Same flatline, same plaid flannel
Same bad gamble
Same graff' name on the axe handle
Brand new taxidermy mammal on the mantle
Maaaaannnn"
Aesop Rock - Send Help
(From Black Hole Suprette album; 2025)
Homeboy Sandman has become a bore who can't make a song without making vaccines/veganism/not owning a smartphone, but ya host still needs to get his jollies from the post-Fondle 'Em pipeline. So, it's time for me to finally take a smell of what Aesop Rock is cooking. I'm a changed man, my taste has range, ma'am, I got a whole new game plan. Listened to his new single and said "that's nothing but game, fam!"
Related: initially loathed the LL song wot sounds like El-P and then ended up liking it as part of his album. But what a shitty bargain budget Westside Plum type video this is eh? Never forgive action from a rapper who had some of the best music videos of the 80s and 90s.
Water so clean, you can see the fish pissin'"
LL Cool J - The Force
(From The Force album; 2024/YouTube; 2025)
11 comments:
I approve of this pivot. Though I haven't copped any Aesop Rock in a while ("Malibu Ken", I think).
I'll be listening to Wordburglar next.
Prefer Aesop Rock's beats than his rappin'. Mostly tha voice, imo.
That LL video is awful.
While binging MobLand, I only just now discovered Tom Hardy used to rap.
I'm familiar with that. Out there in the cosmos, there's an alternate universe where Hardy became a rapper on High Focus Records.
This week, I have mostly been listening to Erick Sermon's first solo album and House of pain's third record.
Wordburglar's Kickstarting a comicbook based on his songs
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thewordburglar/wordburglar-rhymes-with-comics-1-graphic-novel-and-soundtrack?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Speaking of Tom hardy and stage school rappers, Rizzlekicks' mums have bought them a DJ premier beat:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzGJ3XzvdRA
I quite like that Wordburglar song about Cobra characters. The Battle comic where Baron Ironblood became Cobra Commander blew my little brain as a kid.
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He's had a strange post-90s career has Primo.
I’ve been meaning to revisit that first Erick Sermon I love Hittin Switches don’t remember much else about it.
Wordburglar did a whole album about Cobra characters:
https://propsdept.bandcamp.com/album/welcome-to-cobra-island-2
And he's working on a follow up.
Premo's been polishing UK Hip Hop turds since the days of The Cookie Crew.
The song about Zartan knocks.
Can't believe he hasn't done a song about Crystal Ball.
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