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| n/a by www.slantmagazine.com |
his year may not have been quite the hip-hop wasteland that 2006 was, but the genre's biggest commercial successes were still, by and large, artistic dead-ends. A handful of late-year releases inc... |
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| n/a by www.stylusmagazine.com |
ew have done better than the Def Jux crew in capturing the twitchy fractured neurotransmitters of the George Bush/Paris Hilton American schizophrenia of the ‘00s. Carving out a subterranean fiefdom ou... |
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| n/a by www.prefixmag.com |
Everyone grows up. It's a process bathed in confusion, reflection, and ultimately triumph. Artists have to endure this trial in their personal lives as well as their craft, but great things can ha... |
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| n/a by www.cokemachineglow.com |
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| n/a by www.dustedmagazine.com |
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| n/a by www.rapreviews.com |
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| n/a by wm05.allmusic.com |
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| n/a by www.boston.com |
Hip-hopAesop RockNone Shall Pass(Definitive Jux)Essential: "None Shall Pass"Turned off by the empty flash of pop hip-hop, fans have long turned to the Def Jux label (and Aesop Rock, in particu... |
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| n/a by www.courant.com |
Aesop's fables still require a decoder ring, but the plainer settings make them more effective as post-Beat poetry. And "Coffee," an irresistibly shambling ska duet with John Darnielle of ... |
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| n/a by www.drownedinsound.com |
If the old cliché about wood and trees has any credence, it can certainly be applied to Aesop Rock and his native New York City. Having switched coasts away from the skyscrapers, Ground Zero and that ... |
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| n/a by www.adequacy.net |
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| n/a by Billboard |
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| n/a by www.lostatsea.net |
There's sort of an unspoken contract between music lovers and worthwhile artists that we'll let them use our ears as a canvas for whatever kooky, next-level shit they think up, with the unsaid... |
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| n/a by Pitchfork Media |
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| n/a by www.villagevoice.com |
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| n/a by www.pastemagazine.com |
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| n/a by www.avclub.com |
Play an Aesop Rock song straight through, or start in the middle and listen to the first half later, and it'll make the same amount of sense. Rock's new album, None Shall Pass, works the same ... |
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| n/a by www.nowtoronto.com |
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| n/a by BBC |
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| n/a by Rolling Stone |
Indie rap's wordiest wordsmith unleashes another dose of dense, hyper-enunciated rhymes filled with poetic imagery. "None Shall Pass" paints a dark picture of peer pressure: "Flash tha... |
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| n/a by Billboard |
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