Thorns - Aesop Rock (Feat. Eyedea & Slug)
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- new unreleased track from '99-'00 [READ DESCRIPTION]
"A previously unreleased track from Aesop Rock, Eyedea & Slug. This was an outtake from Aesop Rock's "Labor Days" album in '99 or '00. It's now available as a free download, but any donations go toward Mr. Dibbs' recently incurred medical expenses. Follow the link for details. Thank you."
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R.I.P Micheal "Eyedea" Larsen
Man, I can never get over that lyric..
" I am not doomed, I burn bridges. Not spoons."
9 years after your comment and I relistened to this and that line caught me off guard. I also understand what that line means now lmao. He came out swinging with that line.
@@jacoblamberson2709what does the line mean im tryna figure it out
@@evaroman2816you inject heroin by heating it on a spoon before drawing it in a syringe. to "burn bridges" means to sever connections with someone
@evaroman2816 spoon is a reference to drug use
MAN BURN FOOD. MAKE GOOD MOOD. NO MORE WOOD.
3 of the greatest rhymesayers in one song
Damn fucking straight. But underground goes much deeper, and hides much better artists
@@georgebetz5645 better than eyedea? Im not angry im just disappointed
The 3 greatest u mean
@@georgebetz5645 Aes is pretty much as good as it gets dog... Only other rappers similarly gifted are el-p and illogic imho
@samraiz shoaib Yeah agree about doom he has mad skills although subjectively I‘ve never really been into him that much cause I don‘t dig his beats oftentimes and I‘m hypersensitive about instrumentals, doesn‘t mean I‘d ever sleep on the dude though! I feel like Lupe is the type of rapper that is crazy good with his storytelling something akin to Big L or Nas. Have to admit I never really listened to Canibus, I thought at first you were talking bout Carnage for whatever reason lol
Eyedea's ability to sublimate pain is really something.
He caught rampancy
Still gives me chills like it did when I was a teen. Timeless 🔥
atmospheres got the best hooks, eyedea and aesop got the best alien level verses
Hooks, alien level verses. . . Please explain.
@@TheMisskimim hooks for fishing, and alien verses as bait for the human fishies ^.^
I burn bridges not spoons is a perfect line
Reptile Sniffer my favorite
Biscuit Tin aes has a bunch of dope lines centered around burning bridges haha
"Dope lines"
@@alexjoseph4665 Fuck...
RIP Mike
RIP Russ
Finally understand these I'll lines...
Never forget that Blaze Battle with Eyedea. Me and my boy watched that shit back to back a million times in awe at that kid. Wow..I didnt even know he had passed. RIP kid. Mad talent, respect.
“This man wants to be my back up dancer.”
Aesop, Atmosphere , and Eyedea & Abilities are the only things keeping me calm right now.. God, I love music.
An accidental classic. You have to wonder if there's anything else of its caliber on the cutting room floor.
These 3 are all amazing. R.I.P Eyedea.
8 years of listening to these 3 and I discover this just today. Incredible.
rip eyedea, greatest rapper ever, and forever will be
Usually I'd be too young for this. born in 94. but thanks to my awesome older brother I know all of this dope 90s stuff. shoutout to my bro
+Lobster with Mustard and Rice '94 here, I've been listening to Eyedea since the battling years on Scribble Jam. Check out everyone on the Rhymesayer roster, they're all Gods on the mic, especially since Rhymesayers got their hands on Aesop.
+Obvious Malware hell yeah man! their ain't much artists these days that make stuff that compares to the classic underground hip hop greats. And mainstream is soo shitty like offensive noise i cant stand. good to know some people from younger gens listen to real music.
***** yeah man. it's awesome to have an older sibling who's into the same music as you
I feel you man. I'm only 15😂 I'm a 2000 baby but my old bro loved Rhymesayers and now they're all I listen to.
+Luke Heron thank God your brother saved you from this current generations rappers
I'm parallel with every line that jesus christ thought
Leavin heaven frozen rolling a 7 on this dice shot....
you gotta love eyedea...his whole verse in this song is the sickest verse i think i've ever heard
had these 3 rappers on it, couldn't help my self :3
YEA!!!!
Im so glad I was a weird loner kid listening to this out in a clearing in the woods and drawing, not out at dumb parties getting drunk and listening to the billboard top 40. I thought I was missing out, but I was gaining more than I knew.
Why would he not release this.This song is amazing.
Aes ended up using this beat in a different song, "Bent Life."
They're all so dope, they don't deserve the radio.
One of the best trios in rap history.
The beat… the words…the souls of these guys reaching out and touching yours to wake you up. It’s surreal. I’m low key mad af at Eyedea for dying I feel like the world would be different if he didn’t but I guess it’s up to me now.
3 of the greatest rappers to ever step it. One of my biggest regrets in life will be that I never saw Eyedea play live.
I got lucky to see them once. Smoked a bunch of weed with Abilities and Eyedea's mom out back right before they went on. Dude blew my fuckin mind.
Im so grateful 3 of my favorite emcees growing up all did music together. And theres a lot of it.
Who do you like the most out of the 3?
@@kermitgod7413 I'm sure it's Eyedea. It's always Eyedea. It better be Eyedea
[Verse 2: Eyedea]
I prick my finger on a thorn bush, picking you a lilac
You can water it with your envy and burn it with your livestock’s
I guess you can come on my trip, why not?
Tie knots in our existence and marry-go-round your holy tripod
For every single flame the imploding sky drops
I cross the burned bridge of syringes ? by lyrics ? cyclops infinitely focused on moving this ice block
I could of land a nice job, but I plan to fight God
Understand I might stop at nothing, short of order distorted by torched porcelain images of man
My glands are quite dormant coordinated with porous
Won't forfeit my stance and transmission if I hit the right knob
Fright clot, numbs the thumb, run and stir the rice pot the anger that hovered kept me in a tight lock im parallel with every line jesus christ thought leaving heaven frozen, rolling a seven on this dice shot.
One of my favourite songs of all time, amazing work by all 3.
Seems like they did this just for me or something my top 3 favorite underground rappers collaborating in one song simply dope
Doesn't matter the age you were when you found these guys to listen to. Enjoy.
I'm so sad because I've been listening to hip hop for almost a decade ( I know young) but didn't discover Eyedea until about a year ago... R.I.P
He was severly depressed
Yea, a friend reccomend him to me back in high school. Didnt started listening until a year later sfter i dropped out of high school
he caught rampancy
@@mfdoom163
Eyedea's beautiful metaphors cannot be touched.
This song wakes up memories. I discovered all of these dudes on this song years ago. I'm so glad I did
Aesop.made this whole song hands down I love his old and new stuff what a boss
My personal favorites are The Dive, Lines, Void (Internal Theory), Burn Fetish, and Here For You (That one is labelled under one of his other pen names, Oliver Hart). His most famous songs are Smile and By The Throat and those are both great. Also check out some videos of his freestyle, that's what got him famous.
Aesops flow on this track is one of his best
Is it odd that these are my three favorite underground rappers and That This is now my favorite song?
No
I found all three of these guys years ago playing tony hawk games and have been listening to them since. Anyways in the last couple of years i also got onto artists like brother ali, dilated peoples, evidence, step brothers, grieves, rob sonic, hail mary mallon, uncluded and el-p, so pretty much alot of rhymesayers and def jux artists, So I'm wanting to find more artists like these and am looking for suggestions, i know i should just listen to every artist on def jux and rhymesayers to see who i like but it would take ages so I am looking for specific suggestions if anyone could help?
Cunninlynguists
Collective Efforts
Living Legends
Cyne
Shing 02
Dead Prez
Some of my favs
aric kolhagen thanks man, I'll look into these guys and see who I like
aric kolhagen cheers for the suggestions I liked cunninlynguists, living legends and i was really digging cyne and collective efforts
Sam Spink Check out Murs, B.Dolan, DeM Atlas and Sage Francis
these are my top favorite MC's
R.EYE.P Mikey. and may Ian and Sean live long and prosper
Listening to aesop makes me feel euphoric
Man I just found out he died in 2010! wtf? I remember hearing him freestyle in early 2000's and thought "damn this dude is for real"...
I am sad now. Another one done to opiates...RIP
He actually died from an overdose of sleeping medication. He struggled with insomnia for most of his life.
Damn thats too bad. Sad to hear
Devin Ellis
You sure? Everything I've read stated it was opiates.
flerper derper Sleeping medication can be an opiate.
Mac STEEZ
Um. No, sleeping meds are benzos or barbs generally. There are exceptions but no sleeping meds are opiates.
If only the world would listen to artists that benefit them, rather than the other way around.
God, this world would be a better place.
Always gonna come back 🤷🏾♀️
all the best rhymesayers on one track. genius!
[Verse 3: Slug]
Slow down, float showdown at the show
Minnesota to Manhattan until it gets broken loose
Holding you immobile to show you what we're going through
And ain't nothing changed and the rent's still overdue
Still hate the rappers that speak through the mean mugs
Ain't got no bite but you bark like a tree trunk
That shit doesn't flush
[Aesop Rock] And every pipe is plugged
[Slug] I know you're loving us (you ride the nuts like the dick was a bus)
Now hold tight, your whole energy doesn't flow right
It's enough to make me wonder if you prefer to just blowpipe
We're this close to giving you hoes a good choke
Clowns thinking they're profound man, they're not even a footnote
I walk around the world like a malnourished tourist
A refugee, caught between the referee and the purist
Circuits overloading, cyborgs about to explode
Release the little man inside my tired soul
Somebody must have let the lion out the cage
And got him high before he climbed up on the stage
Cause here I am again, glossy-eyed, topsy-turvy
This is just another pitstop on the journey
Most of ya'll don't even inspire me to diss you
So caught up in the politics, forgot to kick the issues
Slug, call me Se7en, ya'll know what I'm about
Now close your fucking mouth, before my balls fall out
+aric kolhagen sounds eerly similar to something madchild would have written.. much love to both of them, bt this some real hard slug shit.
never even peeped how dope slugs verse was
I was acquainted with this song back in 99. Probably heard it 100 times. That being said, I'm not acting. There are many very intelligent fans in this forum, however, the one I addressed is a child (probably born a year or two before this song was released). He furthered the point, by his responses, which proves my initial post further. Best regards. ; )
I can't decide if I like this or Bent Life more, because both of them are godlike.
I love this medieval loop going in the background
This instrumental is from the track bent life, check it out, its dope
Exactly, my point. There are many things one artist can do, that the other can not, which is why when I here "BEST EVER FOREVER" it's simple to identify who the people are, and where they are in their journey.
Man I miss him....but he's alive with me every day.
He's not being arrogant he's just giving you useful information.
rip eyedea!!!!!
Anyone still listening to this in 2020?
Thank you. The simple thing that "silosis" doesn't understand, is that Eyedea would agree, as any great artist would. I would take a safe assumption and assume, he's a kid or a young man.
Yup.
As it says in the description, this is an outtake of Labor Days, of which Bent Life was on. He probably made this one first, took it out and did a different track with C Rayz on the same beat.
Rhymesayers have such a good line up of talent! They do not get the credit they deserve
I have been listening to this song for years and just realized that the middle verse is Eyedea. I'm so embarrassed.
embarrassed by your past actions and even more ashamed by your present thoughts and future endeavors to clear your name.
3 legends on 1 track= AMAZING!!
Thank you slug
And eyedea and Aesop
thats the beauty of art. you never die.
they all killed it
One of the very very few Aesop songs I had never heard before. As usual, this is fucking SICK.
I use to love music that came out with lyrics like this to bad we have bad rappers like lil wayne now. R.I.P Eyedea
absolute G E M. Words cant do justice on this piece da illest.
I never once got mad, I just stated something obvious to educate him, and you took the time to reply to me. There isn't a problem here unless you make one.
this is one of two YT comment wars I've ever bothered to investigate, well done. This one was worth it. Silosis is probably still digging just the beats.
EXACTLY he doesn't compare himself to every underground rapper and neither the opposite ! It's just people looking to argue
good point. comparing rappers is hard to do because sometimes they are so different. Some are raw and real, some are lyrical, some have nice flow, but to say that one is better than another is too broad. better in what sense? Flow, lyrics, intensity, clarity of voice, etc. Glad you understand!
this is real hip hop, at the core.
Isn't this Bent Life from Labor Days?
Yeah, but it was scrapped and he used the track he did with C Rayz instead.
Monstereitski as I was trying that lol
It happens a lot .
Such an epicly sad beat, and the artists are fucking amazing
Yes. I would have loved to see some more work between Eyedea and Sadistik before his passing.
[Verse 1: Aesop Rock]
I am not doomed (not doomed)
I burn bridges, not spoons (not spoons)
But I only burn the bridges, hitchin' life in locked rooms
Passive obstacle assessment:
Bound to blossom festive knock on wood
Salute the little lonely troglodyte that could
So they navigate the blame game with a bulls-eye on a gold link wrapped around shrink-wrapped persona
Honor in a makeshift crooked thug version of sacred
Not to be mistaken with the purity with which my angel masons storm the basement
Rope ladder descends from mothership, c-sectioned, monstrous
While a billion babies build forts out refrigerator boxes
Burrow, for the too far gone platoon craft billy clubs out fallen apple tree trunks
After apple seeds sunk well beneath them
My style sits softly in a synapse between fairytale and logic
Primarily Agnostic
Idle while the tidal title deem heat waves worthy of swallowing your journey
Wallowing across the nursery
I arrive tardy. I've offended every last pedestrian
Upon my way over to bless that bar seat
There's no excuse, I know, I'm sorry, but I'm here
[Slug] Which is more than I can say for my love of these puppeteers
[Aesop Rock] Well they tug 'em all in perfect syncopation, make they mommas proud
Certified absurd prince of flattery
Product of a drunken, rhythm-driven faculty
Check a mortal mayhem discotheque, boogie with a bounced check and a cigarette
[Verse 2: Eyedea]
I prick my finger on a thorn bush, picking you a lilac
You can water it with your envy and burn it with your livestock’s
I guess you can come on my trip, why not?
Tie knots in our existence and marry-go-round your holy tripod
For every single flame the imploding sky drops
I cross the burned bridge of syringes ? by lyrics ? cyclops infinitely focused on moving this ice block
I could of land a nice job, but I plan to fight God
Understand I might stop at nothing, short of order distorted by torched porcelain images of man
My glands are quite dormant coordinated with porous
Won't forfeit my stance and transmission if I hit the right knob
Fright clot, numbs the thumb, run and stir the rice pot
The anger that hovered kept me in a tight lock
I'm parallel with every line Jesus Christ thought
Leaving heaven frozen, rolling a seven on this dice shot
[Verse 3: Slug]
Slow down, float showdown at the show
Minnesota to Manhattan until it gets broken loose
Holding you immobile to show you what we're going through
And ain't nothing changed and the rent's still overdue
Still hate the rappers that speak through the mean mugs
Ain't got no bite but you bark like a tree trunk
That shit doesn't flush
[Aesop Rock] And every pipe is plugged
[Slug] I know you're loving us (you ride the nuts like the dick was a bus)
Now hold tight, your whole energy doesn't flow right
It's enough to make me wonder if you prefer to just blowpipe
We're this close to giving you hoes a good choke
Clowns thinking they're profound man, they're not even a footnote
I walk around the world like a malnourished tourist
A refugee, caught between the referee and the purist
Circuits overloading, cyborgs about to explode
Release the little man inside my tired soul
Somebody must have let the lion out the cage
And got him high before he climbed up on the stage
Cause here I am again, glossy-eyed, topsy-turvy
And this is just another pitstop on the journey
Most of ya'll don't even inspire me to diss you
So caught up in the politics, forgot to kick the issues
Slug, call me Se7en, ya'll know what I'm about
Now close your fucking mouth, before my balls fall out
Slugs entire verse is amazing...
3:52 funny thing is that Buffalo is a metro area of more than a million people and the only mention of the city in any rap song that I can think of is this passing reference in the outro on this unreleased underground song from the turn of the century. Buffalo rap, where are you? Where is Buffalo's Rhymesayers? If the Twin Cities can do it, WNY should be able to too.
i used to have a green shirt of Rhymesayers..
and i didnt even know about them back then.. its been 2 years..
holy fukingg dopeness !
"I am not doomed I burn bridges not spoons! "Kill em ace
still a banger in 2024
this music is almost too strong sometimes i can't listen to it everyday, have to be in the mood because its that raw
I mis . Eyedea
"u plan to land a nice job, but i plan to fight god" WOW
Understand that he might not stop at nothing.
Epitome of dopeness.
Thank You! I have been tryin to tell people that for years
eyedea is rappin with angels now
Why let yourself get pissed off. Just listen to the music and stop all the hate.
Slug always dissing at the end of a dope collaboration
Pretty positive it is. It's the beat from Bent Life by Aes Rock.
I'm getting into new artists. So far I'm getting into Eyedea & Abilities, Aesop Rock, Atmosphere, & Sage Francis. I've already listenned to mainstream, nothing compares to these though. Anyone know of any others that give eargasms in nearly every song?
Chicks with good taste in music represent!
Damn
You’re a next level chick.
both Eyedea _and_ Slug on the track and he doesn't put it on the album?? whyyyyy Aes _whyyyy_
Pippin Covington Its on Aesop Rocks album Labor Days.
Big Dope Davis actually this isn't on labor days, they just reused the beat the original song that's on labor days is called bent life
Juan Reyes Yes right, they reused the instrumental from bent life but Thorns is a Aesop Rocks outtake of Labor Days so it kinda is part of Labor Days but Bent life is dope to i think this could have been on the album as a bonus track as a remix but still we all can be glad this wounder of a song exists i yust say its part of the Labor album becouse it was intended for it. And maybe its not on the album becouse this is perfect aswell as a stand alone song its huge.
Big Dope Davis mm that's true, regardless they're both dope tracks
Juan Reyes Right, hey i would like to see a Aesop Rock track with Canibus as a feature. And a Aesop Rock song based on Alice in Wounderland with Bjork on it i think that would be dope.
a true legend 🛹😎💯
Slug is in Atmosphere. Atmosphere is slug rapping and Ant on the beat.
The dive Pt 1. 2. EVEN SHADOWS HAVE SHADOWS 3. Murder of memories 4. Paradise 5. On this I stand :) oh and of course can't forget 6. SMILE :)
Music Music
Ok I love Aesop but, some of his lines on this track are just pure gibberish
Give me one.
A lil gem to bring to us back a few, dope
low quality recording doesnt even matter when listening to music like this
The classical music, I'm pretty sure, is in a Spanish movie called Butterfly.
Ahhh. I didn't know that. Thanks for clearing that up, man
@Hoodyrulez the beat is from bentlife, but the lyrics are completely.
They all kill it
Woa! Never heard this before
hell yeah baby. bent life is my favorite track on the album, now i got that sick ass bassline with different lyrics? lovin it.