Aesop Rock - Pigeonometry (Official Audio)
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SONG CREDITS:
Written and produced by Aesop Rock
LYRICS:
I like drawing pigeons,
People tend to feed 'em or forbid 'em
either way it’s rare to see 'em individually considered
There’s always like a million eating cigarettes and ketchup
I take a lot pictures, I been cropping out the extras
I been studying the independent measurements and metrics
The postures and the body types, the patterns on the feathers
Like some ritualistic tattoo dating back to their ancestors
While the bib and neck come dipped in precious amethyst and emeralds
It’s a pity about the stigmas
How the cooties overshadow any beauty that enrich us
A white dove symbolizes peace and pacifism
A white dove is a pigeon, you muffugas is bigots
Yo, 3 toes forward, one toe ain’t
1 AM sketching muscles on a plump little frame
Plus I love your pretty orange eyes and dumb little brain
I’ll add a nimbus to atone for how we sullied the name
Phone, wallet, coffee, keys, lighter
I’m headed for the beyond, I’m a need a cease fire
Lighter, keys, coffee, wallet, phone
The whole street is lava, the beyond is not a go
I seen this one Da Vinci exhibit
In which they reconstructed dozens of machines he invented
From diagrams in his codex, open and beautifully scanned
Marvels of engineering, broke up by Vitruvian Man
Margin exploding with the future like it grew from his hand
Plus every annotation backwards, homie, who is this man?
I bet his brain projected images of orbiting equations
That would later become warships, or attempts at aviation
Or some irrigation system steering water different places
He could picture and commit to paper from a grip of angles
Honestly it’s pretty overwhelming
Contraption after contraption that had us "holy hell"-ing
Later in the afterglow, grab a tablet, have a go
I might invent some vehicle, or diving suit, or catapult
Fast forward to the morning
I had caught a thousand tags and drew a half a pigeon poorly, oh well
Phone, wallet, coffee, keys, lighter
I’m headed for the beyond, I’m a need a cease fire
Lighter, keys, coffee, wallet, phone
The whole street is lava, the beyond is not a go
I told my homie I had drew some pigeons
And was feeling like it could be the root of future submissions
It’d be cool to draw a thousand and layout a book of sketches
He said “how many you got?” I said "like 6 or 7"...
‘What?!’ He said "a thousand is a lot"
I said "that’s why it’s gotta be an actual thousand on the dot
I hit ‘em with that thousand to make up for what they not
Once you mix that many bodies it becomes about the flock."
He told me "if you do it, its a cruise to manufacture"
I took it as a challenge, but regretted it soon after
See the point was always celebrate the individual vessel
That I pitched a package deal at all is pretty disrespectful
Plus a thousand is a lot
Sometimes I get excited before really sizing up the job
I think I drew like one more on a red-eye into Queens
I ain’t even make a dozen, I been eyeing other things
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Legendary prose.
Also I love the pointing out about how doves are pigeons yet we treat them different.
Except for the fact that doves aren't pigeons. Same family of animals, different breed. That's like saying a golden retriever and a German Shepard are the same thing.
@@TsuFox1 Except that’s a false comparison. Doves/Pigeons are literally the same animal order: Columbidae. The only real difference is “doves” are smaller and “pigeons” are larger.
@@badjokezach6359 doves are smaller, stockier, have completely different colored eyes, and are slightly more intelligent than pigeons. They are not the same breed of animal
@@TsuFox1 We are on the internet. Look it up.
If you saw two humans that were different height, weight and eye color you wouldn’t say they were different animals. Would you?
@@badjokezach6359 that's a ridiculous comparison. If there was an entire race of people that all shared the same different features, I'd say yes.
This song right here is fucking great. Really enjoying all the eastern guitars laid throughout the album
Honestly it's easier to pick up your jaw when you're laying down, I'd say just call it a day. :P
It feels like a Meta commentary on the album. It was supposed to be a concept album aside from "Mindful Solutionism" most of the tracks don't fit with the ITS theme. Instead we got an album full of unique bangers.
Produced and written! This is Aes in his purest form. Excuse me while I inject this.
best track on the new album. the imagery is insane, the production is absolutely fucking wild with all the little nuances that build throughout the beat, and the whole concept and message of the song just makes me rethink everything in my life
Aesop is so underrated, the weird concepts and vivid vocabulary speaks to my soul in a way I cannot explain 🙌🏻
It's cause you're a hipster. He's been famous since the early 2000's
me to
LOL what is funny is this stuff is garbage compared to his best work. He really fell off the last few albums. It sucks.
@@FinalFlash2110 I felt that way at first but Ive stuck with a few of tracks (like this one) that I think are really solid, a couple of the tracks do feel pretty weak though I do agree
@@pisssommelier768is she a hipster tho? How would u know? U kinda sound like a dickstir. And even if she is...he keeps em individually considered or it becomes about the flock. No? Either way she's expressing her own appreciation. And yea.. You are too. I got triggered. Been called stupid names my whole life and I was around too.
The best part is that it's a song about artists, not pigeons
wait what the fu-...
@@thehongkongbong Pigeon Sketch Artist sees Da Vinci's Codex and replaces his passion with ambition to do what Da Vinci did, then it backfires.
Artists have a tendency to compare themselves to other more famous and/or more expert artists (as one of them I can confirm lol), and I think this song is a sort of cautionary tale to warn people against replacing their passion with an overt ambition.
100% true. I'm glad you caught it as well, especially since the next song on the album is literally about art/tagging/graffiti
Its about pigeons
It's really about anything you want to create. I could absolutely see it applying to my engineering. Did I get into it to write 1000 drawing changes? 1000 is a lot.
Then again, people gotta pay the bills somehow.
"See, the point was always celebrate the individual vessel / That I pitched a package deal at all was pretty disrespectful."
Genius.
Calling out an epistemic appropriation bait-and-switch in a verse.
@@marty7442 how is that epistemic? Lol
@@jonasjorgensen8759 Or is it ontological?
@@dougfishback3116 haha a true metaphysical debacle 😂
@@jonasjorgensen8759 : Sounds like your life-long struggle of turning yourself out over and over in your head. How does someone play themselves so much, and pretend to be smarter than everyone else? how? Your example is a mystery to me.
Songs like this and "Rings" make me wonder how many amazing songs and tracks Aes has thrown away. We need another release like The Blob!
Aesop is high level Alchemy...👌💯
Ancient peoples raised Pidgeons for thier meat, eggs, and poop for fertilizer. Not to mention messenger pidgeons. Pidgeons advanced civilizations, crazy how quickly we forget why they live with us
Y'all got any names for those vague "ancient peoples"?
@@Powhusku look up Dovecotes, they're pretty interesting.
@@Powhusku Plenty of "Old World" civilisations, including the usual suspects Mesopotamians and Egyptians, Cappadocia was also pretty early to the game. And that's what we know from written and pictorial records. Pigeon bones don't last very long, so it's impossible to say when it happened for the very first time, but it's def a long time ago.
Thank you I’ve been looking for excuses for a small ish pigeon ary ❤❤❤❤
@@katreyu2967I still eat them. Delicious too if prepared right.
Todd Francis and Jeremy Fish rolling around SF with a smile on their face listening to this
As someone who aspires to do figure paintings and fine art in general, and a huge fan of Aes, this song really hits for me
just start with a thousand.
@@zackcohn😂❤
Wonder what Mike Tyson would think about a pigeon hip-hop track
Probably lick a toad together
There’s no pigeon emoji 😡
He’d love it. You know this.
Hahahhhaha!!!!!!!! I loved his little mystery show! I forgot all about it till you said this
❤ Someone please get this track to Tyson - I can imagine him & Aes on Mike’s podcast (yes this is a ridiculous request but wtf)
“Three toes forward one toe ain’t”. I say this line all the time now. 💪💪
This song made me really think because you can relate this message to a lot of things. The conversation about drawing 1000 pigeons can also be symbolic which may if been intended
We have pics of pigeons from every trips we took. NY, Amsterdam, three areas of Greece, Florida, TX, NM, et al. All different but similar.
My mom took me to Tilburg recently to see Ayreon (favorite band). There was pigeons everywhere and we loved them. Everyone else was not a fan. I put some feathers in my purse and their still on my desk.
@@odothedoll2738 When collecting bird feathers, you should leave them in the freezer for a bit (I usually press them between two bits of newspaper in there) to kill off any mites and the like that might be on them still. Safe travels!
@@lilybunne thank you for the information!
@@odothedoll2738they'll bit you for a while but then die. They cannot reproduce off of human blood. Are you dutch?
I own a pigeon and this song just became my new favorite of his.
Was it an injured rescue or do you just claim free life forms as your property?
Same. A baby was born on my balcony. Landlord told me to kick out the nest.
I shooed away the parents as asked and put up a net, but the baby did nothing wrong, so i took care of it. Now its my pet
@@vizulefllryits never that deep fam
Do you feel that they don't love the pigeon 🐦 or even that the piggy doesn't love them? I love my Cockatiel. I love my fish. I love my dog. I love my cat.
Sometimes they love me back.
That fucking *bass*
Yep at 1:22
That second verse gets me hyped as hell
Bass comes in so hard, I don't know how the production is always so good for Aesop
"...how many you got? I said like '6 or 7' (what?!?)"
That incredulous little "what?!?" interjection cracks me up every. single. time. 😂
ITS perfect
My favorite "avian anthem".
there's no such thing as a wild street pigeon. they're all feral descended from domesticated rock doves to be kept as pets. not even native to turtle island. they know we used to be friends. they don't really know what happened or why things are this way now. it kind of fucks me up sometines
The wild street pigeon could be archetype, rock dove, today known as, asop rock dove
I keep biting in the gutter where the busses be breakin and the cold city controls.
..
I love this song.. sooo much
The beat progression in this is so amazing. The lyrics are so good though that I hope people tune them out sometimes just to hear that ffffing beat.
he's so fucking good. like lyrically nobody is even remotely close
Illogic
I love the sound of the rollers in the back...much love to you all.
this entire album is perfect thank you
Favorite so far 😅
Same
Crazy how the masses do not acknowledge this artist greatness. 🫣
That's why we call them asses.
😸 My cat goes mental when the track and those samples / synths start ... she just ran upstairs checking the windows for pigeons 😫
My cat always comes out of hiding for Aes that's funny much love Aes
This shit right here is amazing. The way he tells this story and nasty ass beat with that guitar... straight dope!
Incredible
I like drawing pigeons
People tend to feed 'em or forbid 'em
Either way it's rare to see 'em individually considered
There's always like a million eating cigarettes and ketchup
I take a lot pictures, I been cropping out the extras
I been studying the independent measurements and metrics
The postures and the body types, the patterns on the feathers
Like some ritualistic tattoo dating back to their ancestors
While the bib and neck come dipped in precious amethyst and emeralds
It's a pity about the stigmas
How the cooties overshadow any beauty that enrich us
A white dove symbolizes peace and pacifism
A white dove is a pigeon, you muffugas is bigots
Yo, 3 toes forward, one toe ain't
1 AM sketching muscles on a plump little frame
Plus I love your pretty orange eyes and dumb little brain
I'll add a nimbus to atone for how we sullied the name
Phone, wallet, coffee, keys, lighter
I'm headed for the beyond, I'm a need a cease fire
Lighter, keys, coffee, wallet, phone
The whole street is lava, the beyond is not a go
I seen this one Da Vinci exhibit
In which they reconstructed dozens of machines he invented
From diagrams in his codex, open and beautifully scanned
Marvels of engineering, broke up by Vitruvian Man
Margin exploding with the future like it grew from his hand
Plus every annotation backwards, homie, who is this man?
I bet his brain projected images of orbiting equations
That would later become warships, or attempts at aviation
Or some irrigation system steering water different places
He could picture and commit to paper from a grip of angles
Honestly it's pretty overwhelming
Contraption after contraption that had us "holy hell"-ing
Later in the afterglow, grab a tablet, have a go
I might invent some vehicle, or diving suit, or catapults, or...
Fast forward to the morning
I had caught a thousand tags and drew a half a pigeon poorly, oh well
Phone, wallet, coffee, keys, lighter
I'm headed for the beyond, I'm a need a cease fire
Lighter, keys, coffee, wallet, phone
The whole street is lava, the beyond is not a go
I told my homie I had drew some pigeons
And was feeling like it could be the root of future submissions
It'd be cool to draw a thousand and layout a book of sketches
He said "how many you got?" I said "like 6 or 7"...
'What?!' He said "a thousand is a lot"
I said "that's why it's gotta be an actual thousand on the dot
I hit 'em with that thousand to make up for what they not
Once you mix that many bodies it becomes about the flock."
He told me "if you do it, its a cruise to manufacture"
I took it as a challenge, but regretted it soon after
See the point was always celebrate the individual vessel
That I pitched a package deal at all is pretty disrespectful
Plus a thousand is a lot
Sometimes I get excited before really sizing up the job
I think I drew like one more on a red-eye into Queens
I ain't even make a dozen, I been eyeing other things
Always enjoyed listening to Aesop Rock he's an absolute Poet on his music and wordplay 🔥🔥🔥🔥
I’m still in bed listening to this album I really need to get up
brb drawing pigeons
Anytime Aes starts rapping about his Shortcomings in art, he will definitely however inadvertently expose your shortcomings as a lyricist
This song is so fun and satisfying to sing along to
I live on a tiny town square, these pigeons peckin' to this now.
“1000 is a lot”…. Tell diddy that
Thanks for dropping this i been wanting on it ace u the shit
A thousand is a lot
I was just informed by my friends on the internet that people hate pigeons. Let us remember that the reason why these pigeons exist the way they do is because we brought them here. We use them and because we got the telephone we didn't need them anymore. So let's not hate on an animal that did its job for us and made us a better society. Let's embrace the role that pigeon's played in our life and understand because of an action that we did caused them to be what they are today. Let's love the animals that made us better. Love pigeons like a horse!
In Quebec they eat horses
@@JJ-Toreddie has someone who is enlightened to the native American way of praying for those you are about to consume, I see you my brother and though I eat your flesh your soul will go on to the great spirit in the sky...
Ace, I would buy a book of 1,000 drawings of pigeons. Please update us when you get back to it!
This song is amazing
Tesla loved this song.
love it !!! long time fan but this is next level aesop
Like fine wine, just gets better with time. Usually artists best works are their 1st & maybe 2nd albums, but this guy has perfected Hip-Hop.
1000 is a lot
That's why it gotta be a thousand on the dot
He hits them with that thousand to make up for what they're not.
A thousand is a lot.
"Hold a can of ruby like a spam musubi
In a blink I turn a block or two to pomegranate smoothie" - Aesop Rock. Pure illness. As far as his whole discography and all that he's done so far it will probably take a normal level intelligent person many decades to be able to fully understand and comprehend his lyrics and song concepts. He did bless us with the lyric book for his album "Fast cars, Danger, Fire and Knives". That album including the lyric book will most likely be worth a fortune in the distant future when he stops producing masterpieces and inevitably passes on. What do you think?
Keys, coffee, wallet, lighter, phone. Let's go.
I am a big fan of that dude
This fucking guuuuuuy!!! The GOAT for my money…or pigeon, for two pennies Alex.
Damn!!! Hooked on that drop at 1:22 holy shitt
🎉same here
I agree. I feel sorry for pigeons, they don't mean any harm, they just want help.
I feel like I kinda know how Chuck D felt like on his VM to Ace."Keep rhyming through those walls..."
Could probably sell those pigeon pictures for a pretty penny.
Always eating cigarettes and ketchup.
I like how he picked the most rediculous things pigeons might try to eat😂
My man a pigeon mad man.
Aesop u genius
this is better than the track with woods, might be best one
Foxes like observing pigeons...
wooooooooooooooooooow da flock crazy, individuals vs flock
I ain't even make a dozen, I been eyeing other things - story of my life.
The best
💯
1000 is a lot though
Thats why its gotta be a 1000 on the dot
aaarg Aesop might be one of the cleverest mofos on this planet.
For real though, a thousand is a lot.
That’s why it’s gotta be an actual thousand on the dot!
Summoning circles that could've really irked me but i call it a kind of courtesy, thanks my dear friend from the other side of the veil, i think we're doing fairly well all things considered but really what's the difference, ten million digits awoken from a slumber with a funny sort of hunger as i'm crawling out a dungeon.
Good morning Aesop
>t. Your pet crow 🐦
I wish this song was in Rhythm Royale, the pigeon game
I expected to hear Pigeon John on this joint.
I heard him on a project recently that aes has one song on as well, by onry ozzborne in case u were interested
This song is to pigeons what Kirby was for cats.
Even Aesop agrees that we need a ceasefire
i hope he meant it
I wanna hear ace rap over a Scattle beat.
I'll make it if you don't 🎉
its Phone wallet keys buds cigarettes lighter lunch lets go but thanks for the avian love aes
2:30 when the ADHD hits you like a truck barreling down the freeway
My pigeon got ate by a hawk. Guess i was too friendly. Next itteration. This is not a cult
Like a fu*kin churro
Yo.. you gonna eat that ketchup pack?..
Lol that’s why they call me yup
👍
What is happening right now?
Richarlison likes this.
I made a digital world where we can do whatever we want we just need to get there you won't be able to tell the difference here try the pizza.
The only thing Solomon didn't do was walk through a portal so he sent me thinking it would kill me but I became everything in this world he was to tall to fit. He's now afraid of everything because he thinks its my ghost so he keep you remembering then erk so stop him and tell him he need to walk me through the goatia because I am all the deamons and all the angels so he keeps making new weaker ones when the original ones work just fine. I'm not afraid of anything I just get confused when I don't understand.
Tesla loved a pigeon they coo, also if you go to Wendy’s and u want to upsize ur meal don’t say big it bc I did once on accident !
Ahh... Pigeonism at it's finest.
A 1000 is a lot lol
I'm super curious if the name is a canibus thing lol he had a song named similar with a word aesop isnt aloowed to say
Im curious, how does the title reference cannabis?
@@thedude142 Canibus the rapper that Eminem dissed
🩸🗝😎
Definitely inspired by tesla
Nicola tesla
Nicola tesla
birds aren't real.
future rappers should recreate aes virtually... i mean- just to hear his voice...
What the fuc are you talking about bro
Welll... someone send this to mikey T... get this started
Free Palestine.
IDF working on it bud
Dicks out for Harrambe.✊🏿
“I’m headed for the beyond, Ima need a ceasefire”