I remember it was a suffering hot summer, and I'm a winter person. The "good" time of year rolled around for me again, and it was that year's first snow, on a mellow hour of the evening, nonetheless. I had achieved my wheels back after not being able to afford a car for four years. Then I broke the ungodly 9 month long sober barrier. I took a nice cold cruise and rolled myself a giant. Then this "Fryerstarter" song broke into the speakers and I reflected about how I had just landed a secure job, had friends on my side, and how grateful I was about my new partner. I was instantly a child again and I felt as if everything bad in my life never happened. It was heaven on earth. Just me, the snow, the secluded shores of MD, and my victory.
Check my mixtape bruh Honestly, I don't even know what that means. Should I have said something like "dis shyt reel as fuk" like you do on all those rap videos? Because I can try.
I've been listening to Aesop since 2001.He is one of the greatest writers in the history of human pen dancing. The way he makes complex narratives suit perfectly to the drum and bass of the beat forms a beautiful paradox.Lovely disorder.
He is a Hallmark card for schadenfreude, a Egyptian bowing to the Ptolemaic pharaoh, an inescapable smegma smell after a saturday night drinking turpentine and Jagermeister. Paradox though? Au contraire my uneducated friend, there is no dichotomy in perfection weaved. No opposition in war and peace. I see you are at the start of your journey, so I will not berate you. Please read more Brothers Grimm if you are confused.
That Guy which i don't mind, but when people claim they are the best and no one comes close, that's when i feel like the ego bubble needs to be popped and that they need to be critically reviewed.
To me, Aes is doing what Roger Zelazny did for Science Fiction. The work is extremely advanced for the genre. Where they separated themselves from the pack is through the raw intelligence. I come back to their works, and always find something new. Aesop Rock is continuing to evolve Hip Hop into the literary lexicon.
Can’t quite believe this album will be 10 years old this July 😱 the summer this came out, my whole life changed and I can’t thank Aes enough for this record which continues to excite and inspire me still to this day.
My life changed when I first heard Aes too, I only wear booger green and brown to this day. Sometimes if I'm feeling frisky a baggy gray skull cap to match the five straggly gray hair protruding from my curled mustache.
skelethon, float, bazooka tooth, non shall pass, the impossible kid, every album is fucking amazing and will hit you hard with nostalgia upon returning to these albums a year later
I love how low budget all of Rhymesayers album streams are. Keeping things simple helps the listener focus on their deep lyrics. Keep up the great work guys!
***** Since when is telling someone to stop putting Hiphop artists on a pedestal a display of my own ego? Look at all the comments on this page, a good 45% act like Aes is some Demigod because he can make dope music. I love Aes, and own everything he's ever released. All i'm saying is you shouldn't dickride someone to the point you think they should win prizes people who revolutionize existence get just for making some good music. Perhaps you should note the differences between "Dope track" and "OMG SUCH A POET PLS GET A NOBEL PRIZE!!!11"
Check my mixtape bruh Aesop Rock is the poet Laureate of his time! There is a nobel prize for literature which he will win in two years. I'm writing it again and there's nothing you can do!!! TROLOLOLOLOL He is the best emcee alive today. P.S. I hope it pisses you off and raises your blood pressure slightly.
I think this song completely redefined what I am willing to call GREAT art anymore. Full roller-coaster ride from the opening tone swells... nostalgic familial comfort, to looming suspense, through sheer terror, to wet-eyed joyous relief at the words "good dog". Every time. It's like visual art for the ears. He took 2 minutes to do what Darren Aronofsky needed 90 minutes to build up to with "Pi" or "Requiem", but then landed it with a happy ending. Similarly (minus any happy ending), "Fumes" final line "no she didn't, yes she did" can hit me the same way sometimes.
Ruby 81, fits the beginning where the kid in the red 31 lol looked like an 81 to me. some of those racers looked pretty clean on that track. did aesop knock that kid back into the lead?
Aes is honestly the most solid rapper I can think of today. Constant quality content, not a song I don't like. The Impossible Kid is an absolute masterpiece already. I remember when this album came out I played it non-stop for a whole fortnight and still blast it often to this day.
fuckyeahlions Man.. I heard that song in the background a few times, hearing parts of it, and always got an emotional 'tinge'.. One day I sat down, cranked the volume and read the lyrics to follow with the song.. and literally burst into tears afterwards, out of nowhere. The build...emotion.. and story are so powerful!
Absolutely. The first time i heard it, one thing stood out to me. The ambient noise builds slowly through the entire song, right up till the end where it all drops, and the first time i listened to it, i was so entranced i didn't even notice the increase in volume and chaos until it was gone in an instant, and it absolutely moved me to tearing up, a Fantastic effect.
AESOP ROCK MAKES ME SO HAPPY TO HAVE BEEN FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO HAVE HEARD "LABOR DAYS" AND "FLOAT" BY SOME BEAUTIFUL ACCIDENT AT 16 TO STILL BE FOLLOWING THE JOURNEY OF THE HIS GROWTH AS AN ARTIST FOR 20 PLUS YEARS....THANK YOU SIR.
Only 2 lyricists in the entire history of my life seem to have a special window they use to access the deepest, murkiest, blackest parts of my soul. One is Opeth's Mikael Akerfeldt. The other is this man. Props. 😔💜
Impossible kid, no regrets and none shall pass are amazing too though. The new spiritual guide one is great too, but not as great as skelethon + the first three mentioned
I know he's been making music for a LOOONG time, but I only first found out about and started listening to Aes in 2008 when someone at my high school passed away in a car accident. Following his death, I checked out his MySpace page (popular at the time) and he had Aesop's "None Shall Pass" as his profile song. Immediately fell in love with Aes then, but after the release of Skelethon I'm convinced he's the greatest rapper alive. Whether it's flow, lyrical content, or production, his all around style is fresh and vibrant. I've listened to this record so many times I've memorized nearly all of the lyrics to every song on this LP and I still come back for more. So, so, so good. I can't wait for his newest full album.
Took a long time to get here, but I'm glad I did. Getting to the core meaning of Ace's songs is like getting through a dense tropical forest with a butter knife. That shits hard work. But when you do, on the other side is Shangri-La.
Aesop grows on you, the more you listen the more you will tune into his genius lyrics, though you'll probably only give him a chance for his incredible flow if you aren't a fan of decrypting music. After a while you start tuning into the connections and understanding the song bit by bit, line by line, untill you can begin to patch the lines together. At first it sounds completely random, but they are not random, i assure you. I'm a complex rapper as well and i can't get anywhere close to his vocabulary. Concerning written rap, no one can touch Aesop Rock lyrical and flow wise.
I have listened to every song, since this album came out atleast four times a day, and I STILL haven't got tired of any of it. Aesop Rock, I effin' love you.
The Impossible Kid is such a fantastic album. So much so, that I completely forgot how wonderful this album is, regardless of how much time I spent with it in the past. For pure lyrics, I would have to say I much prefer this album over Impossible Kid. However, Impossible Kid feels like a much more complete and focused album. I highly enjoy watching and hearing Aes develop as an artist!
The amazing thing about this album is that each song has a different tone/ meaning: Depressing, Funny, Introspection, Retrospective, Honesty, Apathy, Doubt, Guilt, Isolation, Exile, Nostalgia, Love, Compromise, Determination, Family, Understanding, Hate, and many more concepts and emotions. Aesop's realest album to this day. Great lyrics, great instrumentals. Great all around music. Truly a masterpiece... ♪♫♥
No I have dug very very deep in the underground and have found some great artists on the way such as Atmosphere, Brother Ali, El-P, P.O.S., and many many more. But Aesop Rock is underrated dude. Lyrically who can top Aesop??
@@musaka2022 Can't help that the top rapper's are white dudes. Or maybe it's just that white folks are more relatable to other white folks. Are you a simple person? Either way: what kind of loser says "Caucasoid"?
@@musaka2022 Based and Redpilled. Aesop is a Juden though, just something to keep in mind while listening. Ian Mathias Bavitz. In one of his songs he implies that Jesus’s death was laid at the feet of Pontius Pilot.
I love the way Rhymesayers is promoting this. I am 500% more likely to buy this album now that I've heard the whole thing in HD and they've made it easy for me to check out tour dates and the like. Music Promoters - THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT.
This never even occurred to me but it's putting a huge fucking smile on my face seeing him have a blast lol. Dude deserves it. I aspire to be at his level of expression and authenticity.
First time I encountered Aes, I didn't like hip-hop. I related it to "artists" like lil wayne or gucci mane. I thought hip-hop was some overly corrupt branch of the music industry, much like alt rock or pop, where "artists" didn't write their own music or lyrics. Aesop, the first time I listened to him, was very jarring. So much so that I didn't like it. (labor days). Then I checked out The impossible kid and I fucking loved it. I listened to that album exclusively for over a month. Day in, day out. Then I started listening to his earlier work like none shall pass and labor days, I still found it a bit jarring, but I kept on listening to it, cause I knew the dude had fucking talent. I guess this sort of music is like jazz, where as you really need to understand the art before you can appreciate it, let alone love it. Aes' music introduced me to a whole new spectrum of music, and I'll forever appreciate him for that. Keep at it, Aes. You're kind of a hero of mine.
I've checked out a few of his song, thought I couldn't tell you which). I liked what I heard, but I keep coming back to Aes. I tend to do that when I find music I really like. I'll check MF Doom again though.
Putting a full album on the internet probably seems like a crazy idea to some record companies. It worked for Rhymesayers, because after listening to it twice, I will be getting this album tomorrow.
Aesop Rock is truly a real hip hop artist. If you listen to his albums often, you will learn to love the differentiating and innovative instrumentals spread throughout his career, but thats just the first and easiest step.
Jeez favorite track? I can pick about 6 of them that tie for first place in my opinion. Props to Aes on the beats. Best production I've heard in awhile.
I am the only one who loves the drums on this album? From their dirty sound, to how complicated and multi-structured the percussions are? Of course, all those small beeping keyboards sometimes popping up are cool as hell. I love how flexible Aesop can be with his production.
New to the land of Aesop and his school of ah-ha moments but I gotta say I'm not typically a fan of hip hop etc but this dude is laying down some serious stream of consciousness and maybe its just me but this guy's a prophet. I'm just thrilled to be inundated with his material and how it makes me think. Amazed, really.
I Love Aes his music has so much meaning and almsot every song is an awesome or touching story. Also big props to Rhymesayers for having enough love for their fans to release the whole album into a hour long video.
I can't express how grateful I am that Rhymesayers and Aesop decided to do this. I wasn't able to purchase it on the release date and Aesop is my favorite artist. Needless to say ill be picking this up when I cash my paycheck today. Thanks again.
What each song is actually about for those who don't get what he's saying or are too lazy to do some research: 1.Leisureforce - Living the life as a recluse, pretty much staying at home all day with your cat taking a nap or playing videogames. 2.ZZZ Top - The life of 3 different teenagers growing through life and finding out what they like. The first kid writes Zoso in his desk, meaning he a fan of rock. The second kid writes Zulu, he's a fan of rap and the third one Zeros meaning he's a fan of punk rock. 3.Cycles to Gehenna - Gehenna is a place at Jerusalem where they dump trash, dead bodies and other nasty ass shit like that. It's also the place where Jesus described as the Lake of Fire when the Apocalypse happens and the Devil gets burned. The song itself it's about a dude riding a motorcycle too fast and crashing and dying, hence the "Gehenna" 4.Zero Dark Thirty - That one goddamn time in life where you grow up and realize your an adult and has to deal with shit by yourself. The song rapid-pace is to resemble how everything changes really fast. 5.Fryestarter - An allusion to the Christian heaven, but actually being about a donut shop at San Francisco, CA owned by Bob. When Aes moved from NY to CA, the shop was one of the most comfortable places for him to hang out cause it hit home and was really "New York-ish" 6.Ruby '81 - The story about a Beagle dog saving a kid from drowning back in July 4th, 1981 during a family pool party. 7/8.Crows 1 & 2 - Songs about graveyards, a physical to "re-encountering" with your dead friends in this dark place that gets haunted at night. 9.Racing Stripes - Aes gets philosophical about getting a bad haircut. 10.1,000 O'Clock - When you wake up one day and feel tired of the routine and says "Fuck this shit" and wanna do something different with your life after everything gets boring. 11.Homemade Mummy - After your cat/pet dies, this is the best guide for you to mummify it at home and use it as a Halloween feature at your house, yay! Yea.. that's it basically. And its also about following your heart, and not your brain. 12.Grace - A song about how much Aes fucking hated vegetables, (specially green beans) as a kid and never wanted to eat them. 13.Saturn Missiles - What goes on in the mind of a kid daily and what he/she listens to it everyday from their parents when they do shit they ain't allowed to, it narrates from the beginning until the end of the childhood, when the kid becomes interested in.. other things. Saturn could be a vagina/dick and the Missile the aim for it. 14.Tetra - This is Aes official shit-talking song. It's basically a braggadocious track about how dope he is at rapping and how other rappers can't fuck with him or his bars. He goes in, dayum. ON ANOTHER NOTE, the whole song is a double entendre, could also be viewed from a depressed sociopath teenager who just broke up with his girlfriend and it's ready to kill somebody or in the worst case, kill himself. 15.Gopher Guts - An introspecting song about Aes' relationship with other people, such as his family members. He thinks that just because you may have a blood bond with somebody, it doesn't mean you have an emotional one, hence the mention of his mom on the first verse. He also speaks on how sometimes in his life he was asshole for people who cared for him and just wanted to help him but he always seemed to push 'em away somehow. Hope that helps yo
+god mode You're half right about Cycles to Gehenna. He wrote the song for his friend that died in a motorcycle accident, not just some dude. Hence the line "when you can't take your dead friends names out your phone".
Well for Gopher Guts its a bit more in depth, the three snakes, frogs, etc throughout the song represent his brothers and him self (or all young people). The animals are disliked, disgusting creatures and are taken, told they are amazing then thrown into the real world without any real preparation for it. People only realize the flaw of this after its too late hence the "oh" after each chorus.
he goes in on 1,000 oclock. "Today a thousand sea lions got up and left a pier They had successfully invaded and secured for 20 years Some said it was the food supply or shifting weather patterns Truthfully a whole community of scientists are baffled" I remember when that shit happened, people in SF thought the world was ending. lol
Very Esoteric. Aes's lyrics amazing!!! I think that's why. Cosmicmelon, people don't understand his lyrics, and he's not on a major label that wants to produce a million-dollar maker and sell their creative souls....so to speak.
It was the first Album after his BFF died, so I imagine his mood was pretty bleak. The song 'Get Out Of The Car' from 'The Impossible Kid' explains it well.
Pretty cool of Rhymesayers to upload the whole album to give people a full preview instead of a ridiculous 30 second snippet from every song. Shit drives me insane.
Man, i had no idea that gokart track was still operational 11 years ago, im having serious nostalgia currently, i appreciate the heck out of this existing and for its creation (the music and the sick live vid) ❤❤❤
Having flown off motorbikes a couple times and not died, I have a special appreciation for Cycles to Gehenna. Also have a special appreciation for still having all my eyes and teeth considering how easy it is to eat shit on a bike. Ride fast, think quick, watch out.
sticking with stuckey my older sister introduced me to AES back when I was freshman in high school with labor days. been banging it ever since same CD too!
I dont even know when I first heard him. I was at a friends and he was playing this internet radio station on winamp called 'the basement' and my mind was blown I was super hooked.
this song is the most beautiful thing i have ever heard. i miss my childhood so much. i wish i can return to the days where i thought the world was perfect
