Words cannot express how much profound respect I have for Rhymesayers; Despite having (and in some cases even facilitating the purchase of) the album and affiliated merch for sale, they're still streaming the full album for free for those who might not currently have the cash to drop. Y'all know what I'm saying, so I'll leave it with this: *MAD* love to Aes, Tobacco, & Rhymesayers for continuing to actively promote love of the craft rather than love of the coin. Thank you for making my whole year despite it only being January, and I can't fuckin wait for my vinyl of Malibu Ken's debut album to arrive!
^ fuck that dude. Being publicly negative, for some bullshit thought. Rhymesayers put albums on RU-vid, for free. I think it's a big part of keeping me moving forward for awhile now. I purchase vinyl consistently :)
Lol preach. It blows my mind his Lyrics on Music For Earthworms are just as good as his lyrics today. Very few artists 1st album had elite songs like his did
Honestly, he's still improving. He isn't just treading the tide of a previous bar that was set, he's innovating his approach esp with the impossible kid in ways that most artists progression never reach. Pretty wild.
I always made the assessment of Aes's work being the only musical equivalent of an 8-bit game that has replay value... For the entirety of my life i will play Mario and listen to Aesop. Somehow, neither gets old and the more I look back the more substance I realise i overlooked.
Yea, he can be pretty dam metaphorical making multiple interpretations possible, it sets aes aside from the plebs of the industry, hence the great replay value of interpreting it in different ways through multiple listens
I dunno, I can't get into this album. Aes is still incredible, but the vaporwave synth stuff doesn't do anything for me. There's not enough hard-hitting bass to punctuate the lyrics, and everything just comes out sounding the same. I'm glad Aes is still making music, but this album is pretty monotone.
Definitely check out Black moth super rainbow. Forever Heavy is an amazing song. I first heard that band when I seen them open for Aesop Rock w/Rob Sonic. Before they did Hail Mary Mallon.
Tracklist: 0:00 Corn Maze 3:21 Tuesday 6:50 Save Our Ship 10:17 Sword Box 14:16 Dog Years 17:19 Acid King 20:50 Suicide Big Gulp 24:17 1+1=13 28:01 Churro 30:24 Purple Moss This project is delicious.
@@paulsallee4889 Well, I checked the description earlier and it must've been glitched - I did not see it. Regardless, mobile users can't click timestamp links in video descriptions; they can use this and surely will appreciate my efforts more than you will :^)
It's starting to feel like a nice night Hold close to the highs and the white light Hold close to the good you are drawn to These woods were grown to disarm you
This is some of the best production I’ve ever heard spanning a whole album. People - support this work of art and buy this album. Aesop and Tobacco deserve your hard earned money on this one!
Real talk. I'm constantly letdown by modern hip hop albums (Butterfly, XXX, Flower Boy, DAYTONA)... but this right here, this fuckin' hit all the spots for me. I'll echo your sentiments, and encourage people to straight up BUY this incredible album.
Aesop's my favourite artist and he's still great on this but man people are overlooking Tobacco's work here. Especially that beat on Tuesday, it's just insane.
Legit man, huge Aesop fan. Been listening to Tobacco since I stumbled across the Dirt collab. Dude is fuckin dope. That strictly analogue synth sound is so nice on a pair of decent over ears. This partnership is a blessing.
It's certainly a fever dream collab and I dig it but it doesn't make as big of waves as the HMM albums with bobby and big wiz. Hopefully aes doesn't do something to sour yet another collab relationship.
This album is too good man. It's truly impressive how Aesop has continued to master his craft. And Tobacco's beats are just a thing of beauty. God damn I'm happy to be alive and being able to hear new music.
Sword Box and Dog Years are criminally smooth. And just like with Ruby, Aes throws us Acid King, a casual banger/history lesson on the Ricky Kasso case. Because why wouldn't he, the mad bastard. I love you Aes, don't never leave me.
I love that track SO much. This is only my second listen to Malibu Ken, I'm looking forward to playing this album over and over, and exploring more of Aesop's work.
Tobacco stole this. Aes with his tired flow and same story style, it's just old sounding. The vox need to be softened too on the highs, makes my tweets bounce too much which nothing has done to date
I absolutely loved this. Aes really came with his A game, better than I've ever heard him rap. The production is just awesome and very unique. Another classic in the bag!
The musical qualities of the first track resonate with me in such a intrinsically fluent way. I feel like I am transcending mind and body when I hear the fire bars. You just can't listen to this without changing in some way. After this album, my kids finally opened up to me in a such a emotionally vulnerable way that it brought tears to my eyes. George Jr. never told me about his anxiety before. His grades have dropped and I've been worried. But after showing this album to him he immediately went to his room and did his homework. It was so well done that on parent teacher day Mrs. Jones - sorry, Ms. Jones, asked me what had changed. Simply enough, Churro had changed my son into a different young man. Filled with intrinsic curiosity and wonder he now takes on the world with newfound bravery and social awareness. Just the other day he asked me, "one strawberry jelly one glazed?". I answered, "yeah".
Yeah.... This is my favorite album of all time. This shit is perfect from beginning to end. Every song gives me goosebumps. A perfect matchup. Hoping for more from these two!!
I just discovered Aesop at the start of the pandemic. Heard about this album, but decided to wait to listen to it - don't know why. Am listening for the first time now, and am blown away! This is one of, if not the, best things I've ever heard. Waiting was right!
@@lorib360 i do that with mac miller tapes i havent heard yet and a few DOOM collaborative albums i havent heard like nuirvana DOOM and monster island czars. also havent listened to either KMD albums all the way through yet, have heard a couple songs months apart from each other but its always good keeping stuff you know is there to listen to and be new to you in the future as it gets older
@@zoom4368 The Empire Builder is the name of the Amtrak line that runs between Portland OR and Chicago. I heard somewhere he left Portland after living there for a few years. The lyrics are scattered with references to the West (wildfires, hi ho silver) and to desolate places (bars in Bartertown). So I think either it's about the disillusionment of life on the west coast not being what he imagined, or is a reflection on what motivated him to "go west" in the first place.
Ommmffggggg my two favorite artists and once again a full album of pure bangers, front to back. Both acts hold up completely on their own on this album, combined it's purely the epitome of each artists capabilities.
Surreal throwback to my teenage years, I got to know Aesop Rock when a good friend was eager to show me the obscure "Abandon all hope" video. Shortly after the labor days began and now Lice and *this* ...good time to be alive. *Support them on Bandcamp btw!*
Tobacco’s sinister sweet synths, crunchy grape-nuts cereal beats, Aesop’s honey dippin, acid tongue with a quick witted, demented mind! I need more. Tom & Ian are two of the most forward thinking, progressive musicians in the game! Respect to these sonic brothers. Thanks for pushing it forward! Looking forward to the next collab.
This album is such a pleasant surprise from favorite artists from different genres. Any Aesop fans that are praising the production need to do them themselves the favor and listen through some Tobacco albums. Big ups to Rhymsesayers for being so generous with the content
It's strikingly fucking beautiful that this guy is continuing to be this lyrical in a time where a lot of hip-hop has become stylistically simple. I don't always gravitate towards rap, but TOBACCO on production is the bread to the lyrical butter. Thank you guys for the full album, but you know I'm gonna have to buy the vinyl so I can rock that insane mask. Bless all of y'all involved in this album. Actually I guess I should just thank Malibu Ken, ya weirdo
Maybe the MK Ultra 2.0 "hip hop" u listen to is simple. The fact people. Like u think that trash is hip. Hop proves ur brai washing has been successful
@@TrustTheShooters you seem to be the troll here. Chill dude. He was just referring to whats currently popular being simple. Even said he doesn't gravitate toward hip hop, so why would he listen to the simplistic shit?
@@-user_redacted- everything that's popular is simple. Do u not understand the matrix? Why would he even acknowledge MK Ultra 2.0 music if he doesn't listen to it then?!?!?
They're such a good combo. I like every song on the album and the last three are also my favorite. I think Purple Moss is one of the best songs Aes has ever released
This right here, this is the best of the old Aesop and the new Aesop, flows and word play from almost every previous album wrapped into a perfect collection. I hear Float, Music For Earthworms, Appleseed, Labor Days, Fast Cars, None Shall Pass, Skelethon, The Uncluded, LIce and The Impossible Kid in this album yet it feels like it belongs along his B Side compilations and singles. Fucking perfect combination of all his styles. Hands down the Shakespeare of rap. And whoever this Tabacco guy is, damn, I thought Aesop and Blockhead went well together but this is put together with precision. The synths are off the hook too, especially in Sword Box and Purple Moss.
In the track Save Our Ship he says, "might release hounds dressed up like doves." Then in the very next track, Sword Box, the first line goes, "what kind of bastion of trust hit the stage with a straight-face and a jacket full of doves." I'm feeling a connection here... I wonder if the songs line up with things like this. So far, the content is pretty similar in each song (not an insult at all. It seems like a concept album) and the content is also fitting for the fucking art work. This album is amazing.
The last track is beautiful ... reminds me of an astronaut floating off into space, untethered, lost, probably never to return ... but accepting of it.
I put this on during my three hour highway drive this morning, and I loved the whole album start to finish. It's so grimey and raw, different from what I'm used to hearing.
Aesop. You have done more for my mental health and ability to find understanding in this maelstrom of cacophony that reverberates mirrored static than any one source i have found. Thank you for your earnest circus you verb turning noun purist
I've been listenin to aes since my early teens and somehow it would seem that we were always in a way synced, his songs would always reflect on my own thoughts and life as if he was narrating it, this was extremely obvious to me when impossible kid released, and also matched with an intense depressive episode that started a day before Hot Dogs got published. But these days i've felt like i lost myself, to not elaborate too much, an existential crisis would be a sort of kinda description of what i'm goin through. And guess what the fuck is up, aes comes in, says everything i think and feel in a 30 minute amalgamation of decorated reality and reminds me that i am indeed a lonely weirdo in a proverbial barn, with a couple of weirdo friends and shitty luck, but at the same time he gives me back my pride of sincerely being who i am. If he can make it so can I, If i can make it so can he. Bless you Aes
Stay strong and live your best life, even if people think you're abnormal. Society has a mould that we're all expected to fit into, it takes courage to own your shit when you don't fit that mould. Fuck em lol, do things your own way. I met a guy last year who spent some time away as part of a small community in the mountains of Spain. He came back home for a year and couldn't get used to the 9-to-5 and the responsibilities thrust upon him. He moved back to the mountains where he spends his days climbing, chilling, driving around and collecting waste for a bit of cash. Some people would be pissed off at that. They'd see it as him copping out and not contributing to society. Well, he's not a drain on society either. Don't see the big deal lol, we have enough people on this earth and we're not around forever.
I started rapping in middle age. Everyone around me looked at me weird, now they're getting into my songs. Follow your own path. There are billions of people to handle being "normal" (aka ordinary). Drive in your own lane and, if there isn't a lane for you to drive in, make one. Nobody's going to be looking back from their deathbed and thinking, "I should have conformed more."
The infinite layers of depth from Tobacco to Aesop Rock, or is it the other way around? It's so into itself it sounds like a galaxy that is self-contained in itself. Another Dimension I've been looking for in music for so long!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After hearing Acid King when it dropped, I wasn't sure whether I'd appreciate this album as I didn't feel the musicality that much. But I'm glad to say I actually enjoyed this, and Acid King has grown on me too. Gonna press replay and dive back in. Thanks Rhymesayers! 💯
aesop kills it once again. great production. love the overall message of Malibu Ken. gonna cop the CD, great artwork and fun layout, that mask is a must xD
Going from Earthworms to all his work in the latest decade feels like a true evolution of a rapper that can't possibly be compared to any other, because he's still along the lines of being absolutely mind blowing and wordy, yet the cohesion, aka the glue of his lyricism gets better and better as he has progressed throughout the years. His delivery is flawless, his flow, like a finely tuned wave crashing on a shore of amazing instrumental works, personally I like the synth stuff, just as much as the industrialism or the classic hip hop beats, because it all sounds great since it's Aes dude
The fact that everyone who want'scan download this album legally free from here, made me instantly buy it on bandcamp! In a digital age not having free access to digital good's is outdated, still artists have to get their money from somewhere, thanks for the good example on how to do it :)
Craig Stuckey Aesop is definitely underground. Got a lottttt to dive into if you are just hearin him now. Glad y found him. Been listening to Aesop for a minute now, glad to see him still improving.
Aes is just so damn good at this shit. There's not many artists I listen to that just get better with age but I really feel that way with him. Maybe this isn't the place for it, I love Slug to death, but I wish he could pull off aging as well as Aesop Rock. Not trying to be negative, just selfishly wish he put out music similar to his early days. But it's clearly not that easy. Anyways, just happy Rhymesayers is still killing it 20 years later.
I wasn’t keeping up with either of them but I saw this dropped and immediately made some time and sat down. Such a great album. Tobacco’s trippy instrumentals are like nothing else.