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I define his style as ....Heavy Mental Hip Hop 🔥

Guys vocab and metaphor’s are crazy. In 1000 yrs he will heralded as the Shakespeare of our age and kids will be studying his bars in class 😂

Me too bro music for the earthworms. Aes Rock is the most lyrical mc .PERIOD

@@vancerants Fuck if this isn't the most perfect description of Aesop, I don't know what is.

That was my initial assumption as well until I learned that the term flat-footed describes someone who is awkward, clumsy, or most pertinently uninspired. Basically your average person who exists as little more than a cog in the system. These people who live otherwise uneventful lives will break from their routine when someone offers something as menial as a donut. I personally imagine this bar with the image of a cubicle jockey half-consciously meandering into a donut shop to experience the pinnacle of his work week. This parallels with later references to all of the talented individuals he saw leave behind their integrity to make the same catchy crap that's been pushed since record executives learned they could capitalize on perverting the entire genre of hip hop. Aes is praying that the reciprocation for the dedication he's continually put into his career amounts to something more substantial and fulfilling regardless of whether that's received in a fortune in cash, the ability to destroy with impunity those bad actors (A-alike androids with cartoon cigars💥), or at the very least be granted an experience that gives him cause not to view the future so bleakly. (In order: a nest egg; a death ray; something better to celebrate) The powder on the face could also easily be a double entendre that references insufflated drugs like cocaine, which is also abstractly referenced by "immoral magnets" and more directly with "enabling the addict." This would definitely be in line with the notion of transient joys as a break from the norm. Also, the way he so vividly paints the scene in the second verse sounds like the come up on a powerful psychedelic or hallucinogenic compound. Though, there's a lot more that doesn't seem to line up with this assessment. I'm probably trying to read too much into it through a lens clouded by my own perspective. Aye, I find that necessary interpretation is what separates good artists from amazing ones. Unfortunately, it also distances them from the public. The majority of people who listen to music are passive listeners, coincidentally the same kind who are most susceptible to the kind of messages promoted by mainstream, low effort crap. How many songs we gonna have about money, shakin' booty, getting high, and being antagonistic and violent before the public actually clues in and stops "listening for the beat" and actually pay attention? _Apologies if this isn't a cohesive series of thoughts. I am quite tired and kept veering off in an attempt to be comprehensive, but that'd require a damned essay. I figured this was the best stopping point I'm going to get at the moment._

Also, there is a type of shoe thats called jellies. Idk if it helps or not... Aesop has so many layers it's hard to know if he meant this, that, or the others or all of it lol

"Powder on a face" can refer to someone putting make up on their face, or could alude to doing cocaine - both meanings seem to suggest a celebration, as putting make up on is something done for a party, and cocaine is something done at a party - metaphors for indulgence. However, people do these things when they are not celebrating also. "flatfoot" probably refers to a clumsy person, though it is actually a medical condition as well - when the arches on the inside of your feet flatten against the ground when pressure is applied to them. "jelly day" is a confusing phrase as it doesn't seem to mean anything in particular. My best guess is that Aes is talking about basketball here. In basketball, Jelly basically refers to switching up a lay up by adding some extra creativity. For example, switching hands or going through your legs. With Aes being from NYC where basketball is hugely popular this is a reference he will probably be aware of. Jelly can also refer to the food - and the powder on the face definitely suggests something like a donut, which is also an indication of indulgence (and potentially a reference to police) As for the meaning of the line as a whole, I think that it aludes to celebrating someone messing up but ultimately it's important to look to the previous lines "Pray fortune return to his favor, swiftly/Maybe in the form of a nest egg/Maybe in the form of a Tesla death ray/Or a solid gold scene with something to celebrate/Than powder on a face like a flatfoot on jelly day". Aesop is basically saying that he hopes something good will come out of his efforts - maybe good, maybe bad, maybe lucrative, maybe enjoyable. There is so much to unpack in every single one of Aesop's lines and that is why he is (in my opinion) the greatest lyricist of all time. And I've certainly missed things here, just thought I would dive into this one line to see what treasures it holds.

Great list there!

Agreed^ Starting people on aesop is tricky sometimes. I like to start people w The Harbor is Yours if they dabble, Sabbatical w Options if they will not be aiming for the apple 🤓

I'm a big fan of the harder to find songs. Bosico, tomorrow morning, zodiaccupuncture, then pretty much everything from Hail Mary Mallon.

KOWP is a heavy banger!

Cycles to Gehenna as well

he doesn't do all the art in his earlier stuff none shall pas and the video for pigs are an artist named jermy fish

There was a study on most unique words used out of artist’s whole catalog. He was almost removed from the study as an outlier because it skewed the data that much.

Yeah, 🐐of all🐐's. Probably your favorite rappers favorite rapper.

it might be the quintessential aes album, purely based on how much he wears his heart on his sleeve for it. if you want to delve deep into ian bavitz, the man, its a good place to start

People have been overlooking him for years because they don’t want to put in the work to understand him

@@dvancebum that and it threatens the quality of popular music. what's good vs what's popular.

@@_Jake.From.Statefarm_ Ye, people get very defensive when I play them some Aesop. Mayhaps it low key makes them feel bad for not getting it.

@@durere I think be auae he's so unique they don't get it and you can't really explain it and it does take a while to get that "it" factor with Aes. You're probably right though in many instances. Lol

took my twin a paper tab of mind expander to get his music lol

His early stuff is amazing, but as it is more digestible than most of his stuff to someone without a dictionary in hand, I have to agree, this new shit bangin. He's been a God since Skelethon and he's only gotten better. TIK and SWFG are 2 of the best rap albums I've ever heard, and Garbology is goddamn amazing, love to hear an older Aes on Blockhead beats again.

yeah you get it

depends on who your trying to introduce him too, if they already a hiphop head id start with bazooka tooths no jumper cables

I give 'em no regrets usually

Mars Attacks is an easy intro song. It's super complex but being able to just say "This song is about aliens invading earth and Aes gathering his crew to fight back against the mothership."

No Regrets for sure. People enjoy long legged Larry, if you show the video with it. 1st one I heard was Daylight, then Big Bang. Been hooked since '99.

Start em with Kirby. Anyone with mental struggles and a favorite pet can relate.

Flat-footed can also mean unready or unprepared, caught off guard, so like, something rolls around and you aren't ready for it, and it passes you by.

@@defeatstatistics7413 I think there's also a basketball event or something in NYC called Jelly Day, so I fully expect that I'm just talking out my ass, lol. But that's the image I get from the verse.

A flat foot is a cop, Do your research 🐼

Yea, that's it. "Flat-foot" is ol' timey slang for the cops. Referencing the cheap boots they wear.

@@mmmmike0 I wasn't really spitballin' it. The powder is coke, I believe, in the greater context of the song, yeah? Regoddamndiculous is from a movie? Comedian? I've only heard this song 10- 15 times so it's still kinda impregnable. Ha ha

@@williamcraig1306 Yeah, coke. I think he's lamenting artists starting hungry to change the world (enzymes both break things down and build things up), but ending up biting others' "yarns". The scene becomes about fame and drugs, and feeding that addiction to fame and drugs, instead of creating new art. And it's making him puke, literally, at Zero Friends, the place where the vid was shot and he's performed, feeling alone still trying to create something original. Makes him wants to retire, or else just destroy everything. I'll add "fucking" in the middle of almost anything with 3-4 syllables, like abso-fucking-lutely, toooo-fucking-rific, etc. Don't know when that started, maybe Adam Sandler or when I found out Guns 'n' Roses originally called themselves G'N'F'R. Just more fun to say. Here I think he was just doing it to match most of the internal vowel sounds from "the god’s last cigarette" to "ri-god-damn-diculous".