were unaware of the grand finale's emphasis
And over the scent of a thousand dead dogs
Agent ?Zip-Zooka? swore to pull it off, GAMEFACE
Walkie-talkies squawking up his hip regarding paratroopers: 20 (Ha!)
Tug ??a noise/annoys?? box-trigger reporting for hunting
[Chorus]
I have landed safely
I have not recieved my papers
I have zero natural enemies
I don't know my location
I have no training in reconnaissance, combat or colluding
I'm calling for my orders, over
(STRAP ON A HELMET AND START SHOOTING!)
[Verse 2]
??? up in a killer horse, numb and bloodthirsty
'Till the uncle spitter beg the pig to hug mercy (Ha!)
240-below shit, kickers tickle the corpses (duck!)
Duck the widow-maker, also manufactures swords (ok...)
Manufactures ornaments, if it moves stick a fork in it
Winners take all, killers rape all coordinates
Unfortunately, courted by the most tenacious gaurdian
Whose aimless nature bait a holler ???? taste the martyr's skin
No ??semper-fide?? (Nope), no saluter units
Soldier the fire is more flesh than sulfer
And when the automatic-jitters wiggle the ribs
I feel so alive it don't matter which bitches litter is clipped (Bang!)
Sun down, goggle up; canteen gobble-juice
Teargas nozzle up, brain buff hostile youth
Chop it up, lock a noose upon it
You will die for the glory of...Shit, I can't put my finger on it
But it's big! Big and legitimate
Justify women and kiddie killer shit, iller it builds
So he is not a natural predator, but can dismantle an AK-47
Clean and rebuild before you can mayday bretheren (Mayday!)
Muddy-gut snake eyes, she approaches cobras with an ugly muck
And bloody Bowie knife clamped in the canines
Wake 'em with that blind military mechanism set to bludgeon
WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR MALFUNCTION!?
[Chorus]
I have landed safely
I have not recieved my papers
I have zero natural enemies
I don't know my location
I have no training in reconnaissance, combat or colluding
I'm calling for my orders, over
(STRAP ON A HELMET AND START SHOOTING!)
I was standing at attention with a pocket full of weapons
And the will to walk a mile in the same fatigues that I slept in
I have yet to find a day in life worthy of my saluting
I'm calling for my orders, over
(STRAP ON A HELMET AND START SHOOTING!)
[Verse 3]
I shimmy up out of the fox
Hold the sword of the only after having logged every cadaver accordingly
High scores keep our Tama-tongs enthralled
(There is no course iller than no course at all)
Okay, if his perspective is smirked, sneaky detective work is aborted
And it's no longer whisper-mode on the red alert
No bed of dirt 'n' sniper rifle peeking out the bunker (uh!)
Now I'm set in city looking for something to puncture [gunshot]
Help me up, the numbers of the heroes sat at suppers
Treat the public like a tin can, riddled before it plummets (Brrrap!)
But, adrenaline can lead to lazy-eye hassles
So he list the little boy into the ??pin-up pineapple?? (Heh)
Thats funny...Bumps into the steel-toe
Thats lovely, sum it up in (Oh, hell no!)
And just as fast as the parachute cable snipped
I was rag-doll, horizontal, two limbs short of fixed
Link a baby pulled around the standard issued weaponry
While fading as a blemish in civility's memory
They will step over the body for the looting..
(Ready on the far end line)
(The fuck is that?)
STRAP ON A HELMET AND START SHOOTING!
[Chorus]
I have landed safely
I have not recieved my papers
I have zero natural enemies
I don't know my location
I have no training in reconnaissance, combat or colluding
I'm calling for my orders, over
(STRAP ON A HELMET AND START SHOOTING!)
I was standing at attention with a pocket full of weapons
And the will to walk a mile in the same fatigues that I slept in
I have yet to find a day in life worthy of my saluting
I'm calling for my orders, over
STRAP ON A HELMET AND START SHOOTING! [SHOOTING!: Repeat till fade out]
[El-P]
I brought that genuine shit in '96
Before you knew the underground or independent existed
I watched the whole scene straight jump on the dick
After stepping to KCR lit and flexing my shit
No gun talk, no gimmicks, just rounds of raw-dogging
Dirty dusty intelligent wit and word murdering
A hardcore poetic informed without burglary
Potent and shook the shit out of rappers who just learned of me
Everytime I prescribe a new pill, revolution
Quickly defined the standard for indie rap distribution
Arrogant unafraid shit developed riding a train thinking of brain fucks
'Bad Touch Example' that soon became bucks
Had everybody sprung wondering where I came from
Screaming out 'Independent as fuck' with an insane tongue
With an indelible squad of design monsters
Innovating the styles that made biters look like imposters
So we scripted an album and signed to Rawkus
Selling a hundred thousand without a radio chart hit
Imposterous son is taking the world hostage
Classic hip-hop bombage dirty with style progress
Now I've come from the '80s juvenile Brooklyn
Where cats was like: 'Gimme that subway pass, kid. Good lookin.'
Now someone else is taking a ride with what's mine
So I had to develop styles with a death device cooked in
So when I battled in basements I had eight sentences
Waiting ready for the four you had laced in
And I was taught to wait patient (Why?)
Only faggots make shit up just to get famous
So when I finally blew up I remained sick
Earning respect in ghettos and 'burbs for word placement
Back when the independent scene remained faceless
We were the only crew who promised your ass we'd take it
Mold it, shape it, living outside the matrix
Hold it, make it, more than miniature major labels
Hold it sacred, living it for the culture
Told ya plainly, protected it from the vultures
That's why I always get respect from true soldiers
That laugh at the critics claiming every year: 'Hip hop's over.'
FUCK YOU, hip hop just started
It's funny how the most nostalgic cats are the ones who were never part of it
But true veterans'll give dap to those who started it
Then humbly move the fuck on and come with that new retarded shit
New slang, new thought, new sound, new heart, you thought you hang
You clown, you don't, you drown
I won't dumb it down, I'm dumbing now for these rounds
I'm a live mothefucker plus I'm gunning for clowns
You're a mime motherfucker, don't be coming for pounds
Till you can break out of that invisible box, you're not down
My favorite ones are the ones who started out young rappin about
Comic books, spaceships, and Omnicron 1
And even though they were soft they had fun
But they couldn't break out the frame of the town they came from
Some of these faggots used to send me their demos
Keeping their puppy styles in the Company Flow kennels
But since they had no identity from the start
They started to resent the scene when they couldn't become a part
They've been failing for years and call themselves Vets, that's bold
Motherfucker, you're not a Vet you're just old
I'll slap the shit out you to continue my nerd rap
Making this money fist over fist, fuck what you heard
Rookie cats talk about boom bap and golden ages
Pat themselves on the back for making that new outdated shit
But i've been putting out vinyl since '93 and never looked back once
At ya'll trying to chase me
You don't innovate because you can't innovate
It's not a choice despite what you might tell your boys
Keep your identity crisis under the table
I always knew who I was and I'll always be more famous
[Aesop Rock]
Check it
For the best in the bendor biz
1-800-Lazerface
Leave the last CE-Off for crabs and bobbin hatorade
Dig it, daddy dug his own tunnel under the gutters where the numbers bleed
Hunters froze up and exposed Rapunzel weeds
Tugboat, tug a rut out brutal dirt first
The fuedals fuming oodles, it was right under your poodle skirt
Welcome to Bazooka Works, halogen halo eyesore
The revolution will not be apologized for
Warbucks exlex megaphone on the fashion piggy pageant
While my dick's raw-dogg in a style magnet
Fraggle rock your four figure watch
I clock ninety-nine cent wristbands
And still know the time when you record flops
And this is on a sick with it factor
Exhibit A, E, S, Genesis of the klepto reactor
Wanna burgle the buzz over definitive cast
After a life of labor camps starts paying innovaters back
Baby, you ain't felt the collect? (Coooool)
Stuck running bases with little bears under the wing of punchdrunk butter makers
That engine sputters while the hound dogs wire cutter mechnical rabbit bantomweight puppies ain't rabid enough to snatch him
Poplock dynamos, is approached with a golden focal point
Come soak in it, resume sturdy composer soldier bliss
Wrong name by a molar can often expose your phobias
Watch a cobra grow hands to hold his own tongue when he notices
All city legity critter, bark with me
All filthy documents, cats piss on their kittie litter moccasins
Welcome to mi casa, Monsters Inc, dropping bangers out the rocket ships
Your own private apocalypse
[El-P]
Honor it
[Aesop Rock]
For fuck's sake
[El-P]
Original
[Aesop Rock]
Wild fly
You wanna read the nile, I twitch easy reader
[El-P]
Father it
[Aesop Rock]
I will, dog
[El-P]
Original
[Aesop Rock]
Wide open with banged out cutlery from a slang mouth teacher
And money is an ugly god we all fall for
I got land mammal, cannibal, natural survival squackbox
That means when I wake up and decide to comprise the new shit
It's not some watered down version of what my favorite crews did
Puff the magic komodo bitch
Rappers stuffed komonos and shark fame at a perfect working unit
Look, I'm done
B-boy, feed that to the needy
Shut your liquor hole, fuck you in 3D
Easy
[El-P]
I brought that genuine shit in '96
Before you knew the underground or independent existed
I watched the whole scene straight jump on the dick
After stepping to KCR lit and flexing my shit
No gun talk, no gimmicks, just rounds of raw-dogging
Dirty dusty intelligent wit and word murdering
A hardcore poetic informed without burglary
Potent and shook the shit out of rappers who just learned of me
Everytime I prescribe a new pill, revolution
Quickly defined the standard for indie rap distribution
Arrogant unafraid shit developed riding a train thinking of brain fucks
"Bad Touch Example" that soon became bucks
Had everybody sprung wondering where I came from
Screaming out "Independent as fuck" with an insane tongue
With an indelible squad of design monsters
Innovating the styles that made biters look like imposters
So we scripted an album and signed to Rawkus
Selling a hundred thousand without a radio chart hit
Imposterous son is taking the world hostage
Classic hip-hop bombage dirty with style progress
Now I've come from the '80s juvenile Brooklyn
Where cats was like: "Gimme that subway pass, kid. Good lookin."
Now someone else is taking a ride with what's mine
So I had to develop styles with a death device cooked in
So when I battled in basements I had eight sentences
Waiting ready for the four you had laced in
And I was taught to wait patient (Why?)
Only faggots make shit up just to get famous
So when I finally blew up I remained sick
Earning respect in ghettos and 'burbs for word placement
Back when the independent scene remained faceless
We were the only crew who promised your ass we'd take it
Mold it, shape it, living outside the matrix
Hold it, make it, more than miniature major labels
Hold it sacred, living it for the culture
Told ya plainly, protected it from the vultures
That's why I always get respect from true soldiers
That laugh at the critics claiming every year: "Hip hop's over."
FUCK YOU, hip hop just started
It's funny how the most nostalgic cats are the ones who were never part of it
But true veterans'll give dap to those who started it
Then humbly move the fuck on and come with that new retarded shit
New slang, new thought, new sound, new heart, you thought you hang
You clown, you don't, you drown
I won't dumb it down, I'm dumbing now for these rounds
I'm a live mothefucker plus I'm gunning for clowns
You're a mime motherfucker, don't be coming for pounds
Till you can break out of that invisible box, you're not down
My favorite ones are the ones who started out young rappin about
Comic books, spaceships, and Omnicron 1
And even though they were soft they had fun
But they couldn't break out the frame of the town they came from
Some of these faggots used to send me their demos
Keeping their puppy styles in the Company Flow kennels
But since they had no identity from the start
They started to resent the scene when they couldn't become a part
They've been failing for years and call themselves Vets, that's bold
Motherfucker, you're not a Vet you're just old
I'll slap the shit out you to continue my nerd rap
Making this money fist over fist, fuck what you heard
Rookie cats talk about boom bap and golden ages
Pat themselves on the back for making that new outdated shit
But i've been putting out vinyl since '93 and never looked back once
At ya'll trying to chase me
You don't innovate because you can't innovate
It's not a choice despite what you might tell your boys
Keep your identity crisis under the table
I always knew who I was and I'll always be more famous
[Aesop Rock]
Check it
For the best in the bendor biz
1-800-Lazerface
Leave the last CE-Off for crabs and bobbin hatorade
Dig it, daddy dug his own tunnel under the gutters where the numbers bleed
Hunters froze up and exposed Rapunzel weeds
Tugboat, tug a rut out brutal dirt first
The fuedals fuming oodles, it was right under your poodle skirt
Welcome to Bazooka Works, halogen halo eyesore
The revolution will not be apologized for
Warbucks exlex megaphone on the fashion piggy pageant
While my dick's raw-dogg in a style magnet
Fraggle rock your four figure watch
I clock ninety-nine cent wristbands
And still know the time when you record flops
And this is on a sick with it factor
Exhibit A, E, S, Genesis of the klepto reactor
Wanna burgle the buzz over definitive cast
After a life of labor camps starts paying innovaters back
Baby, you ain't felt the collect? (Coooool)
Stuck running bases with little bears under the wing of punchdrunk butter makers
That engine sputters while the hound dogs wire cutter mechnical rabbit bantomweight puppies ain't rabid enough to snatch him
Poplock dynamos, is approached with a golden focal point
Come soak in it, resume sturdy composer soldier bliss
Wrong name by a molar can often expose your phobias
Watch a cobra grow hands to hold his own tongue when he notices
All city legity critter, bark with me
All filthy documents, cats piss on their kittie litter moccasins
Welcome to mi casa, Monsters Inc, dropping bangers out the rocket ships
Your own private apocalypse
[El-P]
Honor it
[Aesop Rock]
For fuck's sake
[El-P]
Original
[Aesop Rock]
Wild fly
You wanna read the nile, I twitch easy reader
[El-P]
Father it
[Aesop Rock]
I will, dog
[El-P]
Original
[Aesop Rock]
Wide open with banged out cutlery from a slang mouth teacher
And money is an ugly god we all fall for
I got land mammal, cannibal, natural survival squackbox
That means when I wake up and decide to comprise the new shit
It's not some watered down version of what my favorite crews did
Puff the magic komodo bitch
Rappers stuffed komonos and shark fame at a perfect working unit
Look, I'm done
B-boy, feed that to the needy
Shut your liquor hole, fuck you in 3D
[Aesop Rock]
Wake up, wake up
Ayo Percee P, it's time to wake these kids up
[Percee P]
Word up Aesop Rock, they'd better take their fingers off
pause and hit record
[Aesop Rock]
Is you fat cats or lab rats?
Trails to my steppin got em sweatin flashbacks
I played a part of minesweeper, plunking sneakers in my sunken city
Defunct, and apparently examinin' famine, I'm a
Volatile strobe while your blind spot swallows the globe
Sing to the track and think back
When I was a boy I employed styles exhausted
By every lost child at present
Normally I drill pillars of normalcy
You're cordially invited to accompany me
In rotation of the tables to label the opposition
As I choose, refusing to evolve with the cold
Rapidly dissolved my involvement in a solvent of soul and roll back
Brain trip the Beta weights trap for the slaughter
Like livestock infected with anthrax
On my call a pack or clan snaps, collapsed was the mandatory maze
On the fluids ???? and glory days
Desire on the opposite circuit and glorious days
Is glorious hazes of gray spun through my array of operation
Slave to idiot box revalations
And wrapped tightly in a practice with my colleagues and slackers
20,000 league nappers and the swelling increases
Once the mortar hit the pestal your whole vessel fell to pieces
And I laughed, I laughed for me and my Starving art family
I laughed tangibly, your failures ampin me to vamp fresh
My mic stabs white flags and drag trembling
Devil skin-wearers through the terrors of compliance
Once the day turns night, senoritas suck the woody like termites
And wonder how they got labeled dick-hungry damsels in distress
The all new and improved poetically portable Aesop Rock
Available in stores with my, highly suggested parental discretion
99 brilliant new dimentions
[Percee P]
I'm not your average man bragging, toe or hand tagging
50 grand bagging, pants sagging, trigger nigga on the bandwagon
Huh, I know this nigga named Rickey his girl Nikki want to get with me
Says "Stick me just a quickie, lick me and leave a hickie"
I stick instead of tricking bread in this chickenheads
One look and said I ain't shit in bed, she must be licking lead
You'd better let your gods recognize the Rhyme Inspector hides
And never sweat them lies about me haters check your eyes
One verse, lung burst, as I done first
Guns, slums, hearse don't stun Perce, where I'm from's worse (sucker)
My new cuts are hot, bodies chewed up a lot
Then flew up the block to a cipher, blew up the spot
Stacks of rhymes, ain't a match for mines, tracks and shine
Leave you back in time in a ?beeler? still ain't at my prime
I'm a stab your face in, trial and shit is wild
I turn the dial, niggas stealing my style
I should file for reparations
[Verse One]
You replicas overlooking the guidelines of acoustics
Miserable attempts result in miserable conclusions
Paragon pen dragon tactician on freeform
Then a comfortable silence try to combat cliques
That unexpected Sephotus cyclone shifts
Worked up you're shooken, jetted to the side
I stagger this vagabond wondering menstrual forms of phobia
Worst fear the terrace stricken muted
The roots of all evil I've rooted pinnacle
Poised with pride pouncing to break your stride, forsaken
Agony rides inside the heartache wretched condition
My intuition felt you slip up
You tripped alone what are you aiming for?
Or do you sus tries to classify your genus, distorted fetus
Evolve, type unsolved, you lack the malediction
Malleable martyrs get molded, then folded under pressure
Thou perceives a slaughter suspension
Bridge over troubled water drown, sound study intensive
My square drops two erasing lines like tetris
Relentless agent hush horrendous circles on my pavement
Two sticks to burn basics the lie adjacent to my placement
On the game board, lunge forward and wind-up impaled by the same sword
Choose your weapon, stains splattered upon your flag
Taturag shielding the exterior inferior
Stall face to face with a forms that force your downfall
Admittedly suspicious, a decadence, your network's on hiatus
Permanent, provoked and choked upon the potency
The parrow be the penetrating agent pierce the insides
Why the cold sweats at midnight? Why the dim light?
Why are we staring at a true from the inside?
Why the pen slide with vigor on a put down?
Like while I put my foot down stomp your city
A-E-S-O-P scoping through the bur, opening minds behind the smirks
[Verse Two]
I've seen misery, I've seen disgust dust ridden ruins
Iron clad oracle test three COM unit disperse silently
Over confidence leads to irony
Plot twist full hardy Icarus shifted in facets of my form
Forbidden aspects of the swarm a thorn upon your side
A storm upon the rise, Adam, I or crush come brush upon the red zone
Crook you're shook you started poorly
Your powers parted pace uncharted territory
Disoriented malicious god you'll burn your bridges
This craft requires first drafts
Graphs, gritted blueprints of nemesis perimeter
Hunting by night compute, twenty one mic salute
One life polluted, concerned muffle moans
From the nine rings of Donnie's hell burn you in your slumber
Sleepwalk then pulled under now
Whipping through the willows is the warden of this garden
Slipping through the silhouetted skylines Aesop sidewinds jaded
Don't wind up war painted into the jungle the solution's not intrusion
The starving institution broke your main frame
I pose the question, are these waiting games worth it or worthless?
While I comb the crowd for clues your nyebony hands be my purpose
Our planet is the pivotal point
In which this network slowly turns to filter kicks
We out-box the berserk bewildered by the wilderness
My clench is frantic clutch manners falling through underbrush
Touch fools that duel with a dominant
The evil-minded tried to triple six me but he missed me
[Aesop Rock] *acapella*
Jiggy-jabberjaw vitamin idol and primal rages
When bible page verse tidal waves has begun (Water one)
I wrote the book that shook America to splinters
In a winter wasteland
Icicle-bound barren township
Call barren moon childs and proud gimps to clinch this chemical war pig
Delinquent sinkin like a paper tugboat
Well beneath your holiday
Beached on a red tide infested shore corroding eastern seaboard beauty
I'm a jigsaw slab, but all the pig saw was dirt bag
It's like a bleeding comet bombing on your sequels
To the riverside park tunnel people claim last lifeform standing
Carbon based pardons ain't enough
My stilts truly personify the serbonite flea circus
We urchins merkin on daily
I catapult brain opera past basic
Tear my own face off in the finale, stick around it's ill
Diabolic Prodigal Son spill grimmace
If you had one more eye, you'd be a Cyclops
Which explains missing the premise
Bliss mimic, baptise, chastise, laugh die
Kiss the finish, piss the villagers the fuck off
Pete Piper picked peppers, and Run rocked rhymes
Aes Rock might've smoked one too many dimes in his time
Now where you gonna be when the sun falls, brother
Probably gathering your sheep with all these other mothafuckers
Struck twice in the same place by a moody Zues fishliner
Smackin the third clear out the park
Going gone (To infinity and beyond!)
I rocked for a flock of Chewbacca look-alikes in magic makers
Hermit crabs and New York city sewer aligators
Keep your homily dream out your homily
I deal with tangible goods
And avoid manufacturing food for landfills
I've seen friends bow to needles
I've seen needles bow to records
I've seen boughs break
I've seen God bow and make the clouds shake
I've seen the proud break
I've seen alot for a blind soldier
Who tattooed the city scape up skin to blend in
Rats travel by night invite the waterbugs
I'm here to pull the three-prong
When it's prime directive wormhole of self-sacrifice
Had a hatchet slice for camps
For that God-awful Frankenstein
Starving your style to someday be a story in my ?
Life's hard, life's easy
Life's everyting in between
Life's Peachy like James and the Giant
And I keep spittin as long as these kittens buy it
And I keep casting my line as long as these officials bite it
And I like it (Don't try it like that)
[Movie sample]
"Yes the bough is low
That's the way it goes though....
Maybe I should just give up or stop trying
But life is so uncertain, so short
I've got to keep on searching
And wherever it takes me, I've got to go"
[Aesop Rock]
Ban away temper tantrum, decrept anthem
Set a low go, I arrived late
I'm here to scrape a car clean to the funk machine
Imposes on the underling amalgam cluster and identifies the mother
(You got heart)
I hate to tell you but it skips more than it palpitates
Like these here drunken little archers missed one of they calculate
The falcon hates the mockingbird
The farmer hates the drought
I hate em all, I kick the bottom brick out shouting "Yes y'all"
And blow the village out perspective (Aesop!)
Do you take this makeshift-Candy Land-cold classic-bastard style
To be your lawfully wedded head trip
Doing base throughout sickness, health, electrical storm
Fire, pain, rain, hail, wind, ice, sleet, snow? (Hell no!)
I'm balanced, personified phantom to the bone
Walkin like a Jabberwocky
Scalpin a pair of one-way tickets to shadowboxing
Christmas with a shallow stocking
Like this (I'm just trying to milk the mileage)
You drop science like Don Herbert with liquor in him
Soundin off like senior citizens sitting at bingo parlor bickering
Yeah it's kinda funny, isn't it
How I can build while you just sit there and bitch about your syllabus
[Chorus] 4x
Dwarfed by the lights, bewildered by the fanbase
Bound by an idea, skeptical of the handshakes
Oh my God
They've got angels sweatin' like Hell, it's
workin' their little halos to the bone combing them deserts
my figure eight knotted
lifeline defined traffic
the way my schoolin' end-less-ly defined every day
one exquisite fitted crisis rivets an octagon of red
to the ceiling above my bed
it's not a conversation piece, like public spectacles
unleashed more of a clue
so when I wake up to the rains I'll be one step ahead of you
I slide like Kodakrome(?)
wrote a poem for every planet
tracked their mileage from the sun in an envelope
licked it, stamped it
got eight thank yous in the mail, but nine planets means there's one left
only the earth would thank me later with a breath taking sunset
(man, I'm just a bum)
zip that waterfall around your skeleton
tell it to boil
loyalties, the shovel in the soil
dig it, I split my lip kissing the winter
nursed the blister in the sun
strung a hammock between spring and where the willows turn to blood
might of worked
sip a little, litter it, love it
without big beetles trying to sell him sunflower seeds by the bucket
might of, tugboat for the boxcutter above those ashes
without hot air balloons floatin' their four passenger baskets
and I'm asking you
to let a captive lacerate a caption
splash out massive
apolster plastic glasses with famine patches
i-dentify all saints linked around the fountain's warmth
and for a second taste of pain when removing that crown of thorns
?????,???,???, born hostile, pacifist huddled in subtle masochist
stamp the blame on ??? ???
my fire escape overlooks ghost town market place
artists bought out passes
then fast themselves to the target's face
you're killin' me
if I had a hammer, I'd build a city on stilts
so my feet would stay dry when God's wine glass tilts
if I had a shovel, I'd dig a hole in the dirt
and I'll be hiding when his drunken stupor lands upon earth
and if your little wing is broken
I'll see the poacher in hell
I can't afford another ????? in a cell
my carousel mimics the interests of a thousand leaking spickets
and a colony of graziers raised to justify the grimace
(and yes I read the treaty)
I prescribe the remedy plus the premises
my pin cushion, my limbs pushin' the knitting needle
evils, idle, peddle past the greeting
where the sleepers feed the cycles
stop, watch the eagles board the little engine that could not
ghost in a shell
and it fell in my lap
passin', postin' the bail but the guard has misplaced the key ring (that's
wonderful)
I lead a flee to blaze exact songs directly into the village
power supply burning the bridge between the magnet and my eye
now how many cadavers satisfy a mad man?
and how many crooked samaritans turn plesantville to bad land?
I can count my own dusty nickels with you laughing
about you'll turn my poor ass ebony and navy with cane lashings
(well, you're right)
grip your pointed stick, incite your riot
I'll sell your worth in a bottle at profit, explain my bias
atomic box cult, downward spiral rapidly
cast to hell with hate mail, forged Christ's autograph
laughed itself, drastic catastrophe
biting my lip
skin and bones, stringent
bingin' on rancid baits
mummified well inside a muddy New York minute
was it
your remnants my smoke rings have cocooned prior to fading?
well, it wasn't conscious spite but it might have been that
I am not your friend anymore
my arrow head dissertation(?)
when narrow bed sleepers occupy the basement
and I am not your friend anymore
come the dawning of ???? in your pity blend that whispers in the wind
man, if it were only that simple
I'd add a guilt frame to ???
I'd board myself inside my room to trace the wilting contour
one petal falls to the rug, she loves me not
town crier lugging a boom box with spirit plugs
and a red radio flyer
tied to irony like twenty burning igloos with a sailors knot
fiddler crabs build sandcastles while high tide off azalea crops
in the icicle field I portray, cats get antsy
and ask 'why if every light is dark do I continue dancing?'
why if every light is dark do I continue dancing?
why if every light is dark do I continue dancing?
why if every light is dark do I continue dancing?
well if it ain't finally a question that's worth answering
I boogie for the raindrops
for the purity, the anger
for my childhood recollections
for the comic book in my heart
the mocked intentions
the clarity, passion, seclusion
those cool summer nights
for the mark emerging across the street selling me stog's at half price
for the mights, the maybes, the nauseating pitfall
my girl, my friends
for the fact my window opens towards a brick wall
for the three legged dog I saw dragged on a leash
for the homeless man who walks my block in rainstorms with plastic bags on
his feet
see I throw away the tenders over one shoulder
and walk across broken glass
through every wicked world to kiss tomorrow's morning
not for nothing
you'll drown in a pool of your crooked morals
whispering 'maybe Aesop Rock was on to something'
On the train
Watchin' the rainbows peak, (thank you window seat)
I mean, it's all the same to some
But that cityscape makes me numb
Walkin' the wire between firewater and water - I'll take the tap
and still manage to end up thirsty the day the nursery collapsed
In my hand I hold the plumage of a buzzard
suffered for circlin' nutrition (seems barbaric)
I may have just saved your children
There's an inborn tendancy tellin' me to grip that sickle
for the pirate tyrant breeds feed on your precious little pixels
I interviewed the sun, he said the future's lookin' bright
I interviewed the rain, he claimed the sun's truly an asshole
I's supposed to interview the snow today but of course he flaked
So I let my frigid demeanor teeter and take his vacant place
We 3 sprout from the same litter
Yet amazingly crafted by seperate scissors
I sloth from off the beaten path splashed in the cretin blizzard
Half my time is herded towards little lost causes
Half my time is spent pluggin' these leaky faucets
An' I'm here to pose inquiries
I'm here to draw a fork in the road and call it the diary of common sheep aspiring
Little Billy starlet up the block got the right premise
But can't thread the needle without consultin' apprentice present.
Now I don't really know you (I don't)
But I dont' really care (I don't)
Can't judge a man's dignity by the wattage in his stare
Maybe that deem's be that vagabond you'd love to kill
But I really ain't got time for the all the motherfucking guilt.
Chorus:
I'm gone tonight. You best believe I'm leavin'
Packing my belongings then it's off into the evening
I haven't exactly been embraced by the populace
Set sail upon the 7 deadly seas of the annonamous
I'm gone. Best believe I'm leavin'
Packing my belongings then it's off into the evening
I'm diggin' a tunnel to where the sun will never shine
I got my book, I got my dream, I've got myself and I'll be fine
(My time) is the day before the day the earth stood still
(My time) is the day before the soldiers fired at will
(My time) is the day before the hunter made his kill
My time's the final mile before the valley meets the hill
And I'm an archer
Parked where the farmers barter appetites
Sweet-talkin' harrassment down to a mere flashing of badges
Prototypic landscapes chased every step of my well-oiled collective workforse with frozen intention festive. Wait.
What about the captivated?
Well I am the product of skeleton dancers poised crooked scattered amidst blue fields of firey bliss mixed
With disease applicant activist rattlers, fascinate grave child
Oh you're expecting slave smiles after sticking the pin in limb and
God, if I could offer maintenance of fantasies I would
I'd place the button in the city square for everyone to push
You see my mission responsibilties range across the board
And still I'd rather be a pen than a sword
I swim a cold lake, and make no mistake: I was not ready
All edgy and out of shape, made the company look messy
(Sorry, well sorry) Honestly take it or leave it
Just let me know so I ain't beggin' forgiveness thoughout the evening.
Basic locomotive with a whistle and caboose
Tryin'a pull my cargo 'cross the map without a boost
Fragile in more ways then 10 yet sturdy bird construction
Hope the smoke stacks puff into the morn, dream torn
Chorus:
I'm gone tonight, you best believe I'm leavin'
Packing my belongings then it's off into the evening
I'll knock upon every little door that comes about
I'll sweep your porch if you can spare a couple of breadcrumbs and a couch.
I'm gone, best believe I'm leavin'
Packing my belongings then it's off into the evening
This turning in my sleep is getting old and older still
I think I can, I think I can, I think I can,
[Sample from "Snatch"]
"Do you know what 'nemesis' means?
A righteous infliction of retribution
Manifested by an appropriate agent....
Personified in this case by me"
[Aesop Rock]
We're all in the same gang, bread and butter
Just a couple subdivisions who naturally hate each other
Influence is shark biting the fuck outta your brother
Friendship is Professor Plum ratting on Colonel Mustard
You are now witnessing the world's most crass version
Of a barnstormer, reveal time with a jagged edge
Arm mortars and field mines for a bastard pledge
On the style diamond cutter
Swung before that magnificent havok sketch
You fidget like a nervous culprit gulpin'
Sweat a bullet, dead a bullshit sequence reactor
Speaking disaster
Who leaps off the canvas to provoke a side winder
Snake in the grass with a dirty belly and his work to sell me
I got my word to tell you
I got absurd magic
But it works like pistons pumping through the realm my family habits
(Without a Rabbit Hat combination)
Nah, more like I'm spitting pixy dust
Till the mix taper community combusts
[Yeshua Da Poed]
I hold words for ransom
Demand some attention paid
Not to mention praise for their release on a page
It might evade the light of day
I never said I gave them all the fight to be brave
Or insight to behave
More like them others
Whose ads have been paid for by some brothers
While some of us lie in the eyes of others
I discovered another way to stay undercover
Kill everyone involved
Unsolved mystery
this to me is how to leave matters resolved
Out of this all, you should take a break, ask the fake
Get snatched out your habitat and left on the side of a lake
I try to debate
Whether a clean getaway is harder to make
Than a call to the cleaners
Dropped off a seamless bag
Zipped up with enough cash to pay the cat
With the awkward demeanor
[Vast Aire]
God is a name I call myself
I don't like Ugly, Original, Synthetic
I breathe rusty air logic
It becomes the lung, the mind is a closet
That is if it's a walk-in, 'cause I'm open
You fell from the cliffs of weakness, I scoped it
I'll ball your rhyme up and stuff it inside my mouth
As if this was the first grade (C'mon man)
And you'll just stand there
Your eyes'll water up
And your teeth'll grind 'cause you rhyme first grade
See in this life timetime I'm a caged poet
But I think life is more than a jail sentence
That's why I took my time
Doing calisthenics which euphemisms to hand out a life sentence
When I rhyme I put my ass crack in it (in it)
And you in a glass bottom boat with a crack in it (in it)
So fuck your attitude
My poetry's position is the sole definition of latitude
Sinister. (repeated)
"You tell the angels in heaven you've never seen
An evil so singularly personified as you being hit
[Intro - Unknown man]
Thou mayest indeed
Tune onto the forbidden channel
And see it like it is baby
*Record Scratch in*
You should be a champion
Never fall on me
Deceit, deceit, deceit
*Record Scratch out*
"Getting dusty in the cellar"
[Verse 1 - Aesop Rock]
I was thinking about my sick friend
Stringing a ring around my wit's end
13 loops later his feet hung inches out the pig pen
Motley day goblins brought him pillage to pass the stillness
With bad javelin tip dipped inside barreled black magic brilliance
Who rose at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier?
To capture the fascist fragment choreographed in traffic dancing for nickels
Looked like sickle cells to the principles of pi rotary
One hope distortion odyssey sputters itself to my how not example sample
Give me the bread crust while considering the littering
I don't pity the head rush or the whimpering, spill
Anchor to rock bottom, rocks bottom packs a ravenous catalyst
Sprung arachnid, leashed by the carnal tyrant
I choked when the cage bird sings it stings
Springs me out delirium to stitch them clipped wings
I sink instinctively brinked while theyre clinging the shrieking souls
Mourning the death of fallen ideologues to quality control
Quality control, stand still string up the banner
From the beehive to the anthill; rag dummy
Incorporate the unison of Vikings ship throwers plus the perfection
Of the twice to burn with half the stone throwers, speak your assessments
My communicative hinderance pleads the needs
Of a billion hungry victims gripped by the hell that's slipped to splinters and
got Shiving up the mass of natives and it's league marvels
One component's sure to shock a mass burial, breeze
Broken penny bank fragments float up at stagnant seas
Dirty work plus applicants with chatter box disease
Iron bandit, give them the stars, the head balloons and rubies
Asked for many moons and I can't stand it any more
[Unknown man]
This is how I feel that I sling
And the regulars were so amazed
*Record Scratch in*
I'm the mightiest slinger of them all!
There is a time for war and a time for peace
And a time to run and a time to split
*Record Scratch out*
"Getting dusty in the cellar"
[Verse 2 - Aesop Rock]
I don't run a funny race, malnourished monarchs and loopy admirals
Where 99.9% swear by their broken axels
I built boats of a pack rat bats of bully club swung
Post utility inhalants nail it to stability and sail it
Lopsided Star bird bow crooked mass makeshift
Patching holes with chewing gum and stitching sail to thirsty faces
Observe me sitting with my eyes tied to the clock, 'Cause
I know that once that wind kicks up you and your motors left roped to the dock
And it's the, art of clarity married to slender extension
Of blue sky of a happy neighborhood
String on my ring has left me dancing like wooden dummies in a paper nature
Merry etiquette's a door nail, Friends is little brittle dolls of paper
In assembly, I tremble with a crocodile smile
Hiding a fish out of water complex provided upon entry
Now if I, were to, hold to speed
To levigate the game plan, would you honestly impede
I mean I guess, I can just divorce me from the rest
And blame my chemical imbalance for the fact I've made a mess
But my loyalty supply hints on which inklings I should run with
And I'm thinking that damn town prior's about to fill this here bucket
It's that, grand precious that precious that part of you wants to touch
And part of you just wants to sit and be impressed with
Tainted agony induct in barnacle attachments
Mood swinging upon the barnstorm to perpendicular traffic
Spread, circle 4,000 circuits you burn to cater wings
Above alkadiene Townsman spoon-fed the shadow
I'm tired of being wired into the thief ratio
It's gnawing a hole through my scheme so I leave (know what I mean?)
[Outro - Unknown man]
It is the molotov cocktail hour
Have I not brought you blessings without number?
*Record Scratch in*
They have plenty of nothing and nothing is plenty for them
I've never had it so good
*Record Scratch out*
I don't shrug instead of the ramifications of my shovel
Lovin the consequences of uprooting the jungle
I'm huggin the cyclo Gemini stooped contenders from viewin the puzzle
I don't budge the motives encased inside the gauntlets hung in quotas X2
My kitchen sink leaks like your itching to speak a secret
'bout the world spins yet nobody's pledged allegiance and why?
His beaming smile knew a private agony that burns
And when the children met divinity I sat to watch the merge
It goes pandemonium live
Ya'll mutha fuckers stand up volunteer tantrums while your playin summin vivid
Play your sympathy card till the misery clash
And a basket case is in a classless matrix with elastic stitches
Raggin a bag of lonely poem remnants
Short of breath like you're short of fresh
You're a portable mess
Carpetbagger spearheading tear peddeling pretentious art critics, orphans
Trying to dismiss those pioneering their fortunes
You're a spectacle
Pushin for pedagogue lacin up paper weights walkin on stilts talking
You touched the hand of God and I'm like
What are all these evils that plagued the hearts of man by sweet talking border patrol until they fold and let them in
You got your life in a basket before you could say instant classic
Like the king of the mountain requires a boost
I'll bury the hook in my belly just to volunteer at live aid clinics
For the thrill of 9 great mimics with 18 bloody lips, spittin
Beanstalk, chalking outlines before figures fly
Walking uphill trying to get down
Prominent ghost town litigate battle pitch darkness when the light switch hits the *artistry* circuit board breaker
Service in the greater half of nature
See money go wild shook when the exploitation incubated lovely
Warmingly *piggy leader* colony to comfort
Numb enough to deny the sin pins and evil needles even punctured
Till he wont define his TOURNIQUET STILL FUNCTIONS
I don't shrug instead of the ramifications of my shovel
Lovin the consequences of uprooting the jungle
I'm huggin the cyclo Gemini stooped contenders from viewin the puzzle
I don't budge the motives encased inside the gauntlets hung in quotas X2
Burn burn em mostly
Stuck unplucking plumage out the poultry
Soaking in bulk on a sofa with ductape upholstery
Dirty doc stellar space medic
Stoned by the commoners for glowing
Psuedo bloaters * buy them beats till bloated*
Happy trail hitchhikers guide to spanning oblivion
Complete with a thankless 9-5 chapter
You can sign your life after the facts
Wicked soldiers pickin with buddy system logistic motors like Noah's ark ticket holders, pivot
All in a days breath
I guess
Sandman hit up or shatter a day when television run over baboon heart transplants
Sketching a glass partially empty till their hand cramps
With a iceman dance (?) and stand with a (?)
But maybe I do
Yeah yeah maybe it's all over, maybe I won the game before the machine ate my quarter
I mean absorbing attention's a must
You don't wanna be overlooked
Yeah but you don't wanna be looked over too much
One up for the dashed hopes of fifty fishermen who crashed boats
and the angels who never hit a bad note when harmonising
I'm an armour plated farmer
I'm an archer rising with a drawn bow for the karma where the bulls eye clings and argues
Dense, spreads like new names at the writers bench
Either you drink it or sink it, coz there ain't no sitting on the fence
You make me chuckle child, it's hells kitchen now, miss
Recognize your life is merely bait for bigger fish
I don't shrug instead of the ramifications of my shovel
Lovin the consequences of uprooting the jungle
I'm huggin the cyclo Gemini stooped contenders from viewin the puzzle
I don't budge the motives encased inside the gauntlets hung in quotas X4
[Sample from Sing-A-Song]
"You can come, I'll leap right over
Any day you like
System 605, Union 91"
[Aesop]
I forever wallow in glitches grimly distributed by side effects
Consumed, cocooned in antisocial trenches drenched!
Gridled between dense pillars of polar value lies
a grey so blueless it's got eye fiendin for the sky
Synthesized lies rise synthetic
Sittin inside solidified plastics who's latteral burns germ compatible
My firm's radically piloted, dodging a fire swiftly
Yellow brick stalker walking shifty
I am but a prototype metroid programmed to holocaust style
while you're soakin in the stages of denial
Your petty soldiers seem fragile like Jaquemetti sculptures
Embedded in aramatic cultures. We's rock steady vultures
Plus I's the guise of rowin a soul
My wingspan stands flags in the snow of the poles
Bezerk
Swerve my alignment towards solitary confinement and jade it
Stripping, color my passion mitigated
Slipping
[Ann Colville]
You always seem like a small grey cat to me
Sleepin underneath the silvery moon
Paws curled beneath your head
'til the sun came round just around noon
And you would greet me, purring in your doorway
Drawing up your tail around my hips
And I would go to your mouth wide open
waitin for my nourish to come from your lips
And I move you
And you like it
Just enough
To let me
But I hate you
Cause you're lonely
And you know how
To forget me
[Aesop]
For the love of my personal practice I reside
where obstructive fluxes and societal withdrawl collides
Slide fuel by the fury
Spun a ring around my honor
but the opulence took shelter in my horror
Melancholy masquerade
Cast amongst the braiding of biligerence
and blazing terror that blew the lock down off my placement
I stay special agent till the sky falls
Reverse the curse till my fellow lost children disperse
[Ann Colville]
And your footsteps leading down the pathway
never seem to be quite like my own
Your mind is smokey circles
it blinded me till I turned towards home
And you would watch me far in the distance
hands held high above your head
I only leave the territory where there's nothing left, to be said
And I move you
And you like it
Just enough
To let me
But I hate you
Cause you're lonely
And you know how
To forget me
[Sample from Sing-A-Song]
"You can come, I'll leap right over"
[Aesop]
I make music and connect color to canvas
Swoop down from the trees with potpourris and other bandits
Landed randomly upon the valleys of the grimace
Saw my planted leaf stars burnin from the oustide in
Meaning your clout lies thin
Salt prep the blades prior to five phase in my ever changin underworld
Serate a day to decorate a traitor
That sting never fades like belly wounds from sling blades
Follow my portion, Im gonna swallow distortion and spit the filter
[Sample (Sing-A-Song High Tone Voice)]
"You can come, I'll leap right over
Any day you like
(Chill with that ill behavior) - KRS sample
Pull the pin out, sheep creep in wolf garb
Fronted by the Hail Mary parry lunge mixer
Kill the populace for stability, jeopardy's a stickler
Its bob and weave amalgam played the falcon to your fixture
I branch out, arms flailing backwards
wailin upon a tidy sound circuit
slightly foul Gershwin
with a bed of nails and drumlust plus disgusted service
workin in shifts opposite the asbestos brain furnace
I be the now observatory eye ear antenna feeler
Spittin like a dragon with a similar demeanor
stood innocent bystand witness the diehard fans turn Rip Van
in the poppy fields of N.Y.'s orchestrated brick gauntlet
Now I'm thinkin who am I Jabberwocky Superfly bent left
Pushin war without the ten step cushion and what (what)
I plan to hold this beat positive sacred in these golde veins
Until the day I die from grimace overload
It's shock (it's shock)
treatment offered by the weekend
this still be a getaway, let's display the sequence it goes:
One for the heartless thievery turning my guardian angel harpless
And the rest to sweep the mess under the carpet (under the carpet)
I drag a yellow taxi meter behind every measure
And charge cats for labeling me shepherd
"That'll be Six Fifty plus tip darlin,
I take cash, credit, check, money-order, gold and cigarette cartons"
Huh, got caught up in the universe tryin to zoom in on stardom
Forgot the passion plus the hatred, both were based in Carbon
Next time you wanna be a hero try saving somethin other than hip-hop
And maybe hip-hop'll save you from the pit-stop
Kill em all, yield
(naw man It wasn't me it was Holden Caulfield brother
I just read and pulled the trigger)
Oh God, well leave me to tiptoe past the pearly gates
capture the halo, jet back to base, step past the chase
the bad taste of jet-lag and weight slackers
There aint nothin broken, where you at?
The pistons pump perfect, where you at?
The bass tone is Merlin, where you at?
This service is a urgent workin surgeons
Purging formulas lookin for an improper cause is whack
(Chorus 2x)
What are you saving, honestly? (honestly, honestly)
What are you saving, honestly? (honestly, no honestly)
What are you saving, honestly? (damn)
Promise me you gon shut the fuck up and recognize
What you holdin aint really broken?
I don't flick neeedles like my sick friend (friend)
I don't march like Beetle Bailey through a quick trend (trend)
I don't frequent church's steeples on my weekend (end)
And I don't comment if you formulate a weak Zen.
All I ever really wanted was a getaway
I'ma take a chance by letting a brook slide for what I got in my hands
I can not agree to follow a leader while on the borderline
A war without a reason for the Brady hates gore
Bring out your dead we can put em in a pile
And burn em with the novels for the kids then to admire
KIll the ones that speak from a different life
Brewin other killer noise makin the sentiment...
Okay, welcome to the Kamikaze bottle rocket cockpit
Live by the icy cold hand of bad intention youth blender
Oh yeah I'll let God warm the bench for now but
I'll ascend to spin y'all dizzy
(and for the record I'm bringin my t.v. with me)
Yo, let the commoners speak publicly
Then disperse eye jammies for cats that swear by third pupil
But can't see past the loophole
Motherfucker, my word is born like Siamese triplets
With doctor, lawyer, rocket scientist promise
(let em grow leisurely)
Hey Mom, I'ma fix without my probe along this path
Once my shpeel's perfected I'ma save you a seat in the front row
Of Aesop Rock's twelve steps to shut the fuck up seminar
And when all these bickering crowds turn solid you gon be proud
I tack hacks to the (backboard)
Honesty's a (latchcord)
Fury's far from (obsolete)
Serenity's a (crack war)*
Raw caricature of mayhem standard branded by the labor
With a thousand reasons to end this for every one of you saviors
Saw the brightest burst ironically wide from the vacant stage
Gave it a pound for burning where bunk ratio's engaged
Keep me posted as to when you grasp something mature to
sit and sulk about mister, and I'll consider pickin up your record
(Chorus 2x)
The Authors, they aint got nothin to save
The Overground, man they aint got nothin to save
Def Jux, they aint got nothin to save
The Addams Family, they aint got nothin to save
Weightless, they aint got nothin to save
Stronghold man, they aint got nothin to save
Rhymesayers baby, they aint got nothin to save
Aesop Rock, I aint got nothin to save
it's llike that
[Aesop Rock]
Yo change the fuckin channel
I burn a Coma candle
When the flame fades, consider my flatline a soldier's sample
We them cats talkin noise behind that New York trash heap
Where the stench of commuter briefcase replaces a bad sleep
And it's, worker zig-zagers versus piggy batch flashers
Training Generation Fallout
Waterfall bricklayer pincushion crawl out
There's smoke in my iris
But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids
So I'm ready now (What you ready for?)
I'm ready for life in this city
And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
I'm a dinosaur with Jones Beach in my hourglass
Passing the time with serial killer coloring books and bags of marbles
Don't tell me you ain't the droid that held the match to the charcoals
Don't tell me Lucifer and God don't carpool
(This is our school)
I'm not trying to graduate to life at the personalized barstool
Head in a jar on the desk, feet dangling in a shark pool
(Man please) Man please
My name stands for my being
And my being stands for the woman who stood
And braved the storm to raise this evening
(Brother, sun, sister, moon, mother beautiful)
Yeah middle sibling suitable but far from son of excellence
beckoned a long time ago, I was to way the wishers wish
But missers miss, I slept through my appointment
Saw the liquid dreams of a thousand babies solidify
And picked the rose that wilted
The second I introduced myself as Nervous
Well it appears the scars of learning have spoken
Some are burning, some are frozen
Some deserve tall tales, some have wrote them
Some are just a brutal repercussions of devotion
Mine are all of the above cuz everything leads to erosion
Now where I live there's a homeless man
He sits upon a crate
He makes a rusty trumpet sound like the music that angels make
Now if you ever come visit me, I suggest you watch the show
Tell him Aesop Rock sent ya just to hear his horn blow like this
*Horn samples*
[Aesop Rock]
And I ain't getting any younger
My knuckles wear their bruises well
I've yet to lose that hunger
But only time can tell
Prodigal Son with a prodigal wish to sew that prodigal stitch
And crucify bigot voodoo doll on two popsicle sticks
See your name is Ambiguity
My name is something hands can't hold
But hearts part ocean scapes just to watch the starlet unfold
It's like sketching a circle in the dirt with a pointed stick
Knowing the wind'll kill it some day, still it calls my burning wits for now
And if I plow the fields that don't guarantee plentiful harvest
But starving artists die, I set my alarm for five o'clock
Idols block survival crops the cycle stops for nothing
The Bible's carp revivalist winos flock by the hundreds
To the opening, scarlet carpets greeting their duel
Leading the stubborn mule to cruel rugburn
But y'all numb from gut fuel
I administer eclispe, there ain't no motor like a martyr-made motor
Cuz a martyr-made motor don't quit
I am an epiphany, I am wet foot mammal
Channel surfing my way to the top
Tugboat in a bottle
With no holes poked in the nozzle
I fed em bedlam diluted in limelight
Till that rookie boogie graduated hostile
And the vehicle is grandeur and it veered over the medium
The second my halo ran outta helium
Demoted to thorn crown, damn talk about numbskull
I was born bound to a stencil called symmetry
But my energy's a rental
So I take this now to save
My cute seniorita beholding a flame to a lost wick
Thank you James Anthony for the band-aids on my ego
Y'all are family for life
I'll take that bullet to preserve you
I wanna be something spectacular
On the day the sun runs outta batteries
Attach my fashion to the casualties of anarchy
Save my nickels up to buy that homeless man a brand new horn
Then sit up on his crate as I witness the beauty born like this
(I ain't gettin any younger)
television, all hail grand pixelated god of
fantasy, murder scape and perspective
fuck a sore channel changed digit
I sit with a nasty network intervenes plan
with a stable diet of my cable pirate
yo, the doctor is in, the doctor is on
born the bastard son of static radiance cloned to welcome in every home
lead a blue screen, bruised dream canope
victim of the cursed nursed Technicolor drunk support team
ooh, I love all advertisements
though accused by robot news casters who capture and pollute
spoon fed hazardous fog to joy luck catholic squad
please take me, please calm me, please make me a zombie
please I want to donate my brain to the monstrous Panasonic profit
now, twenty first century plagued
dispersed to wide eyed glamour addict patients
telecast patrons
blue be the propaganda banners, well, sure I'll be a Marine
with a clean sword and blue uniform, it only takes a dollar and a dream
and I abide great idiot box power supply, fuzz vapor,
black out of New York, hey honey, get the generator
I'm in a doom, doom generation, pacin', ancient electric secret
never sleepin' to miss the AM oasis
my name is a wired heart, sloppy obligation
turn my stilt into my guilt and have a chatter box blame frame adjacent station
make reality scrambled and suck the life out of a hidden vandal
and loving every minute of the gimmick, change the channel
plug it in, turn it on, prop me up against the couch
lights out, I ain't ever gonna have to leave my house
satellite dish, get up on my wish list, turn me to a tyrant
let my clean spirit dissolve through the appliance
plug it in, turn it on, be my mother when she's gone, great
wipe the spittle off my chinny-chin during the breaks
if I gotta go blind I'mma do it for the love of all television kind
and that's fine, and that's fine...
make me a star, I wanna touch gold
hold me suspended in a dream, mearly inches from the screen
deleted passions sacrificed to one electron monster
crucify my little future to the monitor
damn it feels good, turn on, tune in
zoom in to hug the bug up in your family function
but the children seem to love it
yes mother, me and wild discovery
and heard the static flock to where I sleep
by the glow of that magic box big speaker
stereo mastered often kill the freak seekers, eyes spiraling
tangled in the star spangled wiring
I can turn from toxicated visuals
and all the kings horses abort the loyalty to royalty
fuck the fortress
riddle me with glee, hoist the end all telepromter above my sleeping head
I'll be dead by morning anyway
color my values with mundane humor in thirty minute tickets
to feel the magnetic seal picket censorship
I want commercials twenty four-seven
I wanna shop from my bed and set an
example for all my overworked, underpaid brethren
I bond with a six string(?) correspondence
and lurking circuitry circus
with allegiance pledged beyond the glass surface
adamant students within the fine school of possessed graduate catalysts
channel zero addict, immaculate
it goes- big screen, little screen, any screen'll do
just let me hold the controller and I won't have to murder you
plug it in, turn it on, let my little eyes glaze
twenty screens lined up along the borders of the maze
I wanna see the five day forecast, fourteen days in advance
so I can get my two weeks notice every time the sun dance
plug it in, turn it on, silent fix better than nothing
let a once divine soul feel the functions of the hypnotist
the viciousness, ridiculous, peaking a dummy's interest
touch the power button meet your maker, ain't that something?
plug it in, turn it on, say goodbye to Sunday afternoon
fix the antenna, sit back and let disaster bloom
it's a beautiful sight, with a most ugly intention
but I taste it everyday and bathe inside the consequences
plug it in, turn it on, never once have you talked back to me
your majesty, I love you, I despise you
my everyday is sitcom, soaps, news, bad dramatization
radio, check check, video, check check
this is how the city folk and mole people connect
somebody warp the message right i'll pass it to the next
now the perferrated county's making you upset
harvest all brand x clark kents to worm pool
carbon heart
burried his nozzle in fossil marker art
pardon
cadaver had a legitimate pulse
and littered volts are with the village
where the skiddish pigeons molt
bastard poacher gasped
with the pigeon with lazerus billy goat whiskers
he rose to see salt in the open blisters but
blind anarchy slips through the cracks,
see naked martyrs with bubbliscious on fishing rods
itching to pull it back
with that organic invention incubated to hatch
suome can try to make it fructose on paper now
allow the details later and the crews will taper out
of wooly mayors ousts?
through piggy jammy happy shooting at the bladed mouth
bazooka tooth zoo keep the paper route
with janky funds and favors
cradled by twelve empty sell the heart containers
man, it's freezing in this brick bitch
winter forever
like pucks that tawny felt down with his sore furry wrist severed
i walk face first through the sex, guns, and church
with wild things that make maurice syndek question his early works
but no hostages no promises
out the claw of corporate cogs and sprockets,
now clogs off gromits
running from a rabid ring wraith click, basilisk, serpentine
in and out of traffic jam and murder scenes
scrub blood off the AF1 fifty two pick up first degree
some toddler's smuggled tommy guns and crack into the nurseries
dogg, there's a fucking baby at the door asking for wallets
and those ain't twin beenie babies inside his pockets
2010 sonograms show the magnum's worn directly out the fetus
evolution for the young killer convenience
radio, check check, video, check check
this is how the city folk and mole people connect
somebody warp the message right, i'll pass it to the next
now the perferrated county's making you upset
magazine, check check, paper route, check check
this is how the hermit inc. and busy bee connect
somebody's losing track of their flesh and blood in arrests
polka dotted landscapes what did you expect?
now-a-days even the babies got guns
diaper snipers having clock-tower fun
misplace the bottle might catch a bad one
have a mid-life crisis when you're ten years young
hold up
if the jesus piece around your neck is bigger than your pistol
it makes homicide okey dokey and your god will forgive you
just show the saints at heaven's gate you should be on the list
i hear overlooks manslaughter for a tatooed crucifix
twisty, fidgety, contradicting
wild animal shit bleed off the slide of born doctor?
to mister turnable mind bought?
somewhere to laminate dry bones in cool water and ease madula
after you thumb sucking diaper chains
give birth and shoot the school up
i duel, too, but only to exploit no brainers
teenager beef past alligator teeth
and extra-curricular flagpole scrappin'
amongst tadpoles that have yellow backbones
team mechanism brought airborn shrapnel scraps to hassle captain
by the itchy index of an umbilically garped fraggle baby
fragile, maybe, ya think
chop shop and a misled maladjusty crusty lock box
hiding clips that light the sky in seconds
like dueling commutal hopscotch gives them leverage
cut 'em with mortars
while i mumble in the immortal slang of "must-not [sleep]"
for the anti-lead nirvana
i used to think i'd get hit by a bus or something dumb and dumber
now the bus is slugs plugged by the newest kiddie thug wonder
suffered through kingsley
rep a wide pride dosage
for tomorrow the holsters are bound to outnumber the roaches
not a coach, but that'll even jolt the immobile
when global terrorism's all the rage your folk get smoked local
block[head], if you need me, i had to bounce to d.c.
to bullet-proof mom's flower garden
before the war cheats me
if i'm not back in a week tell the crew i said "peace, and lay low"
strains don't vacate slow
radio, check check, video, check check
this is how the city folk and mole people connect
somebody warp the message right, i'll pass it to the next
now the perferated county's making you upset
magazine, check check, news flash, check check
this is how the hermit inc. and busy bee connect
somebody's losing track of their flesh and blood in arrests
polka dotted landscapes what did you expect?
now-a-days even the babies got guns
diaper snipers having clock-tower fun
misplace the bottle might catch a bad one
have a mid-life crisis when you're ten years young
aboard the battleship, gray sky, the day i
got the phone call Jam Master Jay died
so, no, i'll probably never write another daylight
because the stingers tend to cling more than a portable hay rides
it adds up when a pioneer fall
incompares to your ninety-nine bottles of beer wall
there's banana peels in your hamster wheels
hand cannons in your shoebox, please
[Aesop Rock] 3x
Every little step we take breaks the dreams
Of a warm pig itching to re-stitch the seams
[Vast Aire]
Namsayin, when I walk, I wanna break concrete!
Ox'll spit some shit that'll reflect off the mirror
My light beams are mad bright, they stay clever
Yo challenge an Ox member, get a vow severed
Found your body in the desert (Scavenger's dessert)
Yeah yeah I rap tight like Saran
Plus enter battles talkin shit like "Look mom, no hands!"
I'm tired of cats tryin to sum me
You can't add that far yet, that counting is far fetched
I treat MC like canines
Throwin words at they face to see if they bite when they catch
I told you my poetry sponsors Gillette
Now you standing there wit razors in your head like baretts
Man, if the mic had ass cheeks
The sticker in my hand would say priority seating
And man, I dunno if it was me or you
But your girl was on my dick like she was teethen
You play the role/roll, I'll play the poppy seed on top of you
The godspeed is actual, that doesn't mean I act usual
One of the first MC's to give the crowd full attention
'cause you need love and affection
Chorus[Aesop Rock, Vast Aire] 2x
If we could absorb every star in the sky
We noticed some shine brighter than others, you wonder why
It's the simple things in life that turn the pesants into leaders
And we know the differences between the walkers and the sleepers
[Aesop Rock]
I boogie with picket-a-vision, carbon based stickler
City piss aroma, therapy coma, clone sitter
Itching to pigeon hole villain soul magnet
Feelings activate
Passionate the germ, and the book met the worm
I hold a book of matches captive to flashin
For some need flatline
Be a thick fatigue episdoe, brewed in batches
Flirted curse at perked nurse, broken skeleton patches
One muddy veteran collapsed the untapped resource center
Housing style pagents
My little limbs lassoed catered to wings
While mankinds babysteps break dirt and demon
I know a crossbreed strung well in the key of
Mass times weight times tame semantics
Encompassing that which splits lips but never supply and demand it
To hell wit plastic, ooh yeah it's splendid
Tap it on the shoulder, grab it, tag it, aprehend it
Lend it to the devil of a friend it, wrench it back, mend it again
It still never renders suspended but finicky picket fences
Now every toy dreams to manufacture hearts
Start with the diving parts and the blueprints
You follow the prescedence set by war pigs of a yester year
Let the tears pray
Skip a stone over the reservoir to shake the whole sharade
Hmm gun play the tumors platoon
I couldn't see
I fell asleep holding an Appleseed, woke up holding a tree
The only bridge I ever burned along this legacy at dance
Was the one that linked the cities of Prosperity and Chance
[Blueprint]
I spit with an immense amount of power
Skull flame showers, cowards, cower, underneath our
Storm clouds that indicate the acid rain hours
Now or, never, ever, ending on a bad note
Ripping a crab's throat for spitting a bad quote
(Blueprint what's your approach?)
I smash black folk and white folk alike for jokes with mics
And make a Kodak moment out of the most boring open mic
I'll make a sad fan appreciate rap again
Fuck around and forget just how wack it's been
I'm a bad man (Why's that?)
I catch bullets in my molars, body slam boas
And take flight with the weight of the world on my shoulders
And play David Blaine on any chains that hold us
What started out as food for thought, turned into thoughts to turn they
crews into food in hopes to satisfy my
Insatiable appetite to dine on lifeforms
Small planets and satellites
You solar system is my condiment
I'm bombin' comets, and don't sweat the small things and nonsense
Every dog has his day and even more so in rhyming
So I decided that I'd never play the fire hydren
Or grab the mic sounding lazy, worn down and tired
Cats don't really fall off they just get uninspired
But before you, get a reason to ever diss us
I'll drop a ill LP and disappear like Bobby Fischer
But this is, the building block of all that is
And what it is, is Alchemy
[Aesop Rock] (Chorus)
Alchemy, basic with a touch of wild wonder
Alchemy, we made this to take your style under
Metal frame, walking through a, metal game with a limp, tight grip
Determined not to let time slip
This is Alchemy, iron b-boy and all his glory
Alchemy, hold it from the colder sob story
Metal frame, walking through a, metal game with a limp, tight grip
Determined not to let time slip
[Aesop Rock]
Ah, dirty, dirty destiny
Birded murders with a burn gurshin a peasantry
Nervous flux flirtin' with hurley burly chemistry
Graffiti burner urchin merchant with a certain urge jerkin' served and centerpiece
My zig-zag bully balance gallops with a fiery outline
Ban and bomb y'all pastel poets belly up (I'll tell you what)
Born stylin' 4 dimensions count em'
3 to take to ya muck one to build a world you'll never touch
And I'm a pilot, delerium, serum, poison arrangement
?Aroused? when I feel like storming suck the raw enslavement
With a grin-style stinger creeping out the basement
Impatient wild ritualistic visions of sacrificial bitch cadence
For all my iron giant soldiers with a metal fist upshielding mother nature
from her fatal wrist cuts story I'll respect you
(So why they blaming you for the cats that sleep while the earth turns?)
Yeah I had em' up all night praying I'd re-release Music For Earthworms
Greed even are lease screaming with milestone like ring ring ring I just
caught the scream phoenix click dial tone
Welcome to a clouds swell blew to hallucination war pillar
Carnivore, carnival, karma slasher
I dash like a jack rabbit that orbits revelation with a single pounce
To Edward Scissorhands your string of doubts (Yo turn it out)
This is that mighty case of home field advantage to bend your blizzard With
a crocodile smile and five robot knuckles to your kisser
(Chorus)
This is Alchemy, basic with a touch of wild wonder
Alchemy, we made this to take your style under
Metal frame, walking through a, metal game with a limp, tight grip
Determined not to let time slip
This is Alchemy, iron b-boy and all his glory
Alchemy, hold it from the colder sob story
Metal frame, walking through a, metal game with a limp, tight grip
Aesop Rock (Aesop Rock)... (x16)
Is a love such as that which I exhibit for my practice
The factor which then amalgamates debates with straight-jackets and ROBES
Huddled in brackets that blacken the average globe
Xenophobe, loathe to modify the fly, feel this...
I carve a notch in my wall for every stall
every fifth mark slants diagonal to symbolize your downfall
Drunky peasants, honor the shifty megatron presence
Slug a bolt once ceremonies of merit turn blood sport (Uh)
Fought in hella high seas, I freeze your mega dumb company
Pumpin' out wise beads like, fly sneak-attacks on dry leaves DUNCE
Crooked rumors turn zoomers when rookies talkin'
Bad seeds blossom the wookie walk, hawkin'
Let a sucker drift, I lift up every stone prone to find
the point at which repellent signals ultimately bind
When a pack of style mimics see my brans target the cluster
I advance clutchin' the mic like bully to knuckle duster
Innocent, your riddles yield a little plastic blend
Fuck a badge, light a bonfire, dance a jig around a pig
Figurin' yeah, I'll land a plan on bleached fame trackers
using only the finest im post-modern terrain mappers
Once my brethren disperse ...
My God, you think the heaven's touched the earth then
Thirstin' a perch on a bursted curse
But I don't confide wine and water chose me
Bored, lasso down Polaris, let the glow amuse me
OK I lay me down to sleep, creepin' a slumber under red skies
Heads splittin', straight sippin' a drip of dead vibes
It's red tides from here, stop and smell analog hell
Clenchin' a stench of burnin' logics and a child with yearning
optics...
Now someone's approached the ropes, shaking like snow-globes
Others sought safety in numbers, other's flows got towed under (yeah)
Still another took a turn and crashed and burned while others flee
But there will never be another starvin' marvel like me
See, there's a time when... rhymin'...
Pain combined can't even manage to tell what the swell is, like
Picture your imagery embellished with the hellish aspects of the swans
for lone facets
Soul crafted fat cats, burrowin', left perrenial tenants discouraged in
Discussin' my foresees and flourishing, Uh!
Searching, perching, poetic lead poison
Poised, imploised to leak a little bit of boisture on your pride
I'm a, animated style machine in
a veening faulty production fueled by nicotine suction
From tux in my carnivore to vipers in my garden
You flash identify by the genus, species and class
Start to chuckle
Buckle the architecture until it fell through
Kill the survivors then raise the dead for shock value
By the time the pending settlements fully negotiated (yeah I'll...)
I'll have put a sonic youth to get myself situated
It's like sadly, my style spooks juveniles like Boo Radley
Radically weak assume the Colonel Kurt's in our platoon soon enough
That's one bluff call, toughens the searcher
Stuttering, emerging, gutter urchin, bursting
I live for the moment of truth when Big Willy rapper
acknowledges failure and states "Goddamn my shit is trash"
"It's time to let go", the tin man bangin' upon his chest to hear the echo
Heartless kid, hollow compartments
See we the people of the united, starving artistic
Militia keep movin' in order to form a more perfect union
I'm cluing into the poison panoramics brewed in panic situations
It fucks a little with my brittle gift
I tell myself "Stay" (Stay)... up high
make a mockery of Sun and moon and star til they hand over the sky
My de luxe is, fluxes, pivots to where the crux is
Invade the town while village elders holler "Who the fuck's this?"
See hipper cats, aggravated trudge through the muds
Quickin' ones, plots thicken like, coagulated blood
Rugged serpentines climb, pebble to rock
Let your pretty pink cloud nine expectations please you not
I'm, Ae-fuckin'-sop Rock, mic bizarro
Proper application of the soul by my standard
Candid once position from which instigations spawn
And man, I plan to die with a mic in my hand, it's like...
Abandon all hope yo, abandon all hope, it's like
Artist: Aesop Rock
Album: Music for Earthworms
Song: 89.9FM Nighttrain Promo
Typed by: nrm3v@virginia.edu
[whats up this is Aesop Rock for wkcr]
I traded my title as bent pedestrian for passenger status to coast muted
Finding the night train mildly therapeutic
Rugged hacker flashing mood full of swings
Beneath this puppet master pulling my strings
Leaking smoke rings singing [your despite what measured honestly
magnificent]
Syndicate sold to children building homes for my omnipotent platoons
Nah I don't think the blueprints drafted tilted in the tombs
Tampering hampered scampered well beyond the dooms
We bloomed? the matter down to those most beautifully discrete
Applying yesterdays models stand obsolete amongst colossals [amongst
colossals]
Comply not to enforce us aborted claiming they came off
Sort of stabbed them with the capital 'A' that sets my name off
Sick of it all
Sick of the stalls
Sick of the thick brick in the wall sob stories the falls the tragic hate
calls
Shaking like magic eight balls pausing to watch the vapors crawl
My clique heeds lessons I'll be noted from kids sisters paper dolls
We lining up along against these great walls
Circling analytical
Rhetorical inquiries yet x is not applicable kid
(Your flash minor we as orphans repeated)?
You talk the concrete examples with glass bottoms cause defeated kid I'm
heated
Its flight of the intruder and we all fall down
Conditions of never blends science with religion
Cut my character cleansed in esoteric opulence
But finding no intrinsic merit in your sense
Well isn't that bewildering
Drunken distortion and spit the filter in
Mic sweltering measures like melting my rings together an you never
Seen I Aesop Rock flop for the love of eighty-nine point nine
I'm here to ride upon the night train
[yeah wkcr 89.9 . . . here for the night train . . . whats up to my man
apex, kinetic, dj ely, baz, my man dub el on productions, the mighty ger, my
man patrick, blockhead, mr roper, omega one, my man hates one, percy p
andre . . . stay up . .. its like that . . . its big aesop rock signing off
I was sitting on my fire escape and I saw...
sturdy bridges, decorated with dirty pigeons
a vagabond begging for three pennies and a princess
a junkie tourniquet surgeon urging the needle in
a batty senior citizen flashing that awful teethless grin
I saw a corner store merchant rest on a milk crate with a stog'
a pierced nose, a model with a stalker, cheap hooker, jay walkers
a table on a sidewalk with four old men slappin' dominos down
a city, a village, a neighborhood, a ghost town
I saw vandals catching tags and Puerto Rican flags
I saw a pregnant woman on the verge of bursting (boom)
I saw a blind man with a dog screaming "someday I'll see it all"
and then he sat down with his hammer and saw
business men with multi-colored ties, cashmere checks
a nazi with tattoos on his neck, a Vietnam war vet
a Caucasian man with a limp and a cane, a pimp with his names
a thug circus, a pack of shook tourists hugging their purses
I saw freaks with rainbow streaks in dayglo hair
a mother smackin' the grin off her child, replaced it with a stare
a pothole, a storefront with a broken open sign
a hole in the wall bar kicking drunks to the gutter, it's closing time
I see a fuck up, a bum knuckle up with a taxi driver
a squatter, a grandfather, an angry right-to-lifer
I can see the roof garden on the apartment across the street
and kick myself because somewhere along the way I lost my seeds
I see a rat, a roach, a bat approach, a happy student
a black man with a horn and a will to make you sit and listen to it
I see a little girl on the corner with bubbles, braids and barrettes
I see a teen mother with similak pacifier and regrets
oh, a day turned stale, a hammer with a rusty nail, a failed marriage
a universe of brick buildings slightly off balance
a challenge, I see a chance to add real colors to my favorite palette
raise my mighty mallet towards the gods and swing my talons
I see a crack in the sidewalk
a slide show of six civilians gripping bottles of gideon
sitting inside bent meridian
there's a fun house ooh, a sun spout
spraying yellow beams above yellow back dreams
and children in the hydrants
tyrants(?), I see sirens
the wall to the glamor standard
a dead bird, a bent curb
a bus stop of commuters waiting to have their souls towed off to work
I seen the slap dash habits of bike messengers paws
and hug that good leaf on the way to damaged packages, dependence
oh my lord, I see bandwagons, all aboard
a carnival amusement park where a heart is a luxury
I see a gas galaxy huddled behind those pearly doors
Some cats grow by the laws of the wild
Some learn slower and lag in the mud
Some stand up in defense of a style
Some let the big dogs eat them up
At exactly 11:35pm on January 21st I fell asleep sound
At exactly 11:35pm on Januray 21st some shit went down
[Aesop Rock]
Now Benny was a New York City crime kingpin
Five girl, fame, guaranteed to itch pigskin
Raided near the Brooklyn Naval yard, ? undercover
When they asked him what he pled he said, 'You're fuckin' up my colors!'
[Mr. Lif]
Okay, Jose is working in the slaughterhouse
Said he's living in the hood, but he wants to get his daughter out
Slipped off a ledge, and fell into a machine
Another dead immagrant, that's the American Dream
[Aesop Rock]
Miss Molly, helpless, made a penny with a data entry temp gig
Overqualified by the rent sticks
Red brick bash with a text green screen
Like, 'I entered my data right into your screen'
[Mr. Lif]
Jane went insane, she's an anchorwoman
Sick of pusing skewed information
And abusing the nation
Had a few options
Either jump or run
Critical ways or waving a gun
Time for C-H-A-N-G-E
Held a knife to the VP on TV
She demanded that the format be expanded
Beyond fair, everybody clear, understand it?
[Aesop Rock]
Billy was a coke fiend
[Mr. Lif]
Maggy was a cop
[Aesop Rock]
Like a dope he stole green
[Mr. Lif]
She patroled the block
[Aesop Rock]
Banking off his old scheme
[Mr. Lif]
She recognized his plot
[Aesop Rock]
He thought he was home free
[Mr. Lif]
She knew that he was not
[Aesop Rock]
Now it's off to the jail in a blue squad car
[Mr. Lif]
She pocketed the crack before they got far
[Aesop Rock]
Billy watches Maggy from behind steel bars
Like 'Where the crack went?'
[Mr. Lif]
'I'ma smoke it tomorrah'
[Aesop Rock]
They call him Larry Luck
Blackjack, big spender
He was married once
Till he bet her ring finger
Seen leaving Las Vegas
With a pick up truck, diamond
Fourty large, and beautiful wife piece
Than what he came with
Hitched to the crib found nickels in the couch
Hitched back to the casino with in an hour
Said 'I'm here to make a dollar out of fifteen cents'
And was immediately shot to his death over debts
[Mr. Lif]
As Colin died, his mother cried
By the EMS survived
Said that he could be revived but they lied
Afterlife realized that water from the skies
Washes pain from our eyes so our hopes could rise
[Aesop Rock]
Now, J.J. punch drunk, acts like a dumb fuck
Bum touched girls looking young enough to thumb suck
Once sought a life thought it right to rat him out
Now gets raped by aryans in the big house (OUCH!)
[Mr. Lif]
Ted did 20 years for growing some weed
Though he used to snort coke and dabble with speed
Welcome home, homie, here's a blunt with that
You know the rules, bitch, take two and pass
Some cats grow by the laws of the wild
Some learn slower and lag in the mud
Some stand up in defense of a style
Some let the big dogs eat them up
At exactly 11:35pm on January 21st I fell asleep sound
At exactly 11:35pm on Januray 21st some shit went down
[Aesop Rock]
I got one Jack or Jill
Jill won't, Jack will
Jill didn't, then did it
Jack fell
No cellophane secrets, b
I guess I sense two felt bumps in the tar
No cell
But hell, you jump the bar so well
Parted your partners veil and dipped
I'm New York harbor
Tale of a sail, ripped sorta
Stuck on purpose for tha love of birthplace
But would have carried you home inside of my teeth anyday
Turns out I wasn't cast in the master plan anyway
He holds no grudge, holds his tongue, wow
Same one she used to hold in both smiles
? instinctual last shout if it killed me
So you can ride up in the sun city guilt-free
One year passed, the table is wobbling and your hollerin' back
Sippin the fits you skip when shit cracks
They never missed it
Not a long haul, bullshit, kids kicked into the sink
Shoebox, with a flicks of lipstick
I'll love you forever, cuz you know me better
For the record, at one time, would have married you in a second
But killed all our kindling dreams, and never get the friendship
Or else by the time the stress wears out we'll both be dead and friendless
Some cats grow by the laws of the wild
Some learn slower and lag in the mud
Some stand up in defense of a style
Some let the big dogs eat them up
At exactly 11:35pm on January 21st I fell asleep sound
At exactly 11:35pm on Januray 21st some shit went down
[Aesop Rock]
Now Benny was a New York City graf kingpin
Five Borough fame guaranteed to itch pigskin
Raided near the Brooklyn Naval yard, juxed an undercover
When they asked him what he pled he said, "You're fuckin' up my colors!"
[Mr. Lif]
Okay, Jose's working in the slaughterhouse
Said he's living in the hood, but he wants to get his daughter out
Slipped off a ledge, and fell into a machine
Another dead immigrant, that's the American Dream
[Aesop Rock]
Miss Molly, helpless, made a penny with a data entry temp gig
Overqualified with the rent stick
Red brick bash where the text print green
Like, "I entered my data right into your screen"
[Mr. Lif]
Jane went insane, she's an anchorwoman
Sick of pushing skewed information
And abusing the nation
Had a few options:
Either jump or run
Quit or cold raise hell, waving a gun
Time for C-H-A-N-G-E
Held a knife to the VP on TV
She demanded that the format be expanded
Beyond fair, everybody clear, understand it?
[Aesop Rock]
Billy was a coke fiend
[Mr. Lif]
Maggie was a cop
[Aesop Rock]
For the dope he stole cream
[Mr. Lif]
She patroled the block
[Aesop Rock]
Banking off his old scheme
[Mr. Lif]
She recognized his plot
[Aesop Rock]
He thought he was home free
[Mr. Lif]
She knew that he was locked
[Aesop Rock]
Now it's off to the jail in a blue squad car
[Mr. Lif]
She pocketed the crack before they got far
[Aesop Rock]
Billy watches Maggy from behind steel bars
Like "Where the crack went?"
[Mr. Lif]
"I'ma smoke it tomorrah"
[Aesop Rock]
They call him Larry Luck
Blackjack, big spender
He was married once
Till he bet her ring finger
Seen him leaving Las Vegas
With a pick up truck, diamond
Fourty large, and beautiful wife piece
Less than what he came with
hitched to the crib found nickels in the couch
Hitched back to the casino within an hour
Said "I'm here to make a dollar out of fifteen cents"
And was immediately shot to his death over debts
[Mr. Lif]
As Colin died, his mother cried
Then the EMS arrived
Said that he could be revived but they lied
Afterlife realized. Water from the skies
Washes pain from her eyes so her hopes could rise
[Aesop Rock]
Now, J.J. punch drunk, acts like a dumb fuck
Bum touched girls looking young enough to thumb suck
One sought the light thought it right to rat him out
Now gets raped by Aryans in the big house (OUCH!)
[Mr. Lif]
Ted did 20 years for rolling some weed
Although he used to snort coke and dabble with speed
Welcome home, homie, here's a blunt with hash
They said you know the rules, bitch, take two and pass
Some cats grow by the laws of the wild
Some learn slower and lag in the mud
Some stand up in defense of a style
Some let the big dogs eat them up
At exactly 11:35pm on January 21st I fell asleep sound
At exactly 11:35pm on Januray 21st some shit went down
[Aesop Rock]
Jack for Jill
Jill won't Jack will
Jill didn't, then did it
Jack Fell
No cellophane secrets
But yeah I guess you sensed bumps in the tar
No cell.
But hell, jumped the bar so well
pardoned your partners bail and dipped.
I'm New York harbor tail
of a snail
ripped
Sort of stuck on purpose for the love of birth place
But would have carried you home inside of my teeth anyday
Turns out
I wasn't Master Plan anyway.
He holds no grudge
holds his tongue.
While.
Same one she used to hold in both smiles.
Dagger that instinctual lash out if it killed me
so you could ride off into the sun,
Silly,
guilt free.
One year passed.
The tables wobbling
and you're hollering
back
sipping the fits
you skipped
when shit
cracked
I never missed it.
Now the long-hall
Bullshit kit's
kicked into the same shoe box
with the flips and lipstick.
I'll love you forever
'cause you'll know me better.
For the record
at one time would've married you in a second.
But killed the rekindling dreams
but navigate the friendship or else
by the time the stress
air out wheel both be dead
Verse One:
I saw the rod-eye cross and murder circle above my turret
Slither spiraling banister down a hide
My ruby glass glazed specs staple to trade the market thieves
Where vendors cop the stolen citrus out they pyramids
Merry without a slapstick mavericks plugged directly to 3rd rail surges
Piss on electric mayhem through city commuter circuits
Oooh child, raises oddity, son of a circus side show freak
Pertinent to the slide show, the wino's leak but I won't speak
Infected projection hung thicken the air
Punching is burning plastics upon whiffing the nasal cringes
Pucker another 60-second lapse while 60 stars collapse the suckers
And I'm reborn every time the wine metamorphs back to water, my god
Sweet Christ crucify me with rail road spikes
Use my skull to bash them all in, gather sit and grin, weave
All fair the most serene communication's pageant
Where sitting with a stranger and living awards the badges
I spell Marry with my name stitched on my heritage
Incinerate arrogant simpletons to feed my cherished wind
Buried in leagues a please, thank you, pardon, excuse me
Your welcome, may I? ohh, I'd like to nod but no you may not
Let's take a deep breath, naw let's take a breath
Naw let's take, naw let's aaah shit, well I guess that about says it
Maybe I'll craft the sycamore canoe and paddle upstream
Where the luck seems to reflect precious lovely interventions
Chorus:
I have died a thousand deaths, and I apologize for you and yours
For kicking your fantasies overboard
I mean I'm only one servant, ayo one hell of a diversion
And if the masses have agreed to split the sea then let it bleed
I have died a thousand deaths, and I apologize for them and theirs
For breaking down their ropes, ladders and stairs
I mean I'm only one servant, ayo one hell of a diversion
And if the masses have agreed to split the sea then let it bleed
Verse Two:
You ever died a thousand deaths? I have
And in the morrow stood a thousand steps from where my nourish laughed
And made a boat at, nomad, I roam in a social coma
Jones and behome alone days sink how my poems I
Dig in the dirt I bring up the earth like pulley systems
Thereby painting the perfect metaphor for hung juries
Strung along a song of spawning thorns of fury
Numb the anti-add-alarm before he recognized this worries me
Carpet by my spearheading fink-eye beretta
Walk my line, now what? Now strut that little poison combine
Y'all call natural, in honesty promise me twenty thousand salami links
And dive and finding my thriving ivy leaves climbing up the pit fall
Lack of most lords aboard, heroes unsung heroes unbrung rewards
Yo if I flutter in a trouble clutch then I dance fancy forward
Like park children double dutching ropes in burning city summers
My wing span can and will employ full expansion
Unfolding while lamping at home with my hands spanning for gold
Told them the roof was on fire, when that structure burned to ashes
All y'all saw was Aesop Rock holding an empty book of matches
Maybe I'll sit until the spilling motors clear
Maybe I'll sit and stroke my billie goat beard
And rethink the time angels appear, maybe I won't
Bundled in my humble little plummet
Numb enough to die those thousand deaths under the sun it makes me sick
Chorus:
I have died a thousand deaths, and I apologize for you and yours
For kicking your fantasies overboard
I mean I'm only one servant, ayo one hell of a diversion
And if the masses have agreed to split the sea then let it bleed
I have died a thousand deaths, and I apologize for them and theirs
For breaking down their ropes, ladders and stairs
I mean I'm only one servant, ayo one hell of a diversion
And if the masses have agreed to split the sea then let it bleed
I have died a thousand deaths, and I apologize for you and yours
For kicking your fantasies overboard
I mean I'm only one servant, ayo one hell of a diversion
And if the masses have agreed to split the sea then let it bleed
I have died a thousand deaths, and I apologize for them and theirs
For breaking down their ropes, ladders and stairs
I mean I'm only one servant, ayo one hell of a diversion
* 1 of 4...
My name is Ian Mathias Bavitz
I was born in 1-9-7-6, at Biosfet hospital, located in Long Island, NY
I am 6 foot, for I weigh 2-0-0 pounds
I have brown hair and green eyes
I enjoy writing songs, painting, movies and diner food
I have two brothers, Chris and Graham
and two parents, Paul and Jameija
In august of 2-0-0-1 I went crazy..
This was originally not for public consumption
This was made for four people... four people that literally saved my life
They know who they are..
And ahhh I mean I could live to be a thousand years old and never re-pay them
I don't think this song would pay for them
But hopefully by putting it out, push the bank a little further..
This ain't a burner for the whips (no it isn't)
This ain't even Aesop Rock fly earthworm demeanor (no it isn't)
My name is Ian Mathias Bavitz and I was born in Long Island, New York
Seventy Six, before Graham and after Chris... OK
In August of 2001 my seemingly splinter-proof brain bone, scaffling imploded
I kept it on the hush, but nearly tumbling
to the cold hard concrete on near bodega trips
for ciggaretes and soda, shook me to kasper
Dizzy with a nothern chaser, motor sensory eraser
Gorophobe tunnel vision, guilt, self loathing arrangements
Rose rapidly outta fog I'd never fished in
that abates three separate foreign men's
While I seems to hook lines and syncro simple fishing
Simple primitive self taught, easing of soul, mind and body
but the symptoms rejected my cave-man modus operandi
So now it's one fish belly up, through medicated mol edge
Shrinks that get 250 an hour for awkward silence
And, I'd be lying if I said all of this
made even the slightest fragment of sense to me
That's frail... Simply put
I don't know what happened, or what's stillhappening
I literally feel like I'm teetering on the blunt edge of my sanity
JAMIE, I killed the robots and I'm sorry
Broke down in front of you, embarrassed
but you lent a heart and hand that only you could
you're one of my best friends and yes I'd take that bullet for you
That's my word, which is about all I have left
TONY, I know you know you crazy, 'cause you told me
but that did never bother you, I hold you as my brother 'til death
And I got your back if ever the drunk goblin step
for makin' a cat laugh, when I was walking with the dead
KATHERINE, mother figure, older sister, concerned be a limits
Letting me know I wasn't the only one with this
Continuous offers for vacation, Chicago visits
Talked me to repair of a head full of broken pistons
RIYAH, for the late night movie rentals and the company I needed
An' you knew it, but I just wouldn't admit it
You listened to me brag about my issues for hours
Offer incredible advice, gave me a hug when I was finished
Am I a jack of all trades? Nope... I like to write songs tho'
Are they good? I dunno..
But I could tell you that I only write shit down when I believe it
So take this how you want, but know I mean it
I want you all to know that I'm scared
Now my fuckin' crooked soul never faced a monster like the last few months
Never in my whole life... I wish I could explain this better (I can't)
But the pieces won't formulate it to anything even close to cohesive
So I guess this is my feeble way to thank you
Four soldiers that extended something sacred off the purity of kindness
I owe you all my life and please don't argue with that statement
'Cause without y'all I may not have a life to offer, take it
Thank you
I wish I could explain this better. (Thank you)
I'm sorry for burdening your pleasures. (Thank you)
I love you all with all that's left of me. (Thank you)
For helping try to kill what made a mess of me. (Thank you)
Somehow, someway. (Thank you)
I'ma get you back someday. (Thank you)
Just gotta figure this all out... So..
I guess it is kind of funny when you look headed from a step back
How one man can literally buckle under the same pressures
Other men operate normally under
I have soaked this out from all angles, walking through time
I have been over everything in my head, still I can't think anymore
But I guess some times, when you can't breathe, there are people there
to breathe for you
I am lucky enough to have those people around me
Thank you for helping me to not die
Thank you for helping me to not die
Pocket full of pennies, and a soul gone tilt
Lucy was 7 and wore a head of blue barettes
City born, into this world with no knowledge and no regrets
Had a piece of yellow chalk with which she'd draw upon the street
The many faces of the various locals that she would meet
There was joshua, age 10
Bully of the block
Who always took her milk money at the morning bus stop
There was Mrs. Crabtree, and her poodle
She always gave a wave and holler on her weekly trip down to the bingo
parlor
And she drew
Men, women, kids, sunsets, clouds
And she drew
Skyscrapers, fruit stands, cities, towns
Always said hello to passers-by
They'd ask her why she passed her time
Attachin lines to concrete
But she would only smile
Now all the other children living in or near her building
Ran around like tyrants, soaking up the open fire hydrants
They would say
"Hey little Lucy, wanna come jump double dutch?"
Lucy would pause, look, grin and say
"I'm busy, thank you much"
Well, well, one year passed
And believe it or not
She covered every last inch of the entire sidewalk,
And she stopped-
"Lucy, after all this, you're just giving in today??"
She said:
"I'm not giving in, I'm finished," and walked away
(Chorus: x2)
1 2 3
That's the speed of the seed
A B C
That's the speed of the need
You can dream a little dream
Or you can live a little dream
I'd rather live it
Cuz dreamers always chase
But never get it
Now Lucy was 37, and introverted somewhat
Basement apartment in the same building she grew up in
She traded in her blue barettes for long locks held up with a clip
Traded in her yellow chalk for charcoal sticks
And she drew
Little bobby who would come to sweep the porch
And she drew
The mailman, delivered everyday at 4
Lucy had very little contact with the folks outside her cubicle day
But she found it suitable, and she liked it that way
She had a man now: Rico, similar, hermit
They would only see each other once or twice a week on purpose
They appreciated space and Rico was an artist too
So they'd connect on saturdays to share the pictures that they drew
(Look!)
Now every month or so, she'd get a knock upon the front door
Just one of the neighbors,
Actin nice, although she was a strange girl, really
Say, "Lucy, wanna join me for some lunch??"
Lucy would smile and say "I'm busy, thank you much"
And they would make a weird face the second the door shut
And run and tell their friends how truly crazy Lucy was
And lucy knew what people thought but didn't care
Cuz while they spread their rumors through the street
She'd paint another masterpiece
(Chorus x2)
Lucy was 87, upon her death bed
At the senior home, where she had previously checked in
Traded in the locks and clips for a head rest
Traded in the charcoal sticks for arthritis, it had to happen
And she drew no more, just sat and watched the dawn
Had a television in the room that she'd never turned on
Lucy pinned up a life worth's of pictures on the wall
And sat and smiled, looked each one over, just to laugh at it all
No Rico, he had passed, 'bout 5 years back
So the visiting hours pulled in a big flock o' nothin
She'd never spoken once throughout the spanning of her life
Until the day she leaned forward, grinned and pulled the nurse aside
And she said:
"Look, I've never had a dream in my life
Because a dream is what you wanna do, but still haven't pursued
I knew what I wanted and did it till it was done
So i've been the dream that I wanted to be since day one!"
Well!
The nurse jumped back,
She'd never heard Lucy even talk,
'Specially words like that
She walked over to the door, and pulled it closed behind
Then Lucy blew a kiss to each one of her pictures
And she died.
(Chorus x2)
1 2 3...
[Aesop Rock]
Zoom in to the fuming of an aggravated breed
Via the study of post-adolesent agitated seeds
Half the patients wasted self pride at Commencement
So I focus on the urban Oxygen samples, the hot that made it breathe
They sold Pompeii impression, waste infections
And twelve steps to lesson
Cretins swiftly tippy toe on hard to swallow, barter concepts
The give-it get-it, never let it self pass the word, eyeing stubborness
Martyrs talks money causes in a harvesting Spartacus
And someone, I've thrown long Hail Mary bombs
Toward cookie-cutter Mother Natures bedazzled synthetic fabrics
Life treats the peasants like
They tried to fuck his woman while he slept inside
Well they're merely chasing perfectionist emblems
When the clock strikes nine
I'll be waking with the best of routine caffiene team players
For the cycle of it
Under a dusted angel heartstring Big Brother is watching
My odometer like buzzard to fallen elk, talking stealth
We got babies, rubber stamps, and briefcase parts
We on some door-to-door now
Order ten dollars or more, we'll shove it down your throat for free
I'll sacrifice my inborn tendencies
For copper pennies for one commanding "Gimme that"
So we can retain baby fat
Make the biter snake bedlam
Holocaust freak, heckle shiesty brain headroom shaped planet
Make a move, pause, make a move break cannon
Bent barrel one eight zero, you'll turn, squeeze, ending
It's on like it's never been
It's bleeding well
It's bigger than a breadbox
It can roast my leaky finance
I'll take my seat atop the Brooklyn Bridge
With a Coke and a bag of chips
To watch a thousand lemmings plummet just because
The first one slipped
Sometimes I laugh at victory, kissing these little question marks
I tend to underestimate my average
Just another bastard savage
Someday you'll all eat out of my cold hand
Cuz every dog has its day
At which point, I'll pull it away
Now 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
We the American working population
Hate the nine-to-five day-in day-out
When we'd rather be supporting ourselves
By being paid to perfect the pasttimes
That we have harbored based solely on the fact
That it makes us smile if it sounds dope
[Aesop Rock]
It's the year of the silkworm
Everything I built burned yesterday
Let's display the purpose that these stilts serve
Elevate the spreading of the silk germ
Trying to weave a web but all that I believe in is dead
Nah brother, it's the year of the jackal
Saddle up on high horse
My torch forced Polaris embarrassed
Shackle up the hassle by the dooming legend marriage
I bought some new sneakers
I just hope my legacy matches
It's the year of the landshark
Dry as sand, parched, damn get these men some water
They're out there being slaughtered
In meaningless wars so you don't have to bother
And can sit and soak the idiotbox trying to fuck their daughters
Man it's the year of the Orphan
Seated adjacent to the firefly circling the torches on your porches
Trying to guard the fortress of a king they've never seen or met
But all are trained to murder at the first sign of a threat
Maybe it's the year of the waterbug
Cockroach utter thug specimen
Your response, dreaming of your next of kin
I'm still dealing with this mess I'm in
I've been the object of your ridicule
You've been a bitch lieutenant
God it's the year of the underpaid employee
Spitting forty plus a week
And trying to rape earth on my off time
You bought dizzy, I can't keep myself busy enough
So you can run run run
And I'ma let you think you won
EVERYBODY!
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
We the American working population
Hate the nine to five day-in day-out
But we'd rather be supporting ourselves
By being paid to perfect the pasttimes
That we have harbored based solely on the fact
That it makes us smile if it sounds dope
[Aesop Rock]
Fumble outta bed and stumble to the kitchen
Pour myself a cup of ambition and
Yawn and stretch and my life is a mess and
If I never make it home today, God bless
Fumble outta bed and stumble to the kitchen
Pour myself a cup of ambition and
Yawn and stretch and my life is a mess and
Verse One:
The harvest appeared less plentiful than last season
I imagine sloppy seed handling avoke the stroke of tardy planting
And the crops we'd have harnessed in mid November
It only brushed the blossom bracket then soon sacrificed
Lives to icicle jackets when the frosted
I sunk to find the walk beneath the mosses
Where the planted tunnel pass after the rains have run their courses
But alas the portraits of these frosted corpses tortured in the grass
Off of distorts or pour the one tall glass and nauseous
And I'm asking you, why's this spy supply hiding in strangers
When they know atop the food chains I could spot biters for acres
Now be gracious, these minstools turn a bully's psycho civil
By dissolving the candy coated image down to the pixels
Yelp bringing the self-stop freedom brigade investors
And the studies connecting one hit wonders with dust collectors
Puts it down, and it's down beneath your sappy sing alongs
So stick it further down where the daunted decide which ring I'm on
Nova yell just took positions and advance march
Parts playing a scheme parking the rain in my canteen now I'm like
Point I guess I could spare a splash for a couple of heads
Counterpoint during my famine I never got broke your bread
Well equation of intrigue, yes, yes, let me fed sit for a bit
These 'tensils need soaking before I hand out token
"Shut the fuck up" drama like Kabuki with a heart of dirt
Skull fucked cross bones hence my birth it hurts
Chorus:
Must not sleep must warn others
Trust blocks creep where the dust storm hovers
I milk my habitat for almost everything I want
Sometimes I take it all and still can't feel this pitfall in my gut
And I'm like must not sleep must warn others
Trust blocks creep where the dust storm hovers
I'm trying to walk on top of sunshine
But it's ridiculous at times that's why I tore 'em with this warning
Verse Two:
Wanting the glory of our advance fire ants to water beetles
Free masons adjacent debasing on pins and needles
Pupil turned pedagogue benedicts into my dream
Beam in a billion bottle rockets off the golden mezzanine
I pluck the pedals off a classic blood rose one at a time
Gripping the stem and right invite the thorns to dig up in my lifeline
A metaphor for nighttime, ante up the slight cost of exhaustion
To salute the moon of our paradise lost and you're a spectator
Stringent, inch by sacred inch shoveling colon in my earthworm soul
Borough up through the dirt with bloody digit lick my knuckles clean
Noting the corporate clusters holding hands round the abode of the dam
And what's your poison? Starlight and amaze her with a nicotine chaser
Sip it clean savor the taste then sit and dream later
The ollage pay their back upon they hinges twenty miles
Across the glassy eye window of one less to passes by
Now I'm six foot four with a sick flow walk up just to recline
With no free time, the alarm storms at nine
My daytime's on some, yes sir, okay sir, right away sir
Sir do you mind if I breathe sir oh you do? Well excuse me sir fuck you
I breathe slow, I'm running with these fantastic amalgams
Painting casket bound careers to pierce gunning with classic albums
Security's the javelin, catch it; labor
Clocked in at seven six and haven't clocked out ever since
Chorus:
Must not sleep must warn others
Trust blocks creep where the dust storm hovers
I milk my habitat for almost everything I want
Sometimes I take it all and still can't feel this pitfall in my gut
And I'm like must not sleep must warn others
Trust blocks creep where the dust storm hovers
I'm trying to walk on top of sunshine
[Intro: Aesop Rock]
Yeah... riff raff...
Uh, Weathermen, Hieroglyphics, what up? Ok
[Aesop Rock]
Riff raff, alley, when I boom slang, drip draft
Venom with a new twang, same swagger, new thang
Whose gang, a stagger with similar dirty worms
Who occasionally cluster up the service and observe
A.R. periscope, blast through the terror dome
Zoo wanna shark attack, clash til the thrill is gone
Bark back, fresh off the pharmacy, counter doubter pop
Blame it on the overly, eggy, farming a power crops
Dark wing when I pioneer deer, croppin' the odds
With all the proper sparkers and cogs
I bounce with a seventh sin, equipped with a foul jour moment
Waiting for that great celebrity towel throwing
[Del tha Funky Homosapien]
And you niggaz know what time it is, it's preservation
The national guard, it's me and Aesop
Rock, stopping any operations against the fence
Del is quick to dispense, with foreign elements
Back, y'all the anchor attribute to the decay
Strives who plays, map your route, cause Aesop is absolute
Del? He practice shoot, basket hoops, capture fools with lasso loops
Hip hop needs two veterans such as us, who ain't never scared
To tear it there, hard to tell, vegetarian and aware of it
Therefore, tearing can take care of it, ok, ok
[Aesop Rock]
I bang on doors, pay rent, lampin' to birth complaints
Rip flipper, make rap music during commercial breaks
Starring Galapagos Island, evolution mutant
Through the one man species, shaking leaches off his Puma's
Beach run ashore, on whores, and contaminated play
Spout try'nna out the older alligator fade away
Make us stay, please, I chisel the missile gently
Blast in the wagon, middle finger, condescends me
Green Earth bum, walk a right plank, he burst one
But yo, keep the rugged play, I'm never stumped
Aes' hid the drum, keep paint under his lung, ugly
Who can know a dog runs more than a rutty puppy
[Del tha Funky Homosapien]
You better have appreciation for this
D-E-L, I'm so hungry, man, I'm tastin' the shit
And the, girl you just replaced an abyss
And it's a bitch, just needle action, like an itch
The only reason why I like to strike it rich
Is to be able to keep the flow, that's how deep it go
so I heard y'all wanna float...
yo, this fallen angel could stitch a wing with a shoestring
prime directive selects reflective aviation bathed in mood swing
I'm broke; I know a walking corpse that spit icicle dagger to slit throat
quicker than you can prove there's four letters in hope (h...o...p...e)
I paint a portrait of myself, bored life inside the tortoise shell
tortured, orbiting Hell's orchid, intrigued but not compelled
I smell a hint of charred child flesh sweeping through my corridor
more than one canteen, a liquid caffeine and eclipse the slaughters
now ? is the villain of my Kabuki hologram
as I hobble with hollow hands, please pin the nozzle
we see intent to reinvent dream application with homage to ancients
but honor modern replacements circling now basics, fresh
I'm Bilbo Baggins, with stilts tippin' the peatree dish
beached fish on the shores with a feast of wits eats the corpse
divy the servings and study the traits that deemed killer breed credible
that's a harp of a different color, yeah, but the song remains identical
I am not a crook (crook)
I cook the wick at both ends just to blend that element of chance with my
tight rope leaf
life, sight beyond, I reign where hunger pain got begone
elong to something civil saint 'cause this Rembrandt paints on
and it's a tall canvas, lodged in the gut of Atlantis
I'm pretend(?), impressive lungs, some truly learn what a death chant is
I alone personify man kinds collective soul
as the result of one angry Zeus fist blistering pulp cult evoked
face it, place it on the shelf next to the portrait Mommy gave you
and the day it rains but y'all pose by the slave ship anyway (how sweet)
make it rain 'till the lead be grain
my face is a combine of Father Tom and his sweetest concubine
whine, and it saddens me like televised casualties
I'll be hung in the village square in exactly five minutes
you don't want to miss it
I've been soaking up my discontent regarding the equation
I'm officially closed for consultation
I float
when everyone around me's busy drowning, I float
when everyone around me's busy drowning, I float
when everyone around me's busy drowning, I float
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
Unsigned hype
Frontline ever north's flurry
Zero dark thirty
Zero friends minotaur fugly stepchild devote lunch jumped over plunging
Netlines
Up beside tongue-tied hungry enzymes default in a mothmen munching textiles
Punisher
Out past go time back ten fried worms cheerier
Brown grass both sides
Can't food
Man made tools
Atlanta can't bandaids Mandrake's route
Thimble on a broomstick
Pancake shoes
And a handshake booth can't pain, can't lose, can't game
Smoke out malls like a force of nature
Break through chimer turn to his face
Swiftly
Maybe in the form of a nest egg
Maybe in the form of a Tesla death ray
Or a solid gold teen with something better to celebrate
The powder on the face like a flatfoot on Jelly Day
M-m-moral compass all batshit
Spinning in the shadows of immoral magnets
Ever sporting the artist or enable in the attic of me
I guess it matters to me
I wish it mattered to you
Now a thousand virtues kicked the same bucket like Chinatown turtles
Roving packs of elusive young become Choblow writers over boost of drums
In the terrifying face of a future tongue
Down, down from a huntable surplus to one
Down from a huntable surplus to one
Down, down from a huntable surplus to one
Down from a huntable surplus to one
Down, down from a huntable surplus to one
Check his own break neck pulse over colors in the drain
Like emote sugar skulls in the rain
Flower eyes melting
Gotta buy your lugging made of bat ties silting
Quarter up a heading for the kill screen
No corner cut
No built team
Only a particularly menacing
Angle perpendicular to everything
Boys room cheery bomb moyed doom
Very much running with the devil in the mellow drum
Hello
Here's where a tale of caution pounce coffin nails to bootlegs of Hawk wind
Sawtooth
Never mind straw to gold
Spin hearts on sleeves and a head torn pulse
Arm in the mall
Fish out fifth like a business card from a jar at the mall
Ayin like androids dream in a carbon applause
Get stuffed with cartoon cigars
Skull pack, netti pot home to roost
Around fullback dinner with the muscle and poon
Shoot to the beaver,
Brown with 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 last cigarette
Anything less would be re-god-damn-diculous
Roving packs of elusive young become Choblow writers over boost of drums
In the terrifying face of a future tongue
Down, down from a huntable surplus to one
Down from a huntable surplus to one
Down, down from a huntable surplus to one
Down from a huntable surplus to one
Down, down from a huntable surplus to one
The water ain't safe, the land's made of water
I hug a half empty glass my dignity's trying to corner
I'm trying to see the future in a tea cup and a saucer
But I rather be drinking coffee with my cigarette foster
And a run away buckle the cloud-nine fantasy filter to force the
brutal truth
Of daily market place wars through the roof
I mean I stood beneath the icicles that bleed under the yawning
And magically mastered the great absorbing of spirit falling
But I'm sick, I've plowed these fields a thousand times over
Sold botanicle research studies to farmers with whole quarters
And when science proposes to art besides that peace-full sea
I'll be that cat with a ring on a pillow shouting finally
Take a number, the apple seeds rained upon each slumber
A hundred thousand freaks on parade for the village hunter
My every when acted upon has gone loopy
But I play a game called lets prepare barnacle city for the end
or new sink
I split the radius at go getter bellies, reconnaissance
Seeping fossil genie bottle optimist freeze
Run from the fountain but the fountain is a desert optical
tease
Tummy full of sand running man impossible stop
There's a wing in my gut and i'm all dust
Surfing the earth and I dine-rise certainly flushed
Now one in the hands work to and top the toilet seater
But what lies inside my heart is off the mother f**king meter
[Chorus]
See the Water ain't safe no more
'I'm just trying to build my self to act as a truley better man
damn'
See the water ain't safe no more
'Nah nah the water ain't safe no more'
I'm just trying to be a solid oak tree for every child to carve
its name across
'The water ain't safe no more'
I'm just trying to be the dream of ever peasant the hurricane
can offer
'I'm just trying to be some body I can talk to in the morining
with a smile'
The Water ain't safe no more..
[Verse Two]
And i've always been a 40 night chronologic hostage
Rusted hook in the lip of the monarch
Wingless Anime
I don't play in the man race cycle
Hope floater
Gloating inside carnal indifference till doom cops are slight
potent quotas
I'm 20 something pumping acrylic tomorrow side ways
Blazing passage with a map tattooed on the back of the classless
Now tip toe across a lost cause
Because a lost cause found
Don't mean you found a cause
That means you found a lost cause
Ok now ive been here for role playing
Slaying my here and now
To benefit consumption for my peers stiring the plow
And its incredible
Handy jackets turn numerals to sentinels
But bad apples ain't sweet and cretins ain't that memorable
I'm Mozart with a focus on the tide
Hiding the inconsistencies of man behind water and wine
I wear a tiger stripped ego and bilbo act my progression
With a kingliness formulated through the flesh of the oppressors
God had a flask I can prove it
You really think the 13 loops that loose daughter
spawned me a sober unit, check potion
Addressed the ghost inside my TV with a ruler
At hear to the back bone stone pusher
Here ten thousand hackers deep in a movment
Thats 20,000 crucial ruby heels clicking in unisan
It's beautiful, truly beautiful
I keep a stick inside my hand
and carve my name inside every wall of the falling hologram
[Chorus]
See the Water ain't safe no more
'I'm just trying to build my self to act as a truley better man
damn'
See the water ain't safe no more
'Nah nah the water ain't safe no more'
I'm just trying to be a solid oak tree for every child to carve
its name across
'The water ain't safe no more'
I'm just trying to be the dream of ever peasant the hurricane
can offer
'I'm just trying to be some body I can talk to in the morining
with a smile'
Four rooms, a ceiling and a floor but there's more
(close to insanity)
A desk with a subtle light, a window and a door
(close to insanity)
One bottle of the bluest inks your iris ever saw
(close to insanity)
One child prodigy with a vision in his core
(close to insanity)
(yeah, yo)
I'm frost bitten, slippin' away titanic burden nurses
Where the anti-hero clergy purge their value burning service
And warped was I huddled beneath the influenza fresh
Meshed with impressions that appear to shrink before my very breath
These tides of woe and malice and mirth initiate a wave crash
Splashing my offspring graves prior to birth it's looking bleak
Malarky farce sergeant crooked and sleek emerald eyes glow
I'm shook in a freak side show
OK I strobe effects projective when I blink
So I resign this chorus line
When linked we let our eyelids fall and pilots stall
With what I sing I'll open lash light and dark clash to dim the wattage
Then see the wide eyed dry grays and supplied fiery colossus
Well I am a hostage guiding yet pushed beneath the crazes climate
Hiding behind the levy while the stubborn rivers rise and feel this
I wish heavenly brevity centered hate pedigrees instead of dead serenity
God damn must have remembered me
It clinched me, it wrenched me, tempted me to employ it
Apprehended me and rendered me suspended in its voyage
How these tables have turned
Hand to the bottle with the skull and cross bones scribbled off the label
Sip the ladle drank the burn begging for dead
Concerns off with a zephyr tread and leg in a web
Caught triple-six couriers beckon they fled
OK OK I get it
Let 'em shake a little then release 'em
Like as if ghostly hysterics would leash on banded completion
Odium, patience ran his anti-death commando
Just a litigant stretchin' to touch tranquil but couldn't quite catch the angle
I'm trained as corner stone famine troopers
So my tray within a heart of hearts still belly up and parched, come on
(yeah, yeah, check it)
I'm a sideline observer alerted not yet retreating
(close to insanity)
The climate stubbornly hovered slightly above freezing
(close to insanity)
Now everybody in the populis awaited my reply
(close to insanity)
I spit a billion tiny brilliant white lights into the sky
(close to insanity)
Undeniably amused by the way the fuse burn
By the way the clues churn in front of my eyes
To fertilize germination of concern for me for we
For he who's sucked into the trench fully dug
I don't wanna pull the plug
Hug on my canteen like in a dream
Centipede leader speedin' through a meaty greed league
I can tell by the way the needs bleed from a seed
If the breed should have ever been bread 'nuff said
Whether compared to caterpillar and cocoon
To emerge or a spark's soon a bloom to a surge
All I need is the nourishment, the courage and the burn
To ascend from a number to grave blade runner
Hunter, cleric, swordsman, king
More like I'm walking with a broken mood ring
Mood swingin' from the mezzanine level
Here to bevel the edge
My team's settled on the ledge to pledge
It's like that.
In the summer it rains buckets of hunger pains
In the winter it's the same with an added climate change
The remaining two quadrants balance the polar values equally for midrange
Yet the songs of thirst remain the same
You could turn the whole cold reservoir to liquor
Hell, split the ocean on its seams if it boosts your esteem
I never lend span of attention lest my brethren signal fresh
So do your magic miracle worker I'll remain unimpressed
For the flux, the fix, the famine
For the fact that little Billy up the block obtained a lovely hand cannon
I'd examined auto pilot (right) when filibuster won (yeah)
Concluded the few we're tuned with were now targets of his movement (oh shit)
It's intriguing, yet I guess I knew somewhere something was leaking
Now I honor instinct delinquent
Bring settler runaways frayed boogie bastard clicks
To bypass glass stature walking graph characters
Militant dance split the sun and sip the filament
Tracer, vivisection is to lab rat primes
They try to grace these sacred lips with his maze or a dirty wine
He knew, he brewed the substance just to mock the lesser budgets
Then sought off all trickery bought off the public and screamed victory
Tunnel through the mite infested grillage and the rig
As fast a Aesop and his ten little fatigued fingers could dig trigger revenge
Tip the goblet in the dirt review my words spit in the puddle
Peace to faint struggle the fuck out and duck out
(yeah, check, huh, uh)
Now, all hail defenders of the trash talk
(close to insanity)
I was hidden, yet I slid in just to rip the mask off
(close to insanity)
I'm seventy-six inches of all the purest sounds
(close to insanity)
So y'all could dig me six feet deep my eyes would still be over ground
(close to insanity)
Dead, men, tell no tales.
Up push the daisies till the soil is stale.
In a powder blue tux for the farmer's sail.
Mister big sleep with the carp and kale.
Once upon a time in the days of yore.
When the people lived fresh outta legend and folk lore.
There was an old pirate who piloted a vile slang
Had a bird perched on him, and swashbuckled the same
Peg leg navigated starboard to port
By the nautical starry night yellin' "The harbor is yours!"
You should tell him where you situate the gold
That is unless you'd like a vacation with Davey J-J-J-Jones
Like walk the plank, for whom the shark thank
Maroon the mutineers, consume the souvenirs
And while the shiny spoils piled higher every year
He was suffocating slow in the box of a buccaneer
Ten summers prior on a night like this
Crows nest saw something that float to the boats west
Sword blew him a kiss, and when he focused
Seen the face of an angel upon the body of a F-F-F-Fish.
What the heck! Frazzled, his telescope shattered, gathered himself
She was ghost, he was down the rope ladder to deck
Circled the vessel 360, swiftly
Found nothing in the water but salt, piss, and whiskey
Yargh, heckled by the Swabies at the bar
Hell be the laughing stock of the Barbary Coast War
Like This dude either got two glass eyes
Or hes wearin his patch on the wrong S-S-S-Side"
Now he knew what he saw, but had to prove he was raw
So he raped and he pillaged and hed feud any brawl
Tried to rekindle his rep via sabers and gun smoke
And vowed to always find her, though he never told his cutthroats
Meanwhile, back in the now,
Got a brand new skeleton crew on the move now
When they aren't manning thirty burning cannons stern and bow
They are prying shiny metals out your M-M-M-Mouth
Okay, youth wanes, holler wisdom n disease like the scurvy made his yellow gums bleed
And he was achy from his boots to the feather in his hat
Till his quartermaster showed up with a stolen treasure map
One look down and leaped off the dock
See if you can guess where X mark the spot
The capital was buried at sea in a cursed cave
Only one mile from where he'd seen the M-M-M-Mermaid
Anchors up, hoist the jolly roger thank you much
Day and night with his hook hands raised and clutched
But see, the vitamin deficiency was strong
So by the time they bumped into the island, he could barely lift his grog
Crawled off the boat, collapsed in the sand
Prayers in the air, seashells at his hand
An area high tide so grand
It's the one that put the lady of the lake on dry L-L-L-Land
And I wish I could tell you that it ended happy
Pretend like his bones werent practically snapping
Pretend like her gills didnt dry up and suffer
But that's a half dead pirate and a fish out of water
No lie, scouts honor, got a million more
From the burgundy lighting above the Shores of Whores
Before your visions of grandeur go to swell those sails,
Remember dead men tell no T-T-T-Tales.
Dead, men, tell no tales
Up push the daisies till the soil is stale
In a powder blue tux for the farmer's sail
I pilot a lion heart
My polar halfs negotiate it (right)
Shook upon the difference between tumble weed and sacred,
Read a hostel gospel attributed to land shark Apostle squad
Unfroze the hideous image like ??? ???.
Bat up in the bell free (help me)
I wana be the reinvention of fire
In a most stagnate tension basket
Fenced in a cognitive learning facility built with the makers of stinger repellent,
But fresh as the active element.
Draggin bricks roped to a Saturn atlas hooked to madness
And I swear my new fresh air till the goblet cried, fuck the rabbits and rose
Most soloists cant defend the might kingdoms that their passengers propose, thats why I am the rose.
New day, new rain, same old
Aches and pains, same old
Emaciated fame game, same name
Spring water aint enough any more
I wana see the river and bottle my own crystal drizzle liquid dinner
Well arent we the phoenix of irritant method
Here to steer the flock out the farmland while every shepherd rested
With a, head on the wall
Of sovernty halls
I be the head shaker in a sea of nodding novelty dolls
Lets, crush the arena,
Flush the pipe dreamer
Touch the skull of each and everything
Everything everything
I am a scarecrow
Bullied by the bullies
But the masters had em walking in circles like eye patches
For the madness.
One day, one ran
One cold, one poem
One way, one plain
One rose, one home
One strain, one pain
One fold, one zone
One element to many to made a hungry man moan
Ill be leavin now (Ill be leavin now) [its not cool]
Ill be leavin now (Ill be leavin now)
Ill be leavin now (Ill be leavin now) [na-na nana na-na]
No Ill be leavin now (Ill be leavin now)
Everybody plug into the bludgeon,
Follow your hunch and align the hunt collection
To count their blessings in abundance.
Once in a crescent moon Ill adapt
To capture the essences breakfasts participants fishin dissin inventions.
Heads gather from every battered aspect of the march
To swap gossip
Who born in what city and
Whos hungry and
Whos parched?
And it gets tiring wiring the populace an anti grin and list of accomplishments
Beyond basic. Residence,
Stick figures stand at attention, deficit
And alls well that blends well with a warm hazardous combine
Thick as thieves ???
I bullied the wooly mammoth and champs
Germany frantic decamped to the wino migration, examine.
Eager to sport motley mosaic illustrate more than pendragon
Im from a room flooded with punishment
Ive seen drunken sailors pilot they vessels to split the light house
Laugh at brown bag liquor list on there way home from the blood bath
Half angle with broken halo; half primitive rug rat.
Spoken for by wide life, hybrid mutations and slum cats
Doom for dominion sluggish posture,
See I wait a lifetime just to pierce these spears though the bellies of every monster.
10 little warriors sit on a picket fence,
Ordering themselves for protection of nonsense,
Catapult the stone that struck the leader in the back and
Marked the beauty as the other 9 warriors worlds collapsed.
One day, one ran
One cold, one poem
One way, one plain
One rose, one home
One strain, one pain
One fold, one zone
One element to many to made a hungry man moan
Ill be leavin now (Ill be leavin now)
Ill be leavin now (Ill be leavin now)
Ill be leavin now (Ill be leavin now)
Notice I said Id be on my way out the door
Ill be leavin now
Ill be leavin now
Ill be leavin now
Ill be leavin now
I mean the doors almost closed
Ill be leavin now
Ill be leavin now forget it
Ill be leavin now
Ill be leavin now
Take me to the basement
let me count the holes in your foundation
ancient ridicule system alert, kissing my lurk
the perch of rare grimace on iron mask
i remember science class
if chemistry could silence the lions laugh I'd be fine
(i fail tah) molindone up
adrenaline trades the leaves that walk the plank
before the crimson struck a match this season
meridian carpal will jolt your logic
when the burn earned its self normalcy for 20 plus
run a muck or sink, swims not an option
she applied the lipstick slow
slow enough for me to bask in
fast enough for me to wish it lasted
past my alarms cackling
the front line of its mystique's geek
doubled my proposals,bargains
for the ogers who prefer the roller coasters
(i prefer the roller coasters)
well that'll sip the blood of merry men
that'll grace holiday carols when the merry ends
barrel past the auto craft, exhale into final raft
and pirate your local rain puddle torturous
try to shake pilot fish off your dorsal fin
lets dive through the archives, synax on frantic ?
stamp it with a noteable brand to reek the profit
see i don't know hell but I've read about it often
sounds like a dope concept gone wrong
(note to caution)
Take Me to the basement
lets zoom into that war paint sensation
Take Me to the basement
lets dis-sable the cause rotation
sayin, if you choose to build or you'll die by the tools you build with
so make some noise for all your predecessors reppin dirty grill-age
Take Me to the basement
lets deny the nervous rooms of pacin
Take Me to the basement
lets review the hearts ramifications
sayin, if you choose to build or you'll die by the tools you build with
so make some noise for all your predecessors reppin sturdy grill-age
Take me to the basement
lets remove the costume you escaped in
hold up your legacies,I'll tell you which ones my favorite
hold up your elacerative innocence
I'll teach you about the perks of patience in seminar format
I've worn that hat for seven years
that's why its discolored,ragged and shitty
i ain't about to toss when its been through all these dream wars with me
ima undercover profit,thrift shop god
i rather starve then sit inside this gridlock till it parts
this tailor made rutiny ain't suitin me
it's tied around my neck like 13 loops rafter an apple box
heartless harvest of mine,I'm tired of pissin benediction
maybe it ain't healthy,but sometimes i rather burn then let you help me
it's getting brisk, brisk as fuck
my skin ain't thick enough ,these icicles ain't civil
how many freezer burn victims can one society on tilt manufacture
prior to hire,being intervening just to release last laughter
and every tree trunks made of third rails with tourniquet branches
and i learned to walk with an anchor in my back pocket
and man i read palms during even the most brief handshakes
and man i ain't alive to pull the weeds around the spotlit
well I'm wallowin, followin my little lost princess to the promise land
hollerin my potent slogan,hell if Nostradamus can
conquering these open roads with throttle pin to floor
cause Ima win right after i finish these chores
Take Me to the basement
lets zoom into that war paint sensation
Take Me to the basement
lets dissable the cause rotation
sayin, if you choose to build or you'll die by the tools you build with
so make some noise for all your predecessors reppin sturdy grillage
Take Me to the basement
lets deny the nervous rooms of pacin
Take Me to the basement
lets review the hearts ramifications
sayin, if you choose to build or you'll die by the tools you build with
so make some noise for all your predecessors reppin sturdy grillage
Electric charge comin' from the mainframe
I'm from where the phat beats stretch for mad blocks
My every little step set in a star,
Retina Scarred; tread in a sled of bedbugs got my dead head in a jar
Crazer camp stamp blank on the mug of settlers registered not protest nor approval regarding every morn futile.
My experience with spirit alignment interference assigns division from clearance to ample scrambling.
Let's note the magnificence in the difference.
OK see two canaries on the wire aspire to separate luulabies both of which had me drifting.
Every clan ghostly orphan scared stiff in the bliss and list picking from the arrangment under burden. Bust.
Wallow in will to split the privelage cluster; Lackluster as if a journey choice grew on the nearest chuckle path- dispatch trouble.
I've never seen the water so high in my poison life. Social conduct, 20 pace, about face, self destruct. I know the key locations, sharp enough to catch those subtle signs cause, well, this here alley cat's been around the block a couple of times.
Lifting every tin can, sifting every mess; one man's trash, you know the rest, live it.
Pitching a battered platform out of mass hysterics perished in the blizzard. When it's finished I plan to sit and observe the twister pivot.
Sleep and sleep well; sleep with a sacred array of fevers, wake as a pertinent version of a pipe dreamer.
Y'all can find me if you lookin for a friend- I'll be the only iron-clad oracle in a city of tin.
CHORUS:
I was born where crooked demeanor seemed to spawn merit; I was born where all the king's men couldn't mend a broken spirit; I was born where it don't matter if you stand, sit, or fall, to live and die as a brick brick brick brick brick in the wall. And I'm a brick brick brick brick brick in the wall, and I'm a brick brick brick brick brick in the wall. And I'm a brick in the wall, drop in the bucket, yes y'all.
(Electrocharge ?commute? from the mainframe)
(i'm from where the ?fat beats stretch for mad blocks?)
Spare a match for the most distorted orchid in the path.
Assorted orphans coursed in a morbid orbit forward the traps.
I make a tentative promise to flash frequent the most sacred abrasive based in allegiance to the makeshift mason's secrets.
Water basin leaking, plug it up.
The simple triple ring performance shoveled subtle imperfection.
I rung a life's worth of saturated costume gear over hell's balcony to nullify the drought and still the martyr farmers shout at me.
And so the epic went.
And every cirrus hung.
The bow breakers turned a cradle fatal, every spirit clung.
Croon for the slick Icarus brain children busy splitting the givingtree building fresh canoes for freaks to cross the spill in. i'm frantic.
My plan is dwindling with every pulse bump. Gods and monsters yield the lump sum of the dolt clump.
Be wary when the stratosphere tints.
I Scout like Atticus Finch, inching up slow in the games of reconnaissance.
Now cause to amend the Zen memorandum has surfaced in every holocaust citadel fix it plan.
12 easy steps to better picket line demeanor.
Gumshoe.
Stick stone conglomerate activate massive.
But the sky is falling. F-f-f-fuck you.
I've hired sweatshop labor to hold candles to the solar panels stitched in the back of my neck for nickels and sour milk by the week.
Cheek to the heartache.
At the center of my anthem lies a blend of temper tantrums substancial for me to lamp in.
(Electrocharge ?commute? from the mainframe)
(i'm from where the ?fat beats stretch for mad blocks?)
CHORUS
(Electrocharge ?commute? from the mainframe)
(i'm from where the ?fat beats stretch for mad blocks?)
Ruby '81
July 4th 1981,
Candles of a Roman ilk,
Unloaded from a Chevy truck
Into the home where folks had built,
Patio was charcoals
And extended fam in folding chairs,
Safely arced around the yard
To focus on the smoking flares.
Couple cousins, uncles, aunts
Mostly grown-ups, couple brats
Baby Ruby's only two,
She's too close to the jumping jacks.
Mommy scoops her to the house,
Buckles up the booster seat,
Rolls her to the storm door,
Let her long for all the lunacy.
Telephone distracting Mom,
Ruby wriggles at her strap,
Fingers push the plexiglass,
She's off into the sour patch.
Past the pyrotechnics,
Undetected and invisible,
Woke the sleeping beagle,
Skipping toward the kidney swimming pool.
Off into the yawning blue,
The splash would mum the rocket ships,
Ruby's lungs were filling
By the time her kin were cognisant.
Many sprung and sprinted down,
All arrived belated but,
The beast she had earlier stirred
Had been alert since waking up.
The canine let his gainer fly,
Water top commotion grow,
Howling guests assume
The cloven hooves had come to do-si-do.
Frenzied and congested deck,
Part to let the elders see,
Soggy beagle gently dragging
Ruby in his yellow teeth.
Laid the tiny body,
In the sun before her father's feet,
When she choked the liquid through her bluish lips,
He dropped his knee.
Helped the air to reconvene,
Toweled a shaking Ruby off,
EMT confirmed the save,
There is a bowl cut template mapped with a billy can, mega mom scissoring a
Topiary lego man, mini-ramp cowlick, good ship snot nose, lap rain water
Out of pigeon hill potholes, rat brain, shovel green peas off a
Butterknife, raccoon hat, moon boots all summer-type, felt pressure at the
Center of the dog show, better off blending, sweater-off Waldo you, wanna
See a genome mutate? Cut a page boy 'til it bring home a Cube tape, poof,
Screw-face wriggle out a chop shop, home-brewed Kool-aid, disavowing Osh
Kosh, simulating television, little rowdy rock snob, bobble headed shredder
Playing top-heavy hop scotch, you realize you only got a week, 'til you
Catch him with a pair of shitty clippers in the sink, like bzzzt,
Motherfucking bzzzt, bzzzt, that's a quiet kid, bussing asymmetric rebel
Lines in, crudely, some say to praise the lord, I say you wanna feel saved
Baby, shape the orb, and I will see you all in Helven, read he fled a panic
Room pissed, and been searching for animal chin since, bumpin' Jonny Rad,
Eye on the sauce pan, current mop: 4 months shy on the off-chance
I knew this Kid Camu, who in the lion's mouth, made a up a fail safe way to
Get his life corralled, let's say he short on the rent, his land lord is
Upset, he disappears with sheers yelling "I'm going George Jeff", bathroom
Door sound like a part-mech barbershop quartet, forced into war with
Itself, what emerge next in a shaft of light is bald up top, long on the
Back and sides, maybe the blade oil came with a ax to grind, but granddaddy
Half-smile, all mastermind, he ask "how do I look?", I said "you look
Insane", he said the haircut come with a theory I'll explain, please do,
First: no hats allowed, faux nat' male pattern when he out the house, and
Wouldn't crop it up until his monopoly prop pass go, 'til then walk this
Town like an asshole, bzzzt! motherfucking bzzzt! Bzzzt! Last week we were
Stoney, this week he program beats all monday, sold 2 wednesday, pay rent,
Fabricate a wole new hedge maze, back on his smooth shit friday at noon
Bitch, wow, just like that, a method I encourage you to share and apply and
Adapt as one day his didn't grow back
Start with a textbook bowl cut (bowl cut! )
One you can mow down slow as you grow up
Learn a couple great new curse words (pussy! )
Buzz a cool rat tail, take 2, your turn
Learn a couple great new curse words (fuckface! )
1 of 4...
My name is Ian Mathias Bavitz
I was born in 1-9-7-6, at Syosett hospital, located in Long Island, NY
I am 6 foot, for I weigh 2-0-0 pounds
I have brown hair and green eyes
I enjoy writing songs, painting, movies and diner food
I have two brothers, Chris and Graham
and two parents, Paul and Jameija
In august of 2-0-0-1 I went crazy..
This was originally not for public consumption
This was made for four people... four people that literally saved my life
They know who they are..
And ahhh I mean I could live to be a thousand years old and never re-pay them
I don't think this song would pay for them
But hopefully by putting it out, push the bank a little further..
This ain't a burner for the whips (no it isn't)
This ain't even Aesop Rock fly earthworm demeanor (no it isn't)
My name is Ian Mathias Bavitz and I was born in Long Island, New York
Seventy Six, before Graham and after Chris... OK
In August of 2001 my seemingly splinter-proof brain bone, scaffling imploded
I kept it on the hush, but nearly tumbling
to the cold hard concrete on near bodega trips
for ciggaretes and soda, shook me to kasper
Dizzy with a nothern chaser, motor sensory eraser
Gorophobe tunnel vision, guilt, self loathing arrangements
Rose rapidly outta bog I'd never fished in
that abates three separate foreign men's
While I seems to hook lines and syncro simple fishing
Simple primitive self taught, easing of soul, mind and body
but the symptoms rejected my cave-man modus operandi
So now it's one fish belly up, through medicated mol edge
Shrinks that get 250 an hour for awkward silence
And, I'd be lying if I said all of this
made even the slightest fragment of sense to me
That's frail... Simply put
I don't know what happened, or what's still happening
I literally feel like I'm teetering on the blunt edge of my sanity
JAMIE, I killed the robots and I'm sorry
Broke down in front of you, embarrassed
but you lent a heart and hand that only you could
you're one of my best friends and yes I'd take that bullet for you
That's my word, which is about all I have left
TONY, I know you know i'm crazy, 'cause you told me
but that did never bother you, I hold you as my brother 'til death
And I got your back if ever the drunk goblin step
for makin' a cat laugh, when I was walking with the dead
KATHERINE, mother figure, older sister, concerned be a limits
Letting me know I wasn't the only one with this
Continuous offers for vacation, Chicago visits
Talked me through repair of a head full of broken pistons
RIYAH, for the late night movie rentals and the company I needed
An' you knew it, but I just wouldn't admit it
You listened to me blab about my issues for hours
Offer incredible advice, gave me a hug when I was finished
Am I a jack of all trades? No... I like to write songs tho'
Are they good? I dunno..
But I could tell you that I only write shit down when I believe it
So take this how you want, but know I mean it
I want you all to know that I'm scared
Now my fuckin' crooked soul never faced a monster like the last few months
Ever in my whole life... I wish I could explain this better (I can't)
But the pieces won't formulate it to anything even close to cohesive
So I guess this is my feeble way to thank you
Four soldiers that extended something sacred off the purity of kindness
I owe you all my life and please don't argue with that statement
'Cause without y'all I may not have a life to offer, take it
Thank you
I wish I could explain this better. (Thank you)
I'm sorry for burdening your pleasures. (Thank you)
I love you all with all that's left of me. (Thank you)
For helping try to kill what made a mess of me. (Thank you)
Somehow, someway. (Thank you)
I'ma get you back someday. (Thank you)
Just gotta figure this all out... So..
I guess it is kind of funny when you look at it from a step back
How one man can literally buckle under the same pressures
Other men operate normally under
I have scoped this out from all angles, walking through time
I have been over everything in my head, 'till I can't think anymore
But I guess some times, when you can't breathe, there are people there
to breathe for you
I am lucky enough to have those people around me
Thank you for helping me to not die
Thank you for helping me to not die
Pocket full of pennies, and a soul gone tilt
(News Reporter)
atop the news this evening *static*
this just in *static*
thanks, bob. (helicopter sounds, gunshots in background) due to extreme technology advancements, I'm able to report to you live here, from what military officials are calling a 'hot zone.' As you can see and hear, I'm right in the middle of the battlefield. Our pentagon regulations asked us that we are, uhh, to stay towards the, uhh, back of the unit. But let me see if I can bring us a little closer so you can see exactly what's going on....*explosion*
(Aesop Rock)(Verse 1)
What'd I miss?
900 cc's of the raw in one fist
the bum's dumb blitzed
order in the court where the mortars jump bricks
everybody, lung on the table, this point/counterpoint
Aesop has the murkiest, yet he numb out the prowler oint (uh)
and after bubblegummy sink into the sofa
clicker the pilot his broadcasted choice of cobra (hissssss)
the venom remains the same game of stale toxins
camo'd with the now ornamental satellite options
whatever's good i got this grave half dug (true)
With Yanni coverin 'Cats' to make the pain worse than it was (nooo)
playin marbles (playin marbles) hit by a bus (hit by a bus)
death is sweet (death is sweet) hell sucks (sucker)
Damien probably wishin I'd donate a f--k
this s--t's chiller than any conversation I've had in months
the iron fang drew 'em all loopy (real loopy)
so when he extended a hand the planets plutos(?) went snoopy
and perfect syncopated burnt to crispy critters
like synchronized swimmers in boric rivers
mmmm, poor so critters
lick chopped chicken, who dares lick a shot at pigeons?
why I oughta (Vast get em!)
he surfs city circuits for the power and the glory
to the cowards in the quarry, you will always blink before me
its Doc Roc full effect, campfire stories
like I threw ya mama from the train for tryin to front on 'Porkies'
He finds the garbage more inspiring than the good stuff (right)
his ink sleeps while the military look tough
look, im sorry, crooked priority list
but mr. USA up all night's blackened heart already skips
I'm 'bout to crash this bitch to hibernate
tell Wolf Blitzer holler at his boy when he hosts Blind Date
it goes spit on CNN and force the war back thru the cable box
gremlins(?) are like stage props aimed at latest names dropped
so now we ignorant, right? (right?)
no (no) we just accepts the inevitable apocalyptic syllabus
sing along, Zook-a-dize chemical poison, then watch him bring it on
dag nabbit, that cat's bastard
I dead opinions and swap it out for the urges
of a serpent tryin to stuff it in the jam before the curtains
(Chorus)
He's numb to the guns (right) thanks to the tank cam
glued to the box like the opposites'll shake hands (no)
enough Hell for the world's hand baskets
enough Cell's for the world's hand captured (come on)
numb to the guns (riiiight) now he touch buttons that'll re-route imagery
yes doggie, recognize the history
yes doggie, recognize the misery (right)
switch for element of surprise and demise
(Verse 2)
From m-16's to disco in hula-hoops
murder the fads before the fads murder you and yours
me and mine find T&A; on TNT
Pleasing to the iris more than TNT on DNA (oh)
morbid but important (right?) I know, STOP
Mork porked Mindy in this episode, WATCH
P-O-W-B buzz over the rumbling cannons and lest amateurs, bystander analyst
went thru the 'holy f--kin' s--t, I'm gonna die' phase
now it's 'well, I'm gonna die, lets get this barn's sides raised'
so when they ask 'whats your opinion on the war?'
I tell 'em 'war sucks donkey dick. what's the Knicks' score?'
maybe it's his allergies to horns and pitchforks (umm, umm)
dusk muskrat (uhmm) elephant tusk jab (uhmm)
elegant bloodbath leggin it, egg 'em on
television preg-a-nant and medicine is born
Get a mean doubt community duel glazed over blank, white sockets
lookin for a heavy seven richter to shiver the crocs right up out they options
novacaine, bloodwork spooned thru the loch ness
hostage, no shame, suck the fear out his muck
so when the nozzles hit his nostrils
he don't give a f--k
after all, its just like on t.v. around the clock
the thorns are real the anger management is not
(Chorus)
He's numb to the guns (right) thanks to the tank cam
glued to the box like the opposites'll shake hands (put 'em up!)
enough Hell for the world's hand baskets
enough cells for the world's hand captured (come on)
numb to the guns (riiiight) now he touch buttons that'll re-route imagery
yes doggie, recognize the history
yes doggie, recognize the misery
switch for element of surprise and demise (come on)
For want of a nail the shoe was lost
For want of a shoe the horse was lost
For want of a horse the rider was lost
For want of a rider the battle was lost
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost
And all for the want of a horseshoe..
There is a hole in front of the shovel
Shovel in front of the brawn
Six billion gorillas for whom the graves yawn
Each with his ( ) days to choose his tool of trade
Duelin blades that qued a cruel charade and fuel the flames
Few would clue the crew into the civil
Skip the food and land like you the man
who flew the coop over the pit-bulls
Dash back, flashin and compassion
And now I don't believe this
Sat beneath an avalanche and jagged a nautical season
And I will stop the violence more than I was Pontious Pilot
Cops and robbers riot by the thoughts of noxious sirens
'A' as in gullible you figure all man equal no brainer
Take at his friends and neighbors dedicate 'er
Moms raised the babies through a very churchy '80s
Sunday mornings reinforce the waiting game to Hades
Any brazen but apparently infernal-bound now
For when a man of cloth has said his wrongs and when in doubt, doubt
The punishment should fit the reasons you must punish him
Never puncture skin or pull the colored rugs from under them
Two opposing mother ships shall not employ the gunners deck
'Cause brotherhoods of public good do not employ the unctuous
And you. observe and have the givetheth disproportionate
To the taketh away decide to maketh his day (do it)
All the stubborn odium glowin a coal host
To where he coulda stood easily in the tub jugglin toasters
[chorus]
No mountain too high
No city too far
No coma too night
No city tomorrow
No fire too live
No city too charged
No treaty too signed
No city too guard
I picked the phone up with a grown-up mode approach
Skin crawlin off the (drawer) and now I claw the awkward tone-em
I'd known it wasn't roses
But hoped it was less corrosive
Coastin to the focus of the grossest diagnosis
Like homes, the barnacles that chew upon the flesh of man
Have clued into the suitor was capital to a beggar sand
And uncomfortably. sung a stubborn legacy of gluttony
With carnivores that burrow like hunters into the blood in meat
umm, what?
Jenny chin-up and the city picked this in a pent-up letter numbed the spitting stigma
Along came a spider, sold a (regs) to any buyer
How to shoot a ringer back with six legs wider than the driver
If you make no friends on the way to the top rung
There is no secret handshake club I do not give a fuck
But know the cancers make the olive branches obviously standard
So when they extend from the Yatson mansions drop your canons
All kings hang em for the cliffs side drip dry
Will he clip the zip line or slip for his final dip dive?
If he live will he survive the milligrams of middle-ground
They pump into the pin-stripped pentagrams over Tinsel-town
Or kill a man who trickled down the city with his scissors out
Or sickles, dipped in military hells, bells and whistles
Riders to the east, not a wild tribes
Thank you for the peace on earth and mercy milds height
[chorus]
No mountain to high
No city too far
No coma too night
No city tomorrow
No fire too live
No city too charged
No treaty too signed
Day turns night (8x)
Night Light suckas..
Put one up shackle me, not clean logic procreation
I did invent the wheel, in a previous generation
While the triple sixers lassos keep angels roped in the basement
I locate modern halos and pass em out to the pavement
Y'all catch a 30-second flash frame
Dirty cooperative Neptune bloom head-trip split
Fantastic! Fathom the splicing of major league low lifes
With anti hero earthworm mentality (Godzilla!)
I pace my game for zero hour completion
See a cretin's still a cretin even speakin' altered moniker
American nightmare lost in the monitor
I'll hold the door open so you can stagger through
Then ten berserk and bread cookies in after you
It's the gutter and I spell it with the 'G' I stole from 'Get
the f**k up'
Noise crutch stolen wretched refuse of my teaming dumb luck
Still I promise temperance storm breed still bleeding Amish
See the freaks sucked out the bottom dropped while three bears invade the cottage
And I can't sleep now
Yeah, the police'll laugh
You won't be laughing when your covered wagons crash
You won't be laughing when you're hosted by the ghost of
Christmas past
You won't be laughing when your blow up doll's
got a headache and won't give up the ass
And I lay my kicks to rest when I'm impressed
So I staple-gun them to my feet
This origami dream is beautiful: pull the tail watch the wings
flap
But you really can't do a thing with that
All I ever wanted was to pick apart the day
Swallow up the pieces
Spit 'em at your species
Reachin' the city of lost barnacles and leeches
Night-light got me when the daylight went to evening
Night (Light) Day (Light) x8
I'm pretty sure I got a pulse.. plus
We Shimmy cross the centerfold, and our night light engulfed
Just let me keep the crumbs (Please)
With seven deadly stains
To hear the plane to crystal conscious
The results a dead-beat trying to make a dollar off a bomb
threat (OK)
Lift me to activism chain activate wild-style Pluto orbit
Set a course then push the button
I swallow spores born by the laws of a morbid glutton
I can spot a drunk battalion by the Charlie Chaplin waddle
Zig zag and zig 'em again before they can pull a badge out
But I lash out
Another thick installment of one night in Gotham like
'Houston we have a problem'
They're buffing the trains the same days the graffiti writers
bomb 'em
Who split how many freaks on box cuts of a high road bellow?
Heads ripped! Watch red bricks turn yellow
I'll try to meet the wizard
But a tailgating tit-man holding an oil can
won't let a hermit crab break in his new shell-toes
Life's not a bitch, life is a beotch
who keeps the villagers circling the marketplace
out searching for the G-spot
Maybe she didn't feel y'all shared any similar interests
Or maybe you're just an asshole; maybe I'm just an asshole
Kiss the speaker wire, seaming swashbuckler or pagan thresh hold
Stomach full of diner food
Wings span cast black upon views
Here to help release the rabid hounds or pick apart your mood
I got this friend of polar nature and it's all peace
When I seek similar stars but can't sit at the same feast
Metal Captain!
This cat is asking if I've seen his bit of lost passion
I told him: 'Yeah' I gave him one last look and smashed him
All I ever wanted was to pick apart the day
Swallow up the pieces
Spit 'em at your species
Reachin' the city of lost barnacles and leeches
Night-light got me when the daylight went to evening
Featuring: Rob Sonic
Researcher #1: What's new?
Researcher #2: Oh, I never said. The blood analysis came back from the lab - most of
it was from a lion, but some of it was from a bat.
Hail Mary Mallon: Hey, what's up dude, want a Sun Chip?!
Deepthroat: Fuck you, Hail Mary Mallon! FUCK YOU!
Hail Mary Mallon: *Blubbering*...
Deepthroat: *Laughing*
[Aesop Rock]
Bucket-seater theater sucks, I duck and weave
Riddle of the pixelated ticker taking prisoners and a number please
Name and occupation: Aes, I twidddle thumbs with underlings
Orange eyes, head shrunk, age: a million, sex: drugs
Barrel in escorted by a chorus line of bedbugs
Low-tech dreck from his neck of the cement woods
We come in pieces under siege and unwilling
Kicking and screaming, creatures summoned to the feet of the city
As the parking ticketed guilty, beetlejuice in the waiting room
Ogling this bird who put the Double D in 'Day of Doom'
Personal space invader dais, pay-to-play-to-lose
And you can see a sitting duck grow up into a baying wolf
Live
Teller Number 7 looking weathered
Like a decade in a glass box yelling shook her feathers
Utter "Unto thee I surrender mine flesh!"
She said "Put the yellow sticker on your fender - Next!"
*Interlude of animal noises*
[Rob Sonic]
Gotta fly in the morning
Better pack a potato
Raging bull mad truck never bagging the rain kill
Curse of the slango feather take it and late rope
Double Jack drink, 6 minutes till gate close
Excuse me dougie fresh, I'm lost
Part bad, rabble the raffle, arrest off
Dial it down, know where the ghost of the great flood
With his styrofoam finger making it rain wounds
Take down bang-job taking a blank check, and
I'm buff slim-jim, drinks, and John Lennon
Uncle Bobby blast-it and back at the wrong wedding
Cause I came for the food but I stayed for the prom
dresses!
One block heavy, it's gonna be $6.80
No-cheating tempers go hunting with Dick Cheney
Slowly let the dogs out quicker than finish Halo
That all-black tips is picking the winnebago
no more pencils no more books
I built the city out one brick
It had a mayor and a crook
I made the crook stab the mayor then slay himself in the gills
I stole the brick back and migrated east, now let's build
Every tenderfoot cadet better they be slit-throat percentages
chicken penmanship tied the thirteenth knot (Hangman)
I arrange panoramic of a plastic catalogue
and where wild dogs sing tailor-made lullabies tried by my offspring
I'll bring the butterflies and he can bring the centipedes
and she'll bring the cadavers set em' free and let em' feed
the devil tree penciled me in but I slept thick through my alarm sock
Slick Willy hid in the barn while farmer charmed the crops
and I'm a warden
my tongue is full of glass
because I promised my friend I'd chew up the bottle
if he truly drank the poison.
I'm alienating the mating man to the high ride, base tied,
face mine's and make God clones
We can manufacture medicine
cut into 5-digit slide clock the essentials in (I'll be a bill collector)
My destinies resting with red worms chewin'' off the carcass anyway
Let me slay artists for tips in the penny tray
by the way if that diamond ring don't shine
That's cause I bought it at the five-and-dime but don't neglect the sentiment
I'll pedal my tricycle through the f-5 logistics of a twister
Soaked in the religions of a nit-picker
Chorus
If I botched the operation I apologize (sorry)
The air's rooted in carbon
I'm but a mortal archer parked in amber waves of starlets
I'm fresh out of Geppeddo's woodwork asylum
cedar frame, wire-bound knuckles
let a tug of the puppeteer steer my hustle
well when a page becomes a squire, re-engage, clap your wings
When a noble's demoted
hope it don't sucker-punch the colonies
but when the catapult releases lease your claims behind the bunker
and fasten stinger pageant results to the public eye (glory hunter)
is it genuine enough to feel baby felon
Negotiate comradery of wills
hows this my little loom
perv surgeon with dirty dominion monitor boxes
hovering inches 'bove pertinent urchin toxins
Now y'all ain't excused from table side
till the dinner plates fly
slurping' liquid happy citzen enhancer
I got this slicky sycamore head shaker
mimic stitch and splinter entry
thereby filtering citizens hit-man prior to acts descending (tight)
cats know the ambiance calm beyond comparison
captive, passive spring loaded serenity
I'm trying to give this city acupuncture
shovin one-way pins in subway systems
stand up where I'm layin, now that a runway vic (push)
made you go batty, spreading spawn legitimate
spice the bishop, sever the ties, splinter the kinship
see every now and again I love life but hate to admit it
cause it spreads the jinx on a sleeping cynic
chorus
I'm quadruple six plus scruples category mayhem stems
so one overlooked the scene including loopholes
when Christ studies the return ramifications
I'll burn the campus to impress him
then rock like medusa glances
You ran the final mile before the blanks blow
home alone sippin beetle juice
just to numb and then shimmy the needles loose
I built a castle out of fifty-two cards
plus jokers with an image
modern theory jars us while remaining harnessed to the vintage
I'm mad at how far this is dishonoring Akham's Razor
but it seemed so being fatigued knuckle work (labor)
I've patched the little leakage in the shell around my greed
In case Tommy Turbulence located the matrix then impedes(ooh)
whistle b in dirge bout the boogie burst classic
helen fell in haunted machines screened by similars
that pagan act of suicide came to the daggers surface
due to one queen who lodged the faith inside a broken circus
me and my stargazer from woodwork serve the furnace (right)
pittin and discoloring up the lung that stung the serpent
I cherish the ferris wheel revolutions
its not because the ride enthralls
more simply to the fact that it still revolves
nursed in a bracket televis plastics and sacchirine (well)
I oppose mass panic
the repressed fantasy cadetts pose with a latch key demenor
returning to find a home vacant with no similars to compare days with
AESOP- Pain cave uno, smoking a broken blue note. Tar pit escape artist carcass linger in the bull doze. Rose radio Lazarus via linear bark screaming 'I'm back to kill the video star and I'm double parked!'
CHIBA- You can kite this or yet maybe baby you won't. Corvette, green Mercedes, daddy one hundred four. When I'm stunting simply stunnin', funkin' with twenty monkeys. They can be like I'm talkin' 'bout we. Slap that orangutan, drop her on her knees. Please be very cautious the funkin' makes me nauseous. Hate the bogota, The target it ain't off. It's right here and the volume's on three.
SUEDE- See, we keep the black plastic stuck in the elastics, even Chevy's heavy hallows lift you higher legend has it. White crows crossing broken bridges double deucy clickin' but the rounds never runnin' out, pounds of ya blood's just comin' out.
CHORUS
We limelighters. Up until the ugly unplug me. We limelighters. Kill it now, fade to black comfortably. Spark the dynamite 'til the limelight's gone. As far as I can see the limelight stays on. And on and on and on the limelight... so we got something built if we all die tonight.
CHIBA- She pissed champagne and shit caviar. Don't the watch the stars, the stars ain't fallin' any sight of glimmer... lo. Shimmering king, spring, they're trembling.
AESOP- O.K. the web spread from Brooklynites to born-in-barn kittens who's gimpy half step hid behind Noah's arc systems. Inconspicuously clustered with the boas, sharks, and pigeons like Zoo York won't clock them rusted crutches up mopping the ship deck. Texas hold'em pocket ace investment. Totem altimeter tiki torch it. Freak abort. Fold or hold a cold cell in peak enforcement fortress. That's a sheep corpse who under penumbra turned tail like a sea horse.
SUEDE- We got that permanent ink, that's staining the paper. Murderer's drink steam in my soul, I'm breathing green vapors. We're the last of them falcons that's soarin' beyond your altitude. Please show us some gratitude. We're carvin' your grave for you.
CHORUS
AESOP- 16 D batteries. See the halflings flee the shire before he tore open the packaging. Plus, minus, in proper Panasonic alignment. Pseudo Pliskins o.d. on kick drums, snake, escape that environment.
SUEDE- Wave that colt 44, bolts of lightning with Travolta grease. Strip your skeleton, it's swelterin' inside Miami Heat. Your fishnet and red vette are sizzling. Shoot through chocolate city, Wonder Woman wind whisting. Freeze, presidential sleaze, with Egyptian cuts, Valentine Ave., Jack Daniels out of them plastic cups. Winter white pinstripe lookin' Hugo. Poison ivy out the windpipe blowin' the crucial.
CHIBA- First they line up, we'll divide them. Suede get roscoe, then design 'em. Aesop rock box drop the hot rod getaway car, and head up the rock highway.
Good evening
Alright
Yeah
Happy to be breathing
Yeah
I am alive
Yeah
(You look like youve seen a ghost)
Most copious
Rain, soak the opiates
Notice how the phobias appropriately procreate
Woke up with a ghost farm focused on his groceries
When they arent telling stories they are multiplying grossly
On the lawn
Let 'em loiter
Never let 'em spawn
The aberrations have been drinking this water for too long
So when they gather by the bird bath in the morning he will tell 'em
I mean no disrespect, but you have all outstayed your welcome
Interesting in a sense
Interrupt commiserating phantoms on your picket fence
How quickly they will lift their heads
And breathe an ultimatum like the dead dont argue
Set your living by the bayonet, but how alive are you?
Shit, A is all juice and bad etiquette
Elbows on the table, lobster bibbin' on the ready
He said but how alive?
I dont know homey, you decide
(No you decide)
Fine, how alive?
Too alive
How alive?
Too alive
How alive?
Too alive
And one by one around the yard til each one felt communal pride
Like they had done a little part in cleaning up the public
With a steaming plate of justice for them Easy Baker stomachs
(say what?)
We the legends that home with the unremembered
Geriatric lore in the clutch of the budding censor
Who snuck around the art police and all related governments
To infiltrate a human lung and hike up off his tongue and lip
Ah
moneys in the market for a mother-ship
Double as a vessel that drag its legacy under it
And who am I to hang them out to dry by the heap?
When if rehydrating fails, were all dumber because of me
Zombies of the antiquated nation chatter quietly
The too alive channel from the library of rivalry
And summer's in the mud
Winter's by the tracks
No story goes untold
Aes is back
I got a handful rocking the same poker face
Down to dance around the table like they own the place
I got the whole world thinking its a holiday
Cause they can smell the chum in the water from miles away
(You look like youve seen a ghost)
How alive?
Too alive
How alive?
Too alive
How alive?
Too alive
How alive?
So you want to be a carpenter, do you?
Well it takes more than a hammer, boy, you're gonna need blueprints and a will to build, and...
Straighten your cap! you look like you've been through a war.
Wipe that grin off your mug, you got a sturdy frame?
Sluggish posture just won't cut it.
You're gonna need schooling, and, and, and take notes!
And god if I catch you yawning again you're gonna regret ever asking for my help,
And dammit you gotta hustle, this is a slacker-free zone
And, where's my pencil? go get your hard-hat,
here's a nickel, go get us a ruler and a saw and a drill and lots of graph paper...
Verse 1
I used to have a rope ladder but tattered were the rungs,
I strung it from the highest willow, trying to hug the sun.
The seventh level buckled and I tumbled from the summit,
Now I'm back to re-climb and this time light my cigarette from it.
My stitchin division to vision warfares numb enough to soak suddenly in a bullet bath
and skip stones in the morning as I,
Lie in color phantom tantrum explicable, sit and pull the petals off wild flower patches,
Magic happens!
Behold, pity the lowlife parish.
Doom City barracks left remorse coursed on a horse-drawn carriage by the torch of Polaris
To the Badlands, where every bridge collapse right where the crowd stands,
Where the witches are fireproof and every preacher's a madman.
Frigid be the appleseed demeanor towards the bay where the landshark Parliament swims
When they pause to polish they fins.
The better brains will preach the village through the city square
to the light, heavy and middle-weight integrate,
Slept with sticks and stones in my pillowcase.
Ooh my bomb's light simulator picks barnacles off the tugboat belly
Left my spirit home in a shoebox in case I die.
Got a rugged smoke-green halo floatin' inches off the swamp,
Had that phase when the devil tree contacts a sparkle in my eye.
Now step back from the reservoir and let the settlers drink,
Salvage all priorities and iron out all kinks.
My house ain't made of bricks and straw but never has it crumbled,
'cause I stitched the brain's rigidity with symmetry,
Come visit me,
It's fascinating.
Now here's how its done, I'm only gonna show you once,
So pay close attention, hear me now or hear me never,
Glue your little eyes to the diagram,
See the plywood, the nails, the glue? You work every inch,
Your domain and you must treat it well.
Keep it clean or it'll swallow you whole.
Where's the T-square, hand me the pliers,
now dammit, oh this will never do!
You have to want the castle, Head Up, shoulders back!
Be the materials, know your limits only to break your limits.
Are you listening? God dammit boy, pay attention!
Try it again. Little bit more juice this time.
Try it again. Yeah a little bit more elbow grease this time.
Try it again. Concentrate, a little more focus this time.
You can kick and scream and yell but damn I'm only tryin' to help.
Try it again. You're not doing it right, here now, yall watch.
Try it again. Stop sulking, I'm the example, for real, Watch.
Try it again. I'm bout to make it easy for you yall, just Watch.
You can kick and scream and yell but damn I'm only tryin' to help.
Verse 2
?? stinging the hunt
The hunt dispatched a pack of wild dog silhouettes,
All sulking by the skyline, focused with a bonus hunger pain,
My sincere addiction imbalance stems from a vintage grimace slap to the mug of
Ancestral branch camped on the vessels.
Yes and I abide, the laws of the hidden desert survived,
And every peasant presenteed it on the crescent less deprived.
With the exception of pleasant finale binges on the great endangered interests
of phantom brigades slaving to save that princess.
I double the negative, to no avail, no promised benefits,
just delegates peddling pairs of negatives,
With magnified magnanimous appearance sandy sinners in opinion shut.
Now what of the madness fragments? Stagnant.
I oughta make a vision sing my twix cling to your pigeon wings,
Vision militia indent benders , we've flooded Hell's kitchen sink,
Walkin' eye civility simpleton citizen mixers to kiss the sky in unison
Sinister city-blistered corporate rule-igans.
All I really want's a nickel to feed my little pigs.
? Big Dick three cheers to the product.
Consumer populace feed but never dreamed of the process
When a slanted advantage point sort of makeshift criminals date rape the hostage,
Dream away the blame pain, yeah but it seeps through the cracks,
And drips from the ceiling and smells the rich scent of my tracks.
All I ever really wanted was a jungle, and a jungle I got,
See it ain't the vision it's the plot that makes me stop.
Try it again. I don't want to.
Try it one more time.
[Aesop Rock]
Before shooting troops was cooler than hula hoops,
high noon was your basic who's who of brutal truth.
Hot summer gun or box-cutter slow dance
turn a young'n to a dozen paper dolls holding hands.
And tricky was a wooden horse pushed up on your porch
so chicanery was yours to engage or ignore.
I was on the latter but a lot adopt pawns,
so we carried lawn chairs and buckets of popcorn.
[El-P]
Pass the popcorn!
[Aesop Rock]
Brawl fair, cop car, voyeur hawk him out his hinges,
storm door splinters, clamoring about, hammers out about to ring,
infiltrate each others tribes and murder each others queens.
Packed to the very last rafter, clung to the rafts and the
cameras to capture the damage, neck swivel with a chomp chomp volley
where the ants leave nothing but the bones and the car keys.
Pardon if his two feet fester.
it was rude of me people,
meet left and lefter,
planted like a model of civility and honor for the sector
but never got his Extra! Extra!
Peace for the better but it wasn't entertaining,
so they waited for the tazing from the safety of his haven.
Like bees to the honey when they lumped you up,
'cuz bumper cars are only funny when they bump. (Know that.)
[Bridge]
Hot summer gun or box-cutter slow dance- popcorn, popcorn...
Hot summer gun or box-cutter slow dance- capture the damage.
(Yo, this dude talks real slow yo... Crazy.
Yeah man that's my boy Steve; he just talks like that, it's weird.
That is wierd.)
[El-P]
Tune to Hellemundo for action packed blasphemy;
big city translate your face 'til it atrophies.
I let the schadenfreude boy out actually,
deployed to void with grin to watch laughingly.
Pass the p's it's a laugh in,
I can smell the tragedy when hatchin',
happily dispassionately patched in,
alive with the menace of demise like yes! the pain dazzles men.
Pass the popcorn, pass the popcorn it's reality at its fastest,
and yet it still unravels at a pace like molasses.
I guess the last of the seconds before the worst of disasters stretch past us,
wouldn't you agree that it is fabulous?
In the corridors of entropous wars contort drastically tilted fits,
I adjust to climates of the wilderness,
walk along my spine take the pilgrimage,
up in to the section that's reserved for the smirk of the coldest witnesess,
Work you motherfuckers (hooray!),
there's all day to die, innovate the mayhem with grace,
the goodform-fall. Fuck if i'm 'a warn y'all, nah...
I got the front row to the greatest entertainment that an angel never saw.
Sixty thousand watts of that raw pull the claw out of the trunk fun,
each one teach one how to club one,
look at how they bathe up in the dove blood,
it's gonna be a night of thrills and chills where the sacred is made of mud mud.
Each one teach one how to club one- popcorn, popcorn...
Each one teach one how to club one- popcorn... wouldn't you agree that it is fabulous?
(Yo honestly, if your man Steve really talks like that... uh, that's not really normal...
Yeah, that sucks... Yeah, it's pretty bad...
Nobody's voice should sound like that.)
[Aesop Rock]
It was a lazy day,
it was amazing grace,
it was a half-a-dozen claymores daisy-chained.
It wasn't daisies and crazy eights,
it was an ace of spades over a waiting game of slaves and saints.
And every trainee face-painted while his great escape grazed and ate,
he'll never make it, when he aims he shakes.
And I was overly engrossed from a very locked door
with a couple Milk Duds and buckets of popcorn.
[El-P]
Pass the popcorn!
[Aesop Rock]
Clap clap, encore.
Monkey in the middle study how the bunker took the missiles.
Age of machines with nary a green screens,
so the hecatomb is every bit as cutting as it seems.
I could tell the pet from the vet,
money where his canine's spread and never welched on a bet.
That said, know the over-under
on your local hunter
and you'll profit off his widow-maker's numbers every summer.
Bump in the night, funny, will he catch and release 'em?
Has he mercy? Will he hack 'em to pieces?
Is he dirty? Will he hassle policemen
and security breach
until impurities leak
over the circuitry?
And nada milk and honey,
there is only skulls and bunnies
that hop around drunk in the land of a hundred Mondays.
God damn, pop the Redenbacher proper
Cage
Yo, Ill send this to alla my corporate corpses
Trying to abort the thoughts, coming out wilin
Time to off the office,
I was surely sort of twisted
Worked at a tv studio, an audio assistant
Easy, do my duty, though at times was in a me mood
Hot I gotta be cool
I was on the brink of fiends truth
Livin in the green room
Made a brother the same color but beyond neon
Pushing me to peon
Barking at dreams to be gone
???talent and many they havent any
Was especially a challenge
When you be like goddamnit
Can he lift his vocal
As hes cuffing it, how my mic sound?
Thinking on the low, its perfect when he put the mic down
Clown stand steady, willing wanting subservient
Sound man blurting in thinking Id fucking murder them
steaming when Im watching duke
Scheming on some hot pursuit
Gotta win as these cats be modelin what not to do
In a getaway car
In a getaway car
In a getaway car, car, car, car
In a getaway car
In a getaway car
In a getaway car, car, car, car
Six in the morning
And the walls close in
High noon calls
And the walls on him
Kings at the ready
Now the walls wont win
Aesop Rock
Storms on the harbor, like a harbinger of bore
Gores my harbinger, pardon the art of war
Get your doors darkened by the house of card carpenters
Who never thought a slave could be a Spartacus or
Pencil sharpener with a resume for the carnivores
Take important conference calls
In corner office walls
Stealin buckets
A bunch of these punch numbers
Five punch just say no to company functions
And I duck into the dungeons
Nothing says kill it
Like a day of pinching paperclips and staplers for the privilege
Two lives, one is chores for whores
One is where I wanna be when you begin regretting yours
And Im boredom with a large coffee
Tardy every morning
To a man who authority beyond what it was for
How you gonna pay the rent?
day job great
Make rap records matter fact thanks!
Peace!
In a getaway car
In a getaway car
In a getaway car, car, car, car
In a getaway car
In a getaway car
In a getaway car, car, car, car
Six in the morning
And the walls close in
High noon calls
And the walls on him
Kings at the ready
Now the walls wont win
The ritual goes, same window different visual.
Wing of wax, or wing of gold leaf
Choose one. Float or plummet 20 thousand cold legues
My nourishment's provided in the summer
So that I wonder
How y'all chasin' dreams when what's tangible still outruns ya
Hail dirty doll immaculate performance
Warm as the march of a billion torches forward to burn what I born at
Cut and paste alertness to current set is provided quick
Shimmy the pirate ship mast, bat the eyelids at the siren in her bow (?)
Facing, let's salute the embrace pertinent generals who turned innocent hermits to burning spectacles.
Flirtin' with a serpent workin' overtime
Drain the battery, siphon the poison and flood his majesty's hatchery.
I was riding on the yellow bus to where the brush thickens.
Yeah, an it ain't exactly plush pickin's
I'd rather take the time to burn every last bridge I've ever crossed beneath the sun
Than live my life knowin' you may one day follow me over one.
Snake bite
Breath too heavy to hold.
Caught up in the wake of the red witch tryin' to swim it.
Ran for the sake of dead click stripped of idealic image
Steal a sloppy earth meal feed my pottery wheel to model collossal vision
Thrill, shrunken with a bucket of pennies
I'ma drag my sneakers through the dirt like alligator bellies
'Til the cloud burst
Honour and a loud thirst submersed in a trap
Little drummer boy verse' thunderclap
In a city of garbage, tryin' to reap the harvest
Adaption is the trap in which the artist meets the forest
Swing your little axe or be an oak tree if you can
Either way, adapt to circumstance or play you final hand.
No enigma, an attempt to bury the hatchet
Rendered me victim of deviltry plus wounded like stigmatics
Somethin's somethin hazardous
I smell an inch of differnce in this mornin's pollution pistons and how the loose ends drift in
My sour pash (?) institutions slipped in admidst the invaders and,
Pardon my tone but,
This garden's grown fucken' acres since my visit.
Itchin' to count the layers in the blizzard to that chapter where my family inserts the dagger and twists it.
It's the carnival, have you any sweets for my weary kin
It's the carnival, have you any feed for my cheery grin
It's the carnival, welcome, play our games you'll never win
Coz it's that carnival where every freak show spectacle's your friend.
An' I'm a,
Ghostly galleon, tossed upon cloudy seas
Antifreeze to glacier cookin' a look of fiery nature
It's the,
Ceilin' feelin' too heavy to bless the I-beams for a fraction more collapse (I left sorry) that to your door.
Bitchin' my back to hell's kitchen, back
Burnin' murder machinery, released regardless of the pardons
Hitchin my life to the leash of one minstrel
Sick of same window different visual
Same agnostic hostage different ritual
Play, coopertive supercolony clash (I heard we have a dust collection - let me see it)
Ooh, I duel this underdog verse forced adaption to the marbles of the now
Since then my knuckles haven't once dragged on the ground.
In a city of garbage, tryin' to reap the harvest
Adaption is the trap in which the artist meets the forest
Swing your little axe or be an oak tree if you can
Either way, adapt to circumstance or play you final hand.
The ritual goes, same window different visual.
stay awake little misfit, her lips wet a very particular mischief, sis' wiggle an index if your limbs let, or settle for a warm burgundy bubble out of her beak instead, hey, tequila to free the worm, had his liver scuba suit up on the sabbath. his personal pale rabbit, at the hole's end her delicate mitten tipped, for sticking pissy liquor in him every day at 6, silly, predictability is a bitch, fully, pattern had her awkwardly christening the small talk chalk board, she said "this is less of a 'fixer-upper' than my last bar". funny, you're less of a 'fixer-upper' than my last whore. crass is similak to the milky wit of todays youths, both chuckle out. next couple on the house, next couple on the couch, swapping social coma rants, phobias and soldier doubts, jokes and corporate mogul bans, motor-mouths, the key to open his closure: pussy plus yay she hid is a broken toaster, and later wake neighbors over chemical flavor to fuck sickly, tooth/nail beauty through the skin deep.
now the dizziness is similar to whimsy with a pretty twist, if pretty is a bidding war for meteors of iffy sniff, and cigarettes and pills on the speaker silouhetted by the muted television and the rickety venetians, between tweaks he sweeps at home depot and reads, mostly biblical but not cuz he believed, but found the lexicon of jesus-heavy literature fly, feverishly sponged up the information high, and fade into the cradle of his same deck train wreck, she pet him with a mechanical tape deck play back, plus the depressing sum of the 2 combined pay checks, stung less when little debbie d-cup put her legs back, drunk, put her on the business end of his favorite couplet from corinthians, sunk into the comforts of a kid again, enough to share the stuff that truly interest him, this is where the vision of a shiny happy Christmas end, tipsy little princess wasn't listening, just yes-ing him, the more she fed him "yes", the more he fed her fresh barbiturates, assuming it was them against the world's into oblivion, but he was just a stupid simian that her live with him
Let me put you up on bob's donuts, controller of the warm deep-fryer that charmed cobras
Mostly it was aggravated ulcers of a goat's legs
Will they go for maple custard, buttermilk, or wolfsbane?
Late after your cinderella pulsate and crash I was rotating casts
Picture, if you will, a witching hour on a week-night in the trenches
Where paranoia dead-ends in a bright fluorescent heaven
With sprinkles...
I know, right? Yum!
Whether tummy-ache or fever keep the funnel cake
I'm honey-glaze in vitro in the company of similar believers
Sleepless
We hear the walls breathe and foam at the facial features
Now the yeast
A phoenix in the partially hydrogenated, equal parts flour,
Faith-healing might replace your previously nominated jesus
But only if you're privy the following secret of all secrets
I boil oil, too, not for scarfing
For cc's of japanese innovation that screech into free parking
Purple heart and second chin up beseeching to squeeze the carbs into the motherboard
You can chew the eucharist in cruller form
Locally, a seedy danish underworld is bustling,
Where jelly's not a celebrated stuffing, it's a puppet string
Pluck
Nose for canola, five cow stomachs like a mime with her rope going nowhere fast
Right hand of god on my shoulder,
Crow's feet swollen, dopey,
Combing apple fritters over
With folk of opposing cultures
Babysitter, cop, thief, reverend
Body glitter, botched c-section, bronze teeth
Each progressively more sequestered
Yet if threatened will defend the raisin bread as co-defendants
Some lose religion or view it as superstition
You can tell a friend if you where down to kill them
The fat boys are back, foam fingers over open arms
To feverishly reclaim their stomachs from golden jars
We stagger to the pulse of a gulch on the builder's dividends
Hiding high behind his guilty powdered sugar fingerprints
Seething eventide fever sidewalk feeling a little dicey
I'm snake eyes straight to the cake's icing
Might, fortune-teller up your favorite paper tiger stripe
Great, grace invaders
The first-name-basis patron haters
Who compromise the pilot light and flavors
Silent night, holy night, invite the pious of the pagan
Midnight, kitchen door uncaging the enablers
Like butchers in bloody aprons
Can I get a fucking amen?
Hazelnut raiders that are lost
Navigate consecutive pastries like stations of a cross
No day, no day job
Know the folk where it's virgin mary toast by the loaf
Take take, the medicine tastes great
Gotta keep in the city I'm way baked
Waiting for the meteor shading at twelve begin paint
The origin of a deeper leader will take place
Two coke bottles adorn the rogue toddler
Rebel of refrigerator
Give him a Nilla wafer
No role model, provoke him to shift focus
Cus he noticed that a cookie tastes better when it's stolen
Kids got the darnedest crooks
All ?? through his momma's purse
Bought enough fireworks from the bullies to blow up a small barn
which he kept in the box in the yard
And the bark is far from a klepto-anthem
But a klepto-tangent
prefaced the grand canvass
Dance to the dirt
stand up, celebrate the natural need to own what ain't earned
See it rolls off the tongue
Like a smoke ring rolls off a lung til it's done
Ready set kept it
He thefted a post-it
Later applied the motives to a moment of some grown shit
"Hey, you with the sharpie and BM!"
Did you foreplay the gm
or you carpe the diem
Warplay the porn game
Wanna get the sure way
Well the freedom will correlate with the sword play and heathens
Trickery I'm back, talk
Fresh outta high school
On the prickly catwalk
of the modern bright slide rule
Every last number in it's history
got it's own little hustle to nuzzle up with the victory, Thanks
Bathe in a bottle of your finest
Huckleberry sift through the piss looking for diamonds
For that hell appears to that in your climate
Get your money from the richest Seek your pussy from the flyest
Slow and low, Do or die calm
Suicide king and a tuck of the palm
Slow and low, do or die, stuck
Two to five cans in the trunk of the truck
And these are the five fingers that are stealing from you (4x)
Capture the flag
One by one like little confused penguins
Larceny's yes when fools used weapons
Like a bitter little burgular jaded up at the buckets
He's dumb enough to pull up in public in the fuckin thing
Nope gotta configure the five fingers
Sorta hop wire vehicular skill is applicable
If an eye's on the prize and the itch aint flushed
I hope the fruits of your labor relieve the initial rush
Like, step over the abysmal cusp
Matchmakers trying to make the mixed signals fucked
And make you read the mud, maybe make the stigma's crushed
Like "he will learn to walk after he lifts the drums"
And this is certified milk by the department of skullduggery
Shoplift quicker than ya shutter speed
Click! Missed, dip dumb colory
In another muddy river water til the rudder bleeds
Skip around the money Peel the color me bunny killer
Hovering where the mother feed
Gutter greed king
Let a crumby motherfucker breed fuck wit me
It goes knock knock, rummy at an abrupt speed
The seed's all growns up, playing grown people games
Evil lames grown encompass the whole paper chase
Grip, better get the master plan
So when the workers of a secret graph expands,
Yes a pig is a cop, I got a villian for flock, so when I rake in the bacon I hope the kiddies will watch
I hope the flipping of the system will be heavily clocked
Cus opportunity's fickle If they we're trickling Stop!
Capture the flag
Drag that crass little bastard flap through the hazmat glass
Laugh when he asks for it back
Scratch that
Welcome to the magic and a basket of cash
Slow and low,do or die, calm
Suicide king and a tuck of the palm
Slow and low, do or die, stuck
Two to five cans in the trunk of the truck
And these are the five fingers that are stealing from you (4x)
Who's that walking with a hole in his head?
Big bad Bazooka Tooth, I came to break bread.
What's a troop's recipe for treacherous times?
I tell 'em...... ah fuck it, yo
I pull the elephant tranq out of my neck, gaffle a tank, count up the chips, wrastle the fangs off of my fist, flood a little soldier blood over the ogre acres on some holiday in Cambodia with moter home appraisers. Pagans fade into the kodochrome now, later with a lid to brow staple revist the cobra loading zone. Molar foaming but he hold his own wound cauterized by the Zippo he had stole that afternoon. And my dog tags jingle by the monster island heart he built. Grew up with a Jughead crown tilt and tardy slip. Be all you can be just never soothed us. You lost me in that part about scrubbing piss with a toothbrush. Holler scum's lullaby. Live from the ultra-fly sham city bunker where the coldest cults multiply alarmingly. Hush little baby, timeout. The black market mockingbirds can not sing a lick but lean to peck your eyes out of commission with love, out a tradition of wraiths pick on the visions that buzz, bet on the kitten's escape, solder the piston to pump out a veteran amplifier. And magnify through the same lens that set the ants on fire. Flush the muppet hootenanny. Who could fancy honor circuit when the circle's every duke is clammy? Trooper, scoop the food in pantry. Ante up, stupid. May delusion feed 'em foofi candy and pry the gold out of his tooth when lamping. Pocket all you can now. Block will lead the lambs down to the cold cutlery outfit. Slaughter beef and cow tip. Pour the chief some fountain soda, motor prone to pen the holy opus and pry this monkey off the scoliosis.
Who's that walking with a hole in his head?
Bazooka Tooth, Gemini, I came to break bread.
What's a troop's recipe for treacherous times?
I tell 'em fast cars, danger, fire and knives, lets go
Fast cars, danger, fire and knives...
I got her majesty Athena riding shotty wide-eyed
Its like never mind the bullocks. Like every other week these hipster tabloids jumping on and off my sex pistol's bullets. Like every other week he spins the bottle. Like every other week these fucking fanzines forget if they spit or swallow. Too bad your inner sheep never forgets to follow, 'cause my inner greed to feed your hate for loving us is hostile. Fortunate for me it coincides with what comes natural, so the mongrels that I run with turn the 'fuck you's into fast food. Like a little freak sick of the 3 o'clock bully knuckle dust, nursing his last shiner, finds the shoebox in his smother's truck. Tomorrow's extra curricular punching bag will finger daddy's widow maker out a brown lunch bag (bang!). This is where the hunch back snake oil peddlers stuck under the burgundy sky of spaghetti westerns tend to bubble up. Weathermen huddle up. Today the son of one too many 'yes sir's kings his checkers, watch the double jump. Back with a platter of hot leeches that'll drink up-every bloody drop down to the last diseases, it's A-E-S-O-P-R-O-C-K, the peak twister. Defender of the son of Vaughn Bode's Cheech Wizard. I used to pray the treatments got easier with my aging like serotonin weekends was merely comedic hazing. Wrong, but along his travels located the key to world peace: kill every motherfucker but me. You cool with that? Cool. Bang. You? Cool. Hang. You? No? Uh... bang? Cool. Sorry, dog, rules are rules. And too long have I followed yours. I'm trying to get them years back, and walk through every cipher with dynamite in a beer hat.
Who's that walking with a hole in his head?
Bazooka Tooth Krueger, I came to break bread.
What's a troop's recipe for treacherous times?
I tell 'em fast cars, danger, fire and knives.
Fast cars, danger, fire and knives...
blaze with a face melter, go fish,
pigeon itchin for a pit to put the pig in,
scalped bottom feeder, nose bleeder, cheap seats,
to the meat eater sweeps sweet weak freaks,
what up?
grip clicker, smack the dummy box fix picture,
stickle over shit, cinema flicker in the plasma,
the latch key degree was obtained in the savage years,
where he learned the binding of a wire hanger to rabbit ears,
every pixel that leaked dead over the carpet,
had to be spit shinned and hidden before the ford duster parketh,
when mommy marched in, wrapped the broccoli in the napkin,
for your electric paradesio after the parent crashes,
and i'm high on ion jitters,call it a prime directive of the damned,
who grew to sleep easy to white noise,
the humming of the machinary running towards them crawl,
social retardation larvey plugged into the wall,
the little short circuit with the still born vibe,
till the villagers circled and determand "it is alive",
shipped to bell view eyes fuzzy talking funny,
like "eagle one to grey squirrel whats your twenty dunny?",
i piss clumsy with electrode head pan (sorry),
pitty the pretty internet gotta empty the bed pan,
left hand numb from the finger to the thumb (right!),
right got tubes in it, irony is fun (yaaay!!),
at some point early when drunk on electric kisses,
i'd apparently notarized forms excusing scalp slippage (sign this),
the pain came on a makeshift main stage,
and sentenced to in an inoperable eight bit frame rate,
for that i made a game play, reborn torn,
at the ministry of information trying to get informed,
they'll duck it out and i will cease all wars,
so if you babysit a caroline be fore warned,
i be the ultimate (ultimate), multi polar,
mobile medicine cabinet stocked adequate,
pockets like maraccas, that will shake when he stepped,
which explains the circle of rattlesnakes where he slept,
smarter then the average bear, barter parts and gadget,
with battery op enthusiast pardon the barking badgers,
while you were parking daggers in kittens with snarling children,
i was sharking classes with taggers for television (Click!),
gattaca days, attica paper scattered,
diagonal mahogony boggled the train savage,
to boxed the botanically inclined child slave labor,
blades clipped the perfect petal now play later,
play never, if escaped raped treasure,
thats a jewel freebie out a old geezer, no teether,
or even yesteryear scrapes fester,administer gauze,
but catourized wounds bleed if you ain't ethered the cause,
king of applause (yay!) beats the garbage flood for ten(?),
porn king of newyork, alley punk perv scum,
waddle on the voyage of the vouyer,
six four sick king breezer sniff whores through brick,
i am so dangerous evil and mercy heaven,
allergy to compasion he is the perfect weapon,
un- earth it and ciphened from delorian doors swivel up,
with aviator radar blip for most glorious tittie fuck,
cool green over the frame under the clothes line,
whos crew choose fuel most, mine,
holy trinity, tripple six, tripple x, city barrack,
glutton for punishment super size me while you at it,
he da:
built hideous,silk of the milk litigant, silly wicked finick he fidgit the middle digit ish,
will he alter what he feel is illy to pick at every little smidgen of integraty,
as your industry bitch? NO,
final mentions, track the moniker,
to the freight hot reaking of butter beans and harmonica,
dirty old man no tea cup thirsty, peak up skirts,
for slaps from that d-cup nurse,
cackle his old gums lewd (lewd), crass,
show the girl a trick like how he opens can food with the only tooth he has,
she like THATS FUCKIN DISGUISTING,
they dont call him anabolic ace for nothing, OK,
now current picture aside all anti-celebs remain aggro,
half mast the flag pole,
dead walk sturdy, but the day i greet the worms,
i pull the daisies down with me as a fuck you to the norms,
generic's so unappealing and in my humble opinion,
defeats a rappers civic duty to the culture,
granted every topic has been covered but cookie cutter,
delivery of simpleton wit is the real culprit,
so wether street, club, battle, conscious or other,
i find that interesting style can often out weigh the subject,
so when the disc changer goes from guns to space,
it is not an attempt to fake credibility for the public,
But fuck it it's ace rock six records of gibberish right?,
he's trying to hard to be weird and different right? (riiiiight),
or could it possibly just maybe be, his lessons,
can't be summed up in a linear set of pop culture references?,
(WOW) yeah but why try, i'm so groggy,
the mach nine valentine aint for everybody,
but i will say this to yall that used your fifteen of fame,
to mention my name, that sixteenth minute regret is fuckin insane,
and thats a longevity veteran pedelling free medicine,(here)
who the fouler howler (me) who the rabble rouser,
what the happy hour starved the peruvian aggy powder,(tight)
trade up at the digital jesus factory outlet (bout it, bout it),
bout it bout it, fuck a fork tongue cutlury, the fuckery is famous,
never wild shook but a slang that maybe alienated a couple strangers,
held a mongoloid fanbase that is alien by nature,
robot wars, machines hit the floor,
and the semians syncopated a gigantic "encore",
alright i'm bored, five minute bag of tricks,
This be the dawning of the age of dead water
Stitchin every b-boy fragment
Somebody live enough to bust through the belly with a fist up
This is a right now generation murdered by the fan base
This is adored by the writers-Dead water
With a still force activated
No I'm not feelin alright
Formed by the village of badness and bad karma
Punched by the stagnant water gate threw the fickle back
But by the window's still three nickels in a piggy bank
Caught her with her head up funny stomach from the hunger pains
Flashed automatic b-boy with big visions
In a matchbox apartment adjacent a crooked starship
Who better nation a million's the only remedy
Nine dizzy planets with a bullet riding centerpiece
Take Me Through The Gates
I'm bout as sick of burning find the hottest slacker in a visionary costume
Con artist kamikaze conduct
Warm for a second to the minute he whored herself to disaster
I recognize the cankers by the mechanical stagger
As opposed to the skip of big brother bad slapper
Theologies who need to keep the cookies caffeinated
like a mad hatter that'll sleep now, ask after
Calibrate the happy scale when he's soakin
wet with a mouthful of dead ideas and see if it tipped zero
Stripped ego, tall stories of broad glory
I'll be god while you're still living life on a full 40
Or maybe I'll be gramacin, homes poor, broke and lonely
Hidden by my billygoat beard and cardboard monstrosity
I drink a bad glass of gumption
Not bad meaning bad, but bad meaning disgusting
Wildchild activater activate sludge enough to dungeon for a accolade and wild ones
I committed wild murder, went through the city
with a wild merger, woke up in a wildstyle burner
Space case, boom box, hate tapes, no lemonade breaks (sweat), no cheddar in labor days
Right now, im here to break a point of big system plus my screen
I was never cursed in a russmeyer bixon
Spit sob stories to confront my dick addictions
Of the dirty basement at the graves of Salem witches
Driving my stake through the face of painstaking business (checkmate)
But I scream Misery (better breath take)
Out of sleep, lifted up lobotomy, little Jackie paper
and a magic dragon sack of dirty shrubbery
I'll be the ugliest version of paranoia
kingpin set in motion by the secondhand pressure
Some get excited when the sun folds under
Some get excited when the summer hits the pavement
Some get excited when the bullet hits bone and a board
I'll escape through the train yard and sleep till it's broken
[same old]
This be the settling of debt of warm water
A mobile b-boy function
Somebody mad enough to cut apart the curtain with a fist up
This is the dagger in the 88 magnificent memorial
This is the heater to a movement-dead water
When I broke fifth and got sparks
No I'm not feelin alright
This be the windshear dodgin dead water
Solitary b-boy wonder
Somebody fresh enough to reinvent the court with a fist up
This is the funky outline around a classic breakbeat
This is an agitated moment-dead water
With a burnt future, beaten, ugly
chorus:
we don't need no walkie-talkies, nope no walkie talkies, we don't need your coughing when offing the morning coffee, no, we don't need no walkie-talkies, nope no walkie-talkies we just want our hermitry to stay and our coffee to go
and the last shall be, first to immerse in the pass out heat, face in the mud where the moxie melt 'til he woke up drowning in chachkes hell, more in a cave with a torch on the wall than a window arrangement of porcelain dolls on a brand new day, saw what he saw, property owners who crawl to the mall, with a bad toupee and a face like he author the law, pace like he mourning a loss, right hand on a can of worms, left full of gold he will trade for turf, i mean thats o.k., you got to answer to you at the end of the volatile day, but a model of mercy and might? no way, marionette who will clap and obey, dude, look, all that noise? call that flight of the water boys, meet and greet and they all slap five, cheek to cheek when they colonize, and a grown ass man shall abide as he wish, walk that path with a dime and a stick, walk that path with a diamond and wine, walk that path to the firing line, just walk, pay no mind to the new recruit with the play-doh spine, let's be friends from opposite ends, wave to the kid don't hop on the fence, play to the radius far and away, orbit wide don't park in his space, one little martyr who talk in his face make one little weathermen sharpen the blades.
chorus
and the last shall be, first to the curb with the mad cow meat, face in the bars of a regular cell when he woke up high in collectible hell, boom town kid who was taught by the binge that a man who expire with the most shit win, that's warpy american nonsense penned by the rich, not a routine friend in a pinch, still not used to the stench, how it throws off otherwise lucid events, in the case the afraid observe i got a pro-keds box full of layman's terms, it goes hey, peace, pray for the plagued, major relief and capacious rains, but just cuz i don't want to war with you, it don't mean go warm up the barbecue, i'm like pardon you, sawed off limit, my high noon is a quick little minute, i don't wanna spend it sitting with a critic, who simply isn't going to ever really get it, this HQ is alive and alone, no driveway no sign of a home, no dial tone, no line for the phone, no world's tiniest violin song, and i might just lie to them all, lie in the morgue with a deep breath hiding and bored, fighting a smile, highly annoyed, when the timing is right i will rise and record, cal for the monster beats and blockhead got animal drums like he's doctor teeth, it goes red light green light 1 2 3, one large coffee, fuck you, peace.
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"Yo that movie sucks "
"Whack."
"Bull shit"
"I wanna keep my fuckin money in my pocket "oh snap" "hold up" "damn"
Cook it up
spooky, Salute, look
bazooka hook it up
Shoot the local when he coop the loop
Lowbrow low brim
She asked me: What's your name?
I flashed the grossest fang in show biz
Young falconry's open, what's yours?
Umm jenny um
Body block in the ten penny sum
sprung colossal Ms. may I process your Pentium
But they is hesitating, My princess: The pigeon holing
Rose at your predecessor's lunacy in the kismet
Her eyes Googled back as that in form unfortunate three
Plus a new kink in the posture
Just don't get all 'Binuclear'
Get PT Barnum then Three-D THX Sound Stereo Dismissal
Sorry Hun it's just the last few been a fist full
Like, like, like them girls you bump into out of dumb luck
Get high, innocently kiss once when she Punch Drunk
Watch her misinterpret the moment tongues touched
Crazy Mc-Cling a lot claim instant ONE LOVE
Then you got to beg your friends to
Take her off your hands like thumb cuffs
What a bar angel Bi for a Sexy Second, Lovely
Give her a month and Hide Heckles Jackal
And she makes Hitler look cuddly
But jenny in the sky with emerald eyes
You're so different, so delicious, sort of fish
I'd be willing to walk the limb with
So let's just get a few things out the way: (ok)
I'm clinically bonkers and
Hate just about everyone that god's green earth offers
I won't be getting dressed up to impress your family dear,
And if I can't wear jeans and sneakers then
I won't be lamping there
Nope
Agro pimp simply finicky note faggot bag it up no diggity soldier
Magic touch finger tip donor
Own up to your dirty debutant
Animalistic instincts ritual courting dance and breeding behaviors (like what)
I dream of Jeanie, and fucking her obscenely
But Jenny could be Jeannie so easily if you'd let me
Held a bad tack Daddy-O-Merlyn E for Effort
Most of these high post Fabio world mother fucks make my head hurt
DEAD UP I got death in the skull but you'll get use to it ma'
dinner and cinema YES! Just⦠couph the bread up
sure he shelps a naked pocket
But I carry dreams
Like I want to be an astronaut after you marry me
WHAT? Offer me this:
I feel smothered, it's chronic offaly me dolly
âI love you.â
âGet Off Of ME!â
âSorryâ
"call me"
And I'm circling her like a tiger shark frenzy but friendly
âI'm Cool, how you feeling jenny, jenny! jenny? jenny?â
so quiet ooh I like that. so mysterious I dig it
The way you haven't made eye contact with me once in ten minutes
I'm just saying girl: I'm dirty dog walk vintage mixed with mega low society
mixed it with gutter funk educate wanna âTry Me!â
So there it is: GAME
âI mean it's not like I'm sweating you
because when it comes down to it, most yall females are the same,
So now it's your turn baby spit it outâ
âO Kâ¦â She punched me dead in the fucking mouth and walked away ->
Watch out ladys cus you know he dont love ya.
bazooka tooth is one bad motha fucker.
he's a low life man with a low life game.
he needs a low life dame with a strobe light fram.
so cook it up. cook it up. cook it up yall, cook it up.
cook it up. cook it up now. cook it up. cook it up. cook it ueueuep.
No ring on the finger. It aint no strings attached.
but if you love television and manic depression, get a carton of cigarettes. and we can...
make it happen.
get to mackin..
just leave your baggage on the curb with the trash can.
it aint like i seen you in maxim.
relax with the tap dance.
lights camera lap dance.
chorus:
we don't need no walkie-talkies, nope no walkie talkies, we don't need your coughing when offing the morning coffee, no, we don't need no walkie-talkies, nope no walkie-talkies we just want our hermitry to stay and our coffee to go
and the last shall be, first to immerse in the pass out heat, face in the mud where the moxie melt 'til he woke up drowning in tsatke hell, more in a cave with a torch on the wall than a window arrangement of porcelain dolls on a brand new day, saw what he saw, property owners who crawl to the mall, with a bad toupee and a face like he author the law, pace like he mourning a loss, right hand on a can of worms, left full of gold he will trade for turf, i mean thats o.k., you got to answer to you at the end of the volatile day, but a model of mercy and might? no way, marionette who will clap and obey, dude, look, all that noise? call that flight of the water boys, meet and greet and they all slap five, cheek to cheek when they colonize, and a grown ass man shall abide as he wish, walk that path with a dime and a stick, walk that path with a diamond and wine, walk that path to the firing line, just walk, pay no mind to the new recruit with the play-doh spine, let's be friends from opposite ends, wave to the kid don't hop on the fence, play to the radius far and away, orbit wide don't park in his space, one little martyr who talk in his face make one little weathermen sharpen the blades.
chorus
and the last shall be, first to the curb with the mad cow meat, face in the bars of a regular cell when he woke up high in collectible hell, boom town kid who was taught by the binge that a man who expire with the most shit win, that's warpy american nonsense penned by the rich, not a routine friend in a pinch, still not used to the stench, how it throws off otherwise lucid events, in the case the afraid observe i got a pro-keds box full of layman's terms, it goes hey, peace, pray for the plagued, major relief and capacious rains, but just cuz i don't want to war with you, it don't mean go warm up the barbecue, i'm like pardon you, sawed off limit, my high noon is a quick little minute, i don't wanna spend it sitting with a critic, who simply isn't going to ever really get it, this HQ is alive and alone, no driveway no sign of a home, no dial tone, no line for the phone, no world's tiniest violin song, and i might just lie to them all, lie in the morgue with a deep breath hiding and bored, fighting a smile, highly annoyed, when the timing is right i will rise and record, cal for the monster beats and blockhead got animal drums like he's doctor teeth, it goes red light green light 1 2 3, one large coffee, fuck you, peace.
john darnielle:
i stood before the glittery borders of new radius in search of the fabled city of mud and crushed velvet, what i found was a gutter where the love of entertainment meets the lust for blood and demerits, cutters of the pie throw your summers in the sky, collar pop jolly roger, die motherfucker die, apache on the ship shape and bristol fashion snuck a jammy through the red tape and tip toe past him. worm teeth grinding feverishly below, as little organic hacksaws eager to feed and grow, so when it's blackhawk over the glass walk, they surface up through the cash crops with clippers for your belly-up mascots, and never dine alone, meanwhile back at sea level it was home by home zone for zone, bloom county's homeless riot for home ownership, i hope you put gas in the motor-home and know the roads, i studied with the finest combs stuck under my thumb as opposed to the loaded nose who pray armageddon is numb and that's unevenly rendered to those who grew up thinking faith was the surrender of reason but not a reason to surrender. catch the liberty fires catalog, 40 torched orchids and citronella for algernon, don and vagabond alike repent, this shit should have gone "beta burns babylon, the end".
chorus:
and when the radio stars climbed up out of the floors to murder the medium that shot 'em 30 years before they said...
and when the cutters of the pie throw your summers in the sky, no love lost baby the future is so bright...
nothing says charm like an armored car taking the clone-farm 'tards to the arms bizarre, we were the homemade marker makers born to pour the marsh ink into right guard parts and march through the gauntlet of car alarms, no harps, no delusions of losing with something prettier than ash around the metacarpal still clutching the teddy bears, we can run with scissors through the city fair or situate the nuzzle with the subtle art of splitting hairs, double park the shuttle, some will arc the funneled cutty sark where budding narcs target the gushing heart in the muddy clarks, these are the vices of the p-noid bastards who will chew whatever tablets blur the axioms fastest, crews lose lunches by the hundreds, lose electricity, lose gas, phone, plumbing, humming keep your mouth closed, keep your cows cloned, go, i am the pulse of this fucking town, homes, no. my what a convenient embargo, at least i'll always know which side of the gun i'm supposed to buy the farm from, the too-far-gone kicks still in the box, fix still in the pill in his sock ,chilling, gill in the slop, and a million watch gideon scribes, but once the arc honor pussy and bribes, the animals will divide and that's a win for the garish who keep charity in the parish while profiting off the lack of a marriage amongst the classes.
chorus
and when the radio stars climbed up out of the floors to murder the medium that shot 'em 30 years before they said...
and when the cutters of the pie throw your summers in the sky, no love lost baby the future is so bright...
the mobile infantry is so postal, coast into the quotient provoking the local pistol pete, choking his liberty and justice quotas and cloaking his folk in smithereens, smokey little pile of bloody pulp and co-dependencies. dopey no surrender bender in effect, sole defenders of the longest night new york had never slept, and there were jumping jacks and whistlers over christmas, like rockets from the crypt spilling the festive morning beverage of your preference, i step in hog heaven, stoney with no weapons, pissing on TelePrompTers, selling megaphones to hecklers, who broadcast 80 million versions of the sermon for that one indisputable masterpiece before the curtains, pale arcadian moon, high definition flat plasma, Imax city-wide transfer, artificial einstein-rosen out the tenement, ease into the xanadu, let it hammer the tension out, i'm talking cool, calm, dominant phenomenal, monitor face to the wall opposite. u.f.o.'s and locusts sing the same old song while the weathermen get retarded as the day is long
chorus
and when the radio stars climbed up out of the floors to murder the medium that shot 'em 30 years before they said...
I was a dark dumb student, no hokey rookie daytrippin on visions of chickens that looked like R Crumb drew em. They grew em in the royal dirt of Suffolk Countys flooring with the blood of an alcoholic clergyman in his forearms. Long Island was porn stars and puppies pushing sniffles, fit into the eighth dimension or slipped through the pin holes, ?zoop? slipped through the pin holes, ?crisped into god cinder?. Who thunk over a quarter plunked a local ?mortal con? vendor.
Who broke the verbal squad sensor? Root down, feelers out across the marsh before it was Awesome Car! I called in car cavalry cooked in an 85 Dodge Aries, gas for Huntington and back barely. Equipped with super soakers full of piss and an uncanny knack for constantly upsetting pigs by doing stupid shit. The kid ?bartered? his ring king dummies to King Cullen where they hollered Fuck the World from a parking lot of the suburbs. A couple spray cans and a little litter, but theyd look at us like swindlers with them Ricky Kasso jitters. So fuck em, a glutton sunk into the alley for props but things will still go bump when them halogens pop. Believe. Ill be there when it happens so shake another place off the mantel, snake another flames off the candle, lady of the lake off the answers, admitting their mistakes to their ?deplaning? cadavers. Now its rest in peace when Peters ?sinner heaters sung? disturbingly referred to reevaluate your beast of burdens urgency. Damn doggy, good times, thanks. I wrote your name in wet cement by the Brooklyn banks.
Chorus
?...Smack? for later. Made a fire, made a wheel, made a snack for later. Catacomb kids cuddle up and test the paper. When the town's speed freaks sleep, trap the traitor. He will ask for papers. ?See Im a nice invader?, made a roof, made a weapon, made a flag from paper by the snotty little nuzzle of a latchkey neighbor. When the ?pope does shaggy? over some dap from gators, he will catch the vapors.
Couple Playboy mudflaps and hell on his heels. Blew the plea echoed in a pace with your shovelers meals, like not a farmer among us had a harvest survive the winter. So dinner is split a lima bean in triplets. Pick a winner. We took a couple of summers puking pills behind the dumpster, it was the largest Pez dispenser on record recouped his numbers. One shoe in the soupy gutter, one shoe in the velvet heaven. When the mermaids haul em, shake em up the lake with a ?melted weapon secret?. Dance ?Prudey? with the rule of a nation, who will be patient, awaiting zookeeper facelift extra. The days of your pain and similar uber apeshit, we merely updated the ancient apage. Yeah, dumber than a gal on a roof in a flood, whos not as dumb as the watered down beef from the burgers that jumped. Im dumber than a Taz on a beach chair with a Martini, whos not as dumb as a tat with the same scenery. ?Walking female? pig stigmata for all good sport. Garbage Pail Kids unite at the mall food court. Chase cheese fries with binaca. They had shut the school down early, there were bombs inside the lockers. No concept of the problem, we responded like a snow day, it was clobber shit to flotsam but the cops said it was OK. OK so the squadrons back into their boxes like its breakfast club of hotheads show no progress to the doctors.
And I walk into the office, cough an awful ether often, flood a parking meter fever, knuckle up the love and rockets. It was reign of the razor laser, day of the cloudy howdy, flight of the shelter melter, you can bow without me.
Chorus
(Aesop Rock)
And then there were eight (then there were eight).
Just like that.
(Bring back Pluto, bring back, bring back Pluto).
Like:
You ain't shit. This ain't ill.
This is little Russian dolls that get smaller and smaller still.
This is a corpus full of pills, trying to sit still and build.
Yo, I surf an axiom kicked in a center fold by ugly tenements
Oh Distribute sour inhalants regulate lobby development
Today summon the rug rat oblivious to what's delicate.
Tomorrow siphon imperfection out the fetus prior to selling it.
There is a brain in the thicket tap circle cupping the port to accord it
Teeter thorn storm plunges more but conformers the pouring's half the entry
Plated pearly gates a chanted axis with high gentry hinging our binging on public picket fencing Squirming in terms in conditions of un-sati fact destiny magnet
Where the ebony should of cracked shit ratio tragic
Lose sight suit oh mavericks clash at futility pageants
I post froze in a blaze at a grand combustion
A leader's deception connection wiper with a barn responds his friend
With an eye socket full of needles and a will to die for nothing
And that's glory abide thy crass itinerary barely suitable for common slum cats
And the lemmings will follow you to the blood bath
All aboard that awful train through shames patch where I'd trade my window seat for one pane of replacement stain glass, see I've battled the gods of opacity
I don't mind yall looking in, its just watching sim city steam slips under my skin
And im about half way to nausea, half way to contempt men
2 halves post made a dance evoked a whole lot of resentment
Build a pen around master dome patriarch close to four peters
Woke to rope cubicles combines with combines suitably ingenious
Let's soak my feet in lake infinity the time vibe strapped to dignity my symmetries vivid image still cant mimic the victory comfort is a crumb and I'm numb as fuck
Yet some prefer the hum and others tend to suck the life out of the crux like
1,2,3,4 and im a hug dummy hug the hungry pull the lever push the button
Drink the garbage split the homage reap the harvest target everyone
Beckon eyes idols that have a malleable colony till the fire ant dropped the sweet leaf grief your dreams a needle in a needle stack claiming safety pin physics
Baby tin blizzards collide while ole iron sides trust the rivets
I'm sick of the picker the litter soaking the spot lit when I know they know they owe all thanks to the end all Aesop Rock shit watch this
Build me a home; build me a home of brick and wood and everything good
With a front porch where I can char fire flies by night and smoke stogs till the day meets twilight, build me a home, build me a home with a green grass hill with runing a water in a backyard with a sandbox and a garden of foreign flowers build me a home with a basement and an attic where I can store remnants of the day I once slept in build me a home.
No skull is sacred in the races
Locked in a pagan doctrine watching born again faces gamble up patience fail blatant
Oak currents the end of war paintings stain plague community harking as wrapped
It's overlooking out crops. Give you one life to laugh at catalog bliss on the least common attachment 10 seconds of glittering silence pilot is flight redefine stagnant
Most emotions host an entire lesson congressional less one stone merely for the exceptional spectacle now listen the pause heed tall falls the voidance of the suit dispersed await a straightened arrows a perfect circle has been fastened to the blimp side buy in my grin and clusters that's better than colony my own fathers son is the holy ghost suck that theology I king for a day of peasant for a pleasant life blood on the easel and my eagle eyelids spots runaway pirates look I despise squatters with a ohh cry me a river a quarter how'd you afford that dog and sour dialogue I put my hook in the pond I put my worm In the hook I put my trust in the worm that he'd bring me something to cook
I felt a tug on my line and I lugged a trash can on my pole with a note from the worm attached that read thanks for nothing asshole simple parables of nature making character giddy and riddle me a similar situation mix city quick but your honorable a lot doors to the monks blood thirsty barracuda serpents and report on powers of devil treatment church links im a fence sitter lips torn by both polars and their working I can only model throttle at the dream catching matching a patchy holist with a sovereignty harbored and charged my hate breed in a minute he's picket spitting stitches to fix the britches in the gaps one night I broke in bridges give us traps and tried to walk to get stogs just like hop scotch between polar caps and im, blue in the face when every second is a waste of breath
(MF Doom)
Keep in mind this flow is used for practice.
Even so still top choice off the tracklist.
Far as I know we've been blacklist
For as long as the earth rotate on a 23 degree axis.
âI can stop anytime I want to.â
Famous last words that came back to haunt you
All your life, like permanent dried tears.
Some cats get it like no bright ideas.
He broke the record then bowed.
Said he couldn't do it without the crowd, for crying out loud.
Even took the time to contaminate the rhyme scene
And drop a lot before he was out, in the common scene.
A lot of rappers are drama queens (buddy dutty ?)
When they come to the mic, I'm 'a feel ya's. (buddy buddy ?)
Fuck around and get your title took, cut and dry.
He doesn't lie, even like âwho and where, what and why?â
Hold it like a cue 'n button, button fly (boom boom) (?)
Once they leave the room, they be like, âDoom! Doom! Doom!â
It's no use. Blessed to design
And the villain has left the building, dressed to the nines.
Like, I'm 'a do mine. Ya'll do yours.
He stay reppin' the game like Lou Rawls
The super MF villain, feelin' like two balls,
For the microphone, he joins like two falls. (?)
Well we'll see after these criminals who falls.
A lot of ya'll is reminiscent of Rupaul.
Ball to ball and we'll be needing new drawers.
Drawers, the one-twos that run through walls.
Keep in mind this flow is used for practice.
Even so still top choice off the tracklist.
Far as I know we've been blacklist
For as long as the earth rotate on a 23 degree axis.
(AESOP ROCK)
All in it together now.
Some of the misadventures of a father crop
My provider chop's flashin'
See, I'm 'a stop that gut reaction
Bound to tackles when a battle runs in circles
Like rodeo clowns with paddles.
Poked in the belly by petty sarcasm.
Gentlemen, start your laugh tracks.
Push pins for the lab rat breed.
All I wanna be is a fat cat sleeping 40 nights (nights)
In hopes that when I rise,
The hacker mass will have seen there's more to life.
Let's recreate a perfect service rooted in labor lust
And a discipline prisoner.
I don't work a thick antithesis.
Parallel park your burning prod adjacent
To the flagrant iron ego valve
Let us study a weaker outlet
I found peace (I found peace)
I found peace, it tap me on the shoulder
Asking where's the closest war and how to make it sleep
I pointed toward the exact place my sneakers met the creedence,
Said âIf I could answer questions (who), I would be relief.â
Now classify don't got 'em shook by exposing the skeletons
Yeah I sorta stick to a more murky-hurt development.
Some of these kids are spittin just a bit too delicate a thesis.
If only⦠Yeah, but holy jumpin Jesus!
I get torn swiftly from a planet while it tilts, 23.
Look buddy, we've gotta talk.
God made me a fine instrument of style
Zig zag zisfiss?
Don't make me holy sleep bolts blindly until your mood shifts.
Now here comes 40 acres of congruency pistons,
Purple skeleton key immunity systems.
Aw, it'll be something incredible.
See, I know the limit.
That's why I do my best to stay quiet
Whenever I ain't spittin the gimmick.
Keep in mind this flow is used for practice.
Even so still top choice off the tracklist.
Far as I know we've been blacklist
APPLESEED (one, two)
yeah. yeah- i recall the
first time i bumped heads with my
head led to a dead bargain, a
"thanks for nothin, lowlife", and a
start of "beg my pardon, "when a
dust mite harbored spite it barely
dents the cicada phase, blades a-
verted. decorate the backs of
freedom fighters, servants pick those
steeples higher, man the loose can-
nons, "pennin for gold" "nah pennin for
chance to land in camps branded with
"push" stamped on their hand" lets
push. lets push up through the
now, lets evoke a vow of
zipped lips clipped to my peaking
brow (i'm sleeping now) i seen im-
maculate hearts blemished
under the mass of genie bottle
hostages who wish that a
third to her broken promises.
black spot of gotham, fragile
castle and master passageway.
even the innocent captives
bleed appleseed apple
seed, leave me with a breeding
hassle factor's feet. pin the
tail on the village idiot
turn giddy click stern greet a
burn it basics laid with the
modes of neurotic nitpicking
patrons and their pseudo potent
patronage ahh mood of the moment
gloated in splendor of its
greatness and i'm hella swamped
truly moody in my
days makeshift awakeness
act as if apathy's been your
best friend since the bonding i'll one
up you with love letters from de-
[looped sample]
It's like antisocial
hazardous portion organically nourished couraged to flourish and muses often
Lunged nicotine dream missing languorous
Caution we proclaim until brain's off like Sagittarius
Shield. Yield to the eye mescaline killer veals
Stonegates marching moodily until plural styles immaculated beautifully.
Rudely awoke.
Sing rumble blue conglomerates sucking up lung while brushing parasitic critics to my left side.
I test glide kamikaze crashed to thoughtless on my preface.
The therapeutic unit recommended.
Now slow-mo Quasimotos teeter on ringleader status while I spit satellite photos while teetering on the stratus.
Sleepwalking the atlas after none. Trudge and nudge my ninety-nine octane brain to one-oh-one.
Run to organize my mood like quarterize my wound and climb up.
Lovely samaritans line up like bar codes for a fraction of my factions.
The hollow of his hand beholds contraptions via
Amplified files collapsed in cacophonic conquest. My specs up.
More postille and docile insubordinance your phylum.
For a dotta asylum swarmed your coordinates. Rush.
Must not sleep, must warn others.
I'll tourniquet your turbulence then trample on your stutters.
If I could displace every vagrant in America with traces of my character the Earth would be a more pitiful habitat.
With infinite acres of auto-cry eight can aid ya. Swung open the nomenclature to obscure wool-lock trickery. Pure
Has not got tossed back by liquors supporting patience, working knuckles for audio duplication.
That's like fiending for a purpose.
[looped sample]
Aesop Rock, prototype Robocop
Jabberwocky rocking on the highest hilltop.
I possess two siamese styles that's like connected at the mic hollering monstrous.
Poly-tech impeded indidgy progress, deaf,
Swept off your meridian. It's operation Start With a Slummy Raped Your Milk and Honey.
Can I like, conjure up like all potent components of like,
Middle siblings scribbling on his lonesome like,
Hit him with my ninety-nine metal plated mics upon the wall, take them down, pass them round, rock them all. Bust it.
I'm forever building my City of Lost Children ripping rungs off your ladder at a
Sardonic smirk. Ebonics lurking where the crop circles got stamped out from the rain dance.
Tsunami rain blast tipped off like origami frames and sloppy braincasted class-a-piece mastered to capture your flag then flutter.
While slaves defy water, start roofing paper bags.
The magic-maker dragging devils to add triple sixes melted triple glitches on your console.
I calibrate my mics prior to claim and shit is rockable.
Unlock and pull a backdoor for the bounce.
While cannily panicking was the average. I broadcast modern boredom mesozoic poetry pupils.
Caught up in scruples from the inimical nature of my program.
Elegant, the overcast password cursed on a tactless bastard, catatonic until personal practice mastered.
And it is with the dogs with their rifles, thousands of them line the pavement, like patients pupae waiting to become worms
(I feel good as new, good as new, good as new, good as new....)
The people are dead, but the money keeps talking
[Aesop]
Another dark night, teethin the market of B-sheep, like I'm walking around the 39 thieves in a beat spores of a warm Helvetica brown proper for the odd gutter monster propped on the teleprompter, wild blue yonder blue in the face angel blew into the bugle in lieu of the euthanasia, usually the shooter community chew the corpse but I see the wolves have already gotten to you and yours, day of the dead play the ledge closely train the barrel of monkeys to aim at the lowest bogey, dope, the gonzo have always felt choked socially, stole the golden fleece with the culture of total nobodies earth lies divided by fighting tribes all we do is watch em waddle back and forth lighting fires (money money) detonator wire cutters pliers two cities and one is broken up in tiny tiles and I walk, pose, harmin the heart of the lion's throat for a photographic children of my primordial growth, you parade around a kill so damn proud like a flat-line fetish had his feathers fanned out, war totem symmetry, skip into it gingerly, silk worms ping pong minister to ministry, hells bells every which way the winds blows, so I bang my head against any wall you can build, go
[El-P]
another dark night, another not alright, another bad ritual, war-bot surgery, better follow the bread-crumbs back, in fact, urgently, there's water through the session where the natives feel murder-y, vicinity wandered claim no zone never let an anchor drop never had a home never talk to strangers never trust a friend, this is the life and the life will not end
(Money money money money money money...)
(Good as new, good as new, good as new, good as new...)
[Aesop]
Next time think, 39 thieves, quicker than 40 winks, raise your drinks, 39 thieves, quicker than 40 winks
Why are you consumed with the community aloofness, dude we're animals we'll just go where the most food is, lower the toast most former letter-kid is useless, truth is you're equally expendable as spoon-fed, (money money), money is cool I'm only human but they use it as a tool to make the workers feel excluded, like the shinier the jewel the more exclusive the troop is, bullets don't talk bribes stupid, they shoot shit
[Aesop]
Another dark night, down it goes, tread around the rabbit hole, weapons to the heavens and arsenic where the carrots grow, piss warm suger water where the summer canteen plus burn rubber like green is the new green, rubber neck froze, slows by the multiplex, rodeo commotion I'm open to see what culminates, bourgie on the right, left rep rebel force, both say the futile "prove the parking lot was never yours," black top pebble bores, soldiers molded when the joneses every grown-up in Dakota came to groping, no motives they showed em the gross quotas, hog barn burner come see if your home told us, 85 rattle trap park the fancy, he could swear he was steppin outta Comanche, antsy, let us in he jettison the medicine and paranormal hatchery condense and break the levees in (money money), we both know the totem camaraderie, tokin' up equality, they posted horizontally, pride of golden load the doctor brought a lobster colony, half-mass slags have caps through em properly, and sleep the sleep of the just, ready on the left when the witchcraft spun it with a neighboring sect, with the usual undesirables and the Big Brother cutters, on the day your name became "This motherfucker?!"
[El-P]
another dark night, another not alright, another bad ritual, war-bot surgery, better follow the bread-crumbs back, in fact, urgently, there's water through the session where the natives feel murder-y, vicinity wanders claim no zone never let an anchor drop never had a home never talk to strangers never trust a friend, this is the life and the life will not end
This is the life, this is the life, this is the life
[Chorus]
Get up to get down now
Get up to get down now (like this)
Get up to get down now (like this)
Get up to get down now (alright)
I don't wanna do it anymore
Couldn't do it if I tried, wouldn't do it if I wanted it
I don't wanna do it anymore
Couldn't do it if I tried...
[Verse 1]
Okay
The moments were subtle but unstolen and guess who owns them
No friendly, non-threatening corporate lacky mucks in the totem
Lucy was in the sky with diamonds
Five dollars to hold them
The summer beneath these Pac-Man's with acid behind his molars
Little white tab hollering, little white flag waggling
Inorganic pat on back, trim the panic flat on backer
Back to back like Mad Hatter magic
Rabid mastif collaborative
Splatter bachelor fabric fatter with Cabbage Patch lit
(Dark days)
Banded Louie-Louie
(Park blades)
Chemically bent-up but eager to crash for that one, two, three repeater
Good morning Vietnam
Whose couch is this, whose house is this, who are you down with bitch?
I'm sorry, dog, I dreamt the foulest shit
There was this rabid foot talismen drowning out of my armspan
What's fouler was the other farmhands growing gills and shark fangs
What's fouler was my torso stripped to ribbons in the marshlands
But I'm up now
Let's get this window pane and shut the fuck down
Down by the river where the litter sits
And lionheart critters smoke dope and act like illiterates
I ran with a brat pack of loose bolts and high social maladjusties
Sacred, numb, and boundless went to same proto called cookie
Well, I was dummy to some when my tongue was cradled and my skin looks crazy
Pocketbook mirror, courtesy Amy
Spiders in the mattress, paisley sunglasses, dialated eyes green
Ice grill that could burn through your picture-in-picture widescreen
Poison late late show starring Aes and his jigsaw face
Twelve hour solid gold entertainment
Other shit to sell from other ships that sell they DD paper
(Space Invader)
This one's for the labor days worked for rent and rolling papers
Only the illest beats leak asbsurdly out the boombox
The daytripper anthem goes: "Wake. Drop. Walk to Aquarium."
Whistle while you work like a canary lung
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy to carry drugs
I sorta see it as my last flash summer
Skateboards and sloppy psychedelics and big numbers
Good times, good people
All airbrushed on a collapsible easel
Peace man, easy
[Bridge]
And I knew the permanancy would drift
And I knew the ph balance wasn't right
And I knew the crash and burn, how to caress it
L.S.D. flashed the message
And I knew the gash wasn't gonna stop bleeding
And I knew the ph balance wasn't right
And I knew how September would then affect it
L.S.D.
[Verse 2]
Lazy summer days
Like some decrepit land shark dumbluck squad dog lurks sicker, deluded
Last sturdy domino leans secluded
Don't let stupid delusions lesson super-duty labor students
Dragnet lifer solutions
Daddy loves sloppy dimensions like son-daughter links
Such determinated leopards, successfully disshelved
Little soliders developed like serpents despite life sentence ducking
lemmings
Some don't like sobriety's dirty lenses
Some do let sleeping dogs lie still
Don't look so damn lackluster
Suck defeat
Love some damage, load sample delete
Late Show, Dave Letterman, shitty diner lip-slide dutch
Low self-discipline leader seek dead lung self-destruct
Life sucks dickhead
Lost summer's display laminate showcasing divinity
Live system definitive
Liturgy soaked the pig lowly, spectactular delight
Why, what kind of L.S.D. you like?
Your lizard king has spoken (all hail)
You in the back, get them up, those trails are necessarily bumped
(Summertime)
Some'll try and recapture the same flag
But I played it smart and recognized the summertime passed
za za zaaa....(chill wit that ill behavior)
pull the pin out
sheep creep'in wolf gaurd
fronted by the hail mary parry lunge mix
kill the populace for civility
jepeordy a stickler
his bob and weave amalgam played fountain to your fixture
I'm brain child arms flailing backwards
wailing for the tiny sound circut
slitely bile gershhh-win(??)
with a bitter nails and drum lust
plus disgusted service
worked in the shifts opposite to your abestos brain furnace
I be the now observ-atory I hear intend-a feeler
spit'in like a dragon with a similar demeanor
split innocent bi-stand witness the die hard fans turn Rip Van in the poppy feilds and NY's talkin traded brick gauntlets
Now I'm think'in who am I
Jabba walky supa fly
bent left push'in more with out ten step coushin and what
I plan to hope just be positive sacred in these golden viens till I die from grimace over-load
Its shock(its shock)
Treatment offered by the week-end
this opiate get away lets just play the sequence
It goes 1 for the heartless
3 for returning my gardian angel harp-less
and the rest is sweep the mess under the carpet
I drag a yellow taxi meter behind every measurement charge cats labeling me shepard
That'll be 6.50 plus tip doll
an I take Cash credit check money-order gold and Ciggerette Cartons
Got caught up in the universe try'in to zoom in on stardom
Forgot the passion passion plus the hatred ,both were base carbon
Next time you wanna be a hero, try save'in something other then hip-hop
and maybe hip-hop will save you from the pitstop
Kill'em all yeild
aah man it wasn't me it was hold'in Copians brother
I just let him pull the trigger (ohh m)
well leave me to tip toe past the pearly gates
capture the halo jet back to base
step fast to chase the bad taste of jet lag and waste slackers
There ain't noth'in broken
where you at
piston pump perfect
where you at
base tone is merlin
the services is a urgent work'in sergeon purge'in formulas look'in for an improper cause is whack
(chorus 2X)
what are you saving
Honestly (honestly) honestly
what are you saving
Honestly (honestly) honestly
what are you saving
Honestly
Promise we won't shut the fuck up till recognize what you holden ain't really broken
I don't flick needles like my sick friend
I don't march like Beatle Baily to a quick trend
I don't freek(?) with churches steeples on the weekend
and I don't comment if you from your little weak zen
(double time)
All I ever really wanted was a get away
I'ma take a chance by letting a brook slide
over to my hands
(?)I can not agree to greet fallow
aleast a borderline war with out reason for the pregame score(?)
bring out your dead we'll put'em in a pile
and burn'em with the novels so the kids will admire
kill the ones that speak with a different light
but what brother kill the noise get subject...(?)
Okay
welcome to the Kamakzi bottle rocket cockpit
live by the icy cold hand of bad intention youth blender
OK i'll let God warm the bench for now but ascend to spin y'all dizzy
and for the record i'm bring'in my TV with me
It goes let the commoners speak publicly
then disperse hygene
these cat thats swear by third pupil
but can't see past the loophole
Motherfucker my word is born like siamese triplets
with doctor lawyer rocket scientist promts
let him grow liesurely
hey mom i'ma fix whatever i've broken along this path
once my shpeel's perfected i'm gonna save you a seat in the front row
of Aesop Rocks 12 steps Shut the Fuck up seminar
and when all is bicker and crowds turn swallow
you gone be proud
I tack hacks to the lack board
Honestys a latch cord
juries fall flop oboslete
serenity's a crack whore
War character sure a mayhem standard branded by the labor
with a thousand reasons to end this corrupted wannabe saviors
saw the brightest burst ironically wandering the vacant stage
gave him the pound for burn'in were bums ratios and gays
keep me posted as to when you drop something mature sit and sulk about mister
and I'll consider pick'in up your record
(chorus 2X)
what are you saving
Honestly (honestly) honestly
what are you saving
Honestly (honestly) honestly
what are you saving
Honestly
Verse 1 (Aesop Rock)
Flash that buttery gold, jittery zeitgeist
Wither by the watering hole, water patrol
What are we, a heart huckabee, art fuckery suddenly?
Not enough young in his lung for the water wings?
Colorfully vulgar poacher at a mulch like
'I'ma pull the pulse out a soldier and bolt.' (Fine)
Sign of the time we elapsed
When a primate climb up the spine and attach
Eye for an eye, by the bog's life swamps and vines
They get a rise out of frogs and flies
So when a dog fights hog-tied prize sorta costs a life
The mouths water on a fork and knife
And the allure isn't right
It's gore on a war-torn beach
Where the cash cows actually beef
Blood turns wine when I leak for police
Like 'That's not a riot, it's a feast, let's eat.'
Chorus (El-P and Aesop Rock)
And I will remember your name and face
On the day you were judged by the funhouse cast
And I will rejoice in your fall from grace
With a cane to the sky like 'None shall pass.'
None shall pass, none shall pass
Verse 2 (Aesop Rock)
Now if he never had a day a snow cone couldn't fix
he wouldn't relate to the rouge vocoder bliss
How he spoke through a no-doz, motor on the fritz
'Cause he wouldn't play roll over, fetch, like a bitch
And express no regrets though he isn't worth the homeowners piss
To the jokers who pose by the glitz (Fine)
Sign of the swine and the swarm
When a king is a whore who comply and conform
Miles outside of the eye of the storm
With a siphon to lure and a prize and award
While avoiding the vile and bizarre that is violence and war
True blue triumph is more
Like wait, let it snake up outta the centerfold
Let it break the walls of Jericho. ready? go.
Sat where the old cardboard city folks
Swap tails with heads like every other penny throw
Chorus
Verse 3 (Aesop Rock)
Okay, woke to a grocery list
Goes like this: duty and death
Anyone object, come stand in the way
You can be my little Snake River Canyon today
And I ran with a chain of commands
And a jetpack strap where the backstab lands if it can. (Fine)
Sign of the vibe in the crowd
When I cut a belly open to find what climb out
What a bit of gusto he muster up
Make a dark horse rush like enough's enough
It must'a struck a nerve so they huff and puff
Till all the king's men fluster and clusterfuck
And it's a beautiful thing
To my people who keep an impressive wing span
Even when the cubicle shrink
You gotta pull up the intruder by the root of the weed
NY chew through the machine
Who put the monkey wrench in well oiled prefectionist emblem
Just to watch these moniters spit white noise
through your office space?
Automate.
I infect jolly gene pool descendent cloud clusters
starving art revolution sound jugglers.
Delinquent fan for brick habitat.
Bob, weave, stick, move, fence
and pause somewhere in the middle for slick invention.
This years brain crops spread spectacular.
I ain't mad at cha, don't stay mad at the caliber.
I twist characters like twist characters.
Tally up the alley cat aggresion
in this Doug E. Fresh infested mess up bass line lust.
An automatic B-boy krylon can combust circuits
Working these war picked cyphers
with Ted Stryker stability and kamakazi chivalry.
I alone noble in a warm food feud
Walking dead generation.
Ain't nobody asking for your patience.
The grand opening holding me to the fact
that I knew myself and didn't have to ask nobody else.
(Talk about labor)
Fantastic planet urchin puting work in.
Searching for pertinent verse minus the murderous diversion.
Apologies won't lore me to the communal sob story
nor would I sacrifice lifestyle to benefit jury temperament.
This whole Green Goblin web cutter butts up against
crayola daydream landscapes spittin bedlam, dead 'em.
Charge the villagers nickles and nicotine
to watch him fed to one disgruntled kraken at high noon.
We'll sell popcorn, beer and balloons
I got an inkling this gon be the one children bicker over.
Its that warriors vs. baseball fury element
to glitch his motor sensory development
I am a star, really.
The big bang bastard's back
with a one way ticket to Beat Street.
This all is like relevent to human kind supply/demand ratios
man, learn it.
I work past the surface
I work on what I love, I work to service all my burdens
How to make a homemade mummy:
Get a corpse, get gauze, get comfy
Shampoo and disinfect dead fluffy
For the hallowed excavation of his x-marked tummy
Scalpel to stern, the butter cutter b-lines well
Tongs butterfly the unzipped feline shell
We'll be escorting vital organs
With exception of the precious kittens heart
Into the privacy of separate pickle jars
Or mayonnaise or jelly pick a card
Shit, pick a part and scissor
Stomach, lung, intestine or liver
In a world of sanitizers and preservatives forever
Brain exterminated through the whiskers (kiss & blow)
Ditched, I blank NY alone
We usher in the salts that call the husk home
Might embalm and stiffen and rid the fawn of all his liquids
Slather it in beeswax, wrap it up in ribbons
Like limb by limb, by tail by ear by chin
With the new hereafter I hereby win
I hope you vow to meow another day and never
Decompose, by the way before we seal these molds
The shorten version goes...
Take the brain out, leave the heart in
Take the brain out, leave the heart in
Paper playgrounds, leave your harvest
Take the brain out...
Gadzooks, punk's dead, last good gut wrenched
Antennae sam cook, black book pushead
Cat skulls stacked to the black hole sunset
Olive on a toothpick, Dagwood Bumstead
Tagged-hoof hatchery, matter amass naturally
Bad wolf, dash for the last rook castling
Blue ox, red plaid bass pro flannel king
Hasbro crown, sour apple Abba-Zabba teeth
In poorly taken pictures antiquating on his mantlepiece
Before we only spoke in letters cut from magazines
Folk broke bear claws over gross coffee
Not as milquestoast men, as los muertos walking
Ergo the scarecrow in rare barley
Squared-off harpy to armchair: say a prayer for me
I feel that mystifying times have gotten ugly
I also feel that you could learn a lot from a mummy
Take the brain out, leave the heart in
Take the brain out, leave the heart in
Major take down, eat your porridge
Take the brain out, leave the carcass
Take the brain out, leave the heart in
Take the brain out, leave the heart in
Games to reign now, pleased to bargain
Take the brain out, leafed in garlic
Take the brain out, leave the heart in
Take the brain out, leave the heart in
Fading halos, feeding herpes
Take the brain out, eager starlets
Take the brain out, leave the heart in
Take the brain out, leave the heart in
Take the brain out, leave the heart in
so I heard y'all wanna float...
yo, this fallen angel could stitch a wing with a shoestring
prime directive selects reflective aviation bathed in mood swing
I'm broke; I know a walking corpse that spit icicle dagger to slit throat
quicker than you can prove there's four letters in hope (h...o...p...e)
I paint a portrait of myself, bored life inside the tortoise shell
tortured, orbiting Hell's orchid, intrigued but not compelled
I smell a hint of charred child flesh sweeping through my corridor
more than one canteen, a liquid caffeine and eclipse the slaughters
now ? is the villain of my Kabuki hologram
as I hobble with hollow hands, please pin the nozzle
we see intent to reinvent dream application with homage to ancients
but honor modern replacements circling now basics, fresh
I'm Bilbo Baggins, with stilts tippin' the peatree dish
beached fish on the shores with a feast of wits eats the corpse
divy the servings and study the traits that deemed killer breed credible
that's a harp of a different color, yeah, but the song remains identical
I am not a crook (crook)
I cook the wick at both ends just to blend that element of chance with my
tight rope leaf
life, sight beyond, I reign where hunger pain got begone
elong to something civil saint 'cause this Rembrandt paints on
and it's a tall canvas, lodged in the gut of Atlantis
I'm pretend(?), impressive lungs, some truly learn what a death chant is
I alone personify man kinds collective soul
as the result of one angry Zeus fist blistering pulp cult evoked
face it, place it on the shelf next to the portrait Mommy gave you
and the day it rains but y'all pose by the slave ship anyway (how sweet)
make it rain 'till the lead be grain
my face is a combine of Father Tom and his sweetest concubine
whine, and it saddens me like televised casualties
I'll be hung in the village square in exactly five minutes
you don't want to miss it
I've been soaking up my discontent regarding the equation
I'm officially closed for consultation
I float
when everyone around me's busy drowning, I float
when everyone around me's busy drowning, I float
Shooken to Casper. Illustrate beautiful disaster. Flight of the mothership lift to badger the male-factor. Marionette vs. the threat of wire cutter function. Stereotypical grinch bashing your pumpkins. Plug. Try to count up your warrior hatchling batch before gestation segment ended and head a platoon of embryonic remnants to the game board. Release Japanese beetle swarm to counter the spread of bitch crops, demolish the harvest and herd colony out immediate. One massive attack. Hunted, confronted and gutted. Most pungent component cloned in outrageous bunches. From the grimacing faces to the knots in my shoelaces, I'm a show you all the phases of a fuck up. Plucking the petals but every rose had its thorn. Consider that first warning, second will be good times, laughs and epitaphs. As a matter of basic principle next I set my boat a sail. I won't always be there for your tugging on my coat tails. Family stuck. Voyage of the S.S. Martyr. Who you think put that unseen iceberg in the water? Manufacture flotsam and jetsam from out your charter. We got the once pushovers pushing back a little harder now, blink. I think I can. I got grips. Muckraker major spin circles 'round sunken ships. Walk an invisible city of lost clans and he's jealous 'cause my silhouette had more dimensions than his game plans.
CHORUS
Fascination. Fascination. And everything I do I'm fascinated with, That's why I pass the hated wasteland with a grin, 'cause in the end I got my passions while you splash in a puddle of trying to pick apart the puzzle. Fascination. Fascination. And everything I do I'm fascinated with. That's why I pass the jaded grips of competitors who initiate disturance with a smirk, 'cause I feel I got direction in my work.
On a sunny afternoon in lower east side New York...
You about ready? (Yeah)
Good morning my sweet vision of morbid disorder
And Good evening wonderful riddance and such
Maybe today I'll touch the burgundy halo
Trimming the tunnels and of in with tenants
Spangled cross a more tangible premise
?? it needs splinters all up in day-tripper visuals
Take it easy man, fuck it I'll take it any way I can
My palms are generous
When I witness fury scurry past my window
Model city in a bottle plugged hostile
Its bliss kissin pollutin
And a billion suckers pucker in a bind
Maybe the sunken ship is the treasure
No, but they insist it man
I try to Spin me dizzy spongin
Up to giving dungeons functions
As opposed to art historians absorbed inside assumptions
Everybody pop your knuckles when the style divorces vertical
Marveling at the spite with which it curdled
Outside my tenement grows a little warmth
From out the mugs of masons wasted
Laying bricks for days to later find they owned the lot adjacent
Mark the blasphemy elements of elogance and savagery
Murder the gossip, fuck it run off happily
The broken spoke cyclers chokin open doctors they as born fetus
In a matchbox conveniently padlocked to the hammer base
Now these impurities embedded in five illiterates textiles
Shedded in the hell tale to motivate blind suspended leverage
Now i'm drowning in a pool of why are you here
Sabotage with my beats the burden pertainance of if I die this year
My name is Dryspell
My name is pillar
My name's allegiance
My name is flagrant
My name's a thousand steps from patience
But I'm sick and tired of waiting
My name's Polaris
My name is canvas
My name is lowlife
My name's intention
My name is every imperfection that plays a part in my descension
My name is carnival
My name is posture
My name is polarized
My name is evidence
My name is delicate approach from symettricating my fellowship
My name's Possessive
My name is cordial
My name is Igloo
My name is captivate
My name is contaminate the rich
And clock the profits for the captain's sake
Let us hope that the horrors of evil
No longer loiter on the doorstep of your past
Circle of sandbags drag the shield a meal the meaty hand grabs
I'm splitting hopes at your local Acropolis
Opulence in a cockpit not the pocket for them born with a ??
Sunk to rest while they've exhausted the art of drunken address
Exhibit fracture lines that converge towards where the hackers whine
Where trappers slack the traps
Unlatch the catch then cover up his trackers line
That will make his majesty furious
Oh bury his head and how could I have been so dense
If only, yeah but I'm lonely
My days graze normalcy then morbidly crash
My years breathe honesty then sardonically laugh
Alas, I dig my toes in to the sand and spit foliage out my lips Personifying mankind's end all aspirations
Hope floats...
No, hope sinks like broken boats and most harassed before provoked
I'm tossing darts at a map of the arts to pick up where you choked
And when the last leaf falls off the branches of resonance
I'll be waiting with my butterfly net to collect the evidence
Well I am a room with poison oak scaling the sides
Arachnids on the celing, rugged thumb tacks, bones and rusty pipes
If you can squeeze between the bars
Enjoy my space employ my waste
In case the hand dealt by a stolen grace
Do you ever wish the circle wasn't square
So when landsharks start circling the borders
You could just cut them off at the corners
There's a ghost in the basket of values
Pertinent to, which cayak pilot succeeded in serving him proof
Now I'm surfin it through
So if you need me spread your wings to spell my name
Above the mess near the other funny requests
See bow to tolerant mannerisms of higher to win
To assist in a meticulous pick a part of cobweb skins
Of innocence
A child of timid instinct with that ten step ahead premise
Supply dust bowls before the zephyr was requested
Violent humble shoes ten shades of blues come off the difference
I grimace, took me one hours blink to conclude that sickly innocence
My name is Dryspell
My name is pillar
My name's allegiance
My name is flagrant
My name's a thousand steps from patience
But i'm sick and tired of waitin
My name's Polaris
My name is canvas
My name is lowlife
My name's intention
My name is every imperfection that plays a part in my descension
My name is carnival
My name is posture
My name is polarized
My name is evidence
My name is delicate approach from symettricating my fellowship
My name's Possessive
My name is cordial
My name is Igloo
My name is captivate
My name is contaminate the rich
And clock the profits for the captain's sake
My name is vagabond
My name is angel
My name is century
My name is hunter
My name is sunburst
My name is wildfire
My name is scrutinize
My name is basic
My name is consequence
My name is cigarettes
My name is cynical
My name is tolerance
My name is hallucinogen
My name is waterfall
My name is runaway
My name is alarm clock
[Verse 1]
Diamond colored spine
Armadillo armor that bends around the blades
Bugs in the beard
Ebony in the lungpiece
Bricks in the Timbs
Bazooka in the tooth that he's flashing at your friends
This is the lifestyle, baby
Know and sip the recipe
Not a single innocuous side up in the centerpiece
Oh my god
Journalists across the globe are officially critiquing my first eight bars
[Verse 2]
Piety for the fam, embargo piggybackers
Navigate sim-city backwards
Bazooka Tooth, baby!
Zephyrs less dextrimental expect to tone down terrordome for starter crews
Like jousting Pompeii with a garden hose
If you wake up to the sound of helicopters bumping Wagner
It's bodycast to Pilates class
Buckle in the Bronx back alley batting cage with bottle smacks
Drag them prophecies, be them celestine or Mothman to the bumper boat monster mash
See, the pristine kittens fiddle with new yarn
Decrepit sickly dogs get shot behind the barn
One shan't put in long hours like Tim Leary's lava lamps
To be second headlined under the boy born with lobster hands
Isolated, biological phenomenon
First nocturnally orchestrated car alarms
Y'all sketch portraits of your neighbors, tack em up without fail
See a robored pitchforks and alligator tails [?]
Offical Max Fischer Blume break cable clipper (Def)
Picket train buffer, the riverboat, and the switcher (Jux)
Pipe-dreaming that so fresh and so clean plummage
Is an appleseed of bore that resorts to Bazooka Tooth shit
RELEASE
ALBUMS
- Leisureforce
- ZZZ Top
- Cycles to Gehenna
- Zero Dark Thirty
- Fryerstarter
- Ruby ‘81
- Crows 1
- Crows 2
- Racing Stripes
- 1,000 O’Clock
- Homemade Mummy
- Grace
- Saturn Missiles
- Tetra
- Gopher Guts
- Keep Off the Lawn
- None Shall Pass
- Catacomb Kids
- Bring Back Pluto
- Fumes
- Getaway Car
- 39 Thieves
- The Harbor Is Yours
- Citronella
- Gun for the Whole Family
- Five Fingers
- No City
- Dark Heart News
- Coffee / Pigs
- Fishtales
- Facemelter
- Numb (to the Guns)
- Sniff Glue
- Crooked
- Sabbatical with Options
- Kill Switch
- Jet Son
- Train Buffer
- Ace Rocks
- All in All
- Kill 'Em All
- Junkyard
- Preservation (feat. Del Tha Funkee Homosapien)
- One of Four
- Kill 'Em All (RJD2 remix)
- No Jumper Cables (remix)
- Train Buffer (remix)
- Encounter
- Water
- Wise Up
- The Active Element
- The Tugboat Complex
- Bad Karma
- Take Me to the Basement
- Blacklist
- Sinister
- Helium
- Dragon Coaster
- Inner City Hustle (Wakin')
- Tap Dancin' for Scratch
- Put Your Quarters Up
- Home Again
- Coma (remix)
- Atlantis
- Bad Summeritan
- Commencement at the Obedience Academy (original version)
- A Cappella (live at the El Rey)
- Bazooka Tooth (Headphone Science version)
- NY Electric (Headphone Science version)
- Easy (Headphone Science version)
- No Jumper Cables (Headphone Science version)
- Limelighters (Headphone Science version)
- Super Fluke (Headphone Science version)
- Cook It Up (Headphone Science version)
- Freeze (Headphone Science version)
- We're Famous (Headphone Science version)
- Babies With Guns (Headphone Science version)
- The Greatest Pac-Man Victory in History (Headphone Science version)
- 11:35 (Headphone Science version)
- Kill The Messenger (Headphone Science version)
- Mars Attacks (Headphone Science version)
- Bazooka Tooth
- NY Electric
- Easy
- No Jumper Cables
- Limelighters
- Super Flute
- Cook It Up
- Freeze
- We're Famous
- Babies With Guns
- The Greatest Pac-Man Victory in History
- 11:35
- Kill the Messenger
- Mars Attacks
- Intro Live In Asheville
- Rock Dat Shit
- Float Over Night Light
- Coma
- Accapella
- Lucy A.B.C
- Nickle Plated Pockets
- Left Inside On Beat Box.
- Ohh Yeaah!
- Dance Contest RJD2 45
- Aesop Dance Rock
- Big Bang
- Boombox
- Promolude
- Appleseed
- Labor
- Daylight
- Save Yourself
- Flashflood
- No Regrets
- One Brick
- The Tugboat Complex, Part 3
- Coma
- Battery
- Boombox
- Bent Life
- The Yes and the Y'all
- 9-5ers Anthem
- Shovel
- Float
- Commencement at the Obedience Academy
- Big Bang
- Garbage
- I'll Be OK
- Breakfast With Blockhead
- Basic Cable
- Fascination
- Oxygen
- Skip Town
- 6B Panorama
- Lunch With Blockhead
- Spare a Match
- Attention Span
- How to Be a Carpenter
- Prosperity
- No Splash
- Drawbridge
- Dinner With Blockhead
- The Mayor and the Crook
- Abandon All Hope
- Wake Up Call
- The Substance
- Merit
- Night Train Promo
- Live on 89.9 FM Night Train
- Coward of the Year (remix)
- Shere Kahn
- Antisocial
- Coordinates
- Plastic Soldiers
- Troubled Waters
- Bazooka Tooth (Crunk and Bug Bites mix)
- NY Electric (Crunk and Bug Bites mix)
- Easy (Crunk and Bug Bites mix)
- No Jumper Cables (Crunk and Bug Bites mix)
- Limelighters (Crunk and Bug Bites mix)
- Super Fluke (Crunk and Bug Bites mix)
- Cook It Up (Crunk and Bug Bites mix)
- Freeze (Crunk and Bug Bites mix)
- We're Famous (Crunk and Bug Bites mix)
- Babies with Guns (Crunk and Bug Bites mix)
- The Greatest Pac-Man Victory in History (Crunk and Bug Bites mix)
- 11:35 (Crunk and Bug Bites mix)
- Kill the Messenger (Crunk and Bug Bites mix)
- Mars Attacks (Crunk and Bug Bites mix)
- Bazooka Tooth
- N.Y. Electric
- Easy
- No Jumper Cables
- Limelighters
- Super Fluke
- Cook It Up
- Freeze
- We're Famous
- Babies With Guns
- The Greatest Pac-Man Victory In History
- Frijoles (5 Left In the Clip)
- 11:35
- Kill the Messenger
- Mars Attacks
- Bazooka Tooth (magOwl remix)
- NY Electric (magOwl remix)
- Easy (magOwl remix)
- No Jumper Cables (magOwl remix)
- Limelighters (magOwl remix)
- Super Fluke (magOwl remix)
- Cook It Up (feat. P.F.A.C.) (magOwl remix)
- Freeze (magOwl remix)
- We're Famous (magOwl remix)
- Babies With Guns (magOwl remix)
- The Greatest Pac-Man Victory in History (magOwl remix)
- 11:35 (feat. Mr. Lif) (magOwl remix)
- Kill the Messenger (magOwl remix)
- Mars Attacks (magOwl remix)
- Bazooka Tooth
- N.Y. Electric / Hunter (interlude)
- Easy
- No Jumper Cables
- Limelighters (feat. Camp Lo) / Flunkadelic (interlude)
- Super Fluke
- Cook It Up (feat. P.F.A.C.)
- Freeze / Honeycomb (interlude)
- We're Famous (feat. El-P)
- Babies With Guns
- The Greatest Pac-Man Victory in History
- Frijoles
- 11:35 (feat. Mr. Lif) / Ketamine U.S.A. (interlude)
- Kill the Messenger
- Mars Attacks
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Aesop Rock - Daylight
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:28
- Updated: 22 Jan 2013
Labor Days. Definitive Jux. 2001.
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Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:00
- Updated: 22 Jan 2013
Music video by Aesop Rock performing None Shall Pass. (C) 2007 Definitive Jux, Inc.
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Music video by Aesop Rock performing None Shall Pass. (C) 2007 Definitive Jux, Inc.
- published: 24 Jun 2009
- views: 2351530
- author: orchardmusic
Aesop Rock - Zero Dark Thirty
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:32
- Updated: 22 Jan 2013
Skelethon now available iTunes: bit.ly Fifth Element: bit.ly Connect with Aesop Rock Twitter: bit.ly Facebook: on.fb.me Fifth Element: bit.ly Rhymesayers: bit.ly Download "Zero Dark Thirty": snd.sc Behind The Scenes photos: bit.ly Director: Isaac Ravishankara DP: Kevin Hayden Producer:...
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Skelethon now available iTunes: bit.ly Fifth Element: bit.ly Connect with Aesop Rock Twitter: bit.ly Facebook: on.fb.me Fifth Element: bit.ly Rhymesayers: bit.ly Download "Zero Dark Thirty": snd.sc Behind The Scenes photos: bit.ly Director: Isaac Ravishankara DP: Kevin Hayden Producer:...
- published: 01 May 2012
- views: 687384
- author: TheRealRhymesayers
Aesop Rock - Pigs
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:30
- Updated: 21 Jan 2013
Here is a music video for "pigs" created by the multi-talented Dan Wolfe. This video starts Jeremy Fish and his young helper pal, young Rick.
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Here is a music video for "pigs" created by the multi-talented Dan Wolfe. This video starts Jeremy Fish and his young helper pal, young Rick.
- published: 11 Jan 2008
- views: 1347051
- author: drowningknot
Aesop Rock - Skelethon Album Preview
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 55:18
- Updated: 20 Jan 2013
"Skelethon" now available iTunes: bit.ly Fifth Element: bit.ly For those of you looking to decipher Aesop Rock's lyrical wordplay, remember full album lyrics come with every Deluxe Digital and Physical purchase. 0:00 - Leisureforce 4:43 - ZZZ TOP 8:59 - Cycles To Gehenna 13:00 - Zero Dark Thirty 16:21 - Fryerstarter 19:50 - Ruby '81 22:23 - Crows 1 26:43 - Crows 2 29:13 - Racing Stripes 32:36 - 1000 O'clock 36:35 - Homemade Mummy 39:21 - Grace 43:00 - Saturn Missiles 46:37 - Tetra 51:18 - Gopher Guts Watch "ZZZ Top": bit.ly Watch "Zero Dark Thirty": bit.ly Behind Skelethon: bit.ly Connect with Aesop Rock: Twitter: on.fb.me Facebook: on.fb.me Fifth Element: bit.ly Rhymesayers: bit.ly
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"Skelethon" now available iTunes: bit.ly Fifth Element: bit.ly For those of you looking to decipher Aesop Rock's lyrical wordplay, remember full album lyrics come with every Deluxe Digital and Physical purchase. 0:00 - Leisureforce 4:43 - ZZZ TOP 8:59 - Cycles To Gehenna 13:00 - Zero Dark Thirty 16:21 - Fryerstarter 19:50 - Ruby '81 22:23 - Crows 1 26:43 - Crows 2 29:13 - Racing Stripes 32:36 - 1000 O'clock 36:35 - Homemade Mummy 39:21 - Grace 43:00 - Saturn Missiles 46:37 - Tetra 51:18 - Gopher Guts Watch "ZZZ Top": bit.ly Watch "Zero Dark Thirty": bit.ly Behind Skelethon: bit.ly Connect with Aesop Rock: Twitter: on.fb.me Facebook: on.fb.me Fifth Element: bit.ly Rhymesayers: bit.ly
- published: 09 Jul 2012
- views: 206697
- author: TheRealRhymesayers
Aesop Rock - ZZZ Top
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:52
- Updated: 21 Jan 2013
"Skelethon" now available iTunes: bit.ly Fifth Element: bit.ly For those of you looking to decipher Aesop Rock's lyrical wordplay, remember full album lyrics come with every Deluxe Digital and Physical purchase. Directed by Pete Lee Produced by Lizzie Rose Exec Prod: Aesop Rock Dir. of...
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"Skelethon" now available iTunes: bit.ly Fifth Element: bit.ly For those of you looking to decipher Aesop Rock's lyrical wordplay, remember full album lyrics come with every Deluxe Digital and Physical purchase. Directed by Pete Lee Produced by Lizzie Rose Exec Prod: Aesop Rock Dir. of...
- published: 29 Jun 2012
- views: 328179
- author: TheRealRhymesayers
Aesop Rock - "Cycles to Gehenna" (Official Video)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:08
- Updated: 21 Jan 2013
Here's the premiere of Aesop Rock's dope new video, "Cycles to Gehenna," featuring a gaggle of badass ballerinas. Directed by Ben Fee and Pete Lee. Buy it here! itunes.apple.com fifthelementonline.com Thanks! www.aesoprock.com www.facebook.com/AesopRockWins www.twitter.com/aesoprockwins www.rhymesayers.com/aesoprock ** Subscribe to Noisey on YouTube to stay updated on our daily releases: www.youtube.com Videos, daily editorial and more: www.noisey.com Like Noisey on Facebook fb.com Follow Noisey on Twitter: twitter.com Read our tumblr: noiseymusic.tumblr.com
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Here's the premiere of Aesop Rock's dope new video, "Cycles to Gehenna," featuring a gaggle of badass ballerinas. Directed by Ben Fee and Pete Lee. Buy it here! itunes.apple.com fifthelementonline.com Thanks! www.aesoprock.com www.facebook.com/AesopRockWins www.twitter.com/aesoprockwins www.rhymesayers.com/aesoprock ** Subscribe to Noisey on YouTube to stay updated on our daily releases: www.youtube.com Videos, daily editorial and more: www.noisey.com Like Noisey on Facebook fb.com Follow Noisey on Twitter: twitter.com Read our tumblr: noiseymusic.tumblr.com
- published: 21 Aug 2012
- views: 125302
- author: noisey
Aesop Rock - Coffee ft. John Darnielle
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:04
- Updated: 22 Jan 2013
new video from aesop rocks new album "None Shall Pass"
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new video from aesop rocks new album "None Shall Pass"
- published: 29 Oct 2007
- views: 1047039
- author: drowningknot
Aesop Rock - Water
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:57
- Updated: 21 Jan 2013
LRYICS: It was the most beautiful second-coming of Christ that anyone had ever seen... Yo The water ain't safe, the land's made of water I hug a half empty glass my dignity's trying to pawn her I'm trying to see the future in a tea cup and a saucer But I rather be drinking coffee with my cigarette foster And a run away buckle the cloud-nine fantasy filter to force the brutal truth Of daily market place wars through the roof I mean I stood beneath the icicles that bleed under the awning And magically mastered the great absorbing of spirit falling But I'm sick, I've plowed these fields a thousand times over Sold botanicle research studies to farmers with whole quarters And when science proposes to art besides that peace-full sea I'll be that cat with a ring on a pillow shouting finally Take a number, the apple seeds rained upon each slumber A hundred thousand freaks on parade for the village hunter My every when acted upon has gone loopy But I play a game called lets prepare barnacle city for the end or new sink I split the radius at go getter bellies, reconnaissance Seeping fossil genie bottle optimist freeze Run from the fountain but the fountain is a desert optical tease Tummy full of sand running man impossible stop There's a wing in my gut and i'm all dust Surfing the earth and I dine-rise certainly flushed Now one in the hand is worth two atop the tallest cedar But what lies inside my heart is off the mother f**king meter [Chorus] See the Water ain't safe no more 'I'm ...
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LRYICS: It was the most beautiful second-coming of Christ that anyone had ever seen... Yo The water ain't safe, the land's made of water I hug a half empty glass my dignity's trying to pawn her I'm trying to see the future in a tea cup and a saucer But I rather be drinking coffee with my cigarette foster And a run away buckle the cloud-nine fantasy filter to force the brutal truth Of daily market place wars through the roof I mean I stood beneath the icicles that bleed under the awning And magically mastered the great absorbing of spirit falling But I'm sick, I've plowed these fields a thousand times over Sold botanicle research studies to farmers with whole quarters And when science proposes to art besides that peace-full sea I'll be that cat with a ring on a pillow shouting finally Take a number, the apple seeds rained upon each slumber A hundred thousand freaks on parade for the village hunter My every when acted upon has gone loopy But I play a game called lets prepare barnacle city for the end or new sink I split the radius at go getter bellies, reconnaissance Seeping fossil genie bottle optimist freeze Run from the fountain but the fountain is a desert optical tease Tummy full of sand running man impossible stop There's a wing in my gut and i'm all dust Surfing the earth and I dine-rise certainly flushed Now one in the hand is worth two atop the tallest cedar But what lies inside my heart is off the mother f**king meter [Chorus] See the Water ain't safe no more 'I'm ...
- published: 06 Dec 2008
- views: 232774
- author: JBird8622
Aesop Rock - Holy Smokes
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:53
- Updated: 21 Jan 2013
Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives, Definitive Jux 2004 Vocals: Aesop Rock Production: Blockhead
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Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives, Definitive Jux 2004 Vocals: Aesop Rock Production: Blockhead
- published: 31 Dec 2008
- views: 248469
- author: Dastompinata
Evilnine Crooked ft. Aesop Rock
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:50
- Updated: 22 Jan 2013
Video clip of the Flash animation for Evilnine's Crooked ft. Aesop Rock
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Video clip of the Flash animation for Evilnine's Crooked ft. Aesop Rock
- published: 07 Aug 2006
- views: 1227838
- author: ilz
Aesop Rock- Skelethon ALBUM REVIEW
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:32
- Updated: 20 Jan 2013
Listen: theneedledrop.com Aesop Rock's latest album shows him on top of his lyrical game, and taking on production duties as well. What did you think of this album? Love it? Hate it? Why? What should I review next, eh? FAV TRACKS: ZERO DARK THIRTY, ZZZ TOP, RUBY '81, GOPHER GUTS, GRACE, TETRA LEAST FAV TRACK: RACING STRIPES AESOP ROCK- SKELETHON / 2012 / RHYMESAYERS / EXPERIMENTAL HIP HOP, ABSTRACT HIP HOP, WEIRDO RAP THAT'S REALLY STRANGE, HOLY WOW CRAZY LYRICS 7/10 Y'all know this is just my opinion, right?
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Listen: theneedledrop.com Aesop Rock's latest album shows him on top of his lyrical game, and taking on production duties as well. What did you think of this album? Love it? Hate it? Why? What should I review next, eh? FAV TRACKS: ZERO DARK THIRTY, ZZZ TOP, RUBY '81, GOPHER GUTS, GRACE, TETRA LEAST FAV TRACK: RACING STRIPES AESOP ROCK- SKELETHON / 2012 / RHYMESAYERS / EXPERIMENTAL HIP HOP, ABSTRACT HIP HOP, WEIRDO RAP THAT'S REALLY STRANGE, HOLY WOW CRAZY LYRICS 7/10 Y'all know this is just my opinion, right?
- published: 19 Jul 2012
- views: 35961
- author: theneedledrop
Aesop Rock - 9-5er's Anthem
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:40
- Updated: 26 Nov 2012
9-5er's Anthem by Aesop Rock, enjoy.
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![Aesop Rock - Homemade Mummy [Official Video]](http://web.archive.org./web/20130210204429im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/uzFqu5GCHfQ/default.jpg "Aesop Rock - Homemade Mummy [Official Video]")
Aesop Rock - Homemade Mummy [Official Video]
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- Duration: 2:54
- Updated: 21 Jan 2013
Buy Skelethon at iTunes: bit.ly Fifth Element: bit.ly TOUR DATES: bit.ly 10.26 - Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution 10.27 - Orlando, FL @ The Plaza Theatre 10.29 - Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle 10.30 - Charlottesville, VA @ Jefferson Theater 10.31 - Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Soundstage 11.02 - Northampton, MA @ Pearl Street 11.03 - S. Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground 11.05 - Providence, RI @ Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel 11.06 - New Haven, CT @ Toad's Place rhymesayers.com facebook.com twitter.com
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Buy Skelethon at iTunes: bit.ly Fifth Element: bit.ly TOUR DATES: bit.ly 10.26 - Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution 10.27 - Orlando, FL @ The Plaza Theatre 10.29 - Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle 10.30 - Charlottesville, VA @ Jefferson Theater 10.31 - Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Soundstage 11.02 - Northampton, MA @ Pearl Street 11.03 - S. Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground 11.05 - Providence, RI @ Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel 11.06 - New Haven, CT @ Toad's Place rhymesayers.com facebook.com twitter.com
- published: 22 Oct 2012
- views: 86434
- author: TheRealRhymesayers
Aesop Rock - No Regrets
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- Duration: 4:34
- Updated: 20 Jan 2013
Aesop Rock - No Regrets
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Aesop Rock - Bent Life
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- Duration: 4:48
- Updated: 17 Jan 2013
Labor Days
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Aesop Rock - Freeze
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- Duration: 3:39
- Updated: 20 Jan 2013
Music video by Aesop Rock performing Freeze. (C) 2003 Definitive Jux Inc.
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Music video by Aesop Rock performing Freeze. (C) 2003 Definitive Jux Inc.
- published: 24 Jun 2009
- views: 216431
- author: orchardmusic
Aesop Rock-None Shall Pass
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- Duration: 4:05
- Updated: 22 Jan 2013
The song None Shall Pass by Aesop Rock off of the 2007 album None Shall Pass. Please rate and comment. flash that buttery gold, jittery zeitgeist wither by the watering hole, border patrol what are we to heart huckabee art fuckery suddenly? not enough young in his lung for the waterwing colorfully vulgar poacher outta mulch like "i'm 'a pull the pulse out a soldier and bolt" fine sign of the time we elapse when a primate climb up a spine and attach eye for an eye by the bog like swamps and vines they get a rise out of frogs and flies so when a dog-fight's hog-tied prize sorta costs a life their mouths water on a fork and knife and the allure isn't right, no score on a war torn beach where the cash cow's actually beef blood turns wine when it leak for police like "that's not a riot it's a feast, let's eat!" CHORUS: and i will remember your name and face on the day you are judged by the funhouse cast and i will rejoice in your fall from grace with a cane through the sky like "none shall pass" aah, let me in! x2 none shall pass aah, let me in! x2 none shall pass if you never had a day a snow cone couldn't fix you wouldn't relate to the rogue vocoder blitz how he spoke through a no-doz motor on the fritz cause he wouldn't play roll over fetch like a bitch and express no regrets, though he isn't worth a homeowner's piss to the jokers who pose by the glitz. fine sign of the swine in the swarm when a king is a whore who comply and conform miles outside of the eye of the storm ...
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The song None Shall Pass by Aesop Rock off of the 2007 album None Shall Pass. Please rate and comment. flash that buttery gold, jittery zeitgeist wither by the watering hole, border patrol what are we to heart huckabee art fuckery suddenly? not enough young in his lung for the waterwing colorfully vulgar poacher outta mulch like "i'm 'a pull the pulse out a soldier and bolt" fine sign of the time we elapse when a primate climb up a spine and attach eye for an eye by the bog like swamps and vines they get a rise out of frogs and flies so when a dog-fight's hog-tied prize sorta costs a life their mouths water on a fork and knife and the allure isn't right, no score on a war torn beach where the cash cow's actually beef blood turns wine when it leak for police like "that's not a riot it's a feast, let's eat!" CHORUS: and i will remember your name and face on the day you are judged by the funhouse cast and i will rejoice in your fall from grace with a cane through the sky like "none shall pass" aah, let me in! x2 none shall pass aah, let me in! x2 none shall pass if you never had a day a snow cone couldn't fix you wouldn't relate to the rogue vocoder blitz how he spoke through a no-doz motor on the fritz cause he wouldn't play roll over fetch like a bitch and express no regrets, though he isn't worth a homeowner's piss to the jokers who pose by the glitz. fine sign of the swine in the swarm when a king is a whore who comply and conform miles outside of the eye of the storm ...
- published: 14 Oct 2008
- views: 540379
- author: PopShuvIt247
Aesop Rock No Regrets
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- Duration: 3:42
- Updated: 15 Jan 2013
This is a storyboard video I did to Aesop Rock's "No Regrets". Sorry the quality of the video sucks it was formated for my ipod. But I think you get the idea. I was actually thinking of coloring the pictures in photoshop but that would take away from that storyboard feel.....so maybe another song another day (possibly "The Harbor is Yours"
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This is a storyboard video I did to Aesop Rock's "No Regrets". Sorry the quality of the video sucks it was formated for my ipod. But I think you get the idea. I was actually thinking of coloring the pictures in photoshop but that would take away from that storyboard feel.....so maybe another song another day (possibly "The Harbor is Yours"
- published: 23 Mar 2009
- views: 55253
- author: Jody Livingston
Aesop Rock - "Catacomb Kids" Live at ZeroFriends
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- Duration: 3:50
- Updated: 18 Jan 2013
Aesop Rock raps while thinking of super steak nachos.
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Aesop Rock raps while thinking of super steak nachos.
- published: 14 Dec 2010
- views: 42083
- author: 900bats
Aesop Rock ft. John Darnielle "Coffee"directed by Ace Norton
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- Duration: 4:48
- Updated: 29 Aug 2012
Music Video for Aesop Rock ft. John Darnielle "Coffee", directed by Ace Norton
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Music Video for Aesop Rock ft. John Darnielle "Coffee", directed by Ace Norton
- published: 31 Oct 2007
- views: 28634
- author: anortonn
Aesop Rock- Nightlight
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- Duration: 4:17
- Updated: 20 Jan 2013
Daylight EP Show sum love
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Tobacco - 09 Dirt (Featuring Aesop Rock)
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- Duration: 4:01
- Updated: 21 Jan 2013
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Aesop Rock - Daylight(Live at The Potrero Del Sol Skatepark San Francisco)
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- Duration: 4:00
- Updated: 20 Jan 2013
7/16/11
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Aesop Rock - "Catacomb Kids" Live at ZeroFriends
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- Duration: 3:50
- Updated: 18 Jan 2013
Aesop Rock raps while thinking of super steak nachos.
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Aesop Rock raps while thinking of super steak nachos.
- published: 14 Dec 2010
- views: 42068
- author: 900bats
Aesop Rock - ZZZ Top (Live at Amoeba)
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- Duration: 4:40
- Updated: 18 Jan 2013
Aesop Rock performed at Amoeba Music in San Francisco on July 16, 2012. Watch the full performance here: bit.ly Buy Aesop Rock albums on Amoeba.com here: bit.ly Subscribe to the Amoeba Newsletter: bit.ly Check out the official video for ZZZ Top - youtu.be Lyrics: Somebody in a cultivated moment of distress Composed himself to artfully carve Zoso in his desk They was probably thinking fuck you fuck you fuck you in they head With a hell bound arm and a acidy wash Homemade curfew a thousand o'clock And a pot leaf tattoo his friend did drunk Like a badge of mystique that technically sucked Taking the name of the father in vain On the way to the blade in his locker, it's strange A switch he lifted from a siblings Skippy jar Who branched off into ninja stars And never knew his shit was sharp To here with a higher purpose And a prime alert to juvenile beserkers Like kush Van Morrison an Arcade Drop Floor Down to the valley time for miss Ahkmar, watch Capital Z(ed), slowly maneuver the O S is the most difficult to control Finally O Into the eye of Goliath you goes That levee crushing percussion Will pull the monkey up right Twelve or ghetto blaster Blacken her technicolor telecaster Lecture at a faster rate The class was making them develop backwards It would appear you spelled out all the answers When they ask how you feeling you tell em you feeling like something important died screaming you tell em you feeling like something even more important arrived breathing something you ...
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Aesop Rock performed at Amoeba Music in San Francisco on July 16, 2012. Watch the full performance here: bit.ly Buy Aesop Rock albums on Amoeba.com here: bit.ly Subscribe to the Amoeba Newsletter: bit.ly Check out the official video for ZZZ Top - youtu.be Lyrics: Somebody in a cultivated moment of distress Composed himself to artfully carve Zoso in his desk They was probably thinking fuck you fuck you fuck you in they head With a hell bound arm and a acidy wash Homemade curfew a thousand o'clock And a pot leaf tattoo his friend did drunk Like a badge of mystique that technically sucked Taking the name of the father in vain On the way to the blade in his locker, it's strange A switch he lifted from a siblings Skippy jar Who branched off into ninja stars And never knew his shit was sharp To here with a higher purpose And a prime alert to juvenile beserkers Like kush Van Morrison an Arcade Drop Floor Down to the valley time for miss Ahkmar, watch Capital Z(ed), slowly maneuver the O S is the most difficult to control Finally O Into the eye of Goliath you goes That levee crushing percussion Will pull the monkey up right Twelve or ghetto blaster Blacken her technicolor telecaster Lecture at a faster rate The class was making them develop backwards It would appear you spelled out all the answers When they ask how you feeling you tell em you feeling like something important died screaming you tell em you feeling like something even more important arrived breathing something you ...
- published: 02 Aug 2012
- views: 7519
- author: amoeba
Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass live at ZeroFriends, SF
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- Duration: 4:19
- Updated: 21 Jan 2013
Aesop Rock performs None Shall Pass with Chauncey at the ZeroFriends store, in SF, CA.
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Aesop Rock performs None Shall Pass with Chauncey at the ZeroFriends store, in SF, CA.
- published: 13 Jan 2011
- views: 109994
- author: 900bats
Aesop Rock - Live at the Metro - 2002 - Chicago
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- Duration: 22:39
- Updated: 09 Jan 2013
Found this randomly on the net, props to whoever recorded this.
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Found this randomly on the net, props to whoever recorded this.
- published: 13 Mar 2011
- views: 5853
- author: Mark Williams
Aesop Rock - Skelethon Album Preview
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- Duration: 55:18
- Updated: 20 Jan 2013
"Skelethon" now available iTunes: bit.ly Fifth Element: bit.ly For those of you looking to decipher Aesop Rock's lyrical wordplay, remember full album lyrics come with every Deluxe Digital and Physical purchase. 0:00 - Leisureforce 4:43 - ZZZ TOP 8:59 - Cycles To Gehenna 13:00 - Zero Dark Thirty 16:21 - Fryerstarter 19:50 - Ruby '81 22:23 - Crows 1 26:43 - Crows 2 29:13 - Racing Stripes 32:36 - 1000 O'clock 36:35 - Homemade Mummy 39:21 - Grace 43:00 - Saturn Missiles 46:37 - Tetra 51:18 - Gopher Guts Watch "ZZZ Top": bit.ly Watch "Zero Dark Thirty": bit.ly Behind Skelethon: bit.ly Connect with Aesop Rock: Twitter: on.fb.me Facebook: on.fb.me Fifth Element: bit.ly Rhymesayers: bit.ly
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"Skelethon" now available iTunes: bit.ly Fifth Element: bit.ly For those of you looking to decipher Aesop Rock's lyrical wordplay, remember full album lyrics come with every Deluxe Digital and Physical purchase. 0:00 - Leisureforce 4:43 - ZZZ TOP 8:59 - Cycles To Gehenna 13:00 - Zero Dark Thirty 16:21 - Fryerstarter 19:50 - Ruby '81 22:23 - Crows 1 26:43 - Crows 2 29:13 - Racing Stripes 32:36 - 1000 O'clock 36:35 - Homemade Mummy 39:21 - Grace 43:00 - Saturn Missiles 46:37 - Tetra 51:18 - Gopher Guts Watch "ZZZ Top": bit.ly Watch "Zero Dark Thirty": bit.ly Behind Skelethon: bit.ly Connect with Aesop Rock: Twitter: on.fb.me Facebook: on.fb.me Fifth Element: bit.ly Rhymesayers: bit.ly
- published: 09 Jul 2012
- views: 206658
- author: TheRealRhymesayers
ZeroFriends In-Store : Aesop Rock - Pigs
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- Duration: 4:29
- Updated: 19 Jan 2013
Aesop Rock performs "Pigs" live at the ZeroFriends store, with Chauncey, and a guest kazoo performance by Jeremy Fish. Video by Alex Tarrant and Justin Metros.
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Aesop Rock performs "Pigs" live at the ZeroFriends store, with Chauncey, and a guest kazoo performance by Jeremy Fish. Video by Alex Tarrant and Justin Metros.
- published: 08 Dec 2010
- views: 44754
- author: 900bats
RJD2, El-P, Aesop Rock - 2003/07/05 - Live at Montreux Jazz Festival - Miles Davis Hall
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- Duration: 83:29
- Updated: 17 Jan 2013
00:00 Smoke and Mirrors 03:50 Bus Stop Bitties 05:54 Ghostwriter 08:43 Dead Presidents (Blueprint) 10:00 Wylin Out (Mos Def & Diverse) 11:00 Certified (Diverse) 12:00 Foxy Lady 12:40 June 16:00 Here's What's Left 20:24 The Horror (Gershon Kingsley - Hey Hey) 24:00 - Aesop & El-P 25:00 Coma 28:35 Delorean - Aesop Rock 30:00 Delorean - El-P 31:28 Squeegee Man Shooting 35:40 Deep Space 9mm 40:00 No Regrets 44:10 - 46:54 Good Times Roll Pt 2 54:03 - 57:48 Patriotism 59:47 Stepfather Factory 1:04:13 Nickel Plated Pockets 1:07:59 TOJ 1:11:57 NY Electric 1:15:56 Daylight 1:19:43 Tune Mass Damper rjd2.net aesoprock.com definitivejux.net rhymesayers.com www.theorchard.com
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00:00 Smoke and Mirrors 03:50 Bus Stop Bitties 05:54 Ghostwriter 08:43 Dead Presidents (Blueprint) 10:00 Wylin Out (Mos Def & Diverse) 11:00 Certified (Diverse) 12:00 Foxy Lady 12:40 June 16:00 Here's What's Left 20:24 The Horror (Gershon Kingsley - Hey Hey) 24:00 - Aesop & El-P 25:00 Coma 28:35 Delorean - Aesop Rock 30:00 Delorean - El-P 31:28 Squeegee Man Shooting 35:40 Deep Space 9mm 40:00 No Regrets 44:10 - 46:54 Good Times Roll Pt 2 54:03 - 57:48 Patriotism 59:47 Stepfather Factory 1:04:13 Nickel Plated Pockets 1:07:59 TOJ 1:11:57 NY Electric 1:15:56 Daylight 1:19:43 Tune Mass Damper rjd2.net aesoprock.com definitivejux.net rhymesayers.com www.theorchard.com
- published: 03 Feb 2012
- views: 10595
- author: mkzelda
Aesop Rock - "Cycles to Gehenna" (Official Video)
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- Duration: 4:08
- Updated: 21 Jan 2013
Here's the premiere of Aesop Rock's dope new video, "Cycles to Gehenna," featuring a gaggle of badass ballerinas. Directed by Ben Fee and Pete Lee. Buy it here! itunes.apple.com fifthelementonline.com Thanks! www.aesoprock.com www.facebook.com/AesopRockWins www.twitter.com/aesoprockwins www.rhymesayers.com/aesoprock ** Subscribe to Noisey on YouTube to stay updated on our daily releases: www.youtube.com Videos, daily editorial and more: www.noisey.com Like Noisey on Facebook fb.com Follow Noisey on Twitter: twitter.com Read our tumblr: noiseymusic.tumblr.com
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Here's the premiere of Aesop Rock's dope new video, "Cycles to Gehenna," featuring a gaggle of badass ballerinas. Directed by Ben Fee and Pete Lee. Buy it here! itunes.apple.com fifthelementonline.com Thanks! www.aesoprock.com www.facebook.com/AesopRockWins www.twitter.com/aesoprockwins www.rhymesayers.com/aesoprock ** Subscribe to Noisey on YouTube to stay updated on our daily releases: www.youtube.com Videos, daily editorial and more: www.noisey.com Like Noisey on Facebook fb.com Follow Noisey on Twitter: twitter.com Read our tumblr: noiseymusic.tumblr.com
- published: 21 Aug 2012
- views: 125256
- author: noisey
Aesop Rock and El-P
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- Duration: 4:39
- Updated: 20 Jan 2013
Aesop Rock and El-P
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Aesop Rock Live @ Amoeba SF 07/16/12 - Skelethon Tour
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- Duration: 7:29
- Updated: 17 Jan 2013
clips from the amoeba sf show july 16 2012 photos can be found here www.venusinfleurs.com
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clips from the amoeba sf show july 16 2012 photos can be found here www.venusinfleurs.com
- published: 18 Jul 2012
- views: 2164
- author: JulesInFleurs
Aesop Rock - Daylight (Live @ Anti-Pop Festival)
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- Duration: 6:08
- Updated: 27 Nov 2012
Aesop rock doing his song daylight as an encore at the 2007 anti - pop music festival in orlando florida.
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Aesop rock doing his song daylight as an encore at the 2007 anti - pop music festival in orlando florida.
- published: 10 Dec 2007
- views: 15210
- author: idea357
Aesop Rock - Holy Smokes
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- Duration: 3:53
- Updated: 21 Jan 2013
Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives, Definitive Jux 2004 Vocals: Aesop Rock Production: Blockhead
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Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives, Definitive Jux 2004 Vocals: Aesop Rock Production: Blockhead
- published: 31 Dec 2008
- views: 248446
- author: Dastompinata
Aesop Rock - Zero Dark Thirty
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- Duration: 3:32
- Updated: 21 Jan 2013
Skelethon now available iTunes: bit.ly Fifth Element: bit.ly Connect with Aesop Rock Twitter: bit.ly Facebook: on.fb.me Fifth Element: bit.ly Rhymesayers: bit.ly Download "Zero Dark Thirty": snd.sc Behind The Scenes photos: bit.ly Director: Isaac Ravishankara DP: Kevin Hayden Producer:...
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Skelethon now available iTunes: bit.ly Fifth Element: bit.ly Connect with Aesop Rock Twitter: bit.ly Facebook: on.fb.me Fifth Element: bit.ly Rhymesayers: bit.ly Download "Zero Dark Thirty": snd.sc Behind The Scenes photos: bit.ly Director: Isaac Ravishankara DP: Kevin Hayden Producer:...
- published: 01 May 2012
- views: 686799
- author: TheRealRhymesayers
Aesop Rock - Water
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- Duration: 4:57
- Updated: 21 Jan 2013
LRYICS: It was the most beautiful second-coming of Christ that anyone had ever seen... Yo The water ain't safe, the land's made of water I hug a half empty glass my dignity's trying to pawn her I'm trying to see the future in a tea cup and a saucer But I rather be drinking coffee with my cigarette foster And a run away buckle the cloud-nine fantasy filter to force the brutal truth Of daily market place wars through the roof I mean I stood beneath the icicles that bleed under the awning And magically mastered the great absorbing of spirit falling But I'm sick, I've plowed these fields a thousand times over Sold botanicle research studies to farmers with whole quarters And when science proposes to art besides that peace-full sea I'll be that cat with a ring on a pillow shouting finally Take a number, the apple seeds rained upon each slumber A hundred thousand freaks on parade for the village hunter My every when acted upon has gone loopy But I play a game called lets prepare barnacle city for the end or new sink I split the radius at go getter bellies, reconnaissance Seeping fossil genie bottle optimist freeze Run from the fountain but the fountain is a desert optical tease Tummy full of sand running man impossible stop There's a wing in my gut and i'm all dust Surfing the earth and I dine-rise certainly flushed Now one in the hand is worth two atop the tallest cedar But what lies inside my heart is off the mother f**king meter [Chorus] See the Water ain't safe no more 'I'm ...
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LRYICS: It was the most beautiful second-coming of Christ that anyone had ever seen... Yo The water ain't safe, the land's made of water I hug a half empty glass my dignity's trying to pawn her I'm trying to see the future in a tea cup and a saucer But I rather be drinking coffee with my cigarette foster And a run away buckle the cloud-nine fantasy filter to force the brutal truth Of daily market place wars through the roof I mean I stood beneath the icicles that bleed under the awning And magically mastered the great absorbing of spirit falling But I'm sick, I've plowed these fields a thousand times over Sold botanicle research studies to farmers with whole quarters And when science proposes to art besides that peace-full sea I'll be that cat with a ring on a pillow shouting finally Take a number, the apple seeds rained upon each slumber A hundred thousand freaks on parade for the village hunter My every when acted upon has gone loopy But I play a game called lets prepare barnacle city for the end or new sink I split the radius at go getter bellies, reconnaissance Seeping fossil genie bottle optimist freeze Run from the fountain but the fountain is a desert optical tease Tummy full of sand running man impossible stop There's a wing in my gut and i'm all dust Surfing the earth and I dine-rise certainly flushed Now one in the hand is worth two atop the tallest cedar But what lies inside my heart is off the mother f**king meter [Chorus] See the Water ain't safe no more 'I'm ...
- published: 06 Dec 2008
- views: 232671
- author: JBird8622
Aesop Rock - ZZZ Top
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- Duration: 4:52
- Updated: 20 Jan 2013
"Skelethon" now available iTunes: bit.ly Fifth Element: bit.ly For those of you looking to decipher Aesop Rock's lyrical wordplay, remember full album lyrics come with every Deluxe Digital and Physical purchase. Directed by Pete Lee Produced by Lizzie Rose Exec Prod: Aesop Rock Dir. of...
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"Skelethon" now available iTunes: bit.ly Fifth Element: bit.ly For those of you looking to decipher Aesop Rock's lyrical wordplay, remember full album lyrics come with every Deluxe Digital and Physical purchase. Directed by Pete Lee Produced by Lizzie Rose Exec Prod: Aesop Rock Dir. of...
- published: 29 Jun 2012
- views: 328052
- author: TheRealRhymesayers
Aesop Rock- Daylight
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- Duration: 4:27
- Updated: 18 Jan 2013
Daylight EP Show sum love
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Aesop Rock - No Regrets
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- Duration: 4:34
- Updated: 20 Jan 2013
Aesop Rock - No Regrets
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Aesop Rock - Homemade Mummy [Official Video]
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- Duration: 2:54
- Updated: 21 Jan 2013
Buy Skelethon at iTunes: bit.ly Fifth Element: bit.ly TOUR DATES: bit.ly 10.26 - Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution 10.27 - Orlando, FL @ The Plaza Theatre 10.29 - Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle 10.30 - Charlottesville, VA @ Jefferson Theater 10.31 - Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Soundstage 11.02 - Northampton, MA @ Pearl Street 11.03 - S. Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground 11.05 - Providence, RI @ Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel 11.06 - New Haven, CT @ Toad's Place rhymesayers.com facebook.com twitter.com
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Buy Skelethon at iTunes: bit.ly Fifth Element: bit.ly TOUR DATES: bit.ly 10.26 - Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution 10.27 - Orlando, FL @ The Plaza Theatre 10.29 - Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle 10.30 - Charlottesville, VA @ Jefferson Theater 10.31 - Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Soundstage 11.02 - Northampton, MA @ Pearl Street 11.03 - S. Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground 11.05 - Providence, RI @ Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel 11.06 - New Haven, CT @ Toad's Place rhymesayers.com facebook.com twitter.com
- published: 22 Oct 2012
- views: 86060
- author: TheRealRhymesayers
Aesop Rock - Labor (Live Performance)
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- Duration: 2:19
- Updated: 26 Sep 2012
Aesop Rock feat. Rob Sonic at McCarren Park Pool, Brooklyn, NY. August 17, 2008. Sorry for the shakey filming i was using a digi camera and in the middle of a crowd and of course singing along.
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Aesop Rock feat. Rob Sonic at McCarren Park Pool, Brooklyn, NY. August 17, 2008. Sorry for the shakey filming i was using a digi camera and in the middle of a crowd and of course singing along.
- published: 19 Aug 2008
- views: 12370
- author: craigmac
Tokyo Police Club/ Amp Live featuring Aesop Rock & Yak Ballz
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- Duration: 3:10
- Updated: 30 Nov 2012
AmpLive does exclusive remixes for the Tokyo Police Club song "Baskervilles"..featuring Aesop Rock and Yak Ballz
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AmpLive does exclusive remixes for the Tokyo Police Club song "Baskervilles"..featuring Aesop Rock and Yak Ballz
- published: 17 Jul 2008
- views: 21395
- author: fanman510
Aesop Rock - live @ Criminal Records
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- Duration: 7:51
- Updated: 08 Jan 2013
Def Jux freestyle w/Mr. Lif, C Rayz Walz and Thes One 13 November 2003 Instore performance at Criminal Records, Atlanta, Georgia
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Def Jux freestyle w/Mr. Lif, C Rayz Walz and Thes One 13 November 2003 Instore performance at Criminal Records, Atlanta, Georgia
- published: 18 Aug 2007
- views: 47727
- author: KimCriminal
Aesop Rock - Bent Life
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:48
- Updated: 17 Jan 2013
Labor Days
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Aesop Rock - Skelethon Album Preview
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 55:18
- Updated: 20 Jan 2013
"Skelethon" now available iTunes: bit.ly Fifth Element: bit.ly For those of you looking to decipher Aesop Rock's lyrical wordplay, remember full album lyrics come with every Deluxe Digital and Physical purchase. 0:00 - Leisureforce 4:43 - ZZZ TOP 8:59 - Cycles To Gehenna 13:00 - Zero Dark Thirty 16:21 - Fryerstarter 19:50 - Ruby '81 22:23 - Crows 1 26:43 - Crows 2 29:13 - Racing Stripes 32:36 - 1000 O'clock 36:35 - Homemade Mummy 39:21 - Grace 43:00 - Saturn Missiles 46:37 - Tetra 51:18 - Gopher Guts Watch "ZZZ Top": bit.ly Watch "Zero Dark Thirty": bit.ly Behind Skelethon: bit.ly Connect with Aesop Rock: Twitter: on.fb.me Facebook: on.fb.me Fifth Element: bit.ly Rhymesayers: bit.ly
http://wn.com/Aesop_Rock_Skelethon_Album_Preview
"Skelethon" now available iTunes: bit.ly Fifth Element: bit.ly For those of you looking to decipher Aesop Rock's lyrical wordplay, remember full album lyrics come with every Deluxe Digital and Physical purchase. 0:00 - Leisureforce 4:43 - ZZZ TOP 8:59 - Cycles To Gehenna 13:00 - Zero Dark Thirty 16:21 - Fryerstarter 19:50 - Ruby '81 22:23 - Crows 1 26:43 - Crows 2 29:13 - Racing Stripes 32:36 - 1000 O'clock 36:35 - Homemade Mummy 39:21 - Grace 43:00 - Saturn Missiles 46:37 - Tetra 51:18 - Gopher Guts Watch "ZZZ Top": bit.ly Watch "Zero Dark Thirty": bit.ly Behind Skelethon: bit.ly Connect with Aesop Rock: Twitter: on.fb.me Facebook: on.fb.me Fifth Element: bit.ly Rhymesayers: bit.ly
- published: 09 Jul 2012
- views: 206658
- author: TheRealRhymesayers
Aesop Rock - Appleseed EP (Full Album)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 31:58
- Updated: 19 Jan 2013
0:00 Appleseed Intro 1:07 Dryspell 5:39 Same Space 9:31 Sick Friend 14:02 Hold the Cup 19:01 1000 Deaths 22:43 Blue in the Face 27:12 Odessa
http://wn.com/Aesop_Rock_Appleseed_EP_Full_Album
0:00 Appleseed Intro 1:07 Dryspell 5:39 Same Space 9:31 Sick Friend 14:02 Hold the Cup 19:01 1000 Deaths 22:43 Blue in the Face 27:12 Odessa
- published: 21 Nov 2012
- views: 1292
- author: CorrosivePaint
RJD2, El-P, Aesop Rock - 2003/07/05 - Live at Montreux Jazz Festival - Miles Davis Hall
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 83:29
- Updated: 17 Jan 2013
00:00 Smoke and Mirrors 03:50 Bus Stop Bitties 05:54 Ghostwriter 08:43 Dead Presidents (Blueprint) 10:00 Wylin Out (Mos Def & Diverse) 11:00 Certified (Diverse) 12:00 Foxy Lady 12:40 June 16:00 Here's What's Left 20:24 The Horror (Gershon Kingsley - Hey Hey) 24:00 - Aesop & El-P 25:00 Coma 28:35 Delorean - Aesop Rock 30:00 Delorean - El-P 31:28 Squeegee Man Shooting 35:40 Deep Space 9mm 40:00 No Regrets 44:10 - 46:54 Good Times Roll Pt 2 54:03 - 57:48 Patriotism 59:47 Stepfather Factory 1:04:13 Nickel Plated Pockets 1:07:59 TOJ 1:11:57 NY Electric 1:15:56 Daylight 1:19:43 Tune Mass Damper rjd2.net aesoprock.com definitivejux.net rhymesayers.com www.theorchard.com
http://wn.com/RJD2,_El-P,_Aesop_Rock_2003_07_05_Live_at_Montreux_Jazz_Festival_Miles_Davis_Hall
00:00 Smoke and Mirrors 03:50 Bus Stop Bitties 05:54 Ghostwriter 08:43 Dead Presidents (Blueprint) 10:00 Wylin Out (Mos Def & Diverse) 11:00 Certified (Diverse) 12:00 Foxy Lady 12:40 June 16:00 Here's What's Left 20:24 The Horror (Gershon Kingsley - Hey Hey) 24:00 - Aesop & El-P 25:00 Coma 28:35 Delorean - Aesop Rock 30:00 Delorean - El-P 31:28 Squeegee Man Shooting 35:40 Deep Space 9mm 40:00 No Regrets 44:10 - 46:54 Good Times Roll Pt 2 54:03 - 57:48 Patriotism 59:47 Stepfather Factory 1:04:13 Nickel Plated Pockets 1:07:59 TOJ 1:11:57 NY Electric 1:15:56 Daylight 1:19:43 Tune Mass Damper rjd2.net aesoprock.com definitivejux.net rhymesayers.com www.theorchard.com
- published: 03 Feb 2012
- views: 10595
- author: mkzelda
Aesop Rock - All Day Nike + Original Run (Continuous Mix)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 44:49
- Updated: 21 Jan 2013
Aesop Rock - All Day Nike + Original Run (Continuous Mix) good to play while your doing other things
http://wn.com/Aesop_Rock_All_Day_Nike_+_Original_Run_Continuous_Mix
Aesop Rock - All Day Nike + Original Run (Continuous Mix) good to play while your doing other things
- published: 14 Feb 2011
- views: 45328
- author: Sam Oberwetter
Aesop Rock - Live at the Metro - 2002 - Chicago
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 22:39
- Updated: 09 Jan 2013
Found this randomly on the net, props to whoever recorded this.
http://wn.com/Aesop_Rock_Live_at_the_Metro_2002_Chicago
Found this randomly on the net, props to whoever recorded this.
- published: 13 Mar 2011
- views: 5853
- author: Mark Williams
ORPHANAGE FREESTYLE (FULL)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 51:51
- Updated: 21 Jan 2013
Aesop Rock, Blueprint, DJ Abilities, Eyedea, Felipe Cuauhtli, Illogic, Sage Francis and Slug. Recorded live on KFAI's "Break of Dawn" radio show in 2000. Rhymesayers Enterainment: Rhymesayers.com Strange Famous Records StrangeFamousRecords.com like comment subscribe and share http
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Aesop Rock, Blueprint, DJ Abilities, Eyedea, Felipe Cuauhtli, Illogic, Sage Francis and Slug. Recorded live on KFAI's "Break of Dawn" radio show in 2000. Rhymesayers Enterainment: Rhymesayers.com Strange Famous Records StrangeFamousRecords.com like comment subscribe and share http
- published: 05 May 2011
- views: 50862
- author: tornatic021
Aesop Rock, Crescent Moon, & Slug In-Store @ the Basement LA
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 33:30
- Updated: 20 Jan 2013
Aesop Rock, Crescent Moon, & Slug In-Store @ the Basement LA
http://wn.com/Aesop_Rock,_Crescent_Moon,_Slug_In-Store_@_the_Basement_LA
Aesop Rock, Crescent Moon, & Slug In-Store @ the Basement LA
- published: 11 Jul 2011
- views: 4938
- author: rawf00ty1
Aesop Rock-None Shall Pass (Disco Completo/Full Album)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 89:43
- Updated: 19 Jan 2013
Aesop Rock-None Shall Pass: 01. Keep Off The Lawn 02. None Shall Pass 03. Catacomb Kids 04. Bring Back Pluto 05. Fumes 06. Getaway Car (Feat. Cage & Breeze Brewin) 07. 39 Thieves (Feat. El-P) 08. The Harbour Is Yours 09. Citronella 10. Gun For The Whole Family 11. Five Fingers 12. No City 13. Dark Heart News (Feat. Rob Sonic) 14. Coffee (Feat. John Darnille)....+Pigs
http://wn.com/Aesop_Rock-None_Shall_Pass_Disco_Completo_Full_Album
Aesop Rock-None Shall Pass: 01. Keep Off The Lawn 02. None Shall Pass 03. Catacomb Kids 04. Bring Back Pluto 05. Fumes 06. Getaway Car (Feat. Cage & Breeze Brewin) 07. 39 Thieves (Feat. El-P) 08. The Harbour Is Yours 09. Citronella 10. Gun For The Whole Family 11. Five Fingers 12. No City 13. Dark Heart News (Feat. Rob Sonic) 14. Coffee (Feat. John Darnille)....+Pigs
- published: 25 Jul 2012
- views: 3842
- author: cristopher huaylla
Murs Announces 2013 Paid Dues Line Up and answers fans questions
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 61:12
- Updated: 19 Jan 2013
Murs Makes Live Announcement of 2013 Festival Details Exclusive Performances by Black Hippy, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Dom Kennedy, Tech N9ne, De La Soul, Immortal Technique, Hopsin, Joey Badass, Grouch & Eligh, and More to be Announced Paid Dues Habitat for Humanity Project Returns for Third Year Pre-sale Tickets Available December 20, General On-sale Begins December 22 The PAID DUES INDEPENDENT HIP HOP FESTIVAL -- presented by Murs 3:16 (Living Legends) and Guerilla Union (Rock the Bells Festival, Cypress Hill SmokeOut Festival) -- returns to the NOS Event Center in San Bernardino, CA on March 30, 2013 for its eighth annual installment. Murs made the announcement over a live stream on Hard Knock TV's YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/hardknocktv) as their first combined effort to blend Hard Knock's strong digital audience with the festivals' loyal fan-base. The stream was also featured on the Paid Dues Festival website (www.paidduesfestival.com). The all-day, all-ages, multi-stage event highlights the most renowned and emerging independent artists in Hip Hop. The upcoming festival will feature BLACK HIPPY (Kendrick Lamar + Schoolboy Q + Ab-Soul + Jay Rock), MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS, DOM KENNEDY, TECH N9NE, DE LA SOUL, IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE, HOPSIN, JOEY BADASS, and GROUCH & ELIGH. More artists will be announced shortly. Chang Weisberg, Guerilla Union founder and CEO, adds: "Paid Dues Festival is truly a unique platform. It allows artists to elevate their talents and presence ...
http://wn.com/Murs_Announces_2013_Paid_Dues_Line_Up_and_answers_fans_questions
Murs Makes Live Announcement of 2013 Festival Details Exclusive Performances by Black Hippy, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Dom Kennedy, Tech N9ne, De La Soul, Immortal Technique, Hopsin, Joey Badass, Grouch & Eligh, and More to be Announced Paid Dues Habitat for Humanity Project Returns for Third Year Pre-sale Tickets Available December 20, General On-sale Begins December 22 The PAID DUES INDEPENDENT HIP HOP FESTIVAL -- presented by Murs 3:16 (Living Legends) and Guerilla Union (Rock the Bells Festival, Cypress Hill SmokeOut Festival) -- returns to the NOS Event Center in San Bernardino, CA on March 30, 2013 for its eighth annual installment. Murs made the announcement over a live stream on Hard Knock TV's YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/hardknocktv) as their first combined effort to blend Hard Knock's strong digital audience with the festivals' loyal fan-base. The stream was also featured on the Paid Dues Festival website (www.paidduesfestival.com). The all-day, all-ages, multi-stage event highlights the most renowned and emerging independent artists in Hip Hop. The upcoming festival will feature BLACK HIPPY (Kendrick Lamar + Schoolboy Q + Ab-Soul + Jay Rock), MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS, DOM KENNEDY, TECH N9NE, DE LA SOUL, IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE, HOPSIN, JOEY BADASS, and GROUCH & ELIGH. More artists will be announced shortly. Chang Weisberg, Guerilla Union founder and CEO, adds: "Paid Dues Festival is truly a unique platform. It allows artists to elevate their talents and presence ...
- published: 20 Dec 2012
- views: 4543
- author: hardknocktv
Aesop Rock - Float (Screwed N Chopped)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 95:57
- Updated: 16 Jan 2013
THERITUALGOESSAMEWINDOWDIFFERENTVISUALSHROOMIN S&C; by KON Float Commencement At The Obedience Academy Big Bang Garbage Breakfast With Blockhead Basic Cable Fascination Oxygen Skip Town 6B Panorama Lunch With Blockhead Spare A Match How To Be A Carpenter Prosperity No Splash Dinner With Blockhead The Mayor And The Crook Drawbridge Feat. Doseone I'll Be OK Feat. Slug Attention Span Feat. Vast Aire
http://wn.com/Aesop_Rock_Float_Screwed_N_Chopped
THERITUALGOESSAMEWINDOWDIFFERENTVISUALSHROOMIN S&C; by KON Float Commencement At The Obedience Academy Big Bang Garbage Breakfast With Blockhead Basic Cable Fascination Oxygen Skip Town 6B Panorama Lunch With Blockhead Spare A Match How To Be A Carpenter Prosperity No Splash Dinner With Blockhead The Mayor And The Crook Drawbridge Feat. Doseone I'll Be OK Feat. Slug Attention Span Feat. Vast Aire
- published: 17 Dec 2012
- views: 89
- author: konstayfresh
Aesop Rock - Float (Full Album)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 69:21
- Updated: 20 Jan 2013
http://wn.com/Aesop_Rock_Float_Full_Album
Aesop Rock - Labor Days (Full Album)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 60:25
- Updated: 21 Jan 2013
http://wn.com/Aesop_Rock_Labor_Days_Full_Album
Aesop Rock - Bazooka Tooth (Full Album)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 70:32
- Updated: 10 Jan 2013
http://wn.com/Aesop_Rock_Bazooka_Tooth_Full_Album
Aesop Rock - fast cars, danger, fire and knives EP (Full Album)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 30:48
- Updated: 08 Jan 2013
http://wn.com/Aesop_Rock_fast_cars,_danger,_fire_and_knives_EP_Full_Album
SecretShow 6.12.11 Hail Mary Mallon + Kimya Dawson INCOMPLETE SHOW
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 80:55
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
Intimate secret free concert featuring Kimya Dawson, Rob Sonic, DJ Big Wiz, and Aesop Rock. Sorry about the shaky camera for HMM's set - you wouldn't have been able to stand still either. Also sorry, I tragically ran out of batteries fifteen minutes or so into Kimya's amazing solo portion. Thanks for letting us come by, bounce in the castle, and get our faces rocked off! I don't own any of this material - I think the people performing, Definitive Jux, K Records, and Rhymesayers Entertainment might. You should buy the actually good sounding recordings from them ASAP and support excellent independent music. The Slip N Slide was invented in 1961 by Cody Abramson, and the manufacturer suggests it only be used by children due to risk of back and neck injury for adults and teenagers. The first Bouncy Castle was designed by John Scurlock in 1959.
http://wn.com/SecretShow_61211_Hail_Mary_Mallon_+_Kimya_Dawson_INCOMPLETE_SHOW
Intimate secret free concert featuring Kimya Dawson, Rob Sonic, DJ Big Wiz, and Aesop Rock. Sorry about the shaky camera for HMM's set - you wouldn't have been able to stand still either. Also sorry, I tragically ran out of batteries fifteen minutes or so into Kimya's amazing solo portion. Thanks for letting us come by, bounce in the castle, and get our faces rocked off! I don't own any of this material - I think the people performing, Definitive Jux, K Records, and Rhymesayers Entertainment might. You should buy the actually good sounding recordings from them ASAP and support excellent independent music. The Slip N Slide was invented in 1961 by Cody Abramson, and the manufacturer suggests it only be used by children due to risk of back and neck injury for adults and teenagers. The first Bouncy Castle was designed by John Scurlock in 1959.
- published: 14 Jun 2011
- views: 4174
- author: James Mooreshire
![Aesop Rock - Daylight EP [Full Album HD]](http://web.archive.org./web/20130210204429im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/iWYGbfIeU-Q/default.jpg "Aesop Rock - Daylight EP [Full Album HD]")
Aesop Rock - Daylight EP [Full Album HD]
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 37:39
- Updated: 10 Jan 2013
http://wn.com/Aesop_Rock_Daylight_EP_Full_Album_HD_
![How to play medic on pl_thundermountain [Captions]](http://web.archive.org./web/20130210204429im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/C_JgRalFQ0w/default.jpg "How to play medic on pl_thundermountain [Captions]")
How to play medic on pl_thundermountain [Captions]
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 20:59
- Updated: 26 Nov 2012
Whole game on pl_thundermountain showing how to be a good pub medic. Stabby style. Let me know you guys your own tips and tricks, what I might forgot or what would you want to see next time. Come hang out to www.reddit.com or come play with me on Europian RUGC servers redditgaming.com Find me here: raptr.com steamcommunity.com This video is also available to vote on Reddit: redd.it Special thanks to Bandit1379 for that "spy can jump on the roof" thing in the very beginning. Used music: Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass (Instrumental) Aesop Rock - Getaway Car (Instrumental) Aesop Rock - 39 Thieves (Instrumental) Aesop Rock - Catacomb Kids (Instrumental) Aesop Rock - Five Fingers (Instrumental) Aesop Rock - The Harbor Is Yours (Instrumental)
http://wn.com/How_to_play_medic_on_pl_thundermountain_Captions_
Whole game on pl_thundermountain showing how to be a good pub medic. Stabby style. Let me know you guys your own tips and tricks, what I might forgot or what would you want to see next time. Come hang out to www.reddit.com or come play with me on Europian RUGC servers redditgaming.com Find me here: raptr.com steamcommunity.com This video is also available to vote on Reddit: redd.it Special thanks to Bandit1379 for that "spy can jump on the roof" thing in the very beginning. Used music: Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass (Instrumental) Aesop Rock - Getaway Car (Instrumental) Aesop Rock - 39 Thieves (Instrumental) Aesop Rock - Catacomb Kids (Instrumental) Aesop Rock - Five Fingers (Instrumental) Aesop Rock - The Harbor Is Yours (Instrumental)
- published: 27 Jun 2012
- views: 680
- author: wokotf2
DJ Krush - Jaku (Full Album)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 63:42
- Updated: 21 Jan 2013
1. Still Island (featuring Shūzan Morita) 0:00 2. Road to Nowhere 5:06 3. Nosferatu (featuring Mr. Lif) 8:27 4. The Beginning 12:12 5. Transition 16:07 6. Stormy Cloud (featuring Ken Shima) 18:04 7. Univearth (featuring Tetsuro Naito) 23:58 8. Decks-Athron (featuring Tatsuki) 29:19 9. Kill Switch (featuring Aesop Rock) 35:35 10. Pretense 39:57 11. Slit of Cloud (featuring Akira Sakata) 42:59 12. Passage 49:24 13. Beyond Raging Waves (featuring Shinichi Kinoshita) 51:00 14. Distant Voices 55:23 15. Song 2 58:45
http://wn.com/DJ_Krush_Jaku_Full_Album
1. Still Island (featuring Shūzan Morita) 0:00 2. Road to Nowhere 5:06 3. Nosferatu (featuring Mr. Lif) 8:27 4. The Beginning 12:12 5. Transition 16:07 6. Stormy Cloud (featuring Ken Shima) 18:04 7. Univearth (featuring Tetsuro Naito) 23:58 8. Decks-Athron (featuring Tatsuki) 29:19 9. Kill Switch (featuring Aesop Rock) 35:35 10. Pretense 39:57 11. Slit of Cloud (featuring Akira Sakata) 42:59 12. Passage 49:24 13. Beyond Raging Waves (featuring Shinichi Kinoshita) 51:00 14. Distant Voices 55:23 15. Song 2 58:45
- published: 15 Mar 2012
- views: 60535
- author: TheodorusSpoke
Insideout - A Fool Blown Compilation
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 71:08
- Updated: 03 Dec 2012
Insideout - A Fool Blown Compilation 1. Greenhouse Effect - In Sync Producer - Blueprint 2. Atmosphere - The Abusing Of The Rib Producer - ANT 3. Aesop Rock - The Tugboat Complex Producer - Aesop Rock 4. Oddjobs - North Producer - Anatomy & Deetalx 5. Ellay Khule - Arythmikhulesightandsound Producer - Slant 6. Vixin - Twice As Hard Producer - Slant 7. Braille - Scare Me Away Producer - Teo Adrift 8. Sixtoo - Trapdoor Producer - Sixtoo 9. Blank Images - Fallin' Apart Producer - [=] 10. Dose One, Why? & The Pedestrian - I Love Art! Producer - Odd Nosdam 11. Illogic - Verbage Producer - Blueprint 12. Vast Aire - Cholesterol Producer - Shel Shock 13. Dragons Of Edin - Questionable State Producer - Shel Shock 14. Radioinactive & Subtitle - Starch Producer - Antimc 15. Atoms Family - Small Violins Producer - Kasm 16. CVE- CV Vault Producer - CVE Blown! Recordings -- BR-CD1001 (2000)
http://wn.com/Insideout_A_Fool_Blown_Compilation
Insideout - A Fool Blown Compilation 1. Greenhouse Effect - In Sync Producer - Blueprint 2. Atmosphere - The Abusing Of The Rib Producer - ANT 3. Aesop Rock - The Tugboat Complex Producer - Aesop Rock 4. Oddjobs - North Producer - Anatomy & Deetalx 5. Ellay Khule - Arythmikhulesightandsound Producer - Slant 6. Vixin - Twice As Hard Producer - Slant 7. Braille - Scare Me Away Producer - Teo Adrift 8. Sixtoo - Trapdoor Producer - Sixtoo 9. Blank Images - Fallin' Apart Producer - [=] 10. Dose One, Why? & The Pedestrian - I Love Art! Producer - Odd Nosdam 11. Illogic - Verbage Producer - Blueprint 12. Vast Aire - Cholesterol Producer - Shel Shock 13. Dragons Of Edin - Questionable State Producer - Shel Shock 14. Radioinactive & Subtitle - Starch Producer - Antimc 15. Atoms Family - Small Violins Producer - Kasm 16. CVE- CV Vault Producer - CVE Blown! Recordings -- BR-CD1001 (2000)
- published: 05 Oct 2011
- views: 1284
- author: thalandzvault
BAZOOKA TOOTH Def Jux Documentary 2002 FULL
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 33:35
- Updated: 19 Jan 2013
Def Jux documentary from 2002 titled Bazooka Tooth. VHS copy.
http://wn.com/BAZOOKA_TOOTH_Def_Jux_Documentary_2002_FULL
Def Jux documentary from 2002 titled Bazooka Tooth. VHS copy.
- published: 30 Dec 2011
- views: 12547
- author: Losaka
VIMTV's Top 25 Albums of 2012
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 21:14
- Updated: 21 Jan 2013
Thanks for another great year! Please be sure to check out www.velocitiesinmusic.com as well as like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com and follow us on Twitter at twitter.com . Here is our list: 1 Lost in the Trees A Church That Fits Our Needs 2 Baroness Yellow and Green 3 Graham Coxon A + E 4 Torche Harmonicraft 5 Swans The Seer 6 Death Grips The Money Store 7 The Mars Volta Noctourniquet 8 Kendrick Lamar Good Kid, maad city 9 Blood Red Shoes In Time to Voices 10 Rush Clockwork Angels 11 Caspian Waking Season 12 Converge All We Love We Leave Behind 13 Menomena Moms 14 Yeasayer Fragrant World 15 Freelance Whales Diluvia 16 Japandroids Celebration Rock 17 alt-J An Awesome Wave 18 Aesop Rock Skelethon 19 Coheed and Cambria Afterman: The Ascension 20 Deftones Koi No Yokan 21 Miike Snow Happy to You 22 Brain Jonestown Massacre Aufheben 23 Silversun Pickups Neck of the Woods 24 Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel... 25 Grizzly Bear Shields
http://wn.com/VIMTV's_Top_25_Albums_of_2012
Thanks for another great year! Please be sure to check out www.velocitiesinmusic.com as well as like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com and follow us on Twitter at twitter.com . Here is our list: 1 Lost in the Trees A Church That Fits Our Needs 2 Baroness Yellow and Green 3 Graham Coxon A + E 4 Torche Harmonicraft 5 Swans The Seer 6 Death Grips The Money Store 7 The Mars Volta Noctourniquet 8 Kendrick Lamar Good Kid, maad city 9 Blood Red Shoes In Time to Voices 10 Rush Clockwork Angels 11 Caspian Waking Season 12 Converge All We Love We Leave Behind 13 Menomena Moms 14 Yeasayer Fragrant World 15 Freelance Whales Diluvia 16 Japandroids Celebration Rock 17 alt-J An Awesome Wave 18 Aesop Rock Skelethon 19 Coheed and Cambria Afterman: The Ascension 20 Deftones Koi No Yokan 21 Miike Snow Happy to You 22 Brain Jonestown Massacre Aufheben 23 Silversun Pickups Neck of the Woods 24 Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel... 25 Grizzly Bear Shields
- published: 03 Jan 2013
- views: 1450
- author: Velocities In Music
The HYPEST Rap Songs of 2012 Mix feat. Lupe Fiasco, Nas, Kendrick Lamar, Macklemore, Brother Ali etc
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 62:32
- Updated: 20 Jan 2013
Download link: www.filedropper.com 0:00 El-P - Request Denied (Produced by El-P) 4:36 SonReal & Rich Kidd - Fuck Yeah (Produced by Beat Merchant) 7:48 Brother Ali - Not A Day Goes By (Produced by Jake One) 9:55 Murs & Fashawn - Slash Gordon (Produced by Beatnick & K-Salaam) 12:52 Nas - The Don (Produced by Heavy D, Salaam Remi, Da Internz) 15:40 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Thrift Shop feat. Wanz (Produced by Ryan Lewis) 19:28 Dumbfoundead - Korean Jesus (Produced by Duke Westlake) 21:04 Sol - Paint (Produced by Nima Skeemz) 23:35 Lupe Fiasco - Around My Way (Produced by Simonsayz, B Sides) 27:33 POS - Get Down feat. Mike Mictlan (Produced by Patric Russel) 31:12 Zion I - Human Being (Bassnectar Edit) (Produced by Amp Live, Bassnectar) 33:34 Sweatshop Union - NVSBL (Produced by ???) 37:11 Aesop Rock - Zero Dark Thirty (Produced by Aesop Rock) 40:30 Killer Mike - RAP Music (Produced by El-P) 44:51 Kendrick Lamar - MAAD City (Produced by Soundwave, THC, Terrace Martin) 47:25 The Alchemist - Flight Confirmation feat. Danny Brown & Schoolboy Q (Produced by The Alchemist) 49:15 Schoolboy Q - Druggys Wit Hoes Again feat. Ab-Soul (Produced by Nez & Rio) 52:48 Captain Murphy - Shake Weight (Produced by TNGHT) 55:06 Mickey Factz - Taking Pictures Of Girls Naked (Produced by Mickey Factz) 1:00:15 Snak The Ripper - Lung Butter (Produced by Stylust)
http://wn.com/The_HYPEST_Rap_Songs_of_2012_Mix_feat_Lupe_Fiasco,_Nas,_Kendrick_Lamar,_Macklemore,_Brother_Ali_etc
Download link: www.filedropper.com 0:00 El-P - Request Denied (Produced by El-P) 4:36 SonReal & Rich Kidd - Fuck Yeah (Produced by Beat Merchant) 7:48 Brother Ali - Not A Day Goes By (Produced by Jake One) 9:55 Murs & Fashawn - Slash Gordon (Produced by Beatnick & K-Salaam) 12:52 Nas - The Don (Produced by Heavy D, Salaam Remi, Da Internz) 15:40 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Thrift Shop feat. Wanz (Produced by Ryan Lewis) 19:28 Dumbfoundead - Korean Jesus (Produced by Duke Westlake) 21:04 Sol - Paint (Produced by Nima Skeemz) 23:35 Lupe Fiasco - Around My Way (Produced by Simonsayz, B Sides) 27:33 POS - Get Down feat. Mike Mictlan (Produced by Patric Russel) 31:12 Zion I - Human Being (Bassnectar Edit) (Produced by Amp Live, Bassnectar) 33:34 Sweatshop Union - NVSBL (Produced by ???) 37:11 Aesop Rock - Zero Dark Thirty (Produced by Aesop Rock) 40:30 Killer Mike - RAP Music (Produced by El-P) 44:51 Kendrick Lamar - MAAD City (Produced by Soundwave, THC, Terrace Martin) 47:25 The Alchemist - Flight Confirmation feat. Danny Brown & Schoolboy Q (Produced by The Alchemist) 49:15 Schoolboy Q - Druggys Wit Hoes Again feat. Ab-Soul (Produced by Nez & Rio) 52:48 Captain Murphy - Shake Weight (Produced by TNGHT) 55:06 Mickey Factz - Taking Pictures Of Girls Naked (Produced by Mickey Factz) 1:00:15 Snak The Ripper - Lung Butter (Produced by Stylust)
- published: 30 Dec 2012
- views: 854
- author: pagingdoctorjones
Equalibrum - Twenty Two (Full Beat Tape)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 63:21
- Updated: 19 Jan 2013
Download: www.potholesinmyblog.com Twenty Two is a beat tape of instrumentals from remixes and tracks I have done with various rappers. It was released on www.potholesinmyblog.com 01. Various Portals (Intro) - 00 02. Solarplexus - 01:44 03. CES Cru - The Block (Instru) - 04:21 04. Clever - Going All in (Instru) - 07:07 05. One At A time - 10:12 06. Hammerhead - 12:11 07. Free The World - 16:00 08. The Dawn Is Near (interlude) - 18:33 09. Big Scen - Hangoversunrise (instru) - 19:39 10. Aesop Rock x Andrew Bird Mashup (instru) - 22:21 11. Brother Ali - Truth Is (remix Instru) - 24:57 12. Illmaclulate- Live Or Die (Instru) - 29:13 13. Intuition - DjBooth.net Exclusive (Instru) - 33:24 14. Luster - 36:31 15. Rufio - 37:51 16. Intuition - Foundations (Instru) - 40:31 17. Just Because - 44:22 18. Why would you? - 46:51 19. The Ring - 48:25 20. MF Doom - My favorite Ladies (remix Instru) - 50:25 21. Intuition - Panic (Instru) - 53:21 22. This Love - 58:40 All tracks produced by: M. Pawlak (aka equalibrum) FOLLOW! Twitter: www.twitter.com Facebook: www.facebook.com Bandcamp: www.equalibrum.bandcamp.com Soundcloud www.soundcloud.com Instagram: www.instagram.com
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Download: www.potholesinmyblog.com Twenty Two is a beat tape of instrumentals from remixes and tracks I have done with various rappers. It was released on www.potholesinmyblog.com 01. Various Portals (Intro) - 00 02. Solarplexus - 01:44 03. CES Cru - The Block (Instru) - 04:21 04. Clever - Going All in (Instru) - 07:07 05. One At A time - 10:12 06. Hammerhead - 12:11 07. Free The World - 16:00 08. The Dawn Is Near (interlude) - 18:33 09. Big Scen - Hangoversunrise (instru) - 19:39 10. Aesop Rock x Andrew Bird Mashup (instru) - 22:21 11. Brother Ali - Truth Is (remix Instru) - 24:57 12. Illmaclulate- Live Or Die (Instru) - 29:13 13. Intuition - DjBooth.net Exclusive (Instru) - 33:24 14. Luster - 36:31 15. Rufio - 37:51 16. Intuition - Foundations (Instru) - 40:31 17. Just Because - 44:22 18. Why would you? - 46:51 19. The Ring - 48:25 20. MF Doom - My favorite Ladies (remix Instru) - 50:25 21. Intuition - Panic (Instru) - 53:21 22. This Love - 58:40 All tracks produced by: M. Pawlak (aka equalibrum) FOLLOW! Twitter: www.twitter.com Facebook: www.facebook.com Bandcamp: www.equalibrum.bandcamp.com Soundcloud www.soundcloud.com Instagram: www.instagram.com
- published: 09 Dec 2012
- views: 1220
- author: Equalibeats
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Aesop Rock Interview Pt 1 on Maniatv's Flipside
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:12
- Updated: 07 Jan 2013
This is a sitdown interview with MC Aesop Rock. Listen to him talk about touring, his music, amongst other things.
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This is a sitdown interview with MC Aesop Rock. Listen to him talk about touring, his music, amongst other things.
- published: 03 Feb 2008
- views: 43610
- author: anthony hull
Aesop Rock interview with David Farrier
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:36
- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
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Aesop Rock - Zero Dark Thirty
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:32
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Skelethon now available iTunes: bit.ly Fifth Element: bit.ly Connect with Aesop Rock Twitter: bit.ly Facebook: on.fb.me Fifth Element: bit.ly Rhymesayers: bit.ly Download "Zero Dark Thirty": snd.sc Behind The Scenes photos: bit.ly Director: Isaac Ravishankara DP: Kevin Hayden Producer:...
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Skelethon now available iTunes: bit.ly Fifth Element: bit.ly Connect with Aesop Rock Twitter: bit.ly Facebook: on.fb.me Fifth Element: bit.ly Rhymesayers: bit.ly Download "Zero Dark Thirty": snd.sc Behind The Scenes photos: bit.ly Director: Isaac Ravishankara DP: Kevin Hayden Producer:...
- published: 01 May 2012
- views: 673546
- author: TheRealRhymesayers
Aesop Rock - Daylight
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:28
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Labor Days. Definitive Jux. 2001.
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Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:00
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Music video by Aesop Rock performing None Shall Pass. (C) 2007 Definitive Jux, Inc.
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Music video by Aesop Rock performing None Shall Pass. (C) 2007 Definitive Jux, Inc.
- published: 24 Jun 2009
- views: 2335027
- author: orchardmusic
Aesop Rock - Skelethon Album Preview
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 55:18
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
"Skelethon" now available iTunes: bit.ly Fifth Element: bit.ly For those of you looking to decipher Aesop Rock's lyrical wordplay, remember full album lyrics come with every Deluxe Digital and Physical purchase. 0:00 - Leisureforce 4:43 - ZZZ TOP 8:59 - Cycles To Gehenna 13:00 - Zero Dark Thirty 16:21 - Fryerstarter 19:50 - Ruby '81 22:23 - Crows 1 26:43 - Crows 2 29:13 - Racing Stripes 32:36 - 1000 O'clock 36:35 - Homemade Mummy 39:21 - Grace 43:00 - Saturn Missiles 46:37 - Tetra 51:18 - Gopher Guts Watch "ZZZ Top": bit.ly Watch "Zero Dark Thirty": bit.ly Behind Skelethon: bit.ly Connect with Aesop Rock: Twitter: on.fb.me Facebook: on.fb.me Fifth Element: bit.ly Rhymesayers: bit.ly
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"Skelethon" now available iTunes: bit.ly Fifth Element: bit.ly For those of you looking to decipher Aesop Rock's lyrical wordplay, remember full album lyrics come with every Deluxe Digital and Physical purchase. 0:00 - Leisureforce 4:43 - ZZZ TOP 8:59 - Cycles To Gehenna 13:00 - Zero Dark Thirty 16:21 - Fryerstarter 19:50 - Ruby '81 22:23 - Crows 1 26:43 - Crows 2 29:13 - Racing Stripes 32:36 - 1000 O'clock 36:35 - Homemade Mummy 39:21 - Grace 43:00 - Saturn Missiles 46:37 - Tetra 51:18 - Gopher Guts Watch "ZZZ Top": bit.ly Watch "Zero Dark Thirty": bit.ly Behind Skelethon: bit.ly Connect with Aesop Rock: Twitter: on.fb.me Facebook: on.fb.me Fifth Element: bit.ly Rhymesayers: bit.ly
- published: 09 Jul 2012
- views: 204211
- author: TheRealRhymesayers
Aesop Rock - Pigs
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:30
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Here is a music video for "pigs" created by the multi-talented Dan Wolfe. This video starts Jeremy Fish and his young helper pal, young Rick.
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Here is a music video for "pigs" created by the multi-talented Dan Wolfe. This video starts Jeremy Fish and his young helper pal, young Rick.
- published: 11 Jan 2008
- views: 1341728
- author: drowningknot
Interview with Aesop Rock
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:15
- Updated: 13 Jan 2013
Interview with Aesop Rock
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Ray Shemersy Tonight: Felt Interview, Part 2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:22
- Updated: 11 Jan 2013
Audio: Felt 3 "She Sonnet" available now at Itunes: bit.ly Here is part 2 of the Ray Shemersy Tonight interview with Felt. "Felt 3: A Tribute to Rosie Perez" available now! www.facebook.com www.twitter.com www.myspace.com
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Audio: Felt 3 "She Sonnet" available now at Itunes: bit.ly Here is part 2 of the Ray Shemersy Tonight interview with Felt. "Felt 3: A Tribute to Rosie Perez" available now! www.facebook.com www.twitter.com www.myspace.com
- published: 26 Oct 2009
- views: 24908
- author: TheRealRhymesayers
Aesop Rock - ZZZ Top
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:52
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
"Skelethon" now available iTunes: bit.ly Fifth Element: bit.ly For those of you looking to decipher Aesop Rock's lyrical wordplay, remember full album lyrics come with every Deluxe Digital and Physical purchase. Directed by Pete Lee Produced by Lizzie Rose Exec Prod: Aesop Rock Dir. of...
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"Skelethon" now available iTunes: bit.ly Fifth Element: bit.ly For those of you looking to decipher Aesop Rock's lyrical wordplay, remember full album lyrics come with every Deluxe Digital and Physical purchase. Directed by Pete Lee Produced by Lizzie Rose Exec Prod: Aesop Rock Dir. of...
- published: 29 Jun 2012
- views: 325170
- author: TheRealRhymesayers
Behind Skelethon: Leisureforce
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:04
- Updated: 13 Jan 2013
Aesop Rock discusses the first track on Skelethon, dropping July 10th, 2012. Pre-order now: bit.ly aesoprock.com http facebook.com twitter.com
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Aesop Rock discusses the first track on Skelethon, dropping July 10th, 2012. Pre-order now: bit.ly aesoprock.com http facebook.com twitter.com
- published: 26 Jun 2012
- views: 27359
- author: TheRealRhymesayers
Aesop Rock - "Cycles to Gehenna" (Official Video)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:08
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Here's the premiere of Aesop Rock's dope new video, "Cycles to Gehenna," featuring a gaggle of badass ballerinas. Directed by Ben Fee and Pete Lee. Buy it here! itunes.apple.com fifthelementonline.com Thanks! www.aesoprock.com www.facebook.com/AesopRockWins www.twitter.com/aesoprockwins www.rhymesayers.com/aesoprock ** Subscribe to Noisey on YouTube to stay updated on our daily releases: www.youtube.com Videos, daily editorial and more: www.noisey.com Like Noisey on Facebook fb.com Follow Noisey on Twitter: twitter.com Read our tumblr: noiseymusic.tumblr.com
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Here's the premiere of Aesop Rock's dope new video, "Cycles to Gehenna," featuring a gaggle of badass ballerinas. Directed by Ben Fee and Pete Lee. Buy it here! itunes.apple.com fifthelementonline.com Thanks! www.aesoprock.com www.facebook.com/AesopRockWins www.twitter.com/aesoprockwins www.rhymesayers.com/aesoprock ** Subscribe to Noisey on YouTube to stay updated on our daily releases: www.youtube.com Videos, daily editorial and more: www.noisey.com Like Noisey on Facebook fb.com Follow Noisey on Twitter: twitter.com Read our tumblr: noiseymusic.tumblr.com
- published: 21 Aug 2012
- views: 123511
- author: noisey
Aesop Rock Interview
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:26
- Updated: 16 Oct 2012
Aesop Rock Interview
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Aesop Rock Interview pt 2 on Maniatv's Flipside
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:39
- Updated: 23 Aug 2012
Listen to MC Aesop Rock talk about being MTV's Artist of the week amongst other things.
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Listen to MC Aesop Rock talk about being MTV's Artist of the week amongst other things.
- published: 03 Feb 2008
- views: 14053
- author: anthony hull
Aesop Rock - Water
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:57
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
LRYICS: It was the most beautiful second-coming of Christ that anyone had ever seen... Yo The water ain't safe, the land's made of water I hug a half empty glass my dignity's trying to pawn her I'm trying to see the future in a tea cup and a saucer But I rather be drinking coffee with my cigarette foster And a run away buckle the cloud-nine fantasy filter to force the brutal truth Of daily market place wars through the roof I mean I stood beneath the icicles that bleed under the awning And magically mastered the great absorbing of spirit falling But I'm sick, I've plowed these fields a thousand times over Sold botanicle research studies to farmers with whole quarters And when science proposes to art besides that peace-full sea I'll be that cat with a ring on a pillow shouting finally Take a number, the apple seeds rained upon each slumber A hundred thousand freaks on parade for the village hunter My every when acted upon has gone loopy But I play a game called lets prepare barnacle city for the end or new sink I split the radius at go getter bellies, reconnaissance Seeping fossil genie bottle optimist freeze Run from the fountain but the fountain is a desert optical tease Tummy full of sand running man impossible stop There's a wing in my gut and i'm all dust Surfing the earth and I dine-rise certainly flushed Now one in the hand is worth two atop the tallest cedar But what lies inside my heart is off the mother f**king meter [Chorus] See the Water ain't safe no more 'I'm ...
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LRYICS: It was the most beautiful second-coming of Christ that anyone had ever seen... Yo The water ain't safe, the land's made of water I hug a half empty glass my dignity's trying to pawn her I'm trying to see the future in a tea cup and a saucer But I rather be drinking coffee with my cigarette foster And a run away buckle the cloud-nine fantasy filter to force the brutal truth Of daily market place wars through the roof I mean I stood beneath the icicles that bleed under the awning And magically mastered the great absorbing of spirit falling But I'm sick, I've plowed these fields a thousand times over Sold botanicle research studies to farmers with whole quarters And when science proposes to art besides that peace-full sea I'll be that cat with a ring on a pillow shouting finally Take a number, the apple seeds rained upon each slumber A hundred thousand freaks on parade for the village hunter My every when acted upon has gone loopy But I play a game called lets prepare barnacle city for the end or new sink I split the radius at go getter bellies, reconnaissance Seeping fossil genie bottle optimist freeze Run from the fountain but the fountain is a desert optical tease Tummy full of sand running man impossible stop There's a wing in my gut and i'm all dust Surfing the earth and I dine-rise certainly flushed Now one in the hand is worth two atop the tallest cedar But what lies inside my heart is off the mother f**king meter [Chorus] See the Water ain't safe no more 'I'm ...
- published: 06 Dec 2008
- views: 231219
- author: JBird8622
Aesop Rock - Holy Smokes
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:53
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives, Definitive Jux 2004 Vocals: Aesop Rock Production: Blockhead
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Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives, Definitive Jux 2004 Vocals: Aesop Rock Production: Blockhead
- published: 31 Dec 2008
- views: 246927
- author: Dastompinata
Aesop Rock Interview At Treasure Island Music Fest
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:24
- Updated: 15 Jul 2012
Aesop Rock discusses the latest at the Treasure Island Music Festival in San Fran 2008 Distributed by Tubemogul.
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Aesop Rock discusses the latest at the Treasure Island Music Festival in San Fran 2008 Distributed by Tubemogul.
- published: 10 Oct 2008
- views: 7154
- author: boostmobileHQ
AESOP ROCK interview 2006 | NYNoise.TV
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:27
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
ian / aesop rock is interviewed 2006 at Pitchfork Fest From NYC TV's New York Noise. nynoise.tv Produced Edited by Shirley Braha
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ian / aesop rock is interviewed 2006 at Pitchfork Fest From NYC TV's New York Noise. nynoise.tv Produced Edited by Shirley Braha
- published: 14 Nov 2006
- views: 45183
- author: shirleybeans
Evilnine Crooked ft. Aesop Rock
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:50
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Video clip of the Flash animation for Evilnine's Crooked ft. Aesop Rock
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Video clip of the Flash animation for Evilnine's Crooked ft. Aesop Rock
- published: 07 Aug 2006
- views: 1224594
- author: ilz
Aesop Rock- Skelethon ALBUM REVIEW
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:32
- Updated: 11 Jan 2013
Listen: theneedledrop.com Aesop Rock's latest album shows him on top of his lyrical game, and taking on production duties as well. What did you think of this album? Love it? Hate it? Why? What should I review next, eh? FAV TRACKS: ZERO DARK THIRTY, ZZZ TOP, RUBY '81, GOPHER GUTS, GRACE, TETRA LEAST FAV TRACK: RACING STRIPES AESOP ROCK- SKELETHON / 2012 / RHYMESAYERS / EXPERIMENTAL HIP HOP, ABSTRACT HIP HOP, WEIRDO RAP THAT'S REALLY STRANGE, HOLY WOW CRAZY LYRICS 7/10 Y'all know this is just my opinion, right?
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Listen: theneedledrop.com Aesop Rock's latest album shows him on top of his lyrical game, and taking on production duties as well. What did you think of this album? Love it? Hate it? Why? What should I review next, eh? FAV TRACKS: ZERO DARK THIRTY, ZZZ TOP, RUBY '81, GOPHER GUTS, GRACE, TETRA LEAST FAV TRACK: RACING STRIPES AESOP ROCK- SKELETHON / 2012 / RHYMESAYERS / EXPERIMENTAL HIP HOP, ABSTRACT HIP HOP, WEIRDO RAP THAT'S REALLY STRANGE, HOLY WOW CRAZY LYRICS 7/10 Y'all know this is just my opinion, right?
- published: 19 Jul 2012
- views: 35543
- author: theneedledrop
Aesop Rock interview at SXSW 2007
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:35
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
Indie911 interview with Aesop Rock at SXSW 2007
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Indie911 interview with Aesop Rock at SXSW 2007
- published: 28 Jul 2007
- views: 21482
- author: indie911
Aesop Rock - Coffee ft. John Darnielle
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:04
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
new video from aesop rocks new album "None Shall Pass"
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new video from aesop rocks new album "None Shall Pass"
- published: 29 Oct 2007
- views: 1043969
- author: drowningknot
Aesop Rock - No Regrets
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- Duration: 4:34
- Updated: 09 Jan 2013
Aesop Rock - No Regrets
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4:00
Aesop Rock - Daylight(Live at The Potrero Del Sol Skatepark San Francisco)
7/16/11...
published: 17 Jul 2011
author: Wolfe Sams
Aesop Rock - Daylight(Live at The Potrero Del Sol Skatepark San Francisco)
7/16/11
- published: 17 Jul 2011
- views: 29039
- author: Wolfe Sams
3:50
Aesop Rock - "Catacomb Kids" Live at ZeroFriends
Aesop Rock raps while thinking of super steak nachos....
published: 14 Dec 2010
author: 900bats
Aesop Rock - "Catacomb Kids" Live at ZeroFriends
Aesop Rock raps while thinking of super steak nachos.
- published: 14 Dec 2010
- views: 42068
- author: 900bats
4:40
Aesop Rock - ZZZ Top (Live at Amoeba)
Aesop Rock performed at Amoeba Music in San Francisco on July 16, 2012. Watch the full per...
published: 02 Aug 2012
author: amoeba
Aesop Rock - ZZZ Top (Live at Amoeba)
Aesop Rock performed at Amoeba Music in San Francisco on July 16, 2012. Watch the full performance here: bit.ly Buy Aesop Rock albums on Amoeba.com here: bit.ly Subscribe to the Amoeba Newsletter: bit.ly Check out the official video for ZZZ Top - youtu.be Lyrics: Somebody in a cultivated moment of distress Composed himself to artfully carve Zoso in his desk They was probably thinking fuck you fuck you fuck you in they head With a hell bound arm and a acidy wash Homemade curfew a thousand o'clock And a pot leaf tattoo his friend did drunk Like a badge of mystique that technically sucked Taking the name of the father in vain On the way to the blade in his locker, it's strange A switch he lifted from a siblings Skippy jar Who branched off into ninja stars And never knew his shit was sharp To here with a higher purpose And a prime alert to juvenile beserkers Like kush Van Morrison an Arcade Drop Floor Down to the valley time for miss Ahkmar, watch Capital Z(ed), slowly maneuver the O S is the most difficult to control Finally O Into the eye of Goliath you goes That levee crushing percussion Will pull the monkey up right Twelve or ghetto blaster Blacken her technicolor telecaster Lecture at a faster rate The class was making them develop backwards It would appear you spelled out all the answers When they ask how you feeling you tell em you feeling like something important died screaming you tell em you feeling like something even more important arrived breathing something you ...
- published: 02 Aug 2012
- views: 7519
- author: amoeba
4:19
Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass live at ZeroFriends, SF
Aesop Rock performs None Shall Pass with Chauncey at the ZeroFriends store, in SF, CA....
published: 13 Jan 2011
author: 900bats
Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass live at ZeroFriends, SF
Aesop Rock performs None Shall Pass with Chauncey at the ZeroFriends store, in SF, CA.
- published: 13 Jan 2011
- views: 109994
- author: 900bats
22:39
Aesop Rock - Live at the Metro - 2002 - Chicago
Found this randomly on the net, props to whoever recorded this....
published: 13 Mar 2011
author: Mark Williams
Aesop Rock - Live at the Metro - 2002 - Chicago
Found this randomly on the net, props to whoever recorded this.
- published: 13 Mar 2011
- views: 5853
- author: Mark Williams
55:18
Aesop Rock - Skelethon Album Preview
"Skelethon" now available iTunes: bit.ly Fifth Element: bit.ly For those of you looking to...
published: 09 Jul 2012
author: TheRealRhymesayers
Aesop Rock - Skelethon Album Preview
"Skelethon" now available iTunes: bit.ly Fifth Element: bit.ly For those of you looking to decipher Aesop Rock's lyrical wordplay, remember full album lyrics come with every Deluxe Digital and Physical purchase. 0:00 - Leisureforce 4:43 - ZZZ TOP 8:59 - Cycles To Gehenna 13:00 - Zero Dark Thirty 16:21 - Fryerstarter 19:50 - Ruby '81 22:23 - Crows 1 26:43 - Crows 2 29:13 - Racing Stripes 32:36 - 1000 O'clock 36:35 - Homemade Mummy 39:21 - Grace 43:00 - Saturn Missiles 46:37 - Tetra 51:18 - Gopher Guts Watch "ZZZ Top": bit.ly Watch "Zero Dark Thirty": bit.ly Behind Skelethon: bit.ly Connect with Aesop Rock: Twitter: on.fb.me Facebook: on.fb.me Fifth Element: bit.ly Rhymesayers: bit.ly
- published: 09 Jul 2012
- views: 206658
- author: TheRealRhymesayers
4:29
ZeroFriends In-Store : Aesop Rock - Pigs
Aesop Rock performs "Pigs" live at the ZeroFriends store, with Chauncey, and a guest kazoo...
published: 08 Dec 2010
author: 900bats
ZeroFriends In-Store : Aesop Rock - Pigs
Aesop Rock performs "Pigs" live at the ZeroFriends store, with Chauncey, and a guest kazoo performance by Jeremy Fish. Video by Alex Tarrant and Justin Metros.
- published: 08 Dec 2010
- views: 44754
- author: 900bats
83:29
RJD2, El-P, Aesop Rock - 2003/07/05 - Live at Montreux Jazz Festival - Miles Davis Hall
00:00 Smoke and Mirrors 03:50 Bus Stop Bitties 05:54 Ghostwriter 08:43 Dead Presidents (Bl...
published: 03 Feb 2012
author: mkzelda
RJD2, El-P, Aesop Rock - 2003/07/05 - Live at Montreux Jazz Festival - Miles Davis Hall
00:00 Smoke and Mirrors 03:50 Bus Stop Bitties 05:54 Ghostwriter 08:43 Dead Presidents (Blueprint) 10:00 Wylin Out (Mos Def & Diverse) 11:00 Certified (Diverse) 12:00 Foxy Lady 12:40 June 16:00 Here's What's Left 20:24 The Horror (Gershon Kingsley - Hey Hey) 24:00 - Aesop & El-P 25:00 Coma 28:35 Delorean - Aesop Rock 30:00 Delorean - El-P 31:28 Squeegee Man Shooting 35:40 Deep Space 9mm 40:00 No Regrets 44:10 - 46:54 Good Times Roll Pt 2 54:03 - 57:48 Patriotism 59:47 Stepfather Factory 1:04:13 Nickel Plated Pockets 1:07:59 TOJ 1:11:57 NY Electric 1:15:56 Daylight 1:19:43 Tune Mass Damper rjd2.net aesoprock.com definitivejux.net rhymesayers.com www.theorchard.com
- published: 03 Feb 2012
- views: 10595
- author: mkzelda
4:08
Aesop Rock - "Cycles to Gehenna" (Official Video)
Here's the premiere of Aesop Rock's dope new video, "Cycles to Gehenna," featuring a gaggl...
published: 21 Aug 2012
author: noisey
Aesop Rock - "Cycles to Gehenna" (Official Video)
Here's the premiere of Aesop Rock's dope new video, "Cycles to Gehenna," featuring a gaggle of badass ballerinas. Directed by Ben Fee and Pete Lee. Buy it here! itunes.apple.com fifthelementonline.com Thanks! www.aesoprock.com www.facebook.com/AesopRockWins www.twitter.com/aesoprockwins www.rhymesayers.com/aesoprock ** Subscribe to Noisey on YouTube to stay updated on our daily releases: www.youtube.com Videos, daily editorial and more: www.noisey.com Like Noisey on Facebook fb.com Follow Noisey on Twitter: twitter.com Read our tumblr: noiseymusic.tumblr.com
- published: 21 Aug 2012
- views: 125256
- author: noisey
7:29
Aesop Rock Live @ Amoeba SF 07/16/12 - Skelethon Tour
clips from the amoeba sf show july 16 2012 photos can be found here www.venusinfleurs.com...
published: 18 Jul 2012
author: JulesInFleurs
Aesop Rock Live @ Amoeba SF 07/16/12 - Skelethon Tour
clips from the amoeba sf show july 16 2012 photos can be found here www.venusinfleurs.com
- published: 18 Jul 2012
- views: 2164
- author: JulesInFleurs
6:08
Aesop Rock - Daylight (Live @ Anti-Pop Festival)
Aesop rock doing his song daylight as an encore at the 2007 anti - pop music festival in o...
published: 10 Dec 2007
author: idea357
Aesop Rock - Daylight (Live @ Anti-Pop Festival)
Aesop rock doing his song daylight as an encore at the 2007 anti - pop music festival in orlando florida.
- published: 10 Dec 2007
- views: 15210
- author: idea357
3:53
Aesop Rock - Holy Smokes
Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives, Definitive Jux 2004 Vocals: Aesop Rock Production: Blo...
published: 31 Dec 2008
author: Dastompinata
Aesop Rock - Holy Smokes
Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives, Definitive Jux 2004 Vocals: Aesop Rock Production: Blockhead
- published: 31 Dec 2008
- views: 248446
- author: Dastompinata
3:32
Aesop Rock - Zero Dark Thirty
Skelethon now available iTunes: bit.ly Fifth Element: bit.ly Connect with Aesop Rock Twitt...
published: 01 May 2012
author: TheRealRhymesayers
Aesop Rock - Zero Dark Thirty
Skelethon now available iTunes: bit.ly Fifth Element: bit.ly Connect with Aesop Rock Twitter: bit.ly Facebook: on.fb.me Fifth Element: bit.ly Rhymesayers: bit.ly Download "Zero Dark Thirty": snd.sc Behind The Scenes photos: bit.ly Director: Isaac Ravishankara DP: Kevin Hayden Producer:...
- published: 01 May 2012
- views: 686799
- author: TheRealRhymesayers
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4:47
AESOP ROCK - COFFEE
"Coffee" by AESOP ROCK ft. John Darnelle
DIR by ACE NORTON
PRO by Charles SPANO
SHOT by RO...
published: 12 Mar 2009
author: ISAAC HAGY
AESOP ROCK - COFFEE
"Coffee" by AESOP ROCK ft. John Darnelle
DIR by ACE NORTON
PRO by Charles SPANO
SHOT by ROSS REIGE
EDITED by ISAAC HAGY & BRANDON DRISCOLL LUTTRINGER
FX by GHOSTTOWN MEDIA
PARTIZAN
2:11
Reflections for Snakes
Kimya Dawson serenades a snake.
Video shot by Aesop Rock. Featuring Kimya Dawson and Pand...
published: 21 Oct 2011
author: Rookie
Reflections for Snakes
Kimya Dawson serenades a snake.
Video shot by Aesop Rock. Featuring Kimya Dawson and Panda Dawson-Duval.
"Reflections" written by Burt Bacharach.
4:06
Aesop Rock - Cycles To Gehenna
Directed by Ben Fee and Pete Lee
Production Company: The Masses
Produced by Lizzie Rose
DP...
published: 21 Aug 2012
author: Ben Fee
Aesop Rock - Cycles To Gehenna
Directed by Ben Fee and Pete Lee
Production Company: The Masses
Produced by Lizzie Rose
DP: Ben Fee
Editor: Pete Lee
Executive Producers: Aesop Rock + The Masses
Associate Producers: Tim Lillis + Dan Mode + Alrik Bursell
/////CAST
Starring — Aesop Rock
Dancers— Sati Harutyunyan + Lena Dakessian
Avery Oatman + Jeanine Kosinski
Bikers— RC Rivera + Ben Rosenberg
Young Boys— Jacob Munoz + Joshua Munoz
/////PRODUCTION
Production Managers — Christina Campbell + Rebekah Cantor
Production Design — Tim Lillis
Assistant Director/2nd Unit— Masaya Tamegei
Motorcycle Riggers/2nd Unit— Ryan Thomas + Cory Riley
Dance Advisor— Noemi Araxi
Wardrobe— Brittany Edwards + Kat Yeh (StyleKouncil.com)
Hair Stylist— Theresa Wondra
Makeup— Jenny Calhoun
Additional Makeup/Styling— Bella Medrano + Ashley Anthony + Samantha Ogle
Production Assistants— Kate Russo + Micke Tong
Location Supervisor— Gabby Gonzales (Treasure Island) + Rick Marr (SF Armory)
Key Craft Services— Cary Li
Addt’l Craft Services— Yuka Takemoto
Unit Photographer— Rick Marr
Colorist— Jaime Obradovich
/////CAMERA + ELECTRICAL
Gaffers— Cory Riley + Dave Malloure
Key Grips— Robert Peterson + Ryan Thomas
Grips— Alan Cecil + John Michael + Julio Menard + James Mitchell
/////EQUIPMENT
Alrik Bursell @ Studio B
Eric Jacobus @ The Stunt People
Dan Mode @ DTC Grips & Electric
CREDITS. Cycles To Gehenna Video ////// AESOP ROCK
/////VERY SPECIAL THANKS
The SF Armory + Rhymesayers Ent.
Rebecca Ahn + Rosemary Williams + Sloane Martin
Judy Craig + Jack Richardson
1:29
Diabolical Fun (Aesop Rock in studio)
This is video shot by Aesop Rock of him recording his verse for Diabolical Fun (remix) at ...
published: 05 Apr 2009
author: ill poetic
Diabolical Fun (Aesop Rock in studio)
This is video shot by Aesop Rock of him recording his verse for Diabolical Fun (remix) at 3am. He's a trooper.
Diabolical Fun available now @ weightless.net
myspace.com/aesoprockwins
myspace.com/illogicone
weightless.net
myspace.com/illpoetic
myspace.com/voiceofreazon
Youtube results:
4:57
Aesop Rock - Water
LRYICS: It was the most beautiful second-coming of Christ that anyone had ever seen... Yo ...
published: 06 Dec 2008
author: JBird8622
Aesop Rock - Water
LRYICS: It was the most beautiful second-coming of Christ that anyone had ever seen... Yo The water ain't safe, the land's made of water I hug a half empty glass my dignity's trying to pawn her I'm trying to see the future in a tea cup and a saucer But I rather be drinking coffee with my cigarette foster And a run away buckle the cloud-nine fantasy filter to force the brutal truth Of daily market place wars through the roof I mean I stood beneath the icicles that bleed under the awning And magically mastered the great absorbing of spirit falling But I'm sick, I've plowed these fields a thousand times over Sold botanicle research studies to farmers with whole quarters And when science proposes to art besides that peace-full sea I'll be that cat with a ring on a pillow shouting finally Take a number, the apple seeds rained upon each slumber A hundred thousand freaks on parade for the village hunter My every when acted upon has gone loopy But I play a game called lets prepare barnacle city for the end or new sink I split the radius at go getter bellies, reconnaissance Seeping fossil genie bottle optimist freeze Run from the fountain but the fountain is a desert optical tease Tummy full of sand running man impossible stop There's a wing in my gut and i'm all dust Surfing the earth and I dine-rise certainly flushed Now one in the hand is worth two atop the tallest cedar But what lies inside my heart is off the mother f**king meter [Chorus] See the Water ain't safe no more 'I'm ...
- published: 06 Dec 2008
- views: 232671
- author: JBird8622
4:52
Aesop Rock - ZZZ Top
"Skelethon" now available iTunes: bit.ly Fifth Element: bit.ly For those of you looking to...
published: 29 Jun 2012
author: TheRealRhymesayers
Aesop Rock - ZZZ Top
"Skelethon" now available iTunes: bit.ly Fifth Element: bit.ly For those of you looking to decipher Aesop Rock's lyrical wordplay, remember full album lyrics come with every Deluxe Digital and Physical purchase. Directed by Pete Lee Produced by Lizzie Rose Exec Prod: Aesop Rock Dir. of...
- published: 29 Jun 2012
- views: 328052
- author: TheRealRhymesayers
4:27
Aesop Rock- Daylight
Daylight EP Show sum love...
published: 02 Jan 2009
author: 92JuggaLotus503
Aesop Rock- Daylight
Daylight EP Show sum love
- published: 02 Jan 2009
- views: 122518
- author: 92JuggaLotus503
4:34
Aesop Rock - No Regrets
Aesop Rock - No Regrets...
published: 30 Jun 2008
author: alexmiddleton4
Aesop Rock - No Regrets
Aesop Rock - No Regrets
- published: 30 Jun 2008
- views: 170644
- author: alexmiddleton4
55:18
Aesop Rock - Skelethon Album Preview
"Skelethon" now available iTunes: bit.ly Fifth Element: bit.ly For those of you looking to...
published: 09 Jul 2012
author: TheRealRhymesayers
Aesop Rock - Skelethon Album Preview
"Skelethon" now available iTunes: bit.ly Fifth Element: bit.ly For those of you looking to decipher Aesop Rock's lyrical wordplay, remember full album lyrics come with every Deluxe Digital and Physical purchase. 0:00 - Leisureforce 4:43 - ZZZ TOP 8:59 - Cycles To Gehenna 13:00 - Zero Dark Thirty 16:21 - Fryerstarter 19:50 - Ruby '81 22:23 - Crows 1 26:43 - Crows 2 29:13 - Racing Stripes 32:36 - 1000 O'clock 36:35 - Homemade Mummy 39:21 - Grace 43:00 - Saturn Missiles 46:37 - Tetra 51:18 - Gopher Guts Watch "ZZZ Top": bit.ly Watch "Zero Dark Thirty": bit.ly Behind Skelethon: bit.ly Connect with Aesop Rock: Twitter: on.fb.me Facebook: on.fb.me Fifth Element: bit.ly Rhymesayers: bit.ly
- published: 09 Jul 2012
- views: 206658
- author: TheRealRhymesayers
31:58
Aesop Rock - Appleseed EP (Full Album)
0:00 Appleseed Intro 1:07 Dryspell 5:39 Same Space 9:31 Sick Friend 14:02 Hold the Cup 19:...
published: 21 Nov 2012
author: CorrosivePaint
Aesop Rock - Appleseed EP (Full Album)
0:00 Appleseed Intro 1:07 Dryspell 5:39 Same Space 9:31 Sick Friend 14:02 Hold the Cup 19:01 1000 Deaths 22:43 Blue in the Face 27:12 Odessa
- published: 21 Nov 2012
- views: 1292
- author: CorrosivePaint
83:29
RJD2, El-P, Aesop Rock - 2003/07/05 - Live at Montreux Jazz Festival - Miles Davis Hall
00:00 Smoke and Mirrors 03:50 Bus Stop Bitties 05:54 Ghostwriter 08:43 Dead Presidents (Bl...
published: 03 Feb 2012
author: mkzelda
RJD2, El-P, Aesop Rock - 2003/07/05 - Live at Montreux Jazz Festival - Miles Davis Hall
00:00 Smoke and Mirrors 03:50 Bus Stop Bitties 05:54 Ghostwriter 08:43 Dead Presidents (Blueprint) 10:00 Wylin Out (Mos Def & Diverse) 11:00 Certified (Diverse) 12:00 Foxy Lady 12:40 June 16:00 Here's What's Left 20:24 The Horror (Gershon Kingsley - Hey Hey) 24:00 - Aesop & El-P 25:00 Coma 28:35 Delorean - Aesop Rock 30:00 Delorean - El-P 31:28 Squeegee Man Shooting 35:40 Deep Space 9mm 40:00 No Regrets 44:10 - 46:54 Good Times Roll Pt 2 54:03 - 57:48 Patriotism 59:47 Stepfather Factory 1:04:13 Nickel Plated Pockets 1:07:59 TOJ 1:11:57 NY Electric 1:15:56 Daylight 1:19:43 Tune Mass Damper rjd2.net aesoprock.com definitivejux.net rhymesayers.com www.theorchard.com
- published: 03 Feb 2012
- views: 10595
- author: mkzelda
44:49
Aesop Rock - All Day Nike + Original Run (Continuous Mix)
Aesop Rock - All Day Nike + Original Run (Continuous Mix) good to play while your doing ot...
published: 14 Feb 2011
author: Sam Oberwetter
Aesop Rock - All Day Nike + Original Run (Continuous Mix)
Aesop Rock - All Day Nike + Original Run (Continuous Mix) good to play while your doing other things
- published: 14 Feb 2011
- views: 45328
- author: Sam Oberwetter
22:39
Aesop Rock - Live at the Metro - 2002 - Chicago
Found this randomly on the net, props to whoever recorded this....
published: 13 Mar 2011
author: Mark Williams
Aesop Rock - Live at the Metro - 2002 - Chicago
Found this randomly on the net, props to whoever recorded this.
- published: 13 Mar 2011
- views: 5853
- author: Mark Williams
51:51
ORPHANAGE FREESTYLE (FULL)
Aesop Rock, Blueprint, DJ Abilities, Eyedea, Felipe Cuauhtli, Illogic, Sage Francis and Sl...
published: 05 May 2011
author: tornatic021
ORPHANAGE FREESTYLE (FULL)
Aesop Rock, Blueprint, DJ Abilities, Eyedea, Felipe Cuauhtli, Illogic, Sage Francis and Slug. Recorded live on KFAI's "Break of Dawn" radio show in 2000. Rhymesayers Enterainment: Rhymesayers.com Strange Famous Records StrangeFamousRecords.com like comment subscribe and share http
- published: 05 May 2011
- views: 50862
- author: tornatic021
33:30
Aesop Rock, Crescent Moon, & Slug In-Store @ the Basement LA
Aesop Rock, Crescent Moon, & Slug In-Store @ the Basement LA...
published: 11 Jul 2011
author: rawf00ty1
Aesop Rock, Crescent Moon, & Slug In-Store @ the Basement LA
Aesop Rock, Crescent Moon, & Slug In-Store @ the Basement LA
- published: 11 Jul 2011
- views: 4938
- author: rawf00ty1
89:43
Aesop Rock-None Shall Pass (Disco Completo/Full Album)
Aesop Rock-None Shall Pass: 01. Keep Off The Lawn 02. None Shall Pass 03. Catacomb Kids 04...
published: 25 Jul 2012
author: cristopher huaylla
Aesop Rock-None Shall Pass (Disco Completo/Full Album)
Aesop Rock-None Shall Pass: 01. Keep Off The Lawn 02. None Shall Pass 03. Catacomb Kids 04. Bring Back Pluto 05. Fumes 06. Getaway Car (Feat. Cage & Breeze Brewin) 07. 39 Thieves (Feat. El-P) 08. The Harbour Is Yours 09. Citronella 10. Gun For The Whole Family 11. Five Fingers 12. No City 13. Dark Heart News (Feat. Rob Sonic) 14. Coffee (Feat. John Darnille)....+Pigs
- published: 25 Jul 2012
- views: 3842
- author: cristopher huaylla
61:12
Murs Announces 2013 Paid Dues Line Up and answers fans questions
Murs Makes Live Announcement of 2013 Festival Details Exclusive Performances by Black Hipp...
published: 20 Dec 2012
author: hardknocktv
Murs Announces 2013 Paid Dues Line Up and answers fans questions
Murs Makes Live Announcement of 2013 Festival Details Exclusive Performances by Black Hippy, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Dom Kennedy, Tech N9ne, De La Soul, Immortal Technique, Hopsin, Joey Badass, Grouch & Eligh, and More to be Announced Paid Dues Habitat for Humanity Project Returns for Third Year Pre-sale Tickets Available December 20, General On-sale Begins December 22 The PAID DUES INDEPENDENT HIP HOP FESTIVAL -- presented by Murs 3:16 (Living Legends) and Guerilla Union (Rock the Bells Festival, Cypress Hill SmokeOut Festival) -- returns to the NOS Event Center in San Bernardino, CA on March 30, 2013 for its eighth annual installment. Murs made the announcement over a live stream on Hard Knock TV's YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/hardknocktv) as their first combined effort to blend Hard Knock's strong digital audience with the festivals' loyal fan-base. The stream was also featured on the Paid Dues Festival website (www.paidduesfestival.com). The all-day, all-ages, multi-stage event highlights the most renowned and emerging independent artists in Hip Hop. The upcoming festival will feature BLACK HIPPY (Kendrick Lamar + Schoolboy Q + Ab-Soul + Jay Rock), MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS, DOM KENNEDY, TECH N9NE, DE LA SOUL, IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE, HOPSIN, JOEY BADASS, and GROUCH & ELIGH. More artists will be announced shortly. Chang Weisberg, Guerilla Union founder and CEO, adds: "Paid Dues Festival is truly a unique platform. It allows artists to elevate their talents and presence ...
- published: 20 Dec 2012
- views: 4543
- author: hardknocktv
95:57
Aesop Rock - Float (Screwed N Chopped)
THERITUALGOESSAMEWINDOWDIFFERENTVISUALSHROOMIN S&C; by KON Float Commencement At The Obedie...
published: 17 Dec 2012
author: konstayfresh
Aesop Rock - Float (Screwed N Chopped)
THERITUALGOESSAMEWINDOWDIFFERENTVISUALSHROOMIN S&C; by KON Float Commencement At The Obedience Academy Big Bang Garbage Breakfast With Blockhead Basic Cable Fascination Oxygen Skip Town 6B Panorama Lunch With Blockhead Spare A Match How To Be A Carpenter Prosperity No Splash Dinner With Blockhead The Mayor And The Crook Drawbridge Feat. Doseone I'll Be OK Feat. Slug Attention Span Feat. Vast Aire
- published: 17 Dec 2012
- views: 89
- author: konstayfresh
69:21
Aesop Rock - Float (Full Album)
...
published: 25 Nov 2012
author: CorrosivePaint
Aesop Rock - Float (Full Album)
- published: 25 Nov 2012
- views: 1971
- author: CorrosivePaint
60:25
Aesop Rock - Labor Days (Full Album)
...
published: 21 Nov 2012
author: CorrosivePaint
Aesop Rock - Labor Days (Full Album)
- published: 21 Nov 2012
- views: 6039
- author: CorrosivePaint
70:32
Aesop Rock - Bazooka Tooth (Full Album)
...
published: 22 Nov 2012
author: CorrosivePaint
Aesop Rock - Bazooka Tooth (Full Album)
- published: 22 Nov 2012
- views: 1357
- author: CorrosivePaint
30:48
Aesop Rock - fast cars, danger, fire and knives EP (Full Album)
...
published: 25 Nov 2012
author: CorrosivePaint
Aesop Rock - fast cars, danger, fire and knives EP (Full Album)
- published: 25 Nov 2012
- views: 522
- author: CorrosivePaint
Vimeo results:
4:47
AESOP ROCK - COFFEE
"Coffee" by AESOP ROCK ft. John Darnelle
DIR by ACE NORTON
PRO by Charles SPANO
SHOT by RO...
published: 12 Mar 2009
author: ISAAC HAGY
AESOP ROCK - COFFEE
"Coffee" by AESOP ROCK ft. John Darnelle
DIR by ACE NORTON
PRO by Charles SPANO
SHOT by ROSS REIGE
EDITED by ISAAC HAGY & BRANDON DRISCOLL LUTTRINGER
FX by GHOSTTOWN MEDIA
PARTIZAN
2:11
Reflections for Snakes
Kimya Dawson serenades a snake.
Video shot by Aesop Rock. Featuring Kimya Dawson and Pand...
published: 21 Oct 2011
author: Rookie
Reflections for Snakes
Kimya Dawson serenades a snake.
Video shot by Aesop Rock. Featuring Kimya Dawson and Panda Dawson-Duval.
"Reflections" written by Burt Bacharach.
4:06
Aesop Rock - Cycles To Gehenna
Directed by Ben Fee and Pete Lee
Production Company: The Masses
Produced by Lizzie Rose
DP...
published: 21 Aug 2012
author: Ben Fee
Aesop Rock - Cycles To Gehenna
Directed by Ben Fee and Pete Lee
Production Company: The Masses
Produced by Lizzie Rose
DP: Ben Fee
Editor: Pete Lee
Executive Producers: Aesop Rock + The Masses
Associate Producers: Tim Lillis + Dan Mode + Alrik Bursell
/////CAST
Starring — Aesop Rock
Dancers— Sati Harutyunyan + Lena Dakessian
Avery Oatman + Jeanine Kosinski
Bikers— RC Rivera + Ben Rosenberg
Young Boys— Jacob Munoz + Joshua Munoz
/////PRODUCTION
Production Managers — Christina Campbell + Rebekah Cantor
Production Design — Tim Lillis
Assistant Director/2nd Unit— Masaya Tamegei
Motorcycle Riggers/2nd Unit— Ryan Thomas + Cory Riley
Dance Advisor— Noemi Araxi
Wardrobe— Brittany Edwards + Kat Yeh (StyleKouncil.com)
Hair Stylist— Theresa Wondra
Makeup— Jenny Calhoun
Additional Makeup/Styling— Bella Medrano + Ashley Anthony + Samantha Ogle
Production Assistants— Kate Russo + Micke Tong
Location Supervisor— Gabby Gonzales (Treasure Island) + Rick Marr (SF Armory)
Key Craft Services— Cary Li
Addt’l Craft Services— Yuka Takemoto
Unit Photographer— Rick Marr
Colorist— Jaime Obradovich
/////CAMERA + ELECTRICAL
Gaffers— Cory Riley + Dave Malloure
Key Grips— Robert Peterson + Ryan Thomas
Grips— Alan Cecil + John Michael + Julio Menard + James Mitchell
/////EQUIPMENT
Alrik Bursell @ Studio B
Eric Jacobus @ The Stunt People
Dan Mode @ DTC Grips & Electric
CREDITS. Cycles To Gehenna Video ////// AESOP ROCK
/////VERY SPECIAL THANKS
The SF Armory + Rhymesayers Ent.
Rebecca Ahn + Rosemary Williams + Sloane Martin
Judy Craig + Jack Richardson
1:29
Diabolical Fun (Aesop Rock in studio)
This is video shot by Aesop Rock of him recording his verse for Diabolical Fun (remix) at ...
published: 05 Apr 2009
author: ill poetic
Diabolical Fun (Aesop Rock in studio)
This is video shot by Aesop Rock of him recording his verse for Diabolical Fun (remix) at 3am. He's a trooper.
Diabolical Fun available now @ weightless.net
myspace.com/aesoprockwins
myspace.com/illogicone
weightless.net
myspace.com/illpoetic
myspace.com/voiceofreazon
Youtube results:
80:55
SecretShow 6.12.11 Hail Mary Mallon + Kimya Dawson INCOMPLETE SHOW
Intimate secret free concert featuring Kimya Dawson, Rob Sonic, DJ Big Wiz, and Aesop Rock...
published: 14 Jun 2011
author: James Mooreshire
SecretShow 6.12.11 Hail Mary Mallon + Kimya Dawson INCOMPLETE SHOW
Intimate secret free concert featuring Kimya Dawson, Rob Sonic, DJ Big Wiz, and Aesop Rock. Sorry about the shaky camera for HMM's set - you wouldn't have been able to stand still either. Also sorry, I tragically ran out of batteries fifteen minutes or so into Kimya's amazing solo portion. Thanks for letting us come by, bounce in the castle, and get our faces rocked off! I don't own any of this material - I think the people performing, Definitive Jux, K Records, and Rhymesayers Entertainment might. You should buy the actually good sounding recordings from them ASAP and support excellent independent music. The Slip N Slide was invented in 1961 by Cody Abramson, and the manufacturer suggests it only be used by children due to risk of back and neck injury for adults and teenagers. The first Bouncy Castle was designed by John Scurlock in 1959.
- published: 14 Jun 2011
- views: 4174
- author: James Mooreshire
37:39
Aesop Rock - Daylight EP [Full Album HD]
...
published: 24 Nov 2012
author: CorrosivePaint
Aesop Rock - Daylight EP [Full Album HD]
- published: 24 Nov 2012
- views: 755
- author: CorrosivePaint
20:59
How to play medic on pl_thundermountain [Captions]
Whole game on pl_thundermountain showing how to be a good pub medic. Stabby style. Let me ...
published: 27 Jun 2012
author: wokotf2
How to play medic on pl_thundermountain [Captions]
Whole game on pl_thundermountain showing how to be a good pub medic. Stabby style. Let me know you guys your own tips and tricks, what I might forgot or what would you want to see next time. Come hang out to www.reddit.com or come play with me on Europian RUGC servers redditgaming.com Find me here: raptr.com steamcommunity.com This video is also available to vote on Reddit: redd.it Special thanks to Bandit1379 for that "spy can jump on the roof" thing in the very beginning. Used music: Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass (Instrumental) Aesop Rock - Getaway Car (Instrumental) Aesop Rock - 39 Thieves (Instrumental) Aesop Rock - Catacomb Kids (Instrumental) Aesop Rock - Five Fingers (Instrumental) Aesop Rock - The Harbor Is Yours (Instrumental)
- published: 27 Jun 2012
- views: 680
- author: wokotf2
63:42
DJ Krush - Jaku (Full Album)
1. Still Island (featuring Shūzan Morita) 0:00 2. Road to Nowhere 5:06 3. Nosferatu (featu...
published: 15 Mar 2012
author: TheodorusSpoke
DJ Krush - Jaku (Full Album)
1. Still Island (featuring Shūzan Morita) 0:00 2. Road to Nowhere 5:06 3. Nosferatu (featuring Mr. Lif) 8:27 4. The Beginning 12:12 5. Transition 16:07 6. Stormy Cloud (featuring Ken Shima) 18:04 7. Univearth (featuring Tetsuro Naito) 23:58 8. Decks-Athron (featuring Tatsuki) 29:19 9. Kill Switch (featuring Aesop Rock) 35:35 10. Pretense 39:57 11. Slit of Cloud (featuring Akira Sakata) 42:59 12. Passage 49:24 13. Beyond Raging Waves (featuring Shinichi Kinoshita) 51:00 14. Distant Voices 55:23 15. Song 2 58:45
- published: 15 Mar 2012
- views: 60535
- author: TheodorusSpoke
5:12
Aesop Rock Interview Pt 1 on Maniatv's Flipside
This is a sitdown interview with MC Aesop Rock. Listen to him talk about touring, his musi...
published: 03 Feb 2008
author: anthony hull
Aesop Rock Interview Pt 1 on Maniatv's Flipside
This is a sitdown interview with MC Aesop Rock. Listen to him talk about touring, his music, amongst other things.
- published: 03 Feb 2008
- views: 43610
- author: anthony hull
2:36
Aesop Rock interview with David Farrier
youtube.com...
published: 11 Jul 2008
author: David Farrier
Aesop Rock interview with David Farrier
youtube.com
- published: 11 Jul 2008
- views: 25822
- author: David Farrier
3:32
Aesop Rock - Zero Dark Thirty
Skelethon now available iTunes: bit.ly Fifth Element: bit.ly Connect with Aesop Rock Twitt...
published: 01 May 2012
author: TheRealRhymesayers
Aesop Rock - Zero Dark Thirty
Skelethon now available iTunes: bit.ly Fifth Element: bit.ly Connect with Aesop Rock Twitter: bit.ly Facebook: on.fb.me Fifth Element: bit.ly Rhymesayers: bit.ly Download "Zero Dark Thirty": snd.sc Behind The Scenes photos: bit.ly Director: Isaac Ravishankara DP: Kevin Hayden Producer:...
- published: 01 May 2012
- views: 673546
- author: TheRealRhymesayers
4:28
Aesop Rock - Daylight
Labor Days. Definitive Jux. 2001....
published: 13 Jan 2009
author: TairyHesticles
Aesop Rock - Daylight
Labor Days. Definitive Jux. 2001.
- published: 13 Jan 2009
- views: 2051948
- author: TairyHesticles
4:00
Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
Music video by Aesop Rock performing None Shall Pass. (C) 2007 Definitive Jux, Inc....
published: 24 Jun 2009
author: orchardmusic
Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
Music video by Aesop Rock performing None Shall Pass. (C) 2007 Definitive Jux, Inc.
- published: 24 Jun 2009
- views: 2335027
- author: orchardmusic
55:18
Aesop Rock - Skelethon Album Preview
"Skelethon" now available iTunes: bit.ly Fifth Element: bit.ly For those of you looking to...
published: 09 Jul 2012
author: TheRealRhymesayers
Aesop Rock - Skelethon Album Preview
"Skelethon" now available iTunes: bit.ly Fifth Element: bit.ly For those of you looking to decipher Aesop Rock's lyrical wordplay, remember full album lyrics come with every Deluxe Digital and Physical purchase. 0:00 - Leisureforce 4:43 - ZZZ TOP 8:59 - Cycles To Gehenna 13:00 - Zero Dark Thirty 16:21 - Fryerstarter 19:50 - Ruby '81 22:23 - Crows 1 26:43 - Crows 2 29:13 - Racing Stripes 32:36 - 1000 O'clock 36:35 - Homemade Mummy 39:21 - Grace 43:00 - Saturn Missiles 46:37 - Tetra 51:18 - Gopher Guts Watch "ZZZ Top": bit.ly Watch "Zero Dark Thirty": bit.ly Behind Skelethon: bit.ly Connect with Aesop Rock: Twitter: on.fb.me Facebook: on.fb.me Fifth Element: bit.ly Rhymesayers: bit.ly
- published: 09 Jul 2012
- views: 204211
- author: TheRealRhymesayers
4:30
Aesop Rock - Pigs
Here is a music video for "pigs" created by the multi-talented Dan Wolfe. This video start...
published: 11 Jan 2008
author: drowningknot
Aesop Rock - Pigs
Here is a music video for "pigs" created by the multi-talented Dan Wolfe. This video starts Jeremy Fish and his young helper pal, young Rick.
- published: 11 Jan 2008
- views: 1341728
- author: drowningknot
3:15
Interview with Aesop Rock
Interview with Aesop Rock...
published: 01 Feb 2008
author: BonnarooMusicFest
Interview with Aesop Rock
Interview with Aesop Rock
- published: 01 Feb 2008
- views: 54263
- author: BonnarooMusicFest
6:22
Ray Shemersy Tonight: Felt Interview, Part 2
Audio: Felt 3 "She Sonnet" available now at Itunes: bit.ly Here is part 2 of the Ray Sheme...
published: 26 Oct 2009
author: TheRealRhymesayers
Ray Shemersy Tonight: Felt Interview, Part 2
Audio: Felt 3 "She Sonnet" available now at Itunes: bit.ly Here is part 2 of the Ray Shemersy Tonight interview with Felt. "Felt 3: A Tribute to Rosie Perez" available now! www.facebook.com www.twitter.com www.myspace.com
- published: 26 Oct 2009
- views: 24908
- author: TheRealRhymesayers
4:52
Aesop Rock - ZZZ Top
"Skelethon" now available iTunes: bit.ly Fifth Element: bit.ly For those of you looking to...
published: 29 Jun 2012
author: TheRealRhymesayers
Aesop Rock - ZZZ Top
"Skelethon" now available iTunes: bit.ly Fifth Element: bit.ly For those of you looking to decipher Aesop Rock's lyrical wordplay, remember full album lyrics come with every Deluxe Digital and Physical purchase. Directed by Pete Lee Produced by Lizzie Rose Exec Prod: Aesop Rock Dir. of...
- published: 29 Jun 2012
- views: 325170
- author: TheRealRhymesayers
3:04
Behind Skelethon: Leisureforce
Aesop Rock discusses the first track on Skelethon, dropping July 10th, 2012. Pre-order now...
published: 26 Jun 2012
author: TheRealRhymesayers
Behind Skelethon: Leisureforce
Aesop Rock discusses the first track on Skelethon, dropping July 10th, 2012. Pre-order now: bit.ly aesoprock.com http facebook.com twitter.com
- published: 26 Jun 2012
- views: 27359
- author: TheRealRhymesayers
4:08
Aesop Rock - "Cycles to Gehenna" (Official Video)
Here's the premiere of Aesop Rock's dope new video, "Cycles to Gehenna," featuring a gaggl...
published: 21 Aug 2012
author: noisey
Aesop Rock - "Cycles to Gehenna" (Official Video)
Here's the premiere of Aesop Rock's dope new video, "Cycles to Gehenna," featuring a gaggle of badass ballerinas. Directed by Ben Fee and Pete Lee. Buy it here! itunes.apple.com fifthelementonline.com Thanks! www.aesoprock.com www.facebook.com/AesopRockWins www.twitter.com/aesoprockwins www.rhymesayers.com/aesoprock ** Subscribe to Noisey on YouTube to stay updated on our daily releases: www.youtube.com Videos, daily editorial and more: www.noisey.com Like Noisey on Facebook fb.com Follow Noisey on Twitter: twitter.com Read our tumblr: noiseymusic.tumblr.com
- published: 21 Aug 2012
- views: 123511
- author: noisey
3:26
Aesop Rock Interview
Aesop Rock Interview...
published: 12 Oct 2007
author: DefJuxRecords
Aesop Rock Interview
Aesop Rock Interview
- published: 12 Oct 2007
- views: 23332
- author: DefJuxRecords
3:39
Aesop Rock Interview pt 2 on Maniatv's Flipside
Listen to MC Aesop Rock talk about being MTV's Artist of the week amongst other things....
published: 03 Feb 2008
author: anthony hull
Aesop Rock Interview pt 2 on Maniatv's Flipside
Listen to MC Aesop Rock talk about being MTV's Artist of the week amongst other things.
- published: 03 Feb 2008
- views: 14053
- author: anthony hull
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4:47
AESOP ROCK - COFFEE
"Coffee" by AESOP ROCK ft. John Darnelle
DIR by ACE NORTON
PRO by Charles SPANO
SHOT by RO...
published: 12 Mar 2009
author: ISAAC HAGY
AESOP ROCK - COFFEE
"Coffee" by AESOP ROCK ft. John Darnelle
DIR by ACE NORTON
PRO by Charles SPANO
SHOT by ROSS REIGE
EDITED by ISAAC HAGY & BRANDON DRISCOLL LUTTRINGER
FX by GHOSTTOWN MEDIA
PARTIZAN
2:11
Reflections for Snakes
Kimya Dawson serenades a snake.
Video shot by Aesop Rock. Featuring Kimya Dawson and Pand...
published: 21 Oct 2011
author: Rookie
Reflections for Snakes
Kimya Dawson serenades a snake.
Video shot by Aesop Rock. Featuring Kimya Dawson and Panda Dawson-Duval.
"Reflections" written by Burt Bacharach.
4:06
Aesop Rock - Cycles To Gehenna
Directed by Ben Fee and Pete Lee
Production Company: The Masses
Produced by Lizzie Rose
DP...
published: 21 Aug 2012
author: Ben Fee
Aesop Rock - Cycles To Gehenna
Directed by Ben Fee and Pete Lee
Production Company: The Masses
Produced by Lizzie Rose
DP: Ben Fee
Editor: Pete Lee
Executive Producers: Aesop Rock + The Masses
Associate Producers: Tim Lillis + Dan Mode + Alrik Bursell
/////CAST
Starring — Aesop Rock
Dancers— Sati Harutyunyan + Lena Dakessian
Avery Oatman + Jeanine Kosinski
Bikers— RC Rivera + Ben Rosenberg
Young Boys— Jacob Munoz + Joshua Munoz
/////PRODUCTION
Production Managers — Christina Campbell + Rebekah Cantor
Production Design — Tim Lillis
Assistant Director/2nd Unit— Masaya Tamegei
Motorcycle Riggers/2nd Unit— Ryan Thomas + Cory Riley
Dance Advisor— Noemi Araxi
Wardrobe— Brittany Edwards + Kat Yeh (StyleKouncil.com)
Hair Stylist— Theresa Wondra
Makeup— Jenny Calhoun
Additional Makeup/Styling— Bella Medrano + Ashley Anthony + Samantha Ogle
Production Assistants— Kate Russo + Micke Tong
Location Supervisor— Gabby Gonzales (Treasure Island) + Rick Marr (SF Armory)
Key Craft Services— Cary Li
Addt’l Craft Services— Yuka Takemoto
Unit Photographer— Rick Marr
Colorist— Jaime Obradovich
/////CAMERA + ELECTRICAL
Gaffers— Cory Riley + Dave Malloure
Key Grips— Robert Peterson + Ryan Thomas
Grips— Alan Cecil + John Michael + Julio Menard + James Mitchell
/////EQUIPMENT
Alrik Bursell @ Studio B
Eric Jacobus @ The Stunt People
Dan Mode @ DTC Grips & Electric
CREDITS. Cycles To Gehenna Video ////// AESOP ROCK
/////VERY SPECIAL THANKS
The SF Armory + Rhymesayers Ent.
Rebecca Ahn + Rosemary Williams + Sloane Martin
Judy Craig + Jack Richardson
1:29
Diabolical Fun (Aesop Rock in studio)
This is video shot by Aesop Rock of him recording his verse for Diabolical Fun (remix) at ...
published: 05 Apr 2009
author: ill poetic
Diabolical Fun (Aesop Rock in studio)
This is video shot by Aesop Rock of him recording his verse for Diabolical Fun (remix) at 3am. He's a trooper.
Diabolical Fun available now @ weightless.net
myspace.com/aesoprockwins
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Youtube results:
4:57
Aesop Rock - Water
LRYICS: It was the most beautiful second-coming of Christ that anyone had ever seen... Yo ...
published: 06 Dec 2008
author: JBird8622
Aesop Rock - Water
LRYICS: It was the most beautiful second-coming of Christ that anyone had ever seen... Yo The water ain't safe, the land's made of water I hug a half empty glass my dignity's trying to pawn her I'm trying to see the future in a tea cup and a saucer But I rather be drinking coffee with my cigarette foster And a run away buckle the cloud-nine fantasy filter to force the brutal truth Of daily market place wars through the roof I mean I stood beneath the icicles that bleed under the awning And magically mastered the great absorbing of spirit falling But I'm sick, I've plowed these fields a thousand times over Sold botanicle research studies to farmers with whole quarters And when science proposes to art besides that peace-full sea I'll be that cat with a ring on a pillow shouting finally Take a number, the apple seeds rained upon each slumber A hundred thousand freaks on parade for the village hunter My every when acted upon has gone loopy But I play a game called lets prepare barnacle city for the end or new sink I split the radius at go getter bellies, reconnaissance Seeping fossil genie bottle optimist freeze Run from the fountain but the fountain is a desert optical tease Tummy full of sand running man impossible stop There's a wing in my gut and i'm all dust Surfing the earth and I dine-rise certainly flushed Now one in the hand is worth two atop the tallest cedar But what lies inside my heart is off the mother f**king meter [Chorus] See the Water ain't safe no more 'I'm ...
- published: 06 Dec 2008
- views: 231219
- author: JBird8622
3:53
Aesop Rock - Holy Smokes
Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives, Definitive Jux 2004 Vocals: Aesop Rock Production: Blo...
published: 31 Dec 2008
author: Dastompinata
Aesop Rock - Holy Smokes
Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives, Definitive Jux 2004 Vocals: Aesop Rock Production: Blockhead
- published: 31 Dec 2008
- views: 246927
- author: Dastompinata
2:24
Aesop Rock Interview At Treasure Island Music Fest
Aesop Rock discusses the latest at the Treasure Island Music Festival in San Fran 2008 Dis...
published: 10 Oct 2008
author: boostmobileHQ
Aesop Rock Interview At Treasure Island Music Fest
Aesop Rock discusses the latest at the Treasure Island Music Festival in San Fran 2008 Distributed by Tubemogul.
- published: 10 Oct 2008
- views: 7154
- author: boostmobileHQ
1:27
AESOP ROCK interview 2006 | NYNoise.TV
ian / aesop rock is interviewed 2006 at Pitchfork Fest From NYC TV's New York Noise. nynoi...
published: 14 Nov 2006
author: shirleybeans
AESOP ROCK interview 2006 | NYNoise.TV
ian / aesop rock is interviewed 2006 at Pitchfork Fest From NYC TV's New York Noise. nynoise.tv Produced Edited by Shirley Braha
- published: 14 Nov 2006
- views: 45183
- author: shirleybeans
photo: AP / Ugarit News via AP video
09 Feb 2013
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The video has gone viral in recent days. Syrian government soldiers, in camouflage gear, carrying rocket-propelled grenades and brandishing rifles, mugging for the camera while dancing in a circle to Usher’s hit song “Yeah!”. Enlarge This Image. Ugarit News, via Associated Press ... Related. U.N ... Connect With Us on Twitter ... Twitter List ... But the pro-Assad soldiers are not the only ones rocking out ... Raw ... ....(size: 8.2Kb)
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10 Feb 2013
A protester holds a banner reading "Be careful Mr President Hollande, Tunisia is not Mali" at a demonstration in Tunis on February 9. (AP). More Coverage. Late last year, largely unnoticed in the West, Tunisia's president, Moncef Marzouki, gave an interview to Chatham House's The World Today ... "We didn't realise how dangerous and violent these Salafists could be ... They are a tiny minority within a tiny minority ... Threats ... ....(size: 13.5Kb)
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10 Feb 2013
Boeing sent a 787 up on a test flight Saturday, the first since the new airliner was grounded three weeks ago because of a battery fire ... The plan was to spend two and a half hours in the air ... ....(size: 1.0Kb)
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09 Feb 2013
NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian news channels are reporting that a Kashmiri man convicted in the 2001 attack on India's Parliament has been hanged ... World news. Last 24 hours....(size: 5.9Kb)
photo: WN / Janice Sabnal
09 Feb 2013
Thick snow is blanketing the north-eastern US as a major storm cuts power to thousands of homes and plays havoc with transport schedules. Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, Connecticut and Maine are all on an emergency footing, with millions of residents being warned to stay indoors. Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has temporarily banned all non-essential traffic on the state's roads ... Worse to come? ... Stay home." ... Light....(size: 5.7Kb)
Huffington Post
29 Jan 2013
Blur, The Stone Roses, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Modest Mouse, Lou Reed, Jurassic 5, Grinderman, Bassnectar, Dog Blood, How to Destroy Angels, Passion Pit, Tegan and Sara, Band of Horses, Beach House, Metric, Local Natives, Of Monsters and Men, Infected Mushroom, Japandroids, Divine Fits, Stars, Johnny Marr, Luciano, Wolfgang Gartner, Nicky Romero, ......(size: 8.0Kb)
The Examiner
27 Jan 2013
If you can't remember that you must have been under a rock ... the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Jurassic 5, Aesop Rock, Nick Romero, Benny Benassi, Moby, rapper; 2 Chainz, R&B/pop singer AND Cover Girl; Janelle Monae (one of my favorites), Danny Brown, (VA’ S OWN) Pusha T, Wu Tang Clan (another one of my faves), the Bad Seeds and wayyyy more....(size: 6.5Kb)
The Examiner
27 Jan 2013
Blur, The Stone Roses, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Modest Mouse, Lou Reed, Jurassic 5, Grinderman, Bassnectar, Dog Blood, How to Destroy Angels, Passion Pit, Tegan and Sara, Band of Horses, Beach House, Metric, Local Natives, Of Monsters and Men, Infected Mushroom, Japandroids, Divine Fits, Stars, Johnny Marr, Luciano, Wolfgang Gartner, Nicky Romero, ......(size: 7.9Kb)
The Examiner
26 Jan 2013
The 2013 Coachella Music Festival lineup was announced January 24, 2013. Hip Hop music made a huge impact at the 2012 Festival with the groundbreaking introduction of hologram technology resurrecting the late great Tupac in digital form. This year's festival seeks to be a bit more practical with it's Hip Hop acts ... Aesop Rock, Earl Sweatshirt (Of Odd Future), Theophilus London, and El-P are set to rock the festival ... G.O.O.D ... Tweet. 0 Email....(size: 6.8Kb)
LA Daily News
25 Jan 2013
San Jose Mercury News mercurynews.com. Posted. 01/25/2013 07.39.48 AM PST. The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has announced the lineup for the 2013 event, taking place on two three-day weekends in April ... Pacific time, Tuesday, Jan. 29 ... Aesop Rock....(size: 1.6Kb)
The Los Angeles Times
25 Jan 2013
Goldenvoice, which owns and books the festival, has long pushed at the fringes of festival booking while delivering on its promise to present the world’s most engaging rock, dance, avant-pop, hip hop and legacy acts ... Rock ... Respected underground rapper Aesop Rock, whose work with Def Jux helped define an era, returns to remind youngsters of his influence....(size: 37.2Kb)
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25 Jan 2013
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25 Jan 2013
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25 Jan 2013
Two weekends out of the year Coachella dominates conversation, and rightfully so ... If the Rolling Stones and Daft Punk couldn't make it this year so be it. Haters gonna hate. Fans will find many familiar faces returning to the Empire Polo Club at Indio, Calif. over the two weekends (April 12-14 and 19-21) including Thee Oh Sees, Yeasayer, Tegan and Sara, Grizzly Bear, Two Door Cinema Club, Franz Ferdinand, Aesop Rock and more ... Tweet ... ....(size: 6.3Kb)
The Examiner
25 Jan 2013
The wait is over, folks ... Rounding out the bill are The Lumineers, Skrillex and Boys Noize’s side-project Dog Blood, The Gaslight Anthem, Social Distortion, Metric, The Faint, Jurassic 5, Dead Can Dance, Dropkick Murphys, Rodriguez, Violent Femmes, 2 Chainz, Richie Hawtin, Infected Mushroom, Simian Mobile Disco, Aesop Rock, Stars, Wild Nothing, Tanlines, Trash Talk, Smith Westerns, Ghost, DIIV, Reignwolf, and OMD ... ------- ... Tweet. 0 Email....(size: 7.0Kb)
The Los Angeles Times
25 Jan 2013
It was supposed to be a sure thing. The Rolling Stones, celebrating their 50th anniversary, were coming to the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival. The evidence was all there -- or so a bunch of amateur detectives believed. First, a purported screenshot from the Rolling Stones smartphone app listed the desert city of Indio among the band’s dates in mid-December ... On Jan ... What do stones do? They roll. Done. Boom ... Aesop Rock ... ....(size: 35.7Kb)
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25 Jan 2013
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| Aesop Rock | |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Ian Matthias Bavitz |
| Also known as | A.R., Aes, Aes Rock, Aes Rizzle, Bazooka Tooth |
| Born | (1976-06-05) June 5, 1976 (age 36) Syosset, Oyster Bay, New York, U.S. |
| Origin | Northport, New York, U.S. |
| Genres | Alternative hip hop, underground hip hop, indie hip hop |
| Occupations | Rapper, songwriter, musician, producer |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar,[1] synthesizer, keyboard, sequencer, MPC |
| Years active | 1996 – present |
| Labels | Definitive Jux, Mush, Rhymesayers |
| Associated acts | The Weathermen, Blockhead, Doseone, The Orphanage, El-P,Felt, Hail Mary Mallon, Two of Every Animal, SLUG |
| Website | Official website |
Ian Matthias Bavitz (born June 5, 1976), better known by his stage name Aesop Rock, is an American hip hop artist and producer. He was at the forefront of the new wave of underground and alternative hip hop acts that emerged during the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). He was signed to El-P's Definitive Jux label until it went on hiatus in 2010.[2] The music site betterPropaganda ranked him at number 19 at the Top 100 Artists of the Decade.[3] He is a member of the groups The Weathermen, Hail Mary Mallon (with Rob Sonic & DJ Big Wiz), and Two Of Every Animal (with Cage).[4][5] Regarding his name, he said: "I acquired the name Aesop from a movie I had acted in with some friends. It was my character's name and it sort of stuck. The rock part came later just from throwing it in rhymes."[6]
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Biography[link]
[edit] Early and personal life, the beginnings (1976–1994)
Bavitz was born at Syosset Hospital in Syosset, New York and raised in Northport, Long Island, New York to his father Paul and mother Jameija.[7] Ian has two brothers: Chris (born 1975) and Graham (born 1977). Ian, along with his siblings, was raised Catholic but later on in his life became agnostic.[8] Bavitz attended Northport High School in 1990 and graduated in 1994. He married Allyson Baker, guitarist and vocalist of rock band Dirty Ghosts in 2005. They now reside in San Francisco, California. The couple has now since divorced.[9]
He has tattoos on each forearm. His left arm says the words "Must Not Sleep...", and the right says "Must Warn Others," which are quotes inspired by the 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Aesop Rock has used these quotes as lyrics in the chorus of his song "Commencement at the Obedience Academy": "Must not sleep; must warn others / Trust blocks creep where the dust storm hovers." He also used them in his song "Antisocial," in the line "Must not sleep; must warn others / I'll tourniquet your turbulence then trample on your stutters."
[edit] College years (1994–1998)
After graduating from high school, Bavitz went off to Massachusetts where he attended Boston University, a private research college. He studied fine arts and eventually acquired his bachelors in 1998.[10] This is where he met his future producer, Blockhead where he too was aspiring to be an MC until he first met Ian in '94, the one year he attended Boston University. After hearing him freestyle, he decided to put his dreams of rapping aside and focused on producing instead.[11] Blockhead was involved with a crew in New York called The Overground that consisted of him, some of his friends, & Dub-L.[12] This is how Dub became a part of Bavitz music production earlier on in his career. Aesop Rock is on the prestigious B.U. Wall of Fame, along with people like Howard Stern and Bill O’Reilly. He is also part of Boston U's Board of Trustees as well.[13]
Musical career[link]
1985-1995: N.Y.C. underground music scene[link]
As a youth, Ian and his family would usually commute to New York City. This had a great impact on him and the way he viewed the hip hop culture. Bavitz began rapping in the early 1990s. He states Public Enemy, BDP, KMD, and Run DMC as being his early influences.[6] Bavitz also listened to rock acts such as The Dead Kennedys, Fugazi, and Ministry; he was introduced to these groups by his older brother Chris.[14] Bavitz started to play instruments such as the piano and bass at an early age. He then eventually acquired a sampler.[15]
1996-1998: Early musical efforts[link]
While attending college, Bavitz initially recorded and released two self-financed efforts, Music for Earthworms (1997), a full-length featuring underground artist Percee P on two tracks. Bavitz also released a music video to "Abandon All Hope", which was one of the tracks on the CD. The album sold over 300 copies,[14] largely from a grassroots internet-based promotion at his website AesopRock.com and then-popular web portal, MP3.Com.[16] It was a success. With the money he made from his previous release, he then released his Appleseed EP in 1999 which received critical acclaim in the underground hip hop circuit.[citation needed] Both of his early records were produced by long-time friend Blockhead, and underground producer Dub-L. He completed these albums while also working as a waiter.[citation needed]
1999-2001: Record label acquisition, major debut, and breakdown[link]
After his breakthrough success in the underground hip hop and indie rap community, he was eventually noticed by the Mush label and obtained his first record deal in 1999, just a year after he graduated from college. Aesop released his first major album, Float (2000), with guest appearances from Vast Aire, Slug, and Dose One. Production was split between Blockhead and Aesop himself, with one track by Omega One. During this time, Aesop worked at a photography gallery.[17] In August 2001 tragedy struck – Bavitz had a nervous breakdown. His song "One of Four" on his Daylight E.P. documents his struggles.[18]
Def Jux years (2001–2007)[link]
[edit] 2001–2002: Labor Days, Daylight EP, and Billboard breakthrough
Shortly after releasing Float, Aesop Rock signed to Manhattan-based label Definitive Jux (commonly shortened to Def Jux), where he released Labor Days (2001), an album dedicated to the discussion of labor in American society and the concept of "wage slaves". This album was most well known for its single "Daylight".[citation needed] Because of its popularity, Daylight was re-released in 2002 as a seven-track EP, including an "alternative" new version of the song "Night Light", whose paraphrased lyrics simultaneously refer back to, and stand in stark opposition to, the original's. The song "Labor" (from Labor Days) was featured in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4; it also was the first album in his catalog to break through the Billboard charts, peaking at number 15 at the United States Independent Charts, giving Aesop Rock more recognition.
2003–2004: Bazooka Tooth and Compilation[link]
Labor Days was followed by Bazooka Tooth in 2003. For the first time, production was mostly handled by Rock himself, with three tracks from longtime collaborator Blockhead and one from close friend and Definitive Jux label CEO El-P. Guest appearances include Party Fun Action Committee, El-P, and Mr. Lif (all Definitive Jux labelmates) and Camp Lo. With this release Aesop hit a higher level of recognition, releasing "No Jumper Cables" as a single and music video, then another single, "Sary Jane", shortly after. A remix of "No Jumper Cables" was featured on Tony Hawk's Underground 2, furthering Aesop's recognition. In 2004, He released Build Your Own Bazooka Tooth and created a contest in which you had to create a remix of an Aesop Rock song using the a cappellas and instrumentals.
2005–2006: Fast Cars EP and The Weathermen[link]
In February 2005, Aesop Rock released a new EP, Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives. The first pressing of the EP included an 88-page booklet with lyrics from every release from Float until this EP (the lyric booklet is titled The Living Human Curiosity Sideshow); later pressings of the album come without the booklet, but with an additional bonus track, "Facemelter". In addition, a limited number of albums were available direct from Def Jux with Aesop Rock's graffiti tag on them. In response to demands from his fans, Rock did less production on the EP: three songs are produced by Blockhead, three produced by Aesop, and one by Rob Sonic. During this time he was asked to join the Weathermen to replace Vast Aire.
2007: Deal with Nike+iPod, None Shall Pass, and Hiatus[link]
Aesop Rock was commissioned to create a 45-minute instrumental track for the Nike+iPod running system, entitled All Day. It was released in February 2007. Distributed via the iTunes Music Store and featuring his wife Allyson Baker on guitar and scratches from DJ Big Wiz, Aesop has described the release as "something that evolved enough that the sound was constantly fresh and attractive, as though the runner were moving through a set of differing cities or landscapes."[19]
All Day was followed in August of the same year by Bavitz's fifth full-length album, None Shall Pass (2007). The album also contained original artwork by Jeremy Fish. About Jeremy Fish, Aesop Rock said: "Man that guy is my hero. We have a friend in common who hit me up a while back saying that this guy Jeremy Fish had an opportunity to pitch a cartoon to Disney and wanted me to be involved in the music side. I flipped out cuz I was also a fan of his, and owned some of his work." Aesop Rock also teamed up with Jeremy Fish again in a project called Ghosts of the Barbary Coast. Aesop Rock made a song called "Tomorrow Morning", to go along with a slideshow of drawings that Jeremy Fish drew. This was displayed in San Francisco, but was also made available for download online.[20]
When El-P announced that the label, although it will carry on selling its catalog and merchandise, it would be put "on hiatus". Bavitz has since been absent when it came to making any new albums or EPs, albeit being featured on other artist records and producing.
[edit] 2008–present: Rhymesayers, Rob Sonic, Kimya Dawson, and Skelethon
In 2009, Bavitz produced Felt's third album, Felt 3: A Tribute To Rosie Perez. In November 2011, Bavitz announced via Reddit that he is working on his next solo album, and has a majority of it complete.[21]
On April 20, 2011, it was announced that Rhymesayers Entertainment would release Hail Mary Mallon's debut album Are You Going To Eat That?. A music video for their first single off the album Smock was announced that same day.[22]
Aesop Rock is also reportedly working on an album with anti-folk singer Kimya Dawson, famous for being one half of group The Moldy Peaches.[23] The working title for the project is called Hokey Fright, while the group has been named The Uncluded.[24]
On January 17, 2012, it was reported that Aesop Rock finished recording his upcoming solo album Skelethon, and it is scheduled to be released July 10, 2012 through Rhymesayers Entertainment.[25]
On April 10, 2012, The first official single Zero Dark Thirty off of Aesop Rock's Rhymesayers debut album Skelethon was released on both SoundCloud and YouTube. As of April 20, 2012 the song had already received a combined plays/views of 86,434 on the official YouTube and SoundCloud pages.[26]
Lyrics[link]
Bavitz's lyrics are generally seen as complex and abstract while others[who?] just dismiss it as logorrhea or inscrutable ramblings. Critics state that the use of words can be so detailed that it becomes difficult to determine their originally intended meaning.[27] The interpretation is highly subjective, because the messages conveyed are not always clearly defined. The lyrics are sometimes inspired by events which have occurred in Bavitz's personal life.[28][29]
Questioned about his lyrical style in an interview, Bavitz responded:
It’s probably because it’s not the most accessible music in the world. It may pose a slight challenge to the listener beyond your average pop song. I'm no genius by a long shot, but these songs are not nonsensical, that's pretty preposterous. I'd have to be a genius to pull this many nonsensical records over people's eyes. It's not exactly fast food but when people pretend I'm just spewing non-sequiturs and gibberish I can’t help but think they simply haven’t listened and are regurgitating some rumor they’ve heard about me. Even if it's not laid out in perfect sentences—is any rap?—you’d have to be an idiot to not at least grasp a few things from these songs. Or have had no interest in pulling anything from them in the first place.[30]
In 2002 on the song "One of Four" (a hidden track on the Daylight EP) Aesop Rock explains:
But I can tell you that I only write shit down when I believe it so take this how you want but know I mean it.
— Aesop Rock 2002
Selected discography[link]
Main article: Aesop Rock discography
Albums[link]
EPs[link]
Compilations[link]
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Collaborations[link]
- Crooked - Evil Nine (2004)
- Ghosts of the Barbary Coast – Aesop Rock and Jeremy Fish (2009)
- Are You Gonna Eat That? – Hail Mary Mallon (Aesop Rock, Rob Sonic, and DJ Big Wiz) (May 2011)[31]
- Daytrotter Session Recorded May 26, 2011 – Aesop Rock and Kimya Dawson[32]
- Two of Every Animal (Aesop Rock and Cage) (TBA)
- Hokey Fright – The Uncluded (Aesop Rock and Kimya Dawson) (2012)[33]
Filmography[link]
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 | Performer: "Labor" | Video game, Soundtrack only |
| 2003 | Sad Clown Bad Dub IV | Himself – Credited as "Ian Bavitz" | Video documentary with Atmosphere |
| 2004 | Tony Hawk's Underground 2 | Performer: "No Jumper Cables" | Video game, Soundtrack only |
| 2005 | Letter to the President | Himself – Recording Artist | Video documentary |
| The Warriors | Himself | Video game, Additional voices only | |
| Tony Hawk's American Wasteland | Featured In: "Put Your Quarter Up" | Video game, Soundtrack only | |
| MTVU Woodie Awards 2005 | Himself | TV Special, First award show appearance | |
| 2006 | Hip Hop Street Credentials | Himself | Video documentary |
| 2007 | My Shot With... | Himself | Appears in "Bonnaroo" episode. |
| 2008 | Engine Room | Judge | Miscellaneous Crew |
| 2009 | Fight Night Round 4 | Featured In: "The Baskervilles (Amplive Remix) with Tokyo Police Club, and Yak Ballz | Video game, Soundtrack only |
| 2010 | Blacking Up: Hip-Hop's Remix of Race and Identity | Himself | Television documentary |
| Independent Lens | Himself | Episode 218 |
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Aesop (pronounced /ˈiːsɒp/ EE-sop, Greek: Αἴσωπος, Aisōpos, c. 620-564 BC) was a fabulist or story teller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables. Although his existence remains uncertain and (if they ever existed) no writings by him survive, numerous tales credited to him were gathered across the centuries and in many languages in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day. In many of the tales, animals speak and have human characteristics.
Scattered details of Aesop's life can be found in ancient sources, including Aristotle, Herodotus, and Plutarch. An ancient literary work called The Aesop Romance tells an episodic, probably highly fictional version of his life, including the traditional description of him as a strikingly ugly slave (δοῦλος) who by his cleverness acquires freedom and becomes an adviser to kings and city-states. Older spellings of his name have included Esop(e) and Isope. A later tradition (dating from the Middle Ages) depicts Aesop as a black Ethiopian. Depictions of Aesop in popular culture over the last 2500 years have included several works of art and his appearance as a character in numerous books, films, plays, and television programs.
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Life[link]
The name of Aesop is as widely known as any that has come down from Graeco-Roman antiquity [yet] it is far from certain whether a historical Aesop ever existed ... in the latter part of the fifth century [BC] something like a coherent Aesop legend appears, and Samos seems to be its home.
The earliest Greek sources, including Aristotle, indicate that Aesop was born around 620 BC in Thrace at a site on the Black Sea coast which would later become the city Mesembria; a number of later writers from the Roman imperial period (including Phaedrus, who adapted the fables into Latin), say that he was born in Phrygia.[2] The 3rd-century poet Callimachus called him "Aesop of Sardis,"[3] and the later writer Maximus of Tyre called him "the sage of Lydia."[4]
From Aristotle[5] and Herodotus[6] we learn that Aesop was a slave in Samos and that his masters were first a man named Xanthus and then a man named Iadmon; that he must eventually have been freed, because he argued as an advocate for a wealthy Samian; and that he met his end in the city of Delphi. Plutarch[7] tells us that Aesop had come to Delphi on a diplomatic mission from King Croesus of Lydia, that he insulted the Delphians, was sentenced to death on a trumped-up charge of temple theft, and was thrown from a cliff (after which the Delphians suffered pestilence and famine); before this fatal episode, Aesop met with Periander of Corinth, where Plutarch has him dining with the Seven Sages of Greece, sitting beside his friend Solon, whom he had met in Sardis. (Leslie Kurke suggests that Aesop himself "was a popular contender for inclusion" in the list of Seven Sages).[8]
Problems of chronological reconciliation dating the death of Aesop and the reign of Croesus led the Aesop scholar (and compiler of the Perry Index) Ben Edwin Perry in 1965 to conclude that "everything in the ancient testimony about Aesop that pertains to his associations with either Croesus or with any of the so-called Seven Wise Men of Greece must be reckoned as literary fiction," and Perry likewise dismissed Aesop's death in Delphi as legendary;[9] but subsequent research has established that a possible diplomatic mission for Croesus and a visit to Periander "are consistent with the year of Aesop's death."[10] Still problematic is the story by Phaedrus which has Aesop in Athens, telling the fable of the frogs who asked for a king, during the reign of Peisistratos, which occurred decades after the presumed date of Aesop's death.[11]
The Aesop Romance[link]
Along with the scattered references in the ancient sources regarding the life and death of Aesop, there is a highly fictional biography now commonly called The Aesop Romance (also known as the Vita or The Life of Aesop or The Book of Xanthus the Philosopher and Aesop His Slave), "an anonymous work of Greek popular literature composed around the second century of our era....Like The Alexander Romance, The Aesop Romance became a folkbook, a work that belonged to no one, and the occasional writer felt free to modify as it might suit him."[12] Multiple, sometimes contradictory, versions of this work exist. The earliest known version "was probably composed in the 1st century AD", but the story "probably circulated in different versions for centuries before it was committed to writing";[13] "certain elements can be shown to originate in the 4th century BC."[14] Scholars long dismissed any historical or biographical validity in The Aesop Romance; widespread study of the work began only toward the end of the 20th century.
In The Aesop Romance, Aesop is a slave of Phrygian origin on the island of Samos, and extremely ugly. At first he lacks the power of speech, but after showing kindness to a priestess of Isis, is granted by the goddess not only speech but a gift for clever storytelling, which he uses alternately to assist and confound his master, Xanthus, embarrassing the philosopher in front of his students and even sleeping with his wife. After interpreting a portent for the people of Samos, Aesop is given his freedom and acts as an emissary between the Samians and King Croesus. Later he travels to the courts of Lycurgus of Babylon and Nectanabo of Egypt--both imaginary rulers--in a section that appears to borrow heavily from the romance of Ahiqar.[15] The story ends with Aesop's journey to Delphi, where he angers the citizens by telling insulting fables, is sentenced to death and, after cursing the people of Delphi, is forced to jump to his death.
Fabulist[link]
Aesop may or may not have written his fables. The Aesop Romance claims that he wrote them down and deposited them in the library of Croesus; Herodotus calls Aesop a "writer of fables" and Aristophanes speaks of "reading" Aesop[16], but no writings by Aesop have survived. Scholars speculate that "there probably existed in the fifth century [BC] a written book containing various fables of Aesop, set in a biographical framework."[17] Sophocles in a poem addressed to Euripides made reference to Aesop's fable of the North Wind and the Sun.[18] Socrates while in prison turned some of the fables into verse,[19] of which Diogenes Laertius records a small fragment.[20] The early Roman playwright and poet Ennius also rendered at least one of Aesop's fables in Latin verse, of which the last two lines still exist.[21]
The body of work identified as Aesop's Fables was transmitted by a series of authors writing in both Greek and Latin. Demetrius of Phalerum made a collection in ten books, probably in prose (Αισοπείων α) for the use of orators, which has been lost.[22] Next appeared an edition in elegiac verse, cited by the Suda, but the author's name is unknown. Phaedrus, a freedman of Augustus, rendered the fables into Latin in the 1st century AD. At about the same time Babrius turned the fables into Greek choliambics. A 3rd-century author, Titianus is said to have rendered the fables into prose in a work now lost.[23] Avianus (of uncertain date, perhaps the 4th century) translated 42 of the fables into Latin elegiacs. The 4th-century grammarian Dositheus Magister also made a collection of Aesop's Fables, now lost.
Aesop's Fables continued to be revised and translated through the ensuing centuries, with the addition of material from other cultures, so that the body of fables known today bears little relation to those Aesop originally told. With a surge in scholarly interest beginning toward the end of the 20th century, some attempt has been made to determine the nature and content of the very earliest fables which may be most closely linked to the historic Aesop.[24]
Physical appearance and the question of African origin[link]
The anonymously authored Aesop Romance (usually dated to the 1st or 2nd century AD) begins with a vivid description of Aesop's appearance, saying he was "of loathsome aspect...potbellied, misshapen of head, snub-nosed, swarthy, dwarfish, bandy-legged, short-armed, squint-eyed, liver-lipped—a portentous monstrosity,"[25] or as another translation has it, "a faulty creation of Prometheus when half-asleep."[26] The earliest text by a known author that refers to Aesop's appearance is Himerius in the 4th century, who says that Aesop "was laughed at and made fun of, not because of some of his tales but on account of his looks and the sound of his voice."[27] The evidence from both of these sources is dubious, since Himerius lived some 800 years after Aesop and his image of Aesop may have come from The Aesop Romance, which is essentially fiction; but whether based on fact or not, at some point the idea of an ugly, even deformed Aesop took hold in popular imagination. Scholars have begun to examine why and how this "physiognomic tradition" developed.[28]
A much later tradition depicts Aesop as a black African from Ethiopia.[29] The presence of such slaves in Greek-speaking areas is suggested by the fable "Washing the Ethiopian white" that is ascribed to Aesop himself. This concerns a man who buys a black slave and, assuming that he was neglected by his former master, tries very hard to wash the blackness away. But nowhere in the fable is it suggested that this constitutes a personal reference. The first known promulgator of the idea was Planudes, a Byzantine scholar of the 13th century who wrote a biography of Aesop based on The Aesop Romance and conjectured that Aesop might have been Ethiopian, given his name.[30] An English translation of Planudes' biography from 1687 says that "his Complexion [was] black, from which dark Tincture he contracted his Name (Aesopus being the same with Aethiops)". When asked his origin by a prospective new master, Aesop replies, "I am a Negro"; numerous illustrations by Francis Barlow accompany this text and depict Aesop accordingly.[31] But according to Gert-Jan van Dijk, "Planudes' derivation of 'Aesop' from 'Aethiopian' is...etymologically incorrect,"[32] and Frank Snowden says that Planudes' account is "worthless as to the reliability of Aesop as 'Ethiopian.'"[33]
The tradition of Aesop's African origin was carried forward into the 19th century. The frontispiece of William Godwin's Fables Ancient and Modern (1805) has a copperplate illustration of Aesop relating his stories to little children that gives his features a distinctly African appearance.[34] The collection includes the fable of "Washing the Blackamoor white", although updating it and making the Ethiopian 'a black footman'. In 1856 William Martin Leake repeated the false etymological linkage of "Aesop" with "Aethiop" when he suggested that the "head of a negro" found on several coins from ancient Delphi (with specimens dated as early as 520 BC)[35] might depict Aesop, presumably to commemorate (and atone for) his execution at Delphi,[36] but Theodor Panofka supposed the head to be a portrait of Delphos, founder of Delphi,[37] a view more widely repeated by later historians.[38]
The idea that Aesop was Ethiopian has been further encouraged by the presence of camels, elephants, and apes in the fables, even though these African elements are more likely to have come from Egypt and Libya than from Ethiopia, and the fables featuring African animals may have entered the body of Aesopic fables long after Aesop actually lived.[39] Nevertheless, in 1932 the anthropologist J.H. Driberg, repeating the Aesop/Aethiop linkage, asserted that, while "some say he [Aesop] was a Phrygian...the more general view...is that he was an African", and "if Aesop was not an African, he ought to have been;"[40] and in 2002 Richard A. Lobban cited the number of African animals and "artifacts" in the Aesopic fables as "circumstantial evidence" that Aesop may have been a Nubian folkteller.[41]
Popular perception of Aesop as black may have been further encouraged by a perceived similarity between fables of the trickster Br'er Rabbit, told by African-American slaves, and the traditional role of the slave Aesop as 'a kind of culture hero of the oppressed, and the Life [of Aesop] as a how-to handbook for the successful manipulation of superiors.'[42] This is reinforced by the 1971 TV production Aesop's Fables[43] in which Bill Cosby played Aesop. In this mixture of live action and animation, two black children wander into an enchanted grove, where Aesop tells them fables that differentiate between realistic and unrealistic ambition. His version there of the Tortoise and the Hare illustrates how to take advantage of an opponent's over-confidence.[44]
On other continents Aesop has occasionally undergone a degree of acculturation. This is evident in Isango Portobello's 2010 production of the play Aesop's Fables at the Fugard Theatre in Cape Town, South Africa. Based on a script by British playwright Peter Terson (1983),[45] it was radically adapted by the director Mark Dornford-May as a musical using native African instrumentation, dance and stage conventions.[46] Although Aesop is portrayed as Greek, and dressed in the short Greek tunic, the all-black production contextualises the story in the recent history of South Africa. The former slave, we are told 'learns that liberty comes with responsibility as he journeys to his own freedom, joined by the animal characters of his parable-like fables'.[47] One might compare with this Brian Seward's Aesop's Fabulous Fables[48] (2009), which first played in Singapore with a cast of mixed ethnicities. In it Chinese theatrical routines are merged with those of a standard musical.[49]
There had already been an example of Asian acculturation in 17th-century Japan. There Portuguese missionaries had introduced a translation of the fables (Esopo no Fabulas, 1593) that included the biography of Aesop. This was then taken up by Japanese printers and taken through several editions under the title Isopo Monogatari. Even when Europeans were expelled from Japan and Christianity proscribed, this text survived, in part because the figure of Aesop had been assimilated into the culture and depicted in woodcuts as dressed in Japanese costume.[50]
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Art and literature[link]
Ancient sources mention two statues of Aesop, one by Aristodemus and another by Lysippus,[51] and Philostratus describes a painting of Aesop surrounded by the animals of his fables,[52] none of which have survived. According to Philostratus
The Fables are gathering about Aesop, being fond of him because he devotes himself to them. For...he checks greed and rebukes insolence and deceit, and in all this some animal is his mouthpiece – a lion or a fox or a horse...and not even the tortoise is dumb – that through them children may learn the business of life. So the Fables, honoured because of Aesop, gather at the doors of the wise man to bind fillets about his head and to crown him with a victor’s crown of wild olive. And Aesop, methinks, is weaving some fable; at any rate his smile and his eyes fixed on the ground indicate this. The painter knows that for the composition of fables relaxation of the spirit is needed. And the painting is clever in representing the persons of the Fables. For it combines animals with men to make a chorus about Aesop, composed of the actors in his fables; and the fox is painted as leader of the chorus.[53]
With the advent of printing in Europe, various illustrators tried to recreate this scene. One of the earliest was in Spain's La vida del Ysopet con sus fabulas historiadas (1489, see above). In France there was I. Baudoin's Fables d’Ésope Phrygien (1631) and Matthieu Guillemot's Les images ou tableaux de platte peinture des deux Philostrates (1637).[54] In England there was Francis Cleyn's frontispiece to John Ogilby's The Fables of Aesop[55] and the much later frontispiece to Godwin's Fables Ancient and Modern mentioned above in which the swarthy fabulist points out three of his characters to the children seated about him.
Early on, too, the representation of Aesop as an ugly slave emerged. The tradition which makes Aesop a black African has resulted in several such depictions, ranging from 17th-century engravings to television portrayal by a black comedian. Some eschew them altogether (as in the portrayal of Aesop in The Bullwinkle Show.[56] In general, beginning in the 20th century, plays have shown Aesop as a slave, but not ugly, while movies and television shows have depicted him as neither ugly nor a slave.
In 1843, the archaeologist Otto Jahn suggested that Aesop was the person depicted on a Greek red-figure cup,[57] c.450 BC, in the Vatican Museums.[58] Paul Zanker describes the figure as a man with "emaciated body and oversized head...furrowed brow and open mouth", who "listens carefully to the teachings of the fox sitting before him. He has pulled his mantle tightly around his meager body, as if he were shivering...he is ugly, with long hair, bald head, and unkempt, scraggly beard, and is clearly uncaring of his appearance."[59] Some archaeologists have suggested that the Hellenistic statue of a bearded hunchback with an intellectual appearance, discovered in the 18th century and pictured at the head of this article, also depicts Aesop, although alternative identifications have since been put forward.[60]
Aesop began to appear equally early in literary works. The 4th-century-BC Athenian playwright Alexis put Aesop on the stage in his comedy "Aesop", of which a few lines survive (Athenaeus 10.432);[61] conversing with Solon, Aesop praises the Athenian practice of adding water to wine.[62] Leslie Kurke suggests that Aesop may have been "a staple of the comic stage" of this era.[63]
The 3rd-century-BC poet Poseidippus of Pella wrote a narrative poem entitled "Aesopia" (now lost), in which Aesop's fellow slave Rhodopis (under her original name Doricha) was frequently mentioned, according to Athenaeus 13.596.[64] Pliny would later identify Rhodopis as Aesop's lover,[65] a romantic motif that would be repeated in subsequent popular depictions of Aesop.
Aesop plays a fairly prominent part in Plutarch's conversation piece "The Banquet of the Seven Sages" in the 1st century AD and is there identified as the teller of amusing but moralistic fables.[66] The fabulist then makes a cameo appearance in the novel A True Story by the 2nd-century satirist Lucian; when the narrator arrives at the Island of the Blessed, he finds that "Aesop the Phrygian was there, too; he acts as their jester."[67]
Beginning with the Heinrich Steinhowel edition of 1476, many translations of the fables into European languages, which also incorporated Planudes' Life of Aesop, featured illustrations depicting him as a hunchback. The 1687 edition of Aesop's Fables with His Life: in English, French and Latin[68] included 28 engravings by Francis Barlow which show him as a dwarfish hunchback (see in the section above), and his facial features appear to accord with his statement in the text (p. 7), "I am a Negro".
The Spaniard Diego Velázquez painted a portrait of Aesop, dated 1639-40 and now in the collection of the Museo del Prado. The presentation is anachronistic and Aesop, while arguably not handsome, displays no physical deformities. It was partnered by another portrait of Menippus, a satirical philosopher equally of slave-origin. A similar philosophers series was painted by fellow Spaniard Jusepe de Ribera,[69] who is credited with two portraits of Aesop. "Aesop, poet of the fables" is in the El Escorial gallery and pictures him as an author leaning on a staff by a table which holds copies of his work, one of them a book with the name Hissopo on the cover.[70] The other is in the Museo de Prado, dated 1640-50 and titled "Aesop in beggar’s rags". There he is also shown at a table, holding a sheet of paper in his left hand and writing with the other.[71] While the former hints at his lameness and deformed back, the latter only emphasises his poverty.
In 1690, French playwright Edmé Boursault's Les fables d'Esope (later known as Esope à la ville) premiered in Paris. A sequel, Esope à la cour[72] (Aesop at Court), was first performed in 1701; drawing on a mention in Herodotus 2.134-5[73] that Aesop had once been owned by the same master as Rhodopis, and the statement in Pliny 36.17[74] that she was Aesop's concubine as well, the play introduced Rodope as Aesop's mistress, a romantic motif that would be repeated in later popular depictions of Aesop.
Sir John Vanbrugh's comedy "Aesop""[75] premiered at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, London, in 1697 and was frequently performed there for the next twenty years. A translation and adaptation of Boursault's Les fables d'Esope, Vanbrugh's play depicted a physically ugly Aesop acting as adviser to Learchus, governor of Cyzicus under King Croesus, and using his fables to solve romantic problems and quiet political unrest.[76]
In 1780, the anonymously authored novelette The History and Amours of Rhodope was published in London. The story casts the two slaves Rhodope and Aesop as unlikely lovers, one ugly and the other beautiful; ultimately Rhodope is parted from Aesop and marries the Pharaoh of Egypt. Some editions of the volume were illustrated with an engraving by Francesco Bartolozzi of a work by the painter Angelica Kauffmann. Titled "The beautiful Rhodope in love with Aesop", it pictures Rhodope leaning on an urn; she holds out her hand to Aesop, who is seated under a tree and turns his head to look at her. His right arm rests on a cage of doves, towards which he gestures. There is some ambiguity here, for while the cage suggests the captive state of both of them, a raven perched outside the cage may allude to his supposed colour.[77] In fact, the whole picture is planned to suggest how different the couple are. Rhodope and Aesop lean on opposite elbows, gesture with opposite hands, and while Rhodope's hand is held palm upwards, Aesop's is held palm downwards. She stands while he sits; he is dressed in dark clothes, she in white.
In 1844, Walter Savage Landor, who wrote Imaginary Conversations, published two fictional dialogues between Aesop and Rhodope.[78]
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Abandoning the perennial image of Aesop as an ugly slave, the movie Night in Paradise[79] (1946) cast Turhan Bey in the role, depicting Aesop as an advisor to King Croesus who falls in love with the king's intended bride, a Persian princess played by Merle Oberon. There was also the 1953 teleplay "Aesop and Rhodope"[80] by Helene Hanff, broadcast on Hallmark Hall of Fame with Lamont Johnson playing Aesop.
"A raposa e as uvas" ("The Fox and the Grapes"), a play in three acts about the life of Aesop by Brazilian dramatist Guilherme Figueiredo, was published in 1953 and has been performed in many countries, including a videotaped production in China in 2000 under the title Hu li yu pu tao or 狐狸与葡萄.[81]
Beginning in 1959, animated shorts under the title "Aesop and Son" appeared as a recurring segment in the TV series Rocky and His Friends[82] and its successor, The Bullwinkle Show.[56] The image of Aesop as ugly slave was abandoned; Aesop (voiced by Charles Ruggles), a Greek citizen, would recount a fable for the edification of his son, Aesop Jr., who would then deliver the moral in the form of an atrocious pun. Aesop's 1998 appearance in the episode "Hercules and the Kids"[83] in the animated TV series Hercules[84] (voiced by Robert Keeshan) amounted to little more than a cameo.
Occasions on which Aesop is portrayed as black include Richard Durham's[85] "Destination Freedom" radio show broadcast (1949), where the drama "The Death of Aesop,"[86] portrays him as an Ethiopian. In 1971, Bill Cosby played Aesop in the TV production Aesop's Fables.[43]
The musical Aesop's Fables by British playwright Peter Terson was first produced in 1983.[45] In 2010, the play was staged at the Fugard Theatre in Cape Town, South Africa with Mhlekahi Mosiea in the role of Aesop.
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Notes[link]
- ^ West, pp. 106 and 119.
- ^ Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World (hereafter BNP) 1:256.
- ^ Callimachus, Iambus 2 (Loeb fragment 192)
- ^ Maximus of Tyre, Oration 36.1
- ^ Aristotle, Rhetoric 2.20.
- ^ Herodotus, Histories 2.134.
- ^ Plutarch, On the Delays of Divine Vengeance; Banquet of the Seven Sages; Life of Solon.
- ^ Kurke 2010, p. 135.
- ^ Ben Edwin Perry, Introduction to Babrius and Phaedrus, pp. xxxviii-xlv.
- ^ BNP 1:256.
- ^ Phaedrus 1.2
- ^ William Hansen, review of Vita Aesopi: Ueberlieferung, Sprach und Edition einer fruehbyzantinischen Fassung des Aesopromans by Grammatiki A. Karla in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.09.39.
- ^ Leslie Kurke, "Aesop and the Contestation of Delphic Authority", in The Cultures Within Ancient Greek Culture: Contact, Conflict, Collaboration, ed. Carol Dougherty and Leslie Kurke, p. 77.
- ^ François Lissarrague, "Aesop, Between Man and Beast: Ancient Portraits and Illustrations", in Not the Classical Ideal: Athens and the Construction of the Other in Greek Art, ed. Beth Cohen (hereafter, Lissarrague), p. 133.
- ^ Lissarrague, p. 113.
- ^ BNP 1:257; West, p. 121; Hägg, p. 47.
- ^ Hägg, p. 47; also West, p. 122.
- ^ Athenaeus 13.82.
- ^ Plato, Phaedo 61b.
- ^ Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers 2.5.42: "He also composed a fable, in the style of Aesop, not very artistically, and it begins—Aesop one day did this sage counsel give / To the Corinthian magistrates: not to trust / The cause of virtue to the people's judgment."
- ^ Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights 2.29.
- ^ Perry, Ben E. Demetrius of Phalerum and the Aesopic Fables, Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, Vol. 93, 1962, pp.287-346
- ^ Ausonius, Epistles 12.
- ^ BNP 1:258-9; West; Niklas Holzberg, The Ancient Fable: An Introduction, pp. 12-13; see also Ainoi, Logoi, Mythoi: Fables in Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic Greek by Gert-Jan van Dijk and History of the Graeco-Latin Fable by Francisco Rodriguez Adrado.
- ^ The Aesop Romance, translated by Lloyd W. Daly, in Anthology of Ancient Greek Popular Literature, ed. William Hansen, p. 111.
- ^ Papademetriou, pp. 14-15.
- ^ Himerius, Orations 46.4, translated by Robert J. Penella in Man and the Word: The Orations of Himerius, p. 250.
- ^ See Lissarrage; Papademetriou; Compton, Victim of the Muses; Lefkowitz, "Ugliness and Value in the Life of Aesop" in Kakos: Badness and Anti-value in Classical Antiquity ed. Sluiter and Rosen.
- ^ Lobban, 2004, pp. 8-9.
- ^ "...niger, unde & nomen adeptus est (idem enim Aesopus quod Aethiops)" is one Latin translation of Planudes' Greek; see Aesopi Phrygis Fabulae, p. 9.
- ^ Tho. Philipott (translating Planudes), Aesop's Fables with His Life: in English, French and Latin, pp. 1 and 7.
- ^ Gert-Jan van Dijk, "Aesop" entry in The Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece, ed. Nigel Wilson, p. 18.
- ^ Frank M. Snowden, Jr., Blacks in Antiquity: Ethiopians in the Greco-Roman Experience (hereafter Snowden), p. 264.
- ^ Godwin then used the nom de plume of Edward Baldwin. The cover can be viewed online
- ^ Ancient Coins of Phocis web page, accessed 11-12-2010.
- ^ William Martin Leake, Numismata Hellenica: A Catalogue of Greek Coins, p. 45.
- ^ Theodor Panofka, Antikenkranz zum fünften Berliner Winckelmannsfest: Delphi und Melaine, p. 7; an illustration of the coin in question follows p. 16.
- ^ Snowden, pp. 150-51 and 307-8.
- ^ Robert Temple, Introduction to Aesop: The Complete Fables, pp. xx-xxi.
- ^ Driberg, 1932.
- ^ Lobban, 2002.
- ^ Kurke 2010, pp. 11-12.
- ^ a b IMDb.com
- ^ Available in two sections on Youtube.com
- ^ a b "Playwrights and Their Stage Works: Peter Terson". 4-wall.com. 1932-02-24. http://www.4-wall.com/authors/authors_t/terson_peter.htm. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
- ^ ""Backstage with 'Aesop's Fables' Director Mark Dornford-May", ''Sunday Times'' (Cape Town), June 7, 2010". Timeslive.co.za. http://www.timeslive.co.za/entertainment/article492685.ece/Backstage-with-Aesops-Fables-director-Mark-Dornford-May. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
- ^ "Aesop's Fables at the Fugard" (online listing); there are also short publicity excerpts on YouTube here [1] and here [2]
- ^ "Doollee.com". Doollee.com. 2002-11-15. http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsS/seward-brian.html. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
- ^ There are short excerpts on YouTube
- ^ Two academic studies support this conclusion: J.S.A. Elisonas: Fables and Imitations: Kirishitan literature in the forest of simple letters, Bulletin of Portuguese Japanese Studies, Lisbon 2002, pp.13-17 (for consideration of Isoho Monogatari) and Lawrence Marceau, From Aesop to Esopo to Isopo: Adapting the Fables in Late Medieval Japan (2009); an abstract of this paper appears on p.277
- ^ Geert van Dijk's article on Aesop in Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece, New York 2006, p.18
- ^ BNP 1:257.
- ^ Imagines 1.3
- ^ Antonio Bernat Vistarini, Tamás Sajó: Imago Veritatis. La circulación de la imagen simbólica entre fábula y emblema, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Studia Aurea 5 (2007), figures 2 and 1
- ^ British Museum site
- ^ a b The Bullwinkle Show at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ "Kids.britannica.com". Kids.britannica.com. http://kids.britannica.com/comptons/art-67202/Aesop-talks-with-a-fox-from-one-of-his-fables?&articleTypeId=31. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
- ^ Lissarrague, p.137.
- ^ Paul Zanker, The Mask of Socrates, pp. 33-34.
- ^ The question is discussed by Lisa Trentin in "What's in a hump? Re-examining the hunchback in the Villa-Albani-Torlonia" in The Cambridge Classical Journal (New Series) December 2009 55 : pp 130-156; available as an academic reprint online
- ^ "Digicoll.library.wisc.edu". Digicoll.library.wisc.edu. http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/Literature/Literature-idx?type=turn&entity=Literature.AthV2.p0163&id=Literature.AthV2&isize=M&pview=hide. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
- ^ Attribution of these lines to Aesop is conjectural; see the reference and footnote in Kurke 2010, p 356.
- ^ Kurke 2010, p. 356.
- ^ "Digicoll.library.wisc.edu". Digicoll.library.wisc.edu. http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/Literature/Literature-idx?type=turn&entity=Literature.AthV3.p0139&id=Literature.AthV3&isize=M&pview=hide. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
- ^ "Pliny 36.17". Perseus.tufts.edu. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137%3Abook%3D36%3Achapter%3D17. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
- ^ Moralia vol. II Loeb translation
- ^ Lucian, Verae Historiae (A True Story) 2.18 (Reardon translation).
- ^ "Magic.lib.msu.edu". Magic.lib.msu.edu. http://magic.lib.msu.edu/search~S39?/cXX%20folio%20PA3857%20.Z9%201687/cpa+3857+z9+1687/1%2C2%2C2%2CE/frameset&FF=cpa+3857+z9+1687+online&1%2C1%2C. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
- ^ There is a note on another from this series on the Christies site
- ^ "Lessing-photo.com". http://www.lessing-photo.com/p3/391913/39191333.jpg. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
- ^ "Fineart-china.com". http://www.fineart-china.com/upload1/file-admin/images/new7/Diego%20Velazquez-288688.jpg. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
- ^ "Books.google.co.uk". Books.google.co.uk. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rm0_DWd5jPoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22Boursault%22++Esope&source=bl&ots=4AwpHQxgVy&sig=5q1A7sZbyPPsgB-0L1G9WFh6XSg&hl=en&ei=zFyXTebaNcGHhQf4m7WCCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CDQQ6AEwBTgK#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
- ^ "Old.perseus.tufts.edu". Old.perseus.tufts.edu. http://old.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Hdt.+2.134.1. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
- ^ "Perseus.tufts.edu". Perseus.tufts.edu. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137%3Abook%3D36%3Achapter%3D17. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
- ^ "Archive.org". Archive.org. http://www.archive.org/stream/playsvanbrugh01vanbuoft#page/222/mode/2up. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
- ^ Mark Loveridge, A History of Augustan Fable (hereafter Loveridge), pp. 166-68.
- ^ View online; there is a copy in the Metropolitan Museum, NY
- ^ The second of these is included in Selections from the Imaginary conversations of Walter Savage Landor, New York 1899, archived online, pp.1-14
- ^ IMDb.com
- ^ IMDb.com
- ^ 00:00/00:00. "V.youku.com". V.youku.com. http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTgzOTIzNDQ=.html. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
- ^ Rocky and His Friends at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ IMDb.com
- ^ IMDb.com
- ^ "Richarddurham.com". Richarddurham.com. http://www.richarddurham.com/. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
- ^ "Richarddurham.com". Richarddurham.com. 1949-02-13. http://www.richarddurham.com/thedeathofaesop.htm. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
References[link]
- Adrado, Francisco Rodriguez, 1999-2003. History of the Graeco-Latin Fable (three volumes). Leiden/Boston: Brill Academic Publishers.
- Cancik, Hubert, et al., 2002. Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World. Leiden/Boston: Brill Academic Publishers.
- Cohen, Beth (editor), 2000. Not the Classical Ideal: Athens and the Construction of the Other in Greek Art. Leiden/Boston: Brill Academic Publishers. Includes "Aesop, Between Man and Beast: Ancient Portraits and Illustrations" by François Lissarrague.
- Dougherty, Carol and Leslie Kurke (editors), 2003. The Cultures Within Ancient Greek Culture: Contact, Conflict, Collaboration. Cambridge University Press. Includes "Aesop and the Contestation of Delphic Authority" by Leslie Kurke.
- Driberg, J.H., 1932. "Aesop", The Spectator, vol. 148 #5425, June 18, 1932, pp. 857–8.
- Hansen, William (editor), 1998. Anthology of Ancient Greek Popular Literature. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Includes The Aesop Romance (The Book of Xanthus the Philosopher and Aesop His Slave or The Career of Aesop), translated by Lloyd W. Daly.
- Hägg, Tomas, 2004. Parthenope: Selected Studies in Ancient Greek Fiction (1969-2004). Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press. Includes Hägg's "A Professor and his Slave: Conventions and Values in The Life of Aesop", first published in 1997.
- Hansen, William, 2004. Review of Vita Aesopi: Ueberlieferung, Sprach und Edition einer fruehbyzantinischen Fassung des Aesopromans by Grammatiki A. Karla. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.09.39.
- Holzberg, Niklas, 2002. The Ancient Fable: An Introduction, translated by Christine Jackson-Holzberg. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University press.
- Keller, John E., and Keating, L. Clark, 1993. Aesop's Fables, with a Life of Aesop. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press. English translation of the first Spanish edition of Aesop from 1489, La vida del Ysopet con sus fabulas historiadas including original woodcut illustrations; the Life of Aesop is a version from Planudes.
- Kurke, Leslie, 2010. Aesopic Conversations: Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue, and the Invention of Greek Prose. Princeton University Press.
- Leake, William Martin, 1856. Numismata Hellenica: A Catalogue of Greek Coins. London: John Murray.
- Loveridge, Mark, 1998. A History of Augustan Fable. Cambridge University Press.
- Lobban, Richard A., Jr., 2002. "Was Aesop a Nubian Kummaji (Folkteller)?", Northeast African Studies, 9:1 (2002), pp. 11–31.
- Lobban, Richard A., Jr., 2004. Historical Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Nubia. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press.
- Panofka, Theodor, 1849. Antikenkranz zum fünften Berliner Winckelmannsfest: Delphi und Melaine. Berlin: J. Guttentag.
- Papademetriou, J. Th., 1997. Aesop as an Archetypal Hero. Studies and Research 39. Athens: Hellenic Society for Humanistic Studies.
- Penella, Robert J., 2007. Man and the Word: The Orations of Himerius." Berkeley: University of California Press.
- Perry, Ben Edwin (translator), 1965. Babrius and Phaedrus. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
- Philipott, Tho. (translator), 1687. Aesop's Fables with His Life: in English, French and Latin. London: printed for H. Hills jun. for Francis Barlow. Includes Philipott's English translation of Planudes' Life of Aesop with illustrations by Francis Barlow.
- Reardon, B.P. (editor), 1989. Collected Ancient Greek Novels. Berkeley: University of California Press. Includes An Ethiopian Story by Heliodorus, translated by J.R. Morgan, and A True Story by Lucian, translated by B.P. Reardon.
- Snowden, Jr., Frank M., 1970. Blacks in Antiquity: Ethiopians in the Greco-Roman Experience. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
- Temple, Robert and Olivia (translators), 1998. Aesop: The Complete Fables. New York: Penguin Books.
- van Dijk, Gert-Jan, 1997. Ainoi, Logoi, Mythoi: Fables in Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic Greek. Leiden/Boston: Brill Academic Publishers.
- West, M.L., 1984. "The Ascription of Fables to Aesop in Archaic and Classical Greece", La Fable (Vandœuvres–Genève: Fondation Hardt, Entretiens XXX), pp. 105–36.
- Wilson, Nigel, 2006. Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece. New York: Routledge.
- Zanker, Paul, 1995. The Mask of Socrates: The Image of the Intellectual in Antiquity. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Further reading[link]
- Anonymous, 1780. The History and Amours of Rhodope. London: Printed for E.M Diemer.
- Anthony, Mayvis, 2006. The Legendary Life and Fables of Aesop. Toronto: Mayant Press. A retelling of the Life of Aesop for children.
- Caoursin, William, The Siege of Rhodes, London (1482), with Aesopus, The Book of Subtyl Histories and Fables of Esope (1484). Facsimile ed., 2 vols. in 1, Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1975. ISBN 978-0-8201-1154-4.
- Caxton, William, 1484. The history and fables of Aesop, Westminster. Modern reprint edited by Robert T. Lenaghan (Harvard University Press: Cambridge, 1967). Includes Caxton's Epilogue to the Fables, dated March 26, 1484.
- Clayton, Edward. "Aesop, Aristotle, and Animals: The Role of Fables in Human Life". Humanitas, Volume XXI, Nos. 1 and 2, 2008, pp. 179–200. Bowie, Maryland: National Humanities Institute.
- Compton, Todd, 1990. "The Trial of the Satirist: Poetic Vitae (Aesop, Archilochus, Homer) as Background for Plato's Apology", The American Journal of Philology, Vol. 111, No. 3 (Autumn, 1990), pp. 330–347. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Compton, Todd, 2006. Victim of the Muses: Poet as Scapegoat, Warrior and Hero in Greco-Roman and Indo-European Myth and History. Washington, D.C.: Center for Hellenic Studies.
- Daly, Lloyd W., 1961. Aesop without Morals: The Famous Fables, and a Life of Aesop, Newly Translated and Edited. New York and London: Thomas Yoseloff. Includes Daly's translation of The Aesop Romance.
- Figueiredo, Guilherme, 1953? The Fox and the Grapes (English translation of A raposa e as uvas). New York: Brazilian-American Cultural Institute.
- Gibbs, Laura (translator), 2002, reissued 2008. Aesop's Fables. Oxford University Press.
- Gibbs, Laura. "Aesop Illustrations: Telling the Story in Images", Journey to the Sea (online journal), issue 6, December 1, 2008.
- Gibbs, Laura. "Life of Aesop: The Wise Fool and the Philosopher", Journey to the Sea (online journal), issue 9, March 1, 2009.
- Jacobs, Joseph, The fables of Aesop: as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, London: David Nutt, 1889.
- Perry, Ben Edwin (editor), 1952, 2nd edition 2007. Aesopica: A Series of Texts Relating to Aesop or Ascribed to Him. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
- Sluiter, Ineke and Rosen, Ralph M. (editors), 2008. Kakos: Badness and Anti-value in Classical Antiquity. Mnemosyne: Supplements. History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity; 307. Leiden/Boston: Brill Academic Publishers. Includes "Ugliness and Value in the Life of Aesop" by Jeremy B. Lefkowitz.
- Temple, Robert, "Fables, Riddles, and Mysteries of Delphi", Proceedings of 4th Philosophical Meeting on Contemporary Problems, No 4, 1999 (Athens, Greece) In Greek and English.
- Wills, Lawrence M., 1997. The Quest of the Historical Gospel: Mark, John, and the Origins of the Gospel Genre. London and New York: Routledge. Includes, an appendix, Wills' English translation of the Life of Aesop, pp. 180–215.
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| Instruments | Vocals, guitar |
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John Darnielle (
/dɑrˈniːl/[1], born March 16, 1967) is an American musician, best known as the primary (and often solitary) member of the American band The Mountain Goats, for which he is the writer, composer, guitarist, and vocalist.[2]
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Early life[link]
Places Darnielle has lived[link]
Born in Bloomington, Indiana, at a young age Darnielle moved and grew up in and around San Luis Obispo, California. He has also lived in Grinnell, Iowa; Tallahassee, Florida; Colo, Iowa; Ames, Iowa; Chicago, Illinois; Portland, Oregon; Milpitas, CA and Denton, Texas. He currently resides in Durham, North Carolina with his wife Lalitree Darnielle, a photographer who was featured playing the banjo in the band's 1998 EP New Asian Cinema, and son Roman.[3]
Early years[link]
Darnielle grew up in Central California with an abusive stepfather by the name of Mike Noonan (1940-2004) (as referenced frequently in The Sunset Tree) and after high school, he went to work as a psychiatric nurse at the Metropolitan State Hospital in Norwalk, California. For a couple of years, he lived on the Metropolitan State grounds, writing songs and playing his guitar when he wasn't working. During this time he began recording some of his songs onto cassette tapes using a Panasonic boombox. Shortly after working at the hospital, Darnielle attended Pitzer College from 1991 to 1995, earning a degree in English.
Throughout his college education he continued to record music. In 1992, Dennis Callaci, a friend of Darnielle's and owner of Shrimper Records, released a tape of Darnielle’s songs called "Taboo VI: The Homecoming". Around that time, The Mountain Goats were born and began touring with just Darnielle on guitar and a bassist, first Rachel Ware and then Peter Hughes.
Musical career[link]
Darnielle is best known for his role in the band The Mountain Goats. Since starting the band in 1991, he has gained a cult following. Despite being dubbed a low fidelity artist, Darnielle has always dubbed his work "bi-fi", pointing out that recordings such as his couldn't be made without modern technology. He is known for his prolific output and literary lyrics. Sasha Frere-Jones, writing in The New Yorker, referred to him as "America’s best lyricist".[4] In its June 2006 issue, Paste magazine named Darnielle one of the "100 Best Living Songwriters".[5]
Darnielle has several series of songs with similar titles or storylines. A series entitled "Going To..." features small stories about various places and includes songs such as "Going to Cleveland", "Going to Maryland", "Going to Georgia", and "Going to Queens". This series explores the futility of running away from one's problems in stark and cryptic detail. His "Alpha" series is about a distressed couple's marriage and history, with such song titles as "Alpha Incipiens", "Alphabetizing", and "Alpha Rats Nest". The band's 2002 album Tallahassee was exclusively about the couple; there have subsequently been no more "Alpha" songs.
Darnielle has stated that all songs written up to and including those on Tallahassee are fictional, but that The Sunset Tree is autobiographical.
Veganism[link]
Darnielle went vegetarian in 1996 and stated in a 2007 interview with Vegan Radio that he was vegan.[6] In the same year, he performed at a benefit for the animal rights organization Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen, New York. He performed again at Farm Sanctuary in 2009.
Collaborations[link]
Darnielle is featured on Aesop Rock's song "Coffee" (from the hip-hop artist's 2007 album None Shall Pass) and appears in the corresponding music video. Additionally, Aesop Rock remixed The Mountain Goats' "Lovecraft in Brooklyn".
In 2008, Darnielle announced the release of a tour-exclusive EP entitled The Black Pear Tree, the result of a collaboration with tourmate Kaki King. He collaborated with John Vanderslice on lyrics for the 2005 album Pixel Revolt, and in 2009, Darnielle released a collaborative recording after a shared tour with Vanderslice.
On September 20, 2010, Darnielle appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon with the band Superchunk (whose drummer, Jon Wurster, is also in The Mountain Goats). They performed the song Digging for Something with a big reception.
Writing[link]
Darnielle's first book, Black Sabbath: Master of Reality, was published in April 2008 as part of the 33⅓ series. He writes the "South Pole Dispatch" feature in Decibel Magazine every month.
Bands in which Darnielle has played[link]
Darnielle is also a member or former member of the following bands:
- The Extra Lens (along with Franklin Bruno). They have released two full-lengths titled "Martial Arts Weekend", "Undercard", as well as "Infidelity" a double sided 7" EP.
- The Comedians (along with John Vanderslice). The band's only studio recording was credited to "The Mountain Goats and John Vanderslice".
- The Seneca Twins (along with Lalitree Darnielle and Chris Butler), whose 9-song demo, recorded in 1995, is still unreleased.
- The Bloody Hawaiians (along with Joel Huschle (Furniture Huschle), Mark Givens (Wckr Spgt), Caroline) Releases: The Magnificent Bloody Hawaiians, Bastard Son, The Threegos, "Lemon" on Cool Beans #4)
- The Congress (along with Mark Givens and other anonymous members)(Darnielle was singer / songwriter)
-releases: Election Year, Sleeping Under Angels' Wings, We All Fall Down, She Lies in Roses, The Farm Out Back, No Milk Since 1979, Full Term.
- The Crunch Sisters (performed one show, all recordings were lost[citation needed])
- Chicken Damage (Darnielle played live drums)
- The Salvation Brothers (Darnielle played live drums)
- The Orange Trees (Played one show in Evanston which was attended by about five people.)
References[link]
- ^ uhm, John Darnielle? The Mountain Goats Forums.
- ^ Denney, Alex (January 15, 2008). "Playing for Pride: John Darnielle speaks out on The Mountain Goats' new record". Drowned in Sound. http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/2800016.
- ^ New Asian Cinema (album)
- ^ Frere-Jones, Sasha (May 16, 2005). "The Declaimers". The New Yorker. http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/05/16/050516crmu_music. Retrieved December 26, 2011.
- ^ "Paste's 100 Best Living Songwriters #81-90". Paste. June 14, 2006. http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2006/06/pastes-100-best-living-songwriters-8190.html. Retrieved December 26, 2011.
- ^ "John Darnielle". Vegan Radio. http://veganradio.com/bumper/john-darnielle. Retrieved December 26, 2011.
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- TheMountainGoats.net
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- Last Plane to Jakarta
- Interview with 3:AM Magazine
- Roundtable between Darnielle and authors Jonathan Lethem and Rick Moody on the crossbreeding of music & literature (3/2006) From LA Weekly
- Note Books essay at Largehearted Boy
- The Songwriter as Storyteller: An Interview with John Darnielle from InDigest Magazine
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| Persondata | |
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| Name | Darnielle, John |
| Alternative names | |
| Short description | Singer-Songwriter |
| Date of birth | March 16, 1967 |
| Place of birth | Bloomington, Indiana, United States |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | |
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| Ace Norton | |
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| Born | (1982-05-24) May 24, 1982 (age 30) Venice, California |
| Occupation | film/video director |
| Years active | 2001-present |
Ace Norton (born May 24, 1982 in Venice, Los Angeles, California) is a music video and commercial director.
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Biography[link]
Norton grew up in Venice, and is the son of writer/director Bill Norton Junior and grandson of motion picture screenwriter William Norton Senior.
Norton spent most of high school shooting short films. One of which, "Cherry Coke Rage", won the highest award at the Los Angeles Film Festival. By the end of his high school career Norton had produced over 200 short films. Following graduation Norton attended the University of Southern California (USC) School of Cinema.
At USC Norton began to direct music videos for local Los Angeles bands. While in college Norton and friends (Toben Seymour, Hiro Murai, Charles Spano, Asiel Norton) created Commondeer Films. Using Norton's bedroom as office space, they would spend weekends emailing bands and animating low budget music videos. Commondeer produced over 40 music videos. After building his name in the Los Angeles art & music scenes, Norton's work caught the attention of Partizan founder Georges Bermann.
In 2005, at age 23, Norton signed to Partizan. Norton has been featured in Res, Promo, Boards, Wonderland, and Shots magazine.
Norton's body of work includes music videos for groups such as Aesop Rock, The Virgins, Sebastien Tellier, Death Cab for Cutie, Norah Jones, Bloc Party and Simian Mobile Disco, as well as promotional campaigns for Honda Element, and McDonalds.[1]
Norton is the younger brother of Asiel Norton, who recently is promoting his first feature film (Redland) through the Cinevegas film festival. He is good friends with actor Emile Hirsch.
Videography[link]
Music videos[link]
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Commercials[link]
- Coke Zero Commercial (2010)
- Set of Gap Commercial's (2009)
- Orbit Gum Commercial (2009)
- Yoplait "GoGurt Yogurt In A Tube" (2009)
- Vans "Dogtown"
- McDonald's "Flip Flop" (2005)
- Honda Civic Hybrid "Ecosystems" (2005)
- Coca Cola "Minis" (2006)
- Coca Cola "Summer" (2006)
- Honda Civic "Choices" (2006)
- Ray Ban Sunglasses "Chop" (2007)
- Champion "farm" (2007)
- Champion "city"(2007)
- Champion "mermaid" (2007)
- Alice (2008)
- Honda Element, (2008)
- Powertape (2008) (6 commercials)
Short films[link]
- Funny or Die "9 Lives" episode (2010)
- Dewana's Bridal-Starring Jaime King and Kick Gurry (2009)
- Electronic Beats- "Soundscapes" (2008)
- Powertape Short- "Oblivions Corner"-Starring Charles Spano (2009)
- Wake up Call-Starring Emile Hirsch (2008)
- God Bless Bloc Party (Documentary) (2005) [2]
Awards[link]
- Video of the Year - Vimus Video Awards 2008 - Simian Mobile Disco 'Hustler'[3]
- Nomination: Director of the Year MVPA 2008 [3]
References[link]
External links[link]
- Official Website of Ace Norton
- Ace Norton's IMDB Page
- Partizan Production Company
- Ace's Interview with Boards Mag
- Simian Mobile Disco Interview
- Bloc Party-Flux Interview
- Aesop Rock-Coffee Interview
| Persondata | |
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| Name | Norton, Ace |
| Alternative names | |
| Short description | |
| Date of birth | May 24, 1982 |
| Place of birth | Venice, California |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | |
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