Aesop Rock - Pizza Alley (Official Video)

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  • Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
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    Cast:
    Clair - Zoe Shaw
    Charlie - Liam Shaw
    Maggie - Mirabella Simantel
    Bucket - Edie Shaw
    Archeologist - Robert D’Esposito
    Crew:
    Director - Rob Shaw
    Executive Creative Director - Jason Bacon
    Executive Producer - Tsui Ling Toomer
    Producer - Robert D’Esposito
    Animation Director - John Summerson
    Prop & Set Fabricator - Erik Hoofnagle
    Live Action DP - Rodrigo Melgarejo
    Live Action Gaffer - Eric Macy
    Live Action AC - Lane Clark
    Live Action Sound Mixer - Evan Gandy
    Compositor/Editor- Rob Shaw
    Color Correct - Orland Longlight
    Animation elements designed by - Justin “Coro” Kaufman
    Production Company: Little-Giant
    Song Credits:
    Written & Produced By Aesop Rock
    Bass by James Lynch.
    Additional Instrumentation by Grimace Federation.
    Lyrics:
    Keep it classy, key to Pizza Alley, weaving traffic in a overheating taxi, in Lima, tickets to liberate the center, pitch surrender to a witch doctor pouring amphibians out the blender, underneath a glowing purple Christ, perfect surf, curl up and die, cobblestone alone a master class in open world design, I came from the wasteland in featherlight trail pants, fugee off the ant trail, Inca Trail mailman, fail in every hemisphere, show me the ambrosia, maybe ghost into the coca leaf and holy heliconia, where shaman opt to zombify undocumented expats, high and writing Ayuahasca letters back to Melmac, dear friends, send help yesterday, yours true, condor, puma, serpiente, talk rap albums over alpaca medallions, with metal-heads who traffic magic flowers from the mountains, to the houses of the holy, a token of that sacred valley balance, so you don't expel omega fatty acids, the strays in the plaza look happier than my neighbors, they answer to Paddington Bear in waders, it's amazers, what ship, what shore? I grew up writing riddles under bridges in New York, now I travel like a highwayman who whispers to his horse, sharing stories of the winter, trying to trigger something pure, from dying on the vine, to “it's alive and indivisible”, to “how'd I get this far without a bindle full of crystal skulls?” Cozy local woven goods, beaded shit for people you have never met or spoken to, but know they'll need to hold Peru, throw a couple logs on the fire, there's a chimney in San Blas where you can hear Baby Dayliner bouncing softly off the navy blue, April showers, paper moon, run the light, and beat the drum, and smoke the dope, and raid the tomb
    Pay no mind to the bygones, find him a strange hill to die on, never let me die on a regular hill, never let me die on a regular hill
    Ey, the local homie blow smoke on his wounds, and talk about the jungle like it's always in the room, new and shooting lumens out of a canoe into the ruins, silly putty for some other-worldly woo-woo to influence, ooo it's a, strange bouquet, not today Supay, rubber boots, and tumbo juice, and tarantula toupee, canopy going ham over camp in a feuding biome, Os Mutantes row, row, rowing the wrong way into the diode, fry the banana, heart of palm ribbons, fish from the river, sauces made of citrus, on a screen porch pimpled after dark with frogs and lizards, when high as hell they might as well be Mothras and Godzillas, it's awesome, peer into the spirit quest, spellbound, 3 to 1 machete, yelling back into the hellmouth, you hit the labyrinth an ambassador of peace and love, you might return with the root of your superego plunged
    The river boils when it sees me
    "Electric eels killed two of my best friends" said the local to the gringo, then dove in off the pirogue, in a cloud of smokey mopacho they boat in from Iquitos, mosquitos on the wall of the Amazonian ethos, out to bounce a light off any hairy eyeball in the basin, wild pig, owl, baby caiman, coral snakes that drape down from the timbers like the 6 fingers of Satan, they only speak in "S's", you can not get an "Amen”, I told my darkest secrets to a pair of fuchsia dolphins, the doozie out in Paris, the futures I had squandered, they whispered something to me I will bear unto my coffin, what's apparent via occam is despondency is common, we traded numbers and made off into the pond scum, humming Muddy Waters, motherfucker I am on one, earth, wind, fire, and papaya, we fly with the poison arrow, we dive with the arapaima
    #AesopRock #PizzaAlley #SpiritWorldFieldGuide

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  • @noelbishop4437
    @noelbishop4437 3 роки тому +1076

    Im 34 and have been listening to this dude since I was 17. I cant believe that sometimes. And every time a new drop comes out I feel like a teenager again. Aesop we love you. Never stop making medicine for the people. I would have died a dozen times if you didnt exist. love you brother.

    • @andrewf6287
      @andrewf6287 3 роки тому +16

      33, started listening at 30.wish I had started at 12. I think I'm still kind of overwhelmed to being hit with all of this only 3 years ago, with more panacea dropping all the time. I love it. Also those last few lines on this one hit like a hammer.

    • @OEG85
      @OEG85 3 роки тому +30

      Definitely takes me back too. 35...got intro'd to his second album (Labor Days) in 2001 when i was a freshman in highschool. I remember trying to write down his lyrics and figure out what the metaphors meant...haha. A fools errand.

    • @wild-radio7373
      @wild-radio7373 3 роки тому +8

      Yep.
      Hummin like scripture.

    • @wild-radio7373
      @wild-radio7373 3 роки тому +4

      You said it better. Thanks luv.
      🤜🏻👍🤛🏻♡♡♡

    • @Regore
      @Regore 3 роки тому +7

      I feel the exact same way man. You took the words right out of my mind

  • @madmammoth9022
    @madmammoth9022 3 роки тому +336

    That beat switch was the best thing I've ever heard

    • @Hyraethian
      @Hyraethian 3 роки тому +23

      All I could think was," Aesop, also featuring Aesop." Those switches are like day and night.

    • @andrewf6287
      @andrewf6287 3 роки тому +18

      @@Hyraethian Night Light Sucka!

    • @Hyraethian
      @Hyraethian 3 роки тому +3

      @@andrewf6287 Now that you mention it, haha.

    • @amytagtmeyer1704
      @amytagtmeyer1704 3 роки тому +3

      Ever

    • @AStrangeHill
      @AStrangeHill 3 роки тому +3

      Yeh. I was just thinking this too...

  • @SilverHammer1
    @SilverHammer1 3 роки тому +173

    Aesop has used so many words over the years he has to make up new ones now
    and that's amazers

    • @rubyrayne8
      @rubyrayne8 3 роки тому +8

      More like travel to Peru and the Amazon to learn new ones.

    • @-user_redacted-
      @-user_redacted- 3 роки тому +11

      He already passed Shakespeare wordwise, and Shakespeare made up a ton of the words we use today.
      In a couple centuries there's going to be a dictionary of Aes' words too.

    • @rydenseelie3608
      @rydenseelie3608 3 роки тому +9

      What I love about that "Amazers" part is that, yes he made up the word Amazers but he's using phasers to get that effect going. It has a deeper meaning and it's fucking insane

    • @joeysands8893
      @joeysands8893 3 роки тому +1

      He's on the James Joyce path to crafting a literary mountain out of neologisms.

    • @MagikForTheMAsses
      @MagikForTheMAsses 3 роки тому

      🖤

  • @freeruncrazy
    @freeruncrazy 3 роки тому +132

    I admire the considerable amount of research that Aesop likely did to write this. Iquitos, arapaima, pirogue, mapacho.. countless subtle references to Peruvian culture and land.

    • @xamdamCO
      @xamdamCO 3 роки тому +38

      He went on quite a trip there several years back. In more ways than one, apparently.

    • @Iamthetwig
      @Iamthetwig 3 роки тому +15

      He is a very intelligent human in this place we call earth

    • @whispersmith
      @whispersmith 3 роки тому +11

      @MMARZ 7 craft and crack geodes

    • @StarfortMudflood
      @StarfortMudflood 3 роки тому +2

      @@whispersmith lift party hats out of craft depot

    • @marloncarter2346
      @marloncarter2346 3 роки тому +6

      He's getting survival tips from Tardigrades!! Yo dude is on an entirely different universe than the rest of us! I absolutely love this album.

  • @chrismarciano8687
    @chrismarciano8687 3 роки тому +593

    The main reason I want this pandemic to end is so I can resume pretending Aes might tour

    • @AFrame88
      @AFrame88 3 роки тому +19

      He would definitely be touring for this album if not for covid season. There’s no reason to pretend it would happen... I mean he’s toured for every other release

    • @mononaut
      @mononaut 3 роки тому +7

      ​@@AFrame88 Man, I don't know. I want it to happen but it seems like Aes is kinda over touring. It would be his first album that he doesn't, but he's said he doesn't like doing it, he didn't for Malibu Ken (Tom told me it was Aes who chose not to), and he seems to have had a falling out with Rob Sonic, his main touring buddy. If he comes to Texas next year I'll be first in line at the venue, but I'm not getting my hopes up.

    • @DoobieFerguson
      @DoobieFerguson 3 роки тому +1

      @@AFrame88 he toured for Malibu Ken?

    • @DoobieFerguson
      @DoobieFerguson 3 роки тому +2

      @@mononaut as someone who finally got over their anxiety of going to live shows, I really need him to tour again. Probably the last thing on my bucket list. That being said, I wouldn’t doubt it doesn’t happen. He’s always been vocal about his distaste for touring. I will say, him and Rob seem to have made up based on some social media posts between the two. Whether that means they would work together again is up for debate.

    • @kurobass
      @kurobass 3 роки тому +4

      @@mononaut I think him and Rob are cool again. They're following each other on social and reblogging each other's releases once more, far as I know.

  • @lacesoutchris
    @lacesoutchris 3 роки тому +168

    This is the holy fucking trinity of hip hop, ladies and gentlemen. A true alchemist. I have no words for how unbelievably phenomenal this is.

    • @redherronrecords
      @redherronrecords 3 роки тому

      Production too, daaaayuuuum!

    • @JesusHComedy
      @JesusHComedy 3 роки тому +1

      I saw The Gates. What’s the other song in the trilogy?

    • @sasogorelick
      @sasogorelick 3 роки тому

      @@JesusHComedy 👀👀

    • @JesusHComedy
      @JesusHComedy 3 роки тому +2

      @@sasogorelick just realized he said trinity, not trilogy.

    • @lacesoutchris
      @lacesoutchris 3 роки тому +1

      @@JesusHComedy I was going to correct you, but I figured you’d figure it out.
      😎🤘
      Also...did you just assume my gender?

  • @refusingtoconform
    @refusingtoconform 3 роки тому +246

    RTJ4, Spirit World Field Guide, and Anime, Trauma, and Divorce. What a time to be an underground hip-hop fan.

    • @yugiohyoutuification
      @yugiohyoutuification 3 роки тому +9

      Not to mention Bishop Nehru's Nehruvia this year

    • @poughkeepsieblue
      @poughkeepsieblue 3 роки тому +47

      Aesop isn't underground anymore.
      He started as an earthworm, but found an appleseed that floated to the sun's labor days.
      Nowadays none shall pass him.
      It's about being a hip hop fan, really.

    • @refusingtoconform
      @refusingtoconform 3 роки тому +40

      @@poughkeepsieblue He's definitely NOT underground but he's also not mainstream. It's like Doom, he's just a venerated vet that has garnered the respect he didn't receive in his youth.

    • @dorianbasner1923
      @dorianbasner1923 3 роки тому +10

      Black Thought isn’t necessarily underground but Cane and Able is out too. Truly a great time for the genre

    • @adamwilliams4848
      @adamwilliams4848 3 роки тому +15

      Not to mention Felt 4 as well....been a good year for hip-hop.

  • @wurrdjenkins857
    @wurrdjenkins857 3 роки тому +75

    Never been this excited for an album since I was a teenager. Go aes!!!

    • @heroicself6149
      @heroicself6149 3 роки тому +1

      Agreed.

    • @Mindbend88
      @Mindbend88 3 роки тому +1

      Yahhhhh

    • @wurrdjenkins857
      @wurrdjenkins857 3 роки тому +1

      @@heroicself6149 the buzz is real. Also I hate spamming but if ye like weird alternative hip hop I'd appreciate your thoughts on some of the stuff on my channel ✌🏻

    • @sk82rok
      @sk82rok 3 роки тому +1

      Every time he drops something, double album, feature length album, EP, demo, single I am ALWAYS 🔥!!!HYPED!!!🔥

  • @standemonium8212
    @standemonium8212 3 роки тому +133

    I made the mistake of thinking this was going to be a bad day, then new Aesop came out.

  • @luckycatphil
    @luckycatphil 3 роки тому +34

    Seriously, was only expecting good, got one of the most epic tunes of his career. The man's mastery is unchallenged in the English speaking world.

  • @jkowalec
    @jkowalec 3 роки тому +24

    Thank you, Aes.
    Many years a fan.
    Can’t imagine existence
    without your persistence.
    Thank you, Aes.

  • @jwightman795
    @jwightman795 3 роки тому +21

    Jesus that beat was unbelievably good. Honestly this feels like one aesop's best! Hot damn.

  • @mpchead621
    @mpchead621 3 роки тому +54

    side note: the music video is incredible

    • @notfastenough1726
      @notfastenough1726 Місяць тому

      When the music so good the video is a side note 🔥

  • @OneHitAway
    @OneHitAway 3 роки тому +33

    I wish my brother was still alive so I could rush over to his crib and play him this song.

    • @durere
      @durere 3 роки тому +5

      I'm sure Aes sang it to him while on the other side.

    • @RobotronSage
      @RobotronSage 3 роки тому +1

      @@durere Spirit world is real and i'm not saying this cause Aesop's saying this. He knows what's up!!!

  • @jarrodsmith8421
    @jarrodsmith8421 3 роки тому +29

    That shift at the 3:00 mark...FIRE!

    • @nudoge
      @nudoge 3 роки тому

      🌋

    • @scareyaf
      @scareyaf 3 роки тому +2

      Caught me off guard. This man's a magician.

  • @timwalker4664
    @timwalker4664 2 роки тому +12

    JFC
    Sometimes I listen to a joint like this 50 in a row and I'm appreciating the masterful wordplay and the vivid imagery in the message...
    And then on the 51st time... the Goosebumps and the chills and the watery eyes...
    It's always fire. Sometimes it's an Inferno. And sometimes I just melt into it and that's when I know I get it in a way that serves me.
    Interpretation is everything... everything is interpretation...
    This one just hit me in that kind of uncomfortable but necessary interpretation. I want to run out in the street and tell everybody to check this s*** out. Hardly anybody ever listens. I keep trying to tell people what's going on with this guy and his incredible Talent. One of the greatest Poets of all time? Probably both. But we don't hear it until we're ready for it.
    Much love to the man himself and to everybody out there who gets to that special place when they vibe to him.
    I wish everybody knew what was going on here, mostly. But on some level, I kind of feel like we have a special thing, those of us who can access or capture a little bit of what he's doing.
    How does one catch up to what he puts out? One doesn't, I suppose.
    🍻

    • @RandomBlake2564
      @RandomBlake2564 Рік тому +1

      I feel like Aes shares a similar relationship to what I've heard others describe about psychadelics; You don't find them, they find you. How do you change someone? You can't, you can just show them ways how to change and whether or not they take it is up to them. I feel it's also a matter that when people discover something themselves it feels much more significant than someone else telling you something is special, and in all the ways that it IS special. Even if you're right, that doesn't necessarily mean it'll click for them. This is the biggest struggle I've dealt with when it comes to enjoying "underground" music.

    • @samuelstewart875
      @samuelstewart875 11 місяців тому +2

      How are u 4real stealing my thoughts from my cerebellum? It's like u had crawled into my skull, waded through 50 fathoms of emotion and plucked those words buried under the compost in the overgrown garden of my heart. Although I planted those seeds years ago, this garden yet grows... curling its tendrils inside, around, n through my soul; total immersion with this music; I am Alive again.

  • @thaMANSTA
    @thaMANSTA 3 роки тому +154

    Aesop here to solve the Mt. Chilliad mystery.

    • @-user_redacted-
      @-user_redacted- 3 роки тому +14

      Aesop is the Mt. Chilliad mystery.

    • @bobbybrine6547
      @bobbybrine6547 3 роки тому +7

      He had a jetpack the whole time

    • @adenms3576
      @adenms3576 3 роки тому

      😂😂

    • @poughkeepsieblue
      @poughkeepsieblue 3 роки тому

      I thought that shit looked familiar.
      Turn the mural upside down, it becomes the canyon from the train wreck mission.
      Just sayin.

    • @Rudothing
      @Rudothing 3 роки тому +1

      Now HERES a conspiracy I can get behind

  • @MedicinalSmoker
    @MedicinalSmoker 3 роки тому +3

    Aesop Rock is the Shakespeare of modern day lyricists

    • @ishaking6278
      @ishaking6278 6 місяців тому

      Aesop is easily a better writer than Shakespeare. Aesop has much better and more vivid imagery while using allusions, metaphors, entendres, allegories, rhymes and other literary devices.

    • @kevinmunoz3321
      @kevinmunoz3321 2 місяці тому

      Shakespeare was the radio music taylor swift of his time. The deep playewrights are out there but hes not that deep.

  • @CuttinChris
    @CuttinChris 3 роки тому +51

    Aes is singlehandedly keeping 2020 from destroying the universe.

    • @GathererThompson
      @GathererThompson 3 роки тому +2

      @DIV1NITAL The first thing you'd lose is electricity. Then you'd only have your family to shit on, if they even put up with you anymore.

    • @divinefallfromgrace
      @divinefallfromgrace 3 роки тому +1

      Or maybe, Aes is keepin' the Universe from destroying US. 💭

  • @tysonharriger5610
    @tysonharriger5610 3 роки тому +4

    This isn't just music. This is dedicated, thoughtful, disciplined art.

  • @8thLife
    @8thLife 3 роки тому +14

    Every new song from Aesop makes me want to go back through his ful catalog again.
    Such an insanely talented rapper!

    • @dakistle
      @dakistle 2 роки тому

      The new stuff makes me forget about the old stuff

  • @12201185234
    @12201185234 3 роки тому +20

    Think I'm going to heroic dose with these Golden Teachers I've been sitting on once this album finally drops next month.

    • @merganmecdinald
      @merganmecdinald 3 роки тому +2

      I recommend it, I did the same with Malibu ken lmao

    • @tacomcarthur9685
      @tacomcarthur9685 3 роки тому +1

      Fuck dude i wish i could find those in my area! 😡

    • @durere
      @durere 3 роки тому

      how'd it go?

    • @dakistle
      @dakistle 2 роки тому

      Get on that melmac! GTs have been dominated

  • @edotexe6739
    @edotexe6739 3 роки тому +2

    When you realise there is an actual boiling river in Peru. The poem at the end is from a french poet in the 1800s lamenting about the changing culture of Paris, and was sampled from the album "Flowers of Evil" 1969.

  • @raer5373
    @raer5373 3 роки тому +41

    First our boys El-P and Killer Mike come with Rtj4 now Aes drops new music. 2020 doesnt suck so much anymore.

    • @JD-sf7xn
      @JD-sf7xn 3 роки тому +1

      Deftones gotta new one coming out soon too, if you're into that

    • @raer5373
      @raer5373 3 роки тому +1

      @MMARZ 7 I Don't give a fuck if the rapper is white or brown or purple, dope music is dope music. ,,A Dash of whiteness" term is kind of funny to me because before seeing how El-P and Rob Sonic looked I thought they were Black honestly :D

    • @zacharydobrowski8796
      @zacharydobrowski8796 3 роки тому

      Ohms is fucking bangarang

    • @jaystar5068
      @jaystar5068 3 роки тому

      And deca comes with birds and snakes!!

    • @darrnellnott07
      @darrnellnott07 3 роки тому

      But then news comes out we lost DOOM. Couldn't even end on a good note

  • @ivbqwljrf234
    @ivbqwljrf234 3 роки тому +9

    I heard the first 20 seconds and knew I'd listen to this song thousands of times in my life. Hats off, once again, mighty Aes.

  • @karabomasibi2331
    @karabomasibi2331 3 роки тому +49

    This video fits the song so well and actually improves your understanding quicker

    • @jkq311
      @jkq311 3 роки тому +2

      Maybe. It was too much for my stoned head. The visuals and lyrics were not processing fast enough in my brain to fully grasp the content.

  • @sirfartknocker8653
    @sirfartknocker8653 Рік тому +2

    I'm so thankful for Aesop Rock.

  • @nashbird76
    @nashbird76 6 місяців тому +1

    Aesop Rock saves lives and blows minds. May his mind bless us for a long, long time.

  • @SinSokolov
    @SinSokolov 3 роки тому +87

    ""Electric eels killed two of my best friends"
    Said the local to the gringo
    Then dove in off the pirogue
    In a cloud of smoky mopacho
    They boat in from Iquitos
    Mosquitos on the wall of the Amazonian ethos"
    WHAT

    • @psychrockvinyl
      @psychrockvinyl 3 роки тому +10

      my fav verse

    • @siy9583
      @siy9583 3 роки тому +22

      @@psychrockvinyl I credit Aesop rock for my vocabulary. I constantly have to research words when I listen to him lmfao

    • @FlashQuatsch
      @FlashQuatsch 3 роки тому +30

      Gringo is how Peruvians refer to Americans and sometimes white people. Pirogue is Piragua, a type of boat.
      Mopacho is a type of tobacco. And Iquitos is the capital city of Loreto, a region in the jungle of Peru.
      Hope that helped a bit 🤗

    • @NZMPlays
      @NZMPlays 3 роки тому +18

      Dudes been spending the last few years in Thailand and Peru, gathering Field knowledge of the jungle atmosphere just to craft this record. I. FUCKING. LOVE. THIS. GUY.

    • @DMdno-hs4ef
      @DMdno-hs4ef 3 роки тому +10

      And people say em is rap God apparently never listened to aesop

  • @Impossible033
    @Impossible033 3 роки тому +333

    DEAR FRIENDS, SEND HELP YESTERDAY

    • @makaokaonthane9590
      @makaokaonthane9590 3 роки тому +11

      It’s weird how we quote Aesop rock bars we can understand 😂😂

    • @Yagunitto
      @Yagunitto 3 роки тому

      ok i'm calling Nolan

    • @rosszeadker5375
      @rosszeadker5375 3 роки тому

      @DIV1NITAL Novembers almost over. Do you retract your statement?

    • @psychocline2579
      @psychocline2579 3 роки тому

      Camp bogard sends Madea

  • @theysayhiraeth1152
    @theysayhiraeth1152 3 роки тому +7

    This song is powerful.
    "Never let me die on a regular hill"

  • @JeffMackSoundsTrue
    @JeffMackSoundsTrue 3 роки тому +14

    I love AES's face in the smoke. His creativity keeps astounding me. He really knows how to set the mood and really go for it. Thank you for the new music.

  • @lysergicjimmy69
    @lysergicjimmy69 3 роки тому +43

    I always wondered how aesop would break down a trip.

    • @WarbossRB
      @WarbossRB 3 роки тому +10

      The greatest pacman in history didn't do it for you?

    • @lysergicjimmy69
      @lysergicjimmy69 3 роки тому +1

      @@WarbossRB came close but no cigar..

    • @xanhteps648
      @xanhteps648 3 роки тому

      Last Pac man on bazooka tooth. Its not as pro lsd as we might hope for. .

  • @bobbobs4851
    @bobbobs4851 3 роки тому +33

    Threadly reminder that Aesop Rock is objectively the GOAT and all opinions otherwise have already been debunked by Snopes.

    • @theginganinjaofficial
      @theginganinjaofficial 3 роки тому +1

      Facts check out

    • @apatheticviewer234
      @apatheticviewer234 3 роки тому +1

      Eh Illogic is a better lyricist. Celestial Clockwork is perfect.
      Aesop is more consistent tho

    • @bobbobs4851
      @bobbobs4851 3 роки тому +9

      @@apatheticviewer234 that has been debunked. Please take your conspiracy theories to infowars.

    • @kk-lr5ud
      @kk-lr5ud 3 роки тому

      @@bobbobs4851 boblawbobslog?? Is it really you!? 💋

    • @jkq311
      @jkq311 3 роки тому

      I wouldn't trust snopes any more than I trust some stranger; in fact I have more trust in the stranger than snopes.

  • @coreyp12290
    @coreyp12290 3 роки тому +28

    I feel like the only reason Ace is slept on is because he goes so far above everyone's head.

    • @scladoffle2472
      @scladoffle2472 3 роки тому +6

      The delusions of a fanboy. He's not slept on because "he goes so far above everyone's head", he's slept on because nobody really listens to hip hop in relation to other music, and he's never made pop music. People say this shit all the time but all you're doing is feeding your own ego.

    • @Odd_Combo
      @Odd_Combo 3 роки тому +4

      @James Jamison I just heard a guy do a reaction to Aes, and it was his first time hearing him. He said this and I feel that this was appropriate...
      “He’s too dope for normal human consumption.” - MrLBoyd (I think?)

    • @Behemoth_Rogue
      @Behemoth_Rogue 2 роки тому +1

      @@scladoffle2472
      Yet everyone knows who JayZ, Tupac, Biggie Smalls, Eminem, and 50 cent are.
      Rap and hip hop are mainstream now homie. Aes is slept on because he's underground, and not alot of people can actually grasp what he's trying to say in his verses.

    • @VeniVizzleVici
      @VeniVizzleVici Рік тому

      @@Behemoth_Rogue "Mainstream" rap is only popular due to certain groups wanting certain messages prioritized.

  • @HoboBama
    @HoboBama 3 роки тому +1

    '..they talk about the jungle like it's always in the room..' 🧡

  • @nicholasbrookins630
    @nicholasbrookins630 3 роки тому +16

    Poem at the end is Spleen by Charles Baudelaire

    • @rubyrayne8
      @rubyrayne8 3 роки тому

      I thought it was by Ruth Wright.
      Baudelaire did write a collection of poems Le Spleen de Paris but it’s a different work.

  • @jaydaville5830
    @jaydaville5830 3 роки тому +123

    Being a fan of both Aesop and Magic Mushrooms... Starting to think GrandMaster Aes has been expanding his consciousness lately lol

    • @psychrockvinyl
      @psychrockvinyl 3 роки тому +8

      haha absolutely man if this isn’t the best song about dmt world then what is!

    • @Respect2theFallen
      @Respect2theFallen 3 роки тому +2

      Malibu Ken man he mentioned a mushroom in his car and someone was worried about it but he wasn't lol seemed psych-ish to me and that was an older album I'm sure he's been on it

    • @Peter_Kropotkin
      @Peter_Kropotkin 3 роки тому +4

      Gotta love psychs

    • @VoxPopuli-gp9il
      @VoxPopuli-gp9il 3 роки тому +10

      He's had to have been dosing and taking psychedelic visionary journeys since his early days. The complexity and depth of his lyricism speaks volumes for that.

    • @Respect2theFallen
      @Respect2theFallen 3 роки тому +6

      @@VoxPopuli-gp9il I agree plus when he did the impossible kid i believe he said he stayed in a shack for a couple days or weeks with no technology. He had to have been taking psychs, drawing, and meditating or something in that case

  • @scottmiller7086
    @scottmiller7086 Рік тому +2

    Every song is a master class in lyrical excellence.

  • @blakeelledge8516
    @blakeelledge8516 3 роки тому +4

    Spirit World Field Guide is the best album to drop in 2020!!!! Sooooo glad I pre ordered this BOMB ALBUM!!!! 😁 YOU SHOULD TOO!!! I PROMISE YOU SHALL NOT REGRET IT!!!

  • @jackjohnson691
    @jackjohnson691 3 роки тому +9

    Im salivating. A nice batch of LSD is going around my area. The Gates was epic on acid. Can't wait to see where the whole album will take me

  • @davidtapos7797
    @davidtapos7797 Рік тому +3

    Amazers

  • @andreyoung9181
    @andreyoung9181 3 роки тому +2

    Aesop Rock has perfected his craft

  • @NZMPlays
    @NZMPlays 3 роки тому +2

    Ace Rocks best song/video of all time. Cant stress how much I appreciate this mans work for hip hop.

  • @justinmichael9191
    @justinmichael9191 3 роки тому +38

    AES HERE TO SAVE 2020

    • @kk-lr5ud
      @kk-lr5ud 3 роки тому

      @DIV1NITAL lol nuclear november nice 🔬

    • @gyozakeynsianism
      @gyozakeynsianism 3 роки тому

      More like to say "I told you so." And then to drop acid. And then to chuckle a bit and pet Kirby.

  • @theyliveglasses4667
    @theyliveglasses4667 3 роки тому +3

    The themes on this album so far are super intriguing, I'm ready for whatever weird trip Aes is gonna take us on

  • @tatoarg9508
    @tatoarg9508 3 роки тому +1

    Dear Aes, if you're reading this, we thank you. This is fresh and challenging at the same time. We have to elevate our ears to your standards. And that's what being an artist is about!

  • @cristinahavenhill7466
    @cristinahavenhill7466 Рік тому +1

    He is going down in history.
    Period.

  • @smlinarcik
    @smlinarcik 3 роки тому +6

    That Ruth White sample at the end is such an A+ pull.

    • @TheCommanderTitan
      @TheCommanderTitan 3 роки тому +1

      Makes you wonder if Aesop knows what Space Funeral is, or if he found that on his own...

  • @honey3762
    @honey3762 3 роки тому +3

    5:21 OH MY GOD! This makes me so happy, that's Ruth White's spleen!!!

  • @andyzagray7962
    @andyzagray7962 3 місяці тому +2

    That book did something crazy

  • @ronp7884
    @ronp7884 3 роки тому +1

    No one can top Aes', just keeps getting fucking more talented than anything else I can think of. Not many artists make my brain spin like him.

  • @Tripl3Nippl3
    @Tripl3Nippl3 3 роки тому +12

    Man @ this point AESOP can do ZER0 wrong. Banger after banger album EVERY TIME since he dropped "Daylight", etc. Thank u AES for decades of beautiful Head Nodding Enlightenment!!!!!!

    • @dakistle
      @dakistle 2 роки тому

      Ya dude. So much greatness for the fans

  • @WarrenLeggatt
    @WarrenLeggatt 3 роки тому +8

    I don't think there is another in the game that is close to the use of language Aesop has. Never a straight line to describe something, just layers of relationships between word and meaning that give you the breadcrumbs you need to piece together the intent. :)

  • @bbuny10
    @bbuny10 3 роки тому +2

    I’m glad my favorite rapper is still making music I love

  • @hannahplaysalone
    @hannahplaysalone 3 роки тому +1

    I can't put into words what aesop gives me...he just gets better and better

  • @austinreed4383
    @austinreed4383 3 роки тому +6

    Dear Universe,
    Please have Aes, Boy Sand and Mike Eagle tour their new albums together and perform Syrup as a closer. If you could fit that in before the apocalypse that'd be rad. Thank you.

  • @NSXTACY420
    @NSXTACY420 3 роки тому +5

    "Dear friends send help yesterday" - Aesop

  • @mattrup
    @mattrup 18 днів тому

    "Never let me die on a regular hill." Word.

  • @VoxPopuli-gp9il
    @VoxPopuli-gp9il 3 роки тому +2

    Aesop Rock is the Mind. Eyedea is the Heart. Two sides of the same Coin, which is called the Soul.

  • @donofbran
    @donofbran 3 роки тому +5

    Already preordered the vinyl, and these singles are making me even more excited :)

    • @ethansmith49
      @ethansmith49 3 роки тому

      Same here! can't wait to hear the rest!

  • @LysanderSpooner-zl5vm
    @LysanderSpooner-zl5vm Рік тому +9

    My wife asked me the other day… “Besides our children and marriage, what are you most thankful for?” To which I responded, “Discovering Aesop Rock’s music, of course.”
    Immediately, she took off her clothes and jumped on me.
    Thanks AESOP! You have no equal

  • @kopas9498
    @kopas9498 3 роки тому +1

    I'm really feelin Iron Gallery with that track Dope Shroud. Can't wait for that EP!!

  • @TheFreshSuperior
    @TheFreshSuperior 3 роки тому +1

    Been listening to Aes for more than half my life.. he is getting fucking better. It’s scary

  • @GtaRockt
    @GtaRockt 3 роки тому +3

    when you type "Aesop Rock" into the search bar to show your homie some Aesop Rock tracks and you realize he released another track just a couple of hours ago:
    :O

  • @jrwproof
    @jrwproof 3 роки тому +16

    when i lived in peru a few years ago, pizza street was an alley in the miraflores neighborhood of lima -- restaurants and bars by day, but infamous for hookers and drugs by night. the government just shut it all down and cleaned it up not too long ago.

    • @wernerfels7584
      @wernerfels7584 3 роки тому +3

      think the same, also the tone he use as he say lima
      can smell the coke in that words

    • @rubyrayne8
      @rubyrayne8 3 роки тому +2

      Oh I didn’t know that! Thanks for the info. I can look up some of the words I didn’t know, but I didn’t look up pizza alley.

  • @BobBob-cy9cu
    @BobBob-cy9cu 3 роки тому +1

    The local homie blows smoke on his wounds and talks about the jungle like it’s always in the room

  • @krem1982
    @krem1982 3 роки тому

    Anyone else discover aes in 99 and purchase everything he’s ever done? He only gets better it’s insanity. His worst albums are still amazing

  • @OneHitAway
    @OneHitAway 3 роки тому +11

    [Verse 1]
    Keep it classy
    Key to Pizza Alley
    Weaving traffic in a overheating taxi
    In Lima
    Tickets to liberate the center, pitch surrender
    To a witch doctor pouring amphibians out the blender
    Underneath a glowing purple Christ
    Perfect surf, curl up and die
    Cobblestone alone a masterclass in open world design
    I came from the wasteland in featherlight trail pants
    Fugee off the ant trail
    Inca trail mailman
    Fail in every hemisphere
    Show me the ambrosia
    Maybe ghost into thе coca leaf and holy heliconia
    Wherе shaman opt to zombify undocumented expats
    High and writing Ayahuasca letters back to Melmac
    Dear friends
    Send help yesterday
    Yours true, condor, puma, serpiente
    Talk rap albums over alpaca medallions
    With metalheads who traffic magic flowers from the mountains
    To the houses of the holy
    A token of that sacred valley balance
    So you don't expel omega fatty acids
    The strays in the plaza look happier than my neighbors
    They answer to Paddington Bear in waders
    It's amazers
    What ship, what shore?
    I grew up writing riddles under bridges in New York
    Now I travel like a highwayman who whispers to his horse
    Sharing stories out of winter, trying to trigger something pure
    From "Dying on the vine," to, "It's alive and indivisible"
    To, "How'd I get this far without a bindle full of crystal skulls?"
    Cozy local woven goods
    Beaded shit for people you have never met or spoken to
    But know they'll need to hold Peru
    Throw a couple logs on the fire
    There's a chimney in San Blas where you can hear Baby Dayliner
    Bouncing softly off the navy blue
    April showers, paper moon
    Run the light and beat the drum
    And smoke the dope and raid the tomb
    [Chorus]
    Pay no mind to the bygones
    Find him a strange hill to die on
    Never let me die on a regular hill
    Never let me die on a regular hill
    Pay no mind to the bygones
    Find him a strange hill to die on
    Never let me die on a regular hill
    Never let me die on a regular hill
    Never let me die on a regular hill
    Never let me die on a regular hill
    Never let me die on a regular hill
    Never let me die on a regular hill
    [Verse 2]
    The local homie blow smoke on his wounds
    And talk about the jungle like it's always in the room
    New and shooting lumens out of a canoe into the ruins
    Silly putty for some otherworldly woo-woo to influence
    Ooh, it's a strange bouquet
    Not today, Supay
    Rubber boots and tumbo juice and tarantula toupee
    Canopy going H.A.M. over camp in a feuding biome
    Os Mutantes row-row-rowing the wrong way into the diode
    Fry the banana, heart of palm ribbons
    Fish from the river, sauces made of citrus
    On a screen porch pimpled after dark with frogs and lizards
    When high as hell, they might as well be Mothras and Godzillas
    It's awesome
    Peer into the spirit quest, spellbound
    Three to one machete, yelling back into the hellmouth
    You hit the labyrinth an ambassador of peace and love
    You might return with the root of your superego plunged
    [Chorus]
    The river boils when it sees me
    The river boils when it sees me
    The river boils when it sees me
    The river boils when it sees me
    [Verse 3]
    "Electric eels killed two of my best friends"
    Said the local to the gringo
    Then dove in off the pirogue
    In a cloud of smoky mopacho
    They boat in from Iquitos
    Mosquitos on the wall of the Amazonian ethos
    Off to bounce a light off any hairy eyeball in the basin
    Wild pig, owl, baby caiman
    Coral snakes that drape down from the timbers
    Like the six fingers of Satan
    They only speak in S's, you cannot get an amen
    I told my darkest secrets to a pair of fuchsia dolphins
    The doozy out in Paris, the futures I had squandered
    They whispered something to me I will bear unto my coffin
    What's apparent via Occam is despondency as common
    We traded numbers and made off into the pond scum
    Humming Muddy Waters
    Motherfucker, I am on one
    Earth, wind, fire, and papaya
    We fly with the poison arrow
    We dive with the arapaima
    Look

  • @EdwardSteadfast
    @EdwardSteadfast 3 роки тому +56

    “ I got a really weird beat...doesn’t really start for like 3mins”?
    “Ah cool... I’m gonna record it through a 1979 rotary phone anyway 🤷🏼‍♂️ .. lets do it!”

    • @SoloAtlantis
      @SoloAtlantis 3 роки тому +1

      I'm not digging it. I wish I was but the beat doesn't vibe and he sounds like drinking outa cups got a record deal

    • @calypso3316
      @calypso3316 3 роки тому +2

      @@SoloAtlantis I laughed way too hard at this comment. "Seahorse seashell party"

  • @johannsimonot
    @johannsimonot 3 роки тому +1

    Aesop rock, mf doom (rip), el p, vast aire, sole and many more...hip hop legends...only knows by the elite of hip hop. Ignore by medias...
    If you watch this video, you are one of us ;)

  • @Fultoncards
    @Fultoncards 3 роки тому +2

    Wow. That was the best acid trip I've never been on.

  • @knutwagner7997
    @knutwagner7997 3 роки тому +3

    Pretty dang sure i never anticipated a sweet piece o' vinyl more ! Ace Rizzle to the rescue...

  • @goatbacon3522
    @goatbacon3522 3 роки тому +3

    Heard a NAVY BLUE reference I think
    "without a bindle of crystal skulls" is an amazing line. thats a indiana jones reference.
    Aesop has never nuked the fridge

  • @fullmetalcraig
    @fullmetalcraig 3 роки тому

    I don't understand how Aesop just kills it every fucking time, Im pretty sure I never once have skiped one of his songs when it comes on

  • @_Jake.From.Statefarm_
    @_Jake.From.Statefarm_ 3 роки тому

    The fact that this whole album is about navigating his therapy experiences blows my mind. After what he did with Shrunk, and his vision on Religion via Float, Labor....etc. It's absolutely mind numbing piecing his though process though out the entire thing... now we have an album for it.

  • @royalvirtues1511
    @royalvirtues1511 3 роки тому +46

    Aesop the man that likes to Maze hop ,
    trace God in chalk - then point arrows towards an ayahuasca church spot , where there’s a heard of Gods, and neitches lantern still on!

    • @LORDHoekalledGAuhEY69TH
      @LORDHoekalledGAuhEY69TH 3 роки тому +3

      aes rock is the goddess locking pussy eating, still talking walking fawn king slaying with one sword swing, between his legs is the sheath undressed third peg wood feet standing steep on hill, sliding slipping ur footing still, trek space like wars the star support republic overbearing last seen scarily strung overboard water dripping chinese torturesome , Fortitude of fortresses to exhume archaic work of archaeology at its worst unearthing items that are cursed and leaving with bags of loot lucratively liquidated steadily stupid on a stoop

    • @LM01234
      @LM01234 3 роки тому +1

      Love this both of yall

    • @LORDHoekalledGAuhEY69TH
      @LORDHoekalledGAuhEY69TH 3 роки тому +1

      @@LM01234 thaaanksssss

  • @LINKAG3
    @LINKAG3 3 роки тому +15

    --- In Aesop's IG Story Today ---
    The song makes me wanna close my eyes, So Tight, but Just Never Stop Believing, like...
    I wanna get "Condor, Puma, Serpiente" Tattooed across my Chest; I don't have any tattoos, I don't have 1 tattoo...
    I don't think...
    I Think I wanna get it BRANDED Across my Chest...
    - Homeboy Sandman
    11/11 Review; Agreed; Wholeheartedly.

  • @anotherperson956
    @anotherperson956 3 роки тому +2

    Usually I look up references made in Aes's songs but my family is from Peru so I was pleased to already know the cities and such he name drops. He needs to lmk next time he's in Peru so I can give him a tour lol

  • @ironhelix5362
    @ironhelix5362 3 роки тому +1

    One of a kind artist raising the bar every time. Sick sick track.

  • @bigdaddyvtec
    @bigdaddyvtec 2 роки тому +3

    NEVER LET ME DIE ON A REGULAR HILL

  • @williammaisonet8228
    @williammaisonet8228 2 роки тому +3

    Wrong way into the diode, explosive.

  • @harkiratsingh8508
    @harkiratsingh8508 3 роки тому

    Word. Good job. Strange how naturally the stories tell the same lessons.

  • @mateotejeda3720
    @mateotejeda3720 3 роки тому +1

    Fuck man.... my favorite rapper made a song about my country, and it couldn't be more perfect, the mystic, the vibe, the landscapes....I felt my feet beautifully grounded to my land and butterflies in my stomach. Thanks man! mi casa es tu casa.

  • @OneHitAway
    @OneHitAway 3 роки тому +10

    Electric eels are no joke

  • @de-d9027
    @de-d9027 3 роки тому +4

    Hell yeah Aesop coming in with another great song, cant wait for this album

    • @nudoge
      @nudoge 3 роки тому

      same tho

  • @FlintFandango
    @FlintFandango 3 роки тому +1

    Incredible, if there´s Aesop Rock written on it, it´s a masterpiece! I already pre-ordered the album. This is gonna be awesome for sure!

  • @Doesntmattter37
    @Doesntmattter37 3 роки тому +2

    Another banger, thank you Aes for being yourself.

  • @7thdrxn
    @7thdrxn 3 роки тому +13

    Sounds like Aes had a productive visit with mama ayahuasca.

    • @vapid6311
      @vapid6311 3 роки тому

      if anything I was getting big mammon's mantra vibes, but I see it lol

    • @7thdrxn
      @7thdrxn 3 роки тому

      @@Nomad_Skateboarding our friend Aesop Rock, silly! :) He calls himself Aes in a few songs for short.

  • @TheCommanderTitan
    @TheCommanderTitan 3 роки тому +4

    YOU CANT TELL ME THIS SONG ENDS WITH SPLEEN BY RUTH WHITE I DIDNT KNOW WE WERE GETTING SPACE FUNERAL IN HERE

  • @LINKAG3
    @LINKAG3 3 роки тому +1

    WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
    AAAAEEEEEESSSS!!!!!

  • @dirkbowman946
    @dirkbowman946 3 роки тому +1

    Aesop set the bar again

  • @FlashQuatsch
    @FlashQuatsch 3 роки тому +5

    Peruvians stand up 🙋🏽‍♀️🇵🇪

  • @constantly-confused5736
    @constantly-confused5736 3 роки тому +21

    "we fly with the poison arrow, we dive with the arapaima"
    Wikipedia says: [Arapaima] are among the largest freshwater fish. [...] Its Portuguese name, pirarucu, derives from the Tupi language words pira and urucum, meaning "red fish".
    So maybe Aesop Rock is throwing us the biggest red hering here that he could possibly come across while being in Peru? Or maybe I got it all wrong.
    I guess I need a field guide to the spirit world....

    • @kebr4723
      @kebr4723 3 роки тому +2

      Arapaima were featured multiple times on River Monsters, and one actually hit the host heard enough to (correct me if I'm wrong) cause heart problems and put him out of commission for a bit, while he was helping to catch it in a net. They're huge and strong.

    • @nothing2see315
      @nothing2see315 3 роки тому

      @@kebr4723 The sample at the end of the song is from Cage's KTA album and the song was . a dot or a period idk??

    • @kebr4723
      @kebr4723 3 роки тому

      @@nothing2see315 Wait...what?

    • @nothing2see315
      @nothing2see315 3 роки тому

      @@kebr4723 It's a hard song to find because it's called . It's on Cage's kill the architect album.

    • @nothing2see315
      @nothing2see315 3 роки тому

      @@kebr4723 Starts @5:02

  • @Dazzletrain
    @Dazzletrain Рік тому

    God damn, I love Aesop. I listen to his music a different way. It's almost heartbreaking.

  • @chiefersutherland5609
    @chiefersutherland5609 3 роки тому

    Whaaaaat. My mind is blown. This whole album. Ffs im beside myself.

  • @johnnyo7723
    @johnnyo7723 3 роки тому +9

    and the way he switched his flow up when the beat switched, hes rhythming smooth as fuck on beat, usually hes rhyming BETWEEN the beat. maybe symbolic of being brought into the great flow of life rather than feeling like an outsider.

  • @halfrobot1
    @halfrobot1 3 роки тому +19

    that is a very handsome archeologist

  • @stevebob240
    @stevebob240 3 роки тому +1

    Every song blows my mind, I love it so much. Aesop is a god among men.

  • @nathantwilight
    @nathantwilight 3 роки тому +1

    shoulda known aes would have a new album out by now. thanks to all rhymesayers crew and aes for making truly edifying art that teaches us all something new bout the universe. nothing in the pop world compares or is even worth listening to, but yall's stuff is the kind of eye opening business that i live for.