Are You Gonna Eat That?
Aesop Rock
is one of the more divisive rappers around. His delivery is
dense, his meaning even denser. In fact meaning probably plays
very little roll in his songs, and the trend continues here
with his new group, Hail Mary Mallon. Along with another two
white guys, Rob Sonic and some DJ, he and Rob trade impenetrable
lines about nothing. They’re like the Seinfeld of the
rap game. And the two rappers sound very similar, have similar
deliveries and equal knackery for rhyming all sorts of words
that have no business fitting in the crevices between crevices.
There are a couple tracks on which they get goofy and sidetracked
into like Cool Kids territory,
which seem really out of place, but I guess even the heavy guys
need to have fun sometimes. It’s not to say their subject matter
is really heavy, as I’m not even sure exactly what their subject
matter is, but I continue to support what has now become the
old school word attack (a la Busdriver
and Del) style
that Aesop Rock does so well. You’re not gonna hear this stuff
at the club, as there is no hook anywhere, or banging in the
hood, as they don’t really dig what sound like emotionally disturbed
white dudes reading from dictionary.com. But for ex-collegiate white guys who dig their hip-hop and hip-hoppers talented and their tongues slippery, this is tha shiz.
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