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Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
| Musicomh | | Aesop Rock is famed for his dense lyrical tirades and here on None Shall Pass his penchant for cramming words into spaces that shouldn't fit continues merrily. Like label mates El-P and Cannibal Ox, Aesop Rock is undoubtedly one of those who continues to keep hip-hop an art form. Not for him the posturing and bling, nope these are bold statements on the world today and on the human condition....full text |
| | bbc | None Shall Pass finds Def Jux MC/producer Aesop Rock, relocated to San Francisco, celebrating the start of his third decade, but still rocking the sour-tongued delivery and social conscience that he’s been rocking since day one.
Aesop’s approach is one that riles some rap purists; his rhymes are often so detail-packed and wordy it’s hard to dig much sense from the verbal wreckage. For his fans, though, Aesop is one of the few MCs truly taking hip-hop to the next level, and the deciphering these dense tracts is a feat of concentration that’s satisfying like cracking The Bible Code....full text |
| | Pitchfork | | Aesop Rock's most distinguishable characteristic, his relentless verbosity, shows no signs of slowing-- for the mainstream, the uninitiated, or even fans who couldn't keep up with Bazooka Tooth. If anything, his lyrics are harder to follow now, and even with the 80-page lyric booklet from his last EP or the transcription of "Citronella" on his myspace, having the words spelled out for you doesn't mean it's going to be easy. When you've got a delivery this dense, all that's left for the confused or the impatient is the tracks, and the Definitive Jux roster has often (if not always) served particular tastes on that front....full text |
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