This song is raw. Absolutely raw. This is some of the most vulnerable material I’ve ever heard on a rap track. Ever. Aesop is incredibly heavy on the out-of-left-field wordplay. But you know what I tend to think about him? He’s painting a picture. Some of his tracks are fourteen layers deep, but some of them are just such a well-constructed image that you can be immersed in it completely and sit there for hours soaking it in. It’s not that you don’t instantly see what there is, it’s that it’s such a beautiful display that you keep going back to it and looking at it again.
I love all your videos but I especially binge watch all of your Aesop rock videos, hearing the thoughts of someone who actually understands all of the intricate details that go into hiphop and rap makes your reactions of aes’s songs a must watch for me. I’ve been waiting for an Aesop rock playlist! Psyched to see what other songs from his discography you’ll cover, looking forward to it! Bless up #teamsupreme
Aesop is the most expressive, authentic, and intelligent hip hop I've ever heard. I've been a fan for almost 25 years. He's easily my favorite hip hop artist. When you come to speak his language, his tracks hit really hard. The problem is, it took me like a decade of being a regular listener to actually get a rock solid grasp on what he was saying. I like MF Doom, he's better than Doom. His themes are a lot stronger for me too. Wealth inequality, power inequality, police brutality, depression and hopelessness, introversion, the beauty of nature and authentic living. I care a lot more about these things than finding a clever new way to explain what I'm going to do to someone else's girlfriend. Especially as I get older. On top of that, Aesop just keeps being amazing. Some albums are better than others, but he doesn't have a single bad album. I'd say he's gotten better over the years on average (though I think Labour Days is overall his best album, but that might be nostalgia).
The thing is with him, though. While I think he's the GOAT, it can only be subjective. The fact is, if 90% of people can't understand what the hell he's saying, his messages can't connect. All that's left is the beat and his execution. Those are still top notch (It's why I started listening to him in 2001), but he's not the absolute best in the world at those things. He's the whole package, taken holistically I don't think anyone can touch him in terms of talent, authenticity, and consistency, and choice of topics. I think how inaccessible he is disqualifies him from the broader conversation of GOAT. Is his wordplay actually good if it's indecipherable? I still to this day have no idea about half of what he's saying on Appleseed. And it took me half of my 20's to understand Float, Labour Days, and Bazooka Tooth.
He also has a tendency to use cultural references as metaphors, and I'm just not from the same culture as him. We're both white north american men, but he's almost a decade older than me. I don't catch a lot of the 80's stuff. He's from New York, and I don't get a lot of the local stuff. He's a former Catholic, and I'm not even a Christian, so I don't catch some of that stuff. And when you're completely missing some of the dots you need to connect, you can't do it. So yeah, while I'm a huge fan, and I do think that he's literally the artist operating at the highest level in Hip Hop, he's a hard sell as GOAT. I think he's just in his own category, Appleseeds and Georgia Oranges.
I don’t think I’ve agreed more with a comment brother…. Everything you said is on point… like you said he’s in his own lane an talent wise ya there ain’t many fuckin wit him he’s a brilliant poet disguised as a hip-hop artist somthing I’ve rarely have seen… I tell you what tho the whole rhymesayers line up is fire.. atmosphere brother Ali grieves that whole record label is load with talent
Water Tower, 39 Thieves, TUFF, The Harbor is Yours, Bring Back Pluto. So many more to go. Also you would probably benefit from having the lyrics up. Aesop is dense. Aesop is truly the greatest of all time.
What I love about Aesop is that his songs are like puzzles. Each listen you unlock a meaning behind a bar and when you crack a song like this, it's not just a great song, there is a pride of knowing you truly get it. Aes sometimes makes you put in the 10000 hours.
Literally exactly what i love about Aes. And though he’s gotten easier to parse over the years , Spirit world field guide is one of my favourite albums . So many different crazy beats and flows
When he pulls 3 different animals from different places and gives them 3 affirmations he’s speaking from his parents perspective. He’s one of 3 kids …. That’s why his last verse is talking about his short comings as a brother/son. He’s on another level …. Even with his family. 😂 Keep up these Aesop Rock reactions …. My favorite videos on TH-cam is you reacting to him. Wordplay is subjecting…. Aesop is amazing with this but I’m going to go with Q-Tip here as the greatest. Appreciate you’re reaction 🙏🏼
Wow I’ve been a huge fan of Aesop rock for 15 years and skelathon been a favorite of mine. I love this song but never made the connection to his parents/ his two brothers. Thanks for the insight!!
@@QuervoJonesya took me a few listens lol. I think he has a hard time connecting to people in general because his perspective of his parents where they did everything they could for 18 years and let him go. Now they don’t feel connected… this the lines about the blood and water chapter.
You goofin about making up the dialogue and soundtrack to movies but my friends and I used to do that live improv as a comedy bit and that shit is fun as hell
This song hits me like a ton of bricks every time. Just feeling isolated from family who can't relate to your depression, and then realizing that those close to you are trying their best to be close to someone who doesn't want to be close to anyone.
Aesop is the man. It’s hard to find real hip hop nowadays so I’m glad he’s still making music. One of the songs on his new album, “all city nerve map” hits hard AF
Recall as a kid this ryhme goes great green globs of greasy grimmy gophers guts...mutilated momkey meat...little dirty birdies feet...french fried eyeballs floating in a bowl o blood and i forgot my spoon. Like for real i was like under 10 when the rhyme was around lol how wild to hear part of it from Aesop
Aesop is my number one lyricist . A lot of people might have better flows, vibes, whatever . But Aesop can’t be matched . This is my favourite song of his too
Got a little plot of land where authority isn't recognized Contraband keepin the core of his Hyde Jekyll-ized Goddamn, this track goes so hard. Must've listened to it a thousand times and it never loses its bite.
You’re still my favorite Aesop Rock reaction video maker by far. He’s always gonna be my number one by miles. But Dude!! If you’ve never heard uncommon valor, you gotta do a blind react to it!! Such a crazy story showing two different perspectives from servicemen in the Vietnam war. You gotta do it!!!!!
Black Though Pharoahe Monch Mos Def Eminem Lupe Fiasco Aesop Rock Homeboy Sandman MFDOOM Locksmith Talib Kweli Common Andre 3000 King Los... in no particular order.
@@David-b8u7oRA for sure. The rest are very good MC's. But def not at the same level lyeically as those I mentioned. I would add few others. El-p, Eligh, Del and Gift of Gab, Qwel and Qwazzar.
@@mr.nihilz3283 hells yea. Idk if I place to firm of a better or worse on these guys tho, it’s more the entire class they are in, but I like your style man! 🤘🏻🤘🏻
@@David-b8u7o nah they are all amazing in their own ways. But the reactor was specifying word play. I have my particulars. But underground is where real hiphop is still thriving. Same to you, great minds.. Peace!
@@mr.nihilz3283 oh true, for just wordplay? …Aes takes it for me by miles. It’s not even “play” 😝 there’s no other artist who I can sit with my buddies and examine meanings with. I hate to sound cliché, but it really is Shakespearean
I shared this song with my mother when she was very old and slipping into dementia. I explained what all the lines mean, and she seemed to really connect and have a moment of clarity. She said, "I like Ren's beats better."
@7:15 'is word play really subjective?' dang respect & love points earned!! i'v said in vids that the term ARTIST is NO LONGER SUBJECTIVE bcuz of Aesop Rock. He set top levels of skill, talent & effort an mc has to have to be called an artist & if an mc is not at the low level THEY'RE NOT AN ARTIST. they can be a 'performer' or an 'act' but not an artist. that's my ranking of Aes @8:15 'kinda predict the 2nd bar' YOU CAN NEVER DO THAT W/ AES & HE CAN MAKE WORDS THAT DON'T RHYME, RHYME & he can pack one word w/ multiple meanings & adds massive weight to every 3-word phrase
I don’t know if it’s so much wordplay. Cuz to me it’s almost like punchlines, but you aren’t there to deliver a battle rap type bar, it just happens and if you catch it you catch it, if you don’t you don’t. I think a guy like Lupe uses a lot of wordplay in his rhymes pretty deliberately. Aesop is definitely up there, but for me it’s how he doesn’t just simply describe something. He goes out of his way to tell you something with vocabulary that works and intelligence that most rappers would say in a very digestible way. Like his song shrunk. His whole first verse is just him filling out a form at the doctors. If you’re not paying attention though you probably think it’s just nonsense. He takes these simple concepts and stretches them and makes them sound compelling. But yea his wordplay is upper tier too.
Checked comments for mentions of wordplayas. Guess Prof would be my first mention of one beside Aesop here but as far as others I gotta think on it a bit but Lrof was first to mind for me immediately js. Maybe discuss more later as my mind so full at the moment but theirs more I can think of im sure later
Banger. Off topic, I was checking where you lived to see if you were close enough to Evansville, IN bc I got an extra ticket to Upchurch May, 31 for ya..... and I saw Hampton, GA and I used to live in Senoi, GA and Palmetto, GA (small world). Appreciate what you do. If you wanna go to the show let me know, I'll send you the ticket. ✌ Michael
@@TruthNoLie_ Heck ya. Are you in GA still? That's a 7hr drive just saying. There is an airport in Evansville too and it ain't far from venue. I could pick you up if you go that route. Or do you and your thing, just throwing out options. I just realized I lived in Lexington, KY 1999-2004 if you were in Middlesboro then..... crazy. But this will be their 1st show back from a 3 week break off tour, on a Friday night, the venue is cool as shit at an outdoor marina on a lake, they should be well rested, I'm pumped.
over 20+ years rewinding aes daily Gopher Guts isn't in my top 50. i swear they be trolling reactors when they make em react to it. LOL the writing is glorious, even w/ the first 16 bars sounding like he's in a fever dream, but the beat & layering of low vocals just puts 50+ other aes tracks in front of it on my top list. songs for his mom & him & his 2 brothers are the animals 'LET GO' between each verse. @2:45 'i sawed a woman in half' he just divorced & i think he's talking of the damage of 'separating'
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This song is raw. Absolutely raw. This is some of the most vulnerable material I’ve ever heard on a rap track. Ever.
Aesop is incredibly heavy on the out-of-left-field wordplay. But you know what I tend to think about him?
He’s painting a picture. Some of his tracks are fourteen layers deep, but some of them are just such a well-constructed image that you can be immersed in it completely and sit there for hours soaking it in. It’s not that you don’t instantly see what there is, it’s that it’s such a beautiful display that you keep going back to it and looking at it again.
It really does just feel like picture-painting a lot of the time. Some of it is perhaps not meant to be that deep, but to evoke a feeling.
You can't hear Aesop Rock; you have to _see_ Aesop Rock.
I love all your videos but I especially binge watch all of your Aesop rock videos, hearing the thoughts of someone who actually understands all of the intricate details that go into hiphop and rap makes your reactions of aes’s songs a must watch for me. I’ve been waiting for an Aesop rock playlist! Psyched to see what other songs from his discography you’ll cover, looking forward to it! Bless up #teamsupreme
Aesop is the most expressive, authentic, and intelligent hip hop I've ever heard. I've been a fan for almost 25 years. He's easily my favorite hip hop artist. When you come to speak his language, his tracks hit really hard. The problem is, it took me like a decade of being a regular listener to actually get a rock solid grasp on what he was saying. I like MF Doom, he's better than Doom. His themes are a lot stronger for me too. Wealth inequality, power inequality, police brutality, depression and hopelessness, introversion, the beauty of nature and authentic living. I care a lot more about these things than finding a clever new way to explain what I'm going to do to someone else's girlfriend. Especially as I get older. On top of that, Aesop just keeps being amazing. Some albums are better than others, but he doesn't have a single bad album. I'd say he's gotten better over the years on average (though I think Labour Days is overall his best album, but that might be nostalgia).
The thing is with him, though. While I think he's the GOAT, it can only be subjective. The fact is, if 90% of people can't understand what the hell he's saying, his messages can't connect. All that's left is the beat and his execution. Those are still top notch (It's why I started listening to him in 2001), but he's not the absolute best in the world at those things. He's the whole package, taken holistically I don't think anyone can touch him in terms of talent, authenticity, and consistency, and choice of topics. I think how inaccessible he is disqualifies him from the broader conversation of GOAT. Is his wordplay actually good if it's indecipherable? I still to this day have no idea about half of what he's saying on Appleseed. And it took me half of my 20's to understand Float, Labour Days, and Bazooka Tooth.
He also has a tendency to use cultural references as metaphors, and I'm just not from the same culture as him. We're both white north american men, but he's almost a decade older than me. I don't catch a lot of the 80's stuff. He's from New York, and I don't get a lot of the local stuff. He's a former Catholic, and I'm not even a Christian, so I don't catch some of that stuff. And when you're completely missing some of the dots you need to connect, you can't do it. So yeah, while I'm a huge fan, and I do think that he's literally the artist operating at the highest level in Hip Hop, he's a hard sell as GOAT. I think he's just in his own category, Appleseeds and Georgia Oranges.
Party over here, he'll be over there.
I agree. He’s just not palatable to the masses cuz they are so used to being spoon fed smooth brain gruel
I don’t think I’ve agreed more with a comment brother…. Everything you said is on point… like you said he’s in his own lane an talent wise ya there ain’t many fuckin wit him he’s a brilliant poet disguised as a hip-hop artist somthing I’ve rarely have seen… I tell you what tho the whole rhymesayers line up is fire.. atmosphere brother Ali grieves that whole record label is load with talent
Aesop stands alone with his ability to drop abstract imagery. Lyrically number one.
Water Tower, 39 Thieves, TUFF, The Harbor is Yours, Bring Back Pluto. So many more to go.
Also you would probably benefit from having the lyrics up. Aesop is dense.
Aesop is truly the greatest of all time.
🐐's doin' 🐐 things
Best wordsmith in the game.
What I love about Aesop is that his songs are like puzzles. Each listen you unlock a meaning behind a bar and when you crack a song like this, it's not just a great song, there is a pride of knowing you truly get it. Aes sometimes makes you put in the 10000 hours.
Literally exactly what i love about Aes. And though he’s gotten easier to parse over the years ,
Spirit world field guide is one of my favourite albums . So many different crazy beats and flows
& i say his lyrics are like "hidden treasure hunts" LOL
hell yeah more Aesop stuff please love to see it love to see you, thanks for the consistent uploads. Love from Hawaii
When he pulls 3 different animals from different places and gives them 3 affirmations he’s speaking from his parents perspective. He’s one of 3 kids …. That’s why his last verse is talking about his short comings as a brother/son. He’s on another level …. Even with his family. 😂
Keep up these Aesop Rock reactions …. My favorite videos on TH-cam is you reacting to him.
Wordplay is subjecting…. Aesop is amazing with this but I’m going to go with Q-Tip here as the greatest. Appreciate you’re reaction 🙏🏼
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Appreciate you!!
Wow I’ve been a huge fan of Aesop rock for 15 years and skelathon been a favorite of mine. I love this song but never made the connection to his parents/ his two brothers. Thanks for the insight!!
@@QuervoJonesya took me a few listens lol. I think he has a hard time connecting to people in general because his perspective of his parents where they did everything they could for 18 years and let him go. Now they don’t feel connected… this the lines about the blood and water chapter.
You goofin about making up the dialogue and soundtrack to movies but my friends and I used to do that live improv as a comedy bit and that shit is fun as hell
This song hits me like a ton of bricks every time. Just feeling isolated from family who can't relate to your depression, and then realizing that those close to you are trying their best to be close to someone who doesn't want to be close to anyone.
AESOP IS THE GOAT
This whole album is amazing, def give it a listen even if you can't do reactions for it.
Aesop is the man. It’s hard to find real hip hop nowadays so I’m glad he’s still making music. One of the songs on his new album, “all city nerve map” hits hard AF
Aesop is the goat of word play!
Easily one of my top 5 Aesop tracks! That last verse is like he traveled thru my own thoughts....And I know I'm not alone in that! ✌️
Recall as a kid this ryhme goes great green globs of greasy grimmy gophers guts...mutilated momkey meat...little dirty birdies feet...french fried eyeballs floating in a bowl o blood and i forgot my spoon. Like for real i was like under 10 when the rhyme was around lol how wild to hear part of it from Aesop
Aesop is my number one lyricist . A lot of people might have better flows, vibes, whatever . But Aesop can’t be matched .
This is my favourite song of his too
Man, you’ve got to hear Marble Cake. It’s the finale track of Spirit World Field Guide and it goes insanely hard
Real
You definitely have the best Aesop reactions around.
Got a little plot of land where authority isn't recognized
Contraband keepin the core of his Hyde Jekyll-ized
Goddamn, this track goes so hard. Must've listened to it a thousand times and it never loses its bite.
Aesop at the least is a 9.7 wordplay.
Thanks for the review. This is an older album from him, his lyrics are a lot more aggressive
You’re still my favorite Aesop Rock reaction video maker by far. He’s always gonna be my number one by miles. But Dude!! If you’ve never heard uncommon valor, you gotta do a blind react to it!! Such a crazy story showing two different perspectives from servicemen in the Vietnam war. You gotta do it!!!!!
Bet!
@@TruthNoLie_ it’s with Vinnie Paz and RA, but I think technically it’s a JMT track 🤘🏻 I’m looking forward to it brother
Aesop is #1, he kind of ruined all other rappers for me 🤣
He does that
Black Though Pharoahe Monch Mos Def Eminem Lupe Fiasco Aesop Rock Homeboy Sandman MFDOOM Locksmith Talib Kweli Common Andre 3000 King Los... in no particular order.
Deca, Vinnie Paz, tone deff, sage Francis,brother Ali, RA, grouch, Murs…
@@David-b8u7oRA for sure. The rest are very good MC's. But def not at the same level lyeically as those I mentioned. I would add few others. El-p, Eligh, Del and Gift of Gab, Qwel and Qwazzar.
@@mr.nihilz3283 hells yea. Idk if I place to firm of a better or worse on these guys tho, it’s more the entire class they are in, but I like your style man! 🤘🏻🤘🏻
@@David-b8u7o nah they are all amazing in their own ways. But the reactor was specifying word play. I have my particulars. But underground is where real hiphop is still thriving. Same to you, great minds.. Peace!
@@mr.nihilz3283 oh true, for just wordplay? …Aes takes it for me by miles. It’s not even “play” 😝 there’s no other artist who I can sit with my buddies and examine meanings with. I hate to sound cliché, but it really is Shakespearean
The hook to me is about people telling you that you're amazing and hyping you up even though you're going to fail.
hes finally ready guys
Goat. That's my answer. Lol
Always more Aes. You want a fun, light hearted, easy to follow, go look up 100ft tall off of latest album. You'll get a kick.
He's 5'10"😂
shoutout to AES and banana moon pies for real
From my experience, the older the aesop the harder it is to decipher, but also more fun
Yo#TeamSupreme.
I shared this song with my mother when she was very old and slipping into dementia.
I explained what all the lines mean, and she seemed to really connect and have a moment of clarity.
She said, "I like Ren's beats better."
@7:15 'is word play really subjective?' dang respect & love points earned!! i'v said in vids that the term ARTIST is NO LONGER SUBJECTIVE bcuz of Aesop Rock. He set top levels of skill, talent & effort an mc has to have to be called an artist & if an mc is not at the low level THEY'RE NOT AN ARTIST. they can be a 'performer' or an 'act' but not an artist. that's my ranking of Aes @8:15 'kinda predict the 2nd bar' YOU CAN NEVER DO THAT W/ AES & HE CAN MAKE WORDS THAT DON'T RHYME, RHYME & he can pack one word w/ multiple meanings & adds massive weight to every 3-word phrase
Shout out to Sam V. Keep the Bazookatooth going, the best there is. 🐐
aesop has been my goat. he makes my adhd think. im scared to listen to anything he drops because of that.
Top 10 all time I got Eminem, daylight King Iso, k-rino, aesop, token, Royce da 5'9, Joyner, Kendrick , Blackthought, MFdoom IN NO ORDER as my opinion
I can dig it!!
I don’t know if it’s so much wordplay. Cuz to me it’s almost like punchlines, but you aren’t there to deliver a battle rap type bar, it just happens and if you catch it you catch it, if you don’t you don’t. I think a guy like Lupe uses a lot of wordplay in his rhymes pretty deliberately. Aesop is definitely up there, but for me it’s how he doesn’t just simply describe something. He goes out of his way to tell you something with vocabulary that works and intelligence that most rappers would say in a very digestible way. Like his song shrunk. His whole first verse is just him filling out a form at the doctors. If you’re not paying attention though you probably think it’s just nonsense. He takes these simple concepts and stretches them and makes them sound compelling. But yea his wordplay is upper tier too.
Also in your ranking of worday Truth i think ol pookie a killa wordplaya. PROF come different with it to. Love the wordplay you know me
Checked comments for mentions of wordplayas. Guess Prof would be my first mention of one beside Aesop here but as far as others I gotta think on it a bit but Lrof was first to mind for me immediately js. Maybe discuss more later as my mind so full at the moment but theirs more I can think of im sure later
6:33 cant rank Aesop wordplay cause it stand alone. Just different than the rest really. Unique to him
Banger. Off topic, I was checking where you lived to see if you were close enough to Evansville, IN bc I got an extra ticket to Upchurch May, 31 for ya..... and I saw Hampton, GA and I used to live in Senoi, GA and Palmetto, GA (small world). Appreciate what you do. If you wanna go to the show let me know, I'll send you the ticket. ✌
Michael
Hell Yes bro!!! Im down!!!!!
@@TruthNoLie_ Heck ya. Are you in GA still? That's a 7hr drive just saying. There is an airport in Evansville too and it ain't far from venue. I could pick you up if you go that route. Or do you and your thing, just throwing out options. I just realized I lived in Lexington, KY 1999-2004 if you were in Middlesboro then..... crazy. But this will be their 1st show back from a 3 week break off tour, on a Friday night, the venue is cool as shit at an outdoor marina on a lake, they should be well rested, I'm pumped.
Yea you on Discord or IG. So we can communicate better. I’ll fly though. So no worries on that. Hit me up on one of those platforms if can.
Same album, you should react to Tetra!
Word play 9 1/2
over 20+ years rewinding aes daily Gopher Guts isn't in my top 50. i swear they be trolling reactors when they make em react to it. LOL the writing is glorious, even w/ the first 16 bars sounding like he's in a fever dream, but the beat & layering of low vocals just puts 50+ other aes tracks in front of it on my top list. songs for his mom & him & his 2 brothers are the animals 'LET GO' between each verse. @2:45 'i sawed a woman in half' he just divorced & i think he's talking of the damage of 'separating'
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1:30:56 - sound familiar? I think you owe Sam V a new Aes reaction... 😏
This song is about his divorce from his wife 😭