Gopher guts is one of my favorites and one of the first I came to understand. The first part is talking about his divorce and his life falling apart. Coffee going cold. Mold on his moonpies. He says it was an amicable marooning. Like it was on friendly enough terms, but he feels abandoned and feels suicide taking up more ground in his thoughts. Wide lane and looting-getting bigger. He calls his mom about the split for comfort, but feels even more alone after they talk. She offers to pray for him but he wants real world solutions. She said "I'll keep you in my prayers" I said "i need to hide a body" She said "Ok honey talk to you on friday" He feels misunderstood and wonders what ties him and his mom together, why he would even think she could help him. He says "apparently" they have the same blood, as if hes surprised by it, and thinks its weird that they are connected by blood alone and not a feeling of connection. He wonders who made up that blood is thicker than water rule and why, and bitterly says it was probably some dad who wanted to reconnect with his children after his life falls apart, but says that it doesnt always go the way we hope. He talks about his mom hanging out around heavens gate and contrasts that with his dirty dark life. He starts to note that he is less and less like the people around him. Looking in the mirror thinking "who is there? Simian (human) or lizard (a cold blooded reptile), and feels that the difference is dissapearing, and the people most relates with are criminals and people who hate people and the world. He squirms in grimey darkness, not having any ambition, staying away from people in general and doing drugs to maintain and stay ok,, keeping his hyde (evil mr. Hyde versus the passive and good natured dr. Jeckyl ) jeckylized with contraband. He talks about his beliefs in family and love and the things that he held sacred dying, and as "mysticism" or fantasy. And says he will just handle it on his own. He cautions that the only way to conquer this is to not question it. Dont play the game hes playing. He then pretty freely admits that maybe he has been shitty to these people, and that maybe he deserves this disconnection with others. Maybe he deserves to eat all the shit hes getting. He hurts people who try to help him. Hes been completely undeserving of those who love and care for him and kiss him on the temple, and offer to listen to him. He wishes he could undo and redo everything, even though it brought him the love that these other people have shown him, and this wanting to undo it hurts them. He talks about how he preaches tolerance, but is a hippocrit, because he does this while trying to pretzel (or twist up) other peoples beliefs, so he isnt being very tolerant. He feels he unfairly hates people when they werent there for him when he feels they could or should have been and doesnt let it go. He talks about being his own worst enemy. The chorus/hooks bring up that he pulls these things/people out of their environment, and supports and loves them, but then he lets them go. He can create the relationships, but he cant maintain them. It might be that he has too high of expectations, for them and for himself. But he can only hold on for so long. They either leave him or he cuts them off, and the song thinks on who he is, and what he does that makes this happen. I love them, and i support them, but then i let them go. Or maybe they are leaving me. He ponders how it is hes fucking up all these relationships, and very honestly approaches his faults.

My favorite Aes song! And the one that I can relate to the most... That whole breakdown where he talks about his faults is ungodly accurate I get goosebumps everytime I hear it! ❤️❤️

Rap Genius is a great place to go for picking apart and understanding aesop lyrics. Hes become one of my favorites too! Some of his songs have taken 100+ listens to begin understanding.

the last verses are so close to my heart i cry every other time i listen. it's about trying to be strong and independent, and when you rarely need help/support you push those trying to hold you up when you are falling down, >away

That last verse tho...😯🔥😯🔥😯 this song is a masterpiece.

Bandana on fleek ✔️ Hair on fleek ✔️ Music on fleek ✔️

:-:Should we get an Aesop Skit going.???

He's telling the snakes and frogs he finds all the positive things he never told the people close to him that he wanted to. Then let em go(he lets a lot of people go, meaning lets relationships disolve) thats what i gather anyway.

I have been completely unable to maintain any semblance of relationship on any level....

Best Aesop track EVER. That's from an old school 90s Def Jukie.

I could rewind to his face at the “need to hide a body” part over and over

My fav song of aes! been waiting for this vid Thank you! Now i have to wait for Take me to the basement (also aesop rock)

Love you man, love this Aesop Rock fool too. On a lyric singing day today, saw you reacted to this. One of my favorite songs ever. I absolutely love that you react to Aesop, I've wanted to see this since I found him 15 years ago. ❤" lyrical mastermind, I find, that I dine, only when my spine goes crosseyed. " That's the best I can come with quickly. Aesop has inspired my life, my soul, my everything. I'm pretty sure he is the religious text I needed to guide me. . Awesome Wack, keep it up please.

I've been listening to Aesop Rock for years and I'm still discovering things in his music. It's like a musical puzzle.

Congratulations on 1k fam

He’s a deep dude . Tells stories not only from his view but from others and sometimes makes up stories . He’s makes rap an adventure to listen to . I believe he said something to the effect in one of his interviews that if your not getting something from his music then your not listening hard enough .

ahhh he's my favorite too!! I am so happy to see another person be as excited about his music as much as me! This is one of my favorites. I have too many favorites though lol

this is awesome watching new people finding AESOP aka Bazooka Tooth . i have been listening for almost 2 decades now. he is an awesome person to see live and a honest person.

It’s a song about how hard it is to be a parent, and how difficult emotional stability is to attain. The hook has Aes caring for and complimenting 3 animals (aes has 2 brothers) before he promptly releases them and never sees them again. He calls his animals “tenacious, lauded, exalted, etc” but he doesnt really know that. He’s just trying to teach them to be confident and successful before he send them off into the world, all alone. The “oh.” At the end of the hook shows that he now understands how difficult being a parent can be. AES has some sad songs, but this one can reliably make me cry, especially when I’m going through a hard part of my life

Hell yeah! This is my favorite Aesop Song. Dark, insightful, profound, blah blah blah.

real lyrics, real rap. nuff said.

My favourite song of all time.

Hey man, great video. Watching another person get so hyped about aesop is rad. I'd be interested in watching you revisit some of his stuff after a couple listens so you can give a more in depth break down on what you love about the tracks because theres just so much to pick apart. Keep it up!

listening to any aesop rock song for the first time is like showing up to a fight with a stranger. you have to expect any and everything. he could come at you with a little poke and jab or strait up transform into some ancient beast and deliver the most brutal lyrical beat down the English language has ever spoken.

Aesop forever bro. Sick reaction vid. One love

Thank you for just sitting and talking. I listened.

This is one of his songs that gets to me and makes me teary. A lot of his songs do that to me because they hit me so hard I get emotionally overwhelmed and I relate so strongly. Oof. Such a good song.

Haha it's always fun and relatable watching your first listens of these Aes songs. I think this whole album is a masterpiece and he killed the production on this, he's a beast behind the boards.

I've been watching your Aes Rock reactions for a minute now, and I absolutely love watching people become fans of his. The man is truly the Shakespeare of our time. I don't know if you're aware of this or not, but the song Tetra is rumored to be a subliminal diss towards El-P. Apparently, after Camu Tao's death, a lot of light began to shine on just how broke Def Jux was. El was supposedly hoarding cash, not paying Aes what he'd been promised yet expecting features and contract fulfillment. Barbury Coast, Aesop's weakest offering, was the byproduct of that pressure. El-P took a lot of advantage of Aesop while at Def Jux, using a song on Aesop's album Bazooka Tooth to draw attention to himself and his beef with Eastern Conference (7L & Esoteric, Apathy, Mr Eon, etc). "We're Famous" was quite literally an ego stroke, and nothing more. Tetra is a proclamation of that position of servitude El-P thrust him into. I won't flood your comment section with assemblies of examples. Give it a listen, though. There's some very interesting and suggestive language of El's betrayal. "I wouldn't piss on your coffin. But when I see your pictures, I draw dicks on it."

the first time i listened to this i heard the third verse and was like "why isnt he using big words?" "why do i identify with all of this?"

What he is "letting them go" he is talking about himself and his siblings. There's three of them. The expectations that his parents have put on the children and they didn't turn out the way they wanted. In the beginning the blood And water chapter pertains to old Plays that choreographed who was related and how wasnt. It describes the distance between himself and his parents and his you wouldn't even know they were related of it weren't for the blood and water chapter that society gives us, calling relatives sister, brother, mom, dad. One of my favorite song by Aesop Rock in the black sheep of the family and I also have 2 siblings. It hits hard.

hahahaha love this reaction. Ive listen to this track so many times. It still has the same affect on me. PEACE!

Anytime I listen to an Aes song, I have a feeling of impending doom, but it is a welcome doom. Like, well, here we go head about to explode. Nothing I can do about it. Let it happen; the mess made can only make this place look better.

This might by one of my fave Aes tracks. I like how on the last verse he almost drops all his metaphor and cryptic writing style and just straight up says what he feels. And then I love the parts of the song where hes describing pulling animals and snakes out of things.. I don't understand exactly what he means by it all but it sounds cool and trippy af lol Dude is so good at creating vivid ass imagery with his words.

Aesop Rock is my favorite dude. He seriously changed my life. It’s hard to describe.

Great channel man your videos are dope !

Thank You MrWack!

Yes please and thank you for repping the goat

Aes leaves me speechless too bro.

Aesop Rock tha Legendary lyricist and GOAT! His vocabulary is insane. Alot of people write him off simply because they don't understand him and think it's gibberish. The more you listen the more you understand him and what he's trying to convey. It's not gibberish. It's philosophical and lyrical genius.

Yo, dude Aeasop Rock is my favorite artist, too.I don't know if you are aware, but Ace participated in a group called The Uncuded, which released an album in 2013 containing some of his best verses. Unlike his usual art, Ace is more direct on this album(though it has a lot of metaphors too) and his partner Kimya Dawson in her verses, helps to clarify his points. Check the song TV on 10, dude seriously, it will blow your brains out

If Em is God- Aesop is Cthulhu

Lol Aes isn't afraid to use words people rarely know because he knows you're gonna listen to it a 100 times till you figure it out.

Mad love for anyone who drops Aes Rock as their fav artist. Sub'd...keep it comin, bro!

This is a few years late but just wanted to leave my two cents - in all of the choruses, he talks about collecting three animals, telling them they'll do great things, and then just letting them go. Aes is the middle child of three, and I always saw this as a symbolic telling of how parents will tell their children they'll go on to do great things, but once they're out in the world, will leave them to fend for themselves.

good song, good review.

Daylight is my favorite

The. Harbor. Is. Yours.

"Cook It Up" off of Bazooka Tooth or any Hail Mary Mallon.... Great job....

Just saying this video got you a sub. Cheers bruva

Aesop Rock should be used as an advocacy for literacy. If you aren't well read . . well good luck with understanding Aesop Rock lyrics That being said as a well educated person who studied Latin and New Testament Greek I have still have learned new words/terms from Aesop Rock. Including "Hoi Polloi", which I really likely just had forgotten.

i know this was like 2+ years ago but... peril = danger

Search Aesop Rock ‎- B-Sides & Rarities. Some of his best music

Do basic cable by aesop rock. From his early albums and one of my favorite albums

"....oh". he found something impressive and meaningful and maybe he should nurture it, but lets it go before he realized what it was. then he realized it was a decision he can't undo. he revisited the same general idea on 'zzz top'

I feel you on Aesop. It nearly makes you dismiss everyone else. It's a different level.

As i mentioned before 1 of 4 is a song in the same vien.

i understand

Pretty sure Ian wants to have children. That's the vibe I'm getting in this song

This is my favorite track so far... I'm late but I made it.. he sounds like he might be bipolar and in another song mentions a med used to treat it.

You got danny brown type energy

I mean who really wrote the blood and water chapter anyways. When I am in the barren nothing refreshes me like real love. Speaking of what up Fam hope you see me. here's an aes recommendation "the substance" and "save yourself"

Hey sweetie!! “The wind blown way. Wanna win? Don’t play” I think it means if you wanna be great you need to be real and don’t waste your opportunities and f@ck it away or you will be rejected and banished. I’m sure I’m way off the mark but you know how I over analyze 😂 Hope you are doing well hun! Love ya 💜

"He uses words you don't even know" Buy dictionary and thesaurus

Aes my fave, too. Check out Prof, tho.

Finally lol

Do Daylight by Aesop

Watching your first Aesop Rock video to this was amazing. I've been on my Aesop kick for 12 years now and I feel the same way. Please, check.out.Coffee.

jus found out ‘greasy grimy gopher guts’ is a European nursery rhyme, had to check it out, and tbh its a weird kids song, like why you gonna make a nursery rhyme about gopher guts and horse eyes in pools of blood?

People really don't understand

Ever listen to labor days? Imo its his best album.

Go to bed dude.

Aesop > A.S.A.P Ace top 1 dead or alive