Aesop Rock
Rapper
1976-06-05
Aesop Rock is an American rapper and producer known for dense, complex lyricism. He emerged in the underground hip-hop scene and released albums including Labor Days and The Impossible Kid. He has also collaborated extensively with other alternative hip-hop artists.
Quotes by Aesop Rock
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After much inner debate, I can safely proclaim that Mungo Jerry's 'In the Summertime' may, in fact, be the best song ever recorded.
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I was a Kimya fan for a long time, a Moldy Peaches fan, so I got to work on her 'Thunder Thighs' record a little bit and we became friends and just started writing songs.
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To me, it seems more realistic to my thought process when things feel a little scattered in the lyrics. Being disjointed is not that abstract of a thing when I think about how my brain works - I feel like it's almost more realistic. That's how my brain works.
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Drawing and visual arts was kinda my first passion going all the way back to when I was a kid. I always felt like it was what I was supposed to do - but in reality I don't know that I ever had the skill to make it a profession.
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I love the playfulness and braggadocio that accompanies a ton of rap music - that's basically what makes up the foundation for most rappers. But there is nothing 'weirder' to me than someone who has never doubted themselves.
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It's really rare in life that a situation is as black and white as we tend to paint it.
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