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because he requires effort to decipher his lyrics, and lazy people justify their bad taste by saying he spouts bullshit.

>>53568453
This so much. I've had people complain that listening to him requires a thesaurus, and while some of his lyrics can be a little too abstract at times, I think he's a wonderful lyricist.

>>53568410
because we all listened to him too much when we were 15 and now we're sick of him.

>>53568480
Well hopefully a time comes when you grow past that stage and start to listen to him again.

>>53568525
>>53568480

>>53568525
Pretty sure that guy was saying he likes to listen Aesop Rock and people who don't are lazy for dismissing his work as bullshit.

idk i listened to labor days for the first time this week and i liked it, but he didnt stand out to me as anything mind-blowing

>>53568584
Listen to his other stuff too. Labor Days is in the lower ranks for me.

Aesop is amazing. He has made his own field in Hip-Hop, and in music general. I enjoy listening to his lyrics. It's exciting and surreal and personal and so unique.

"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" - that is one of his simplest but it amazes me as well. Aesop is God

>>53568584
Yeah man, get yourself some fuckin' None Shall Pass, that album kills.

>>53568688
>there's smoke in my iris
>so I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids

apparently having good lyrics makes you pretentious though

>>53568410
I DONT UNDERSTAND WHAT HE SAYIN
but im not english native btw

>>53568842
write whatever lyrics you don't get and we'll help you

>>53568842
http://genius.com/artists/Aesop-rock

>>53568410
I love aesop
but listening too him made me realize That I don't like rap.

his stuff imo is rap in its purest form . but its just not for me. I like gimmicky shit like young thug.

rather listen to folk music

>>53568410
I know it's hard to believe but Ian Bavitz is not Jewish

>>53568966
Whatever floats your boat man, there's a difference between acknowledging something's worth and liking it. It's cool that you recognize that difference and at least appreciate his value as an artist even if you don't like it.

>>53568764
the production is so fucking boring on that album. Honestly my least favorite of his

>>53568410
people talk about him all the time here are you new or something

>>53569143
Yeah, I feel the same about the production, though I don't listen to it for the production, it has some of his strongest verses and I find it a very lyrically compelinng work.

>>53569194
maybe i need to give it another chance. It just doesnt sonically hold my attention the way something like bazooka tooth does as of now

>>53569270
That's a fair point though, Bazook Tooth has a fuckin' gnarly sound, plus Aes goes really raw on that album too. Another one of my GOAT albums.

>>53569143
I dig the production on the album a lot actually. Reminds me of Earthbound.

>>53569327
as in the super nintendo game?

...how?

Anyone at the pittsburgh show last night? was awesome

>>53569426
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTFRTVd-Gcc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRL5TWF_0eU

stuff like this.

b/c he attracts the worst sort of people, backpacker pseudo-intellectuals

it's funny af

>>53569460
ok, i guess i see it. Cool, this might help me enjoy the album more

i have nothing new or interesting to say in this thread except i like him a lot

>>53569460
>>53569426
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgXqGBcGdX8&t=13m25s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEBGCOCxLgA


etc

I'm glad he doesnt get too much attention here. There would be so much memey hatred (eg. A THESAURUS LOL) that it would be impossible to discuss him anyway.

>>53568966
>I like gimmicky shit like young thug
That's really fucking lame.

it's because he's completely inoffensive. he's just a talented dude that makes str8 up good rap music, there's honestly not a lot to talk about.

i'm not saying that with a negative connotation towards him, js that /mu/ typically prefers to talk about things that are at least slightly polarizing. it's actually a good thing.

ever been to /fa/? the general rule is that if no one says anything at all about your fit, it's fine.

>>53568410
>conscious hip hop
pls go

also
>mu doesn't like him because he's white and jewish
see pic related and try again

>>53569536
>>conscious hip hop
>pls go

Jesus Christ, fuck off already. We get it, you only like ignorant-sounding things. That's fine. I don't get why you and your memer buddies have to shitpost 90% of threads with it.

Does anyone know where to find all the B-sides and rarities collections?

Aesop Rock likes to be overly verbose to make up for his mediocre rap skills.

>>53568410
>s the only reason Aesop Rock isn't talked about on here often because he's a white rapper and a jew?

B.. but we talk about Drake all the time.

Post your favorite Aesop verse

>It was less of an act of hubris
>More a lonely hearts club at the helm ofa magic bullet
>Away on a relentless bid for rarefied inertia
>Rattletrap forks married to the patchy terra firma Ursa Minor getting warmer
>I crowbar into the pecking order
>The dreck between the whores and Betty Ford-ers
>Hug a double yellow spine
>Knobby rubber like a rat on a rope
>Those little fuckers run on passion alone
>This is the product of a d.i.y. inadequate home
>Grabbing a cabin in the-fuck-outta-dodge
>Actin' a savage in the shadows of Rome
>Traffic amassed against insufferable odds
>Fashioning gallows out of plastic and bone
>I got the motordrome walls of death splintering under me
>All-city galvanized bikes white knuckling
>Bright light, tunnel kings tuck in the devil
>PS - I wrote this on a self-destructing memo...

>>53569816
I dunno man, he displays some pretty deep understanding of rapping technique on songs like Citronella, he's got some wicked flow.

>El-P and Aesop will never mend their wounds
>El-P and Aesop will never team up and make ill raps again
>El-P and Aesop will never tour the world like old times with their newfound fame


>El-P and Aesop will hate each other -- forever

;_;

>>53569572
>muh backpack

>>53571058
that's good because El-P kind of sucks. He's made some good stuff in the past, but the majority of it is no where near the level of Aesop. He's your average corny white straight rapper.

>>53568410

aesop rock is the mountain dew of rappers. after about 20 mins he goes flat

>>53568410
Kek I remember being 13

he was talked about when he was more relevant

>>53568966
>his stuff imo is rap in its purest form
why do you think that?

i am 32 and into aesop. is it because english isnt my mother tongue or because he is that good?

>>53569485
>>53571112
>backpack

>>53568410
>white
>jewish

pick one

he's like roman catholic I'm pretty sure

He was good for his time. Now he's bland as fuck

>>53574372
but skelethon is his best album by far

>Jews
>white

>>53574438
no

Because he is meme-hop

No one actually likes him. He's like beefheart.

>>53568410
people used to like him but now backpacker pseudo intellectual cuck shit is seen as gay while retarded nigger shit is seen as high quality art

>>53574869
>>53574822
>>53571112
>>53569572
mu blows dick

>>53568410
>Beastie Boys

What do backpacks have to do with anything?

>>53568453
>>53568472
>I've had people complain that listening to him requires a thesaurus
do you know what a thesaurus is? maybe you meant dictionary, a thesaurus is what he uses when he actually writes the lyrics.
seriously, taking a bunch of words that sound similar and throwing them together has even less artistic merit than postmodern art. It's not even interesting nonsense, like how bon iver's flume is. it's just reading a thesaurus.

>>53575188
backpacks get carried.
just like backpack rappers get carried into relevance/their next meal by their stans.

If he was black nobody would care. He's not that good, it's just that when youre white and not completely bad at rapping people assume you're eminem.

>>53571058
Whatever happened between them? I just assumed they parted ways when Def Jux imploded.

>>53575422
except that he massively downplays the fact that he's white. I thought he was black up until a few years ago.

>>53569037
correct

>>53568410
People who hate on aesop are fuccbois who like riff raff or faggots who think UGK ridin dirty is the best hip hop album ever aka blebs of the highest degree

Aesop for top patrish '03

>>53576405

>im the only stupid person who thought he wasn't white, that must mean he's wrong!

>>53576638

#conscioushiphop

>>53576653
there's nothing about his music that would have led me to believe he was white unlike memeshitters like eminem

>>53568410
>>53568453
>>53568472

Agree completely. The guy is a fucking master. I can understand if people don't like his music, but most people explaining it by claiming he's saying random bullshit and not saying anything. Pretty funny because they're usually the same people who will defend some of the genuinely shitty rap lyrics and project dimensions into fucking Kanye, and then can't handle 9th grade English class tier literary analysis.

Is the only reason Necro isn't talked about on here often because he's a white rapper and a jew?

Because he's talented as fuck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfGT0ii6LM0

>>53576710
this

>>53576742
necro isn't talked about because production aside he's fucking awful

>>53569270
listen to Skelethon, his latest LP. imo its the best production of his whole discography.

okay i listened to a couple tracks and i love his style, even though his voice sounds white as fuck.

is it wrong if i listen to him and i can't follow the lyrics? (not a native english speaker)
are his lyrics the main reason to listen to him? (i love experimental next level production, if he has an album with that i would love to hear it)

he really likes words

>People legitimately think he uses too many 'complicated' words

You niggers read a fucking book?

>woke up around noon, found everything I loved crushed down to a cube, the new kowloon
big aesop has the sickest references

>>53573616
Rap is poetry over instrumentals

>>53573896
Backpack Fitz vinyl nicely tho

>>53568480
this this this

also his being white does make me like him less
something about cultural gentrification etc.

>>53574754
wrong anon. it's bazooka tooth.

>>53573939
>>53574741
>>implying Jews can't be white

Don't believe everything /pol/ has hold you.

>>53575276
>taking a bunch of words that sound similar and throwing them together has even less artistic merit than postmodern art
>even less artistic merit than postmodern art

Ooops , I appear to have mis-clicked on a "shit plebs say" thread. Happens pretty often.

>Jew
He grew up Catholic and is currently atheist.
See
>Holy Smokes on Fast Cars
>No City on None Shall Pass
>Bad Karma on B Sides Pt. 1
>Big Bang and Oxygen on Float

>>53579343
he agnostic homie

>>53576710
I could see why you'd say people project dimensions into Kanye. Personally I have moments where I'm waffling over how aware he is. But he does have this obsessive need to fully convey the vision that's on his heart, often at his own expense. That's what my favorite artists do. He strives for an immediacy that is real and complex and unresolved, without intellectual distance. It's almost similar to the type of rawness I feel from Daniel Johnston. Also Kanye is a master of the big-picture, finished product.

I really like Aesop Rock a lot, mainly because his wordplay has a billion delightful moments. He drops these insightful lines that you have to untwist, and they're legitimately clever and exciting. He pushes himself toward a unique, ambitious type of mastery in rap lyrics. He has thousands of brilliant moments. I also really like when he produces.

That being said, I do find Aesop's holistic approach lacking in some ways. His delivery sounds forced sometimes. Occasionally he does corny little things that sounds like cringey nods to legit hip-hop. Some songs sonically feel too ramshackle. He's prone to use more words than necessary. The beats are not generally super dynamic. Some of these things can be endearing, but he doesn't embrace his crappyness the way Kanye embraces his crappyness. Aesop tends slightly toward that air of seriousness that makes people look a little silly at the end of the day.

>>53574754
wrong again

>>53568966
>young thug
>gimmicky
Nah mate, you are a true patrician. Thugger > Rock

>>53569517
a forum is in a really bad state when you'd rather not discuss something that interests you the most because the discussion is so bad

>>53582258
Although I don't like kanye, that was an excellent explanation and understand you're perspective completely. I agree with all of your points about Aesop, and I guess it's interesting so many people defensively avoid minor flaws in the music they like even when regardless of recognizing the flaws they still genuinely enjoy the music.

>>53573939

thanks for reminding me i'm discriminated against because i'm related to fucking Israelis i've never met and i'm assumed to be rich even though i'm scumbag broke shit.

get fucking cancer and die along with your entire family.

>>53579343
You forgot Save Yourself

>I don't frequent churches steeples on my weekends
>And I don't comment if you formulate a weak zen

>>53568410

that fashion was ahead of its time

>>53568410

/mu/ is too busy praising Yeezus and going hard in da mutha fuckin paint to listen to rap with big words. For the record, I like Yeezy and Flocka, but they can't touch Aesop's verses. He's GOAT

Aesop Rock just throws a bunch of words together and pretends they mean something.

honestly he's super overhyped. I like him, but I live in Minnesota and he's always talked about as if he's some underground legend. Soundset brings out the worst people.

Yoni Wolf is better frendo

>>53571273
But his production, man

>>53568410
You're just a tad late to the party. Like 2 years late.

>>53569194
>i listen to music not for the music
why not just read though his rapgenious profile

Hail Mary Mallon and Skeletheon are great

He's shit and this thread is full of samefags

>>53578072
lol what a faggot