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In wake of the Aesop nostalgia
...I was reminded of the great wordsmith Saul Williams.
Admittedly I haven't peeped any of his stuff in over a decade. But, there was a moment in time when he was badass with the spoken word. It's likely a few of you might have appreciated his earlier material just as much as I once did. Idk. He was sharp with the pen tho. Thoughts?
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Was he on that short lived def jam poetry slam or something like that?
I remember mos def on it |
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07-12-2018, 06:41 PM | #4 |
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coded language is outstanding. and one of those bits he done in slam come to mind. he's nice - can only really hear him acapella personally but yea.
passed up the chance to see him live a few years ago which i kind of regret. talented dude. |
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who's aesop rock?
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An underground rapper that burst onto the scene in the early 2000s. That made his name by spitting off kilter and abstract lyrics that were/are often times nearly impossible to decipher. He's also white.
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So aesop
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You have youtube. Go peep him see what you think. I personally like his track lucy from labor days. Its dope
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And the bullies’ll laugh, they won’t be laughing when their cover wagons crash
They won’t be laughing when they’re hosted by the ghost of Christmas past They won’t be laughing when your blowup dolls got s headache and won’t give up the ass |
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There is a hole in front of the shovel Shovel in front of the brawn Six billion gorillas for whom the graves yawn Each within his mulish days to choose his tool of trade Dueling blades that cued 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 pitbulls Dash back flashy to compassionate nanopolice who sat beneath an avalanche of jagged inadequacies And I was "Stop the Violence" more than I was Pontius Pilate Cops and robbers riot by the five's obnoxious sirens A is gullible he figure, "all man equal, no brainer" Take it his friends and neighbors didn't cater Moms raised the babies through a very churchy 80's Sunday mornings reinforce the waiting gates of Hades And he brazen but apparently inferno bound now For when a man of cloth recite his wrongs he wouldn't bow down 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 stoic odium glow in a cold holster To where he coulda stood easily in the tub jugglin toasters I picked the phone up with a grown-up mode approach Skin crawlin off the drawl and now I claw the awkward tone up 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's hand And uncomfortably. sung a stubborn legacy of gluttony With carnivores that burrow like hunters into the blood in meat - umm, what? Chinny chin-up and the city picked this In a pent-up letter numbed the spitting stigma Along came a spider, sold her eggs to any buyer Now 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 yachts and mansions drop your canons All kings hang em for the cliffs side drip dry Will he clip the zipline or slip for his final dip dive? If he live will he survive the milligrams of middle-ground They pump into the pin-striped 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 miles high I always rly liked this track also..
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tech and aes are pretty far apart in just about everything.
tech has only gotten better as his career progressed (and i liked him back in '01, but was i also 11 at the time) but seems to have stopped making albums a while back. shame. |
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His Amethyst Rock star album used to get some play from me. Was produced by Rick Ruben.
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