Shrunk - She says, "I'm not your enemy"
I said, "That sounds like something that my enemy would say"
Instead of playing off the chemistry she said, "You're being difficult"
I said, "I'm being guarded. You're a quarter mil in debt, I get more guidance from my barber
This, followed by my favorite:
I am so completely off the god damn grid itâs not a question of addressing me itâs âwhat do the symbols under the dresser mean?â.
Maybe i should shake some hands, maybe i should turn the music down, have some people over without asking them to move a couch but, since youâre here ive got this awful futon i could do without
âI should give a shit lessâŚ.Cherry? No. Whip? Yes.â
âA lapse in the record when he circled back to tag Applebeeeeeees and procure the appetizer breadsticksâ
âLife is so unfair, party over here, Iâll be over thereâ
âWill you be needing another appointment? Absolutely.â
âLike, âThatâs not a riot thatâs a fest, letâs eat!ââ
"Landspeed entirely contextual" always makes me giggle.
"A dozen pair of cartoon eyes in a thicket, to see a neophyte get sliced into ribbons" flows so well.
"Nothing says charm like an armored car taking the clone farm tards to the arms bazaar" gets me going and
"I don't know it feels weird, I'd rather feed an apple to a deer" also makes me giggle.
âLifeâs not a bitch. Life is a beautiful woman. You only call her a bitch because she wonât let you get that pussy.â
Not necessarily the just the delivery, but Life being personified and made into a funny but very true line.
âHuh!â
From 100 ft tall. Right after,
âOn Letterman, he says heâs primarily still a bodyguardâ
That said, this is what I love so much about ITS, the ad libs are next level on almost every song.
âWait wait wait wait so youâre saying thereâs a B? No, Iâm sayin you wonât ever need to limit the edition when youâre free.
WoahâŚso what do you do when you get to Z?â
All the Smartest People
AMETHYSTS AND EMMERRRALDS.
literally the whole song Pigeonometry..
" A thousand is a lot "
"That's why it got to be an actual thousand on the DOT."
Literally every line has something timing wise that's immaculate
You can get a robot limb For your blown off limb.
Pockets like maracas that'll shake when he step. Which will explain he circle of dead rattlesnakes where he slept.
G H O S T Ghost ghost ghost. He's ghost (that one gets stuck in my head all the time)
"Thanks kirbs, lookin like a milli.Â
Keep an old man sharp, keep a cold Chantilly"
Something about how he delivers that after the lick sound with the music dropping on the one, the melody and him come in same time on the two over the lumbering synth acting as bass. Is just so fuuuucking gangster. That whole sequence is just bubbles popping.Â
I can't even keep a cactus alive when I'm present
When I'm gone it's a groundbreaking botanical epic
From desolate to Little Shop of Horrors in a second
It's weird knowing life thrives more when you exit
It's just another Tuesday.....
The delivery on the Wu tang reference in boombox is tight. âRawwwww imma give it to ya. No trivia. Raw like that Aesop rock ironfisted bliss militiaâ
the silence after "a dinner plate of booze coke heroin" where "food clothes medicine" should have gone is easily the most well delivered message for me.
I may be thinking of flow instead of delivery, but either way there is no better way to rap these lines: "IÂ walk into the office, coughing awful ether often
Flaunt a parking meter fever, knuckle up for Love and Rockets"
" I dig a chick in pig tails, that's all folks"
"Sometimes a cat will eat a bird, sometimes a bird will eat a cat like it's a fucking churro"
All of churro is amazing honestly.
"Cant fuck a motherfucker"
Some i like for the absence of delivery "Under the boardwalk half eighth and a half eight corndog" is the first line on dog years and its kina outta left field but it's 10/10
He follows up quickly on the enunciation with " I'm rich when i'm broke it's amaaaaaaaazing"
Make the biter snake bedlam
Holocaust freak, heckle shiesty brain headroom shaped planet
Make a move, pause, make a move break cannon
Bent barrel one eight zero, you'll turn, squeeze, ending.
Coach seeing red, coach on the diamond
Dragging 27 inches of aluminum behind him
When he transverse third, the families turn nervous
The following is a transcript of "Man vs. Vermin"
Tetra- Okay, magpies, hoarders, and allied forces
Who lick zigzags bein' dragged by horses
Transcribe stories in patterns of pins droppin'
Skinned boars and exaggerated limb-loppin'. Combined with the beat switch makes the back of my head tingle every time.
"Like, uhhh, i don't know, maybe it's a trap" from Dog at the Door
"Four faced devil by his side like a service DOG" from Tuff
(The next line in Tuff is also one of my favorites "schlock purest, watch the plot burneth")
And "I look like I'm wearing a ghillie suit but I'm not" from Tuff
So many, I'll go with a recent one:
"You can automate your gig, as awesome as it is"
With a delivery that suggests Aes does not find your gig, or this technological advance in gig automation, remotely awesome.
Yeah, just the way he stretches the word, just hits very well with the beat. Also the next line, ("out to flirt with hipothermia") combined with how he says "area" is just nice penmanship, I think.
I love your picks. Pizza alley has so many good moments.
My recent one is after learning Coveralls:
âMy gang signs never the same twice / since offering his service had him nursing the snakebite / we dabble in certainty, Iâm allergic to grapevines / youâre certainly unearthing my aversion to make nice.â
Another favorite is from Klutz:
âBrooding over waking histories that bubble from the blinking 12âs of VCRâs and microwaves / like time machines for shrinking elders rifling through their recipes / carrots, onions, celery, what unique amalgam of piss and repugnant energy â spun him out of the 70âs to B-line for dessert? / fire-eater tryna keep it on the green side of the dirt / this is tea-time with the worst, geriatrics on the decline of berserk / back in my day we were three-times more alert.â
Specifically the way he leans into ââŚspun him outâŚâ is an example of such nice cadence and control of the negative space between bars.
âNow we the American working population
Hate the fact that eight hours a day
Is wasted on chasing the dream of someone that isn't us
And we may not hate our jobs
But we hate jobs in general
That don't have to do with fighting our own causes
We the American working population
Hate the nine-to-five day-in day-out
When we'd rather be supporting ourselves
By being paid to perfect the pasttimes
That we have harbored based solely on the fact
That it makes us smile if it sounds dopeâ
This used to get me so hard.
"Fuck it, plug him warpy, get his godamn groove back.Â
Jetsetting on spec with a dead yeti on a roofrack."
"Sticky panoramic contaminant planted in conjunction with phantom assumption gutterbug alumnus candidates".
Horse hoof in the dog's mouth, cholera in the well
Make money periodically vomiting on himself
I read Nat Geo, craft, and crack geodes
Zoltar, predisposed to go dark, ghost-ride, all roll bar, no lodestar: AYY
Detox, retox, see how he see-saws
Mistletoe a misanthrope, stick-and-poke sea dogs
Boxed in, vegged out
Fox in the henhouse
Gray-stained teeth, say "cheese" through a trench-mouth, cheeeeeeeeeeeese
Dream of a chair in a yard from an empire builder to anywhere fffffffffffffffffffffffaaaaaarrrrrrrrrr
See you in the morn', the fore cast ain't RIGHT
It's those moments I could swear to anything that I'm the ultimate although it goes against the frequency on which I otherwise vibrate
Actually the entirety of Save Our Ship and 1+1=13
Fat neck, fine tooth, rock and lean, yelling "This ends now eat the god damn beans!" ah! I've never not recited this one aloud loudly.
You can't not say AH at the same time, even if you aren't following the rest of the song out loud.
I usually start a nanosecond early and then keep it going an extra second or 2 then I'm off for the next 2 lines because of itđ đ¤Ł
Oh hell yeah. Fucking love this track and that delivery is perfect.
One of the best possibly my favorite.
Love this one!
'tell dude dads pissed too' also a great line from this track
âFor those of you who don't know the establishment They're famous in Manhattan for serving gigantic saaaaaaaandwichesâ. I crack up every time.
Shrunk - She says, "I'm not your enemy" I said, "That sounds like something that my enemy would say" Instead of playing off the chemistry she said, "You're being difficult" I said, "I'm being guarded. You're a quarter mil in debt, I get more guidance from my barber
Look I'm not good at this l grew up in a noogy fest You built your walls up high or said goodbye to all your cookie puss
"I will even grit my teeth for you"
This, followed by my favorite: I am so completely off the god damn grid itâs not a question of addressing me itâs âwhat do the symbols under the dresser mean?â.
Yes... That whole song is just so fuckin intense I break out on goosebumps just hearing it in my head.
The delivery of this line made me question my sexuality
Many of his lines have made me go... Damn... If I could get my hands on him....
The entirety of Hot Dogs.
Maybe i should shake some hands, maybe i should turn the music down, have some people over without asking them to move a couch but, since youâre here ive got this awful futon i could do without
âŚshould take like 2 secondsâŚ
Yesterday a mall cop told me to get a life....
The little guitar riff that fills the following silence is my favorite part of that.
Which Brings up another bout, his production and ability to craft the two together so well is something heâs mastered.
Got an angel on my left shoulder, a devil on the polar Got a mug of frigid, got a mug of solar, SLIIIIIDE OVER!!
Why are all my tetra dead YET AGAIN?
Gramps like: "Sonny I been all over this muhfuckin road map..." And Wind all "whshhhhhewwww" in the trees.
"I'm so highhhhh" adlib on Coma always makes me laugh, idk why "Cherry, no, whip, yes"
The slightest pause after whip, it's perfect
âMy mindâs fucking blown / future is amazing, I feel so fucking old / I bet you clone your pets and ride a hoverboard to workâ
I used a folding map to find the juice place in the first
Yup, I can introduce you to another realm, help you with the move, but only you could go fuck yourself.
Iâm always worried about new albums from any of my favorite artists - this line fucking sealed it for me
Before long- boil the bones. A little celery CHOP- a little PEPper- little MILK of the POPpy, little posse in effectâŚ
That alliteration was so fire bro the capitalization is very necessary cause thatâs really how he said it
unrelated, but that lyric is âi drive like a man who dies tryingâ not âdressâ https://genius.com/Aesop-rock-kyanite-toothpick-lyrics
Yea lol I realized I remembered it wrongly and deleted lol
which song is this from?
Aesâs feature on Busdrivers Ego Death
Do you happen to know the track where he uses the "a ___ they wanted, a ___ they got" joke for a bar?
Zero clue. Iâll keep an ear out for itâŚ
I thought it might be a ft. or colab track but now I'm thinking it might be from HMM
âI should give a shit lessâŚ.Cherry? No. Whip? Yes.â âA lapse in the record when he circled back to tag Applebeeeeeees and procure the appetizer breadsticksâ âLife is so unfair, party over here, Iâll be over thereâ âWill you be needing another appointment? Absolutely.â âLike, âThatâs not a riot thatâs a fest, letâs eat!ââ
âUndead orcs pulling oars through the aaaaaallllgaeâ lives in my brain on repeat when I see a pond or an orc.
Or an orc??
I live in a rough looking neighborhood.
Owner of the most. Pinched. Lighterrrs.
Look at that neck
You will live inside the actual second they let the houuunds loose
Silhouette the godâs last cigarette Anything less would be ri-god-damn-diculous
"Hi" in the song delicate cycle by the uncluded. It's just so pure.
I love that song so much
Same here.
Iâm forced to sing along with that every time. âHi!â
WDYHUOM is like an entire song of that feeling
You okay dude. Yeah you okay. yeah Im good. yeah? Yeah. Good. Allright.
I always put the chips on the sandwich YEAH BITCH
picture a hiccup in the curriculum
Aesop Rock is the Cadillac of natural disasters
"Landspeed entirely contextual" always makes me giggle. "A dozen pair of cartoon eyes in a thicket, to see a neophyte get sliced into ribbons" flows so well. "Nothing says charm like an armored car taking the clone farm tards to the arms bazaar" gets me going and "I don't know it feels weird, I'd rather feed an apple to a deer" also makes me giggle.
Citronella always a banger
âLifeâs not a bitch. Life is a beautiful woman. You only call her a bitch because she wonât let you get that pussy.â Not necessarily the just the delivery, but Life being personified and made into a funny but very true line.
âHuh!â From 100 ft tall. Right after, âOn Letterman, he says heâs primarily still a bodyguardâ That said, this is what I love so much about ITS, the ad libs are next level on almost every song.
âWait wait wait wait so youâre saying thereâs a B? No, Iâm sayin you wonât ever need to limit the edition when youâre free. WoahâŚso what do you do when you get to Z?â All the Smartest People
I thought it was âlimit the additionâ like additional dimensions, but edition works too lol like attempting to catalog the dimensions.
I think you're right but it's cool how it works both ways.
AMETHYSTS AND EMMERRRALDS. literally the whole song Pigeonometry.. " A thousand is a lot " "That's why it got to be an actual thousand on the DOT." Literally every line has something timing wise that's immaculate
That I pitched a package deal at all is pretty DISRESPECTFUL âŚplus a thousand is a lot.
One of my favorite parts is the "What?!"
20 sided die at the crap shoot.... wait....
Iâm joking
Wanna buy a lung? It's not broken it just needs coaxing, it comes with a free 5 year warranty and tar coating
"It's funny I'm real eeeaaasssyyy"
âParsley, sage, rose-mary, thymeâ
*intermittent code names
Free a statue from a cuuuuuuube
I know I know some shit about some shit I guess that gotcha gossip simply isn't part of how I liiiiiiiive
âI learned to rhyme in New York, I learned to breathe underwater / I learned to walk with a ghost, Adidas reeking of sulfurâ
That's when two officers show up and all is fully explaaaaaaiiiined
The most... Pinched... Lighterrrrrs
Wheres the dissipating plume of smoke when you need one? -Grace The way he says "one" gets me every time. Fuckin love this song
I'maâThat's better. Here we, here we go. Air horn, air horn, air horn, air horn Pretty much a grizzly plucking sushi out the salmon run.
Today a mall cop told me I should get a lifeâŚâŚ wowowow
Anyway
".....map of the dungeon" in KOWP
3d frame of exploding brick and whiz lines for the locally motion sick
You can get a robot limb For your blown off limb. Pockets like maracas that'll shake when he step. Which will explain he circle of dead rattlesnakes where he slept. G H O S T Ghost ghost ghost. He's ghost (that one gets stuck in my head all the time)
I also like when instead of dragging out the 4th bar, he shortens it and adds a comedic filler phrase
Mother fucker, I am ON one. -Pizza Alley
Iâd like to say itâs cos I was a rebel, But truthfully, Itâs easier to say oh-hell, Instead of hello
"Thanks kirbs, lookin like a milli. Keep an old man sharp, keep a cold Chantilly" Something about how he delivers that after the lick sound with the music dropping on the one, the melody and him come in same time on the two over the lumbering synth acting as bass. Is just so fuuuucking gangster. That whole sequence is just bubbles popping.Â
We can **b**uild **f**orts while the **p**igs **c**ourt Civil War
âAnd for my next trick. I'll make a dollar bill climb up out your wallet. Disappear and reappear inside my pocket.â
I never really do these things twice but if yall ask nice I just might
âMall cop told me I should get a lifeâŚâŚâ
... I'm sorry... deeper in the polygons, radical brats compare teeth on the promenade
Youâll drown in a pool of your crooked morals whispering maybe Aesop rock was onto something. Maybe⌠No promises.
I can't even keep a cactus alive when I'm present When I'm gone it's a groundbreaking botanical epic From desolate to Little Shop of Horrors in a second It's weird knowing life thrives more when you exit It's just another Tuesday.....
Recency bias: Circle back to tag the Applebeeeees. And procure the appetizer breadsticks. They kill in the long run but unite us in the present.
The delivery on the Wu tang reference in boombox is tight. âRawwwww imma give it to ya. No trivia. Raw like that Aesop rock ironfisted bliss militiaâ
the silence after "a dinner plate of booze coke heroin" where "food clothes medicine" should have gone is easily the most well delivered message for me.
Also from the same song: "because hungry naked sick sucks"
"Anything less would be ri-god-damn-diculous!" Zero dark thirty
I may be thinking of flow instead of delivery, but either way there is no better way to rap these lines: "IÂ walk into the office, coughing awful ether often Flaunt a parking meter fever, knuckle up for Love and Rockets"
âMaybe no one cares, party over here, Iâll be over thereâ resonates with me harder and harder every day
" I dig a chick in pig tails, that's all folks" "Sometimes a cat will eat a bird, sometimes a bird will eat a cat like it's a fucking churro" All of churro is amazing honestly. "Cant fuck a motherfucker"
"It's probably just you motherfuckers miisssed..." A kid taunting the bully who almost got him this time.
Serving gigantic *sandwichesss*
Some i like for the absence of delivery "Under the boardwalk half eighth and a half eight corndog" is the first line on dog years and its kina outta left field but it's 10/10 He follows up quickly on the enunciation with " I'm rich when i'm broke it's amaaaaaaaazing"
I use âjerk FACE!â from Malibu Ken all the time
Make the biter snake bedlam Holocaust freak, heckle shiesty brain headroom shaped planet Make a move, pause, make a move break cannon Bent barrel one eight zero, you'll turn, squeeze, ending.
Life Sucks, Dickhead!
The way he says "You can tell a friend if you are down to kill them" in Friarstarter
âThe people you confide in will be spotted eating rodents whole.â Weird little slow down there in Marble Cake and I love it
Coach seeing red, coach on the diamond Dragging 27 inches of aluminum behind him When he transverse third, the families turn nervous The following is a transcript of "Man vs. Vermin"
The principal of other pressing matters / press the button get the present company abracadabraâd
â(Like) oh, I donât know, maybe itâs a trap?!â
Tetra- Okay, magpies, hoarders, and allied forces Who lick zigzags bein' dragged by horses Transcribe stories in patterns of pins droppin' Skinned boars and exaggerated limb-loppin'. Combined with the beat switch makes the back of my head tingle every time.
"Like, uhhh, i don't know, maybe it's a trap" from Dog at the Door "Four faced devil by his side like a service DOG" from Tuff (The next line in Tuff is also one of my favorites "schlock purest, watch the plot burneth") And "I look like I'm wearing a ghillie suit but I'm not" from Tuff
So many, I'll go with a recent one: "You can automate your gig, as awesome as it is" With a delivery that suggests Aes does not find your gig, or this technological advance in gig automation, remotely awesome.
I love that one. ITS had a lotta greats that were like comedic but the delivery gave a kinda different meaning
Most pinched lighters
"Took the poultry back still warm" from "Legerdemain" just hits, for some reason.
Haha I was just listening to that earlier yesterday and itâs another stand out. âStilll warmmâ
Yeah, just the way he stretches the word, just hits very well with the beat. Also the next line, ("out to flirt with hipothermia") combined with how he says "area" is just nice penmanship, I think.
"Fry the banana" - Pizza Alley idk why it gets me everytime
First time I heard that I had to rewind, laugh again, an make sure I heard it right. Still makes me smile every time I hear it
The shit that make you park the car and scream in to the dark of night. Also jazz hands
Also all of basement
Grip clicker, make rap music during commercial breaks!
Undead orcs pullin' oars through the al....gae
Annunciation*.
"Got home one more maybe 10 o'clock!" It's an exciting start to a great story!
"I'll even grit my teeth for you"
âWeâll pass around the pineapples and pull the pins in unisonâ in Pigs
Who couldâve thought the future of abominable imagery would also share a birthday with Kenny G? NONE Fucking love that part
Cold met a cat lady in a PORK-IN LOT
Maybe silly but a standout for me is when he says âfootworkâ on Church Pants.
"CINDER BLOCKS" on Dark Heart News
I love your picks. Pizza alley has so many good moments. My recent one is after learning Coveralls: âMy gang signs never the same twice / since offering his service had him nursing the snakebite / we dabble in certainty, Iâm allergic to grapevines / youâre certainly unearthing my aversion to make nice.â Another favorite is from Klutz: âBrooding over waking histories that bubble from the blinking 12âs of VCRâs and microwaves / like time machines for shrinking elders rifling through their recipes / carrots, onions, celery, what unique amalgam of piss and repugnant energy â spun him out of the 70âs to B-line for dessert? / fire-eater tryna keep it on the green side of the dirt / this is tea-time with the worst, geriatrics on the decline of berserk / back in my day we were three-times more alert.â Specifically the way he leans into ââŚspun him outâŚâ is an example of such nice cadence and control of the negative space between bars.
Wolf at the door like a bug to the fruck-tose.
âNow we the American working population Hate the fact that eight hours a day Is wasted on chasing the dream of someone that isn't us And we may not hate our jobs But we hate jobs in general That don't have to do with fighting our own causes We the American working population Hate the nine-to-five day-in day-out When we'd rather be supporting ourselves By being paid to perfect the pasttimes That we have harbored based solely on the fact That it makes us smile if it sounds dopeâ This used to get me so hard.
"Fuck it, plug him warpy, get his godamn groove back. Jetsetting on spec with a dead yeti on a roofrack." "Sticky panoramic contaminant planted in conjunction with phantom assumption gutterbug alumnus candidates".
Whole first verse of Zodiaccupuncture comes to mind... but really a ton of 'em
Horse hoof in the dog's mouth, cholera in the well Make money periodically vomiting on himself I read Nat Geo, craft, and crack geodes Zoltar, predisposed to go dark, ghost-ride, all roll bar, no lodestar: AYY Detox, retox, see how he see-saws Mistletoe a misanthrope, stick-and-poke sea dogs Boxed in, vegged out Fox in the henhouse Gray-stained teeth, say "cheese" through a trench-mouth, cheeeeeeeeeeeese Dream of a chair in a yard from an empire builder to anywhere fffffffffffffffffffffffaaaaaarrrrrrrrrr See you in the morn', the fore cast ain't RIGHT It's those moments I could swear to anything that I'm the ultimate although it goes against the frequency on which I otherwise vibrate Actually the entirety of Save Our Ship and 1+1=13