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I see why you're such a big MF DOOM fan, then.
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Yeah, i think the song "put your quarters up" is a pretty good example of the difference between doom and aesop's approaches. The theme was probably sposed to be videogames
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Put your quarter up, brother
My underhanded summerjam escape with a free game in my back pocket
The ego and the muddy gear lept clear off the concrete valley
To murder silhouettes with a budget that have me bummin cigarettes
My soul stuck in a mudpit absorbing anchors
With a wash ink water stick and bop great venoms
Caught it at the dog door by a sideways phantom
With a swift attitude problem
Knuckling up with a carbon-based common guarding goblin
I'm drowsy
Who drifted by the lousy Virgin Mary night light luminants
That blew a kiss to sin
Witness that count me but just couldn't afford the bounty
I'll do the deed myself before the second leaping sheep
Even got counted
Multiple tasking, drastic unsocialable captain gasping
Jake asked me to grate bashing open the plastic backspins
Strapped with a plague and a ****tail napkin
Wrapped in oragami dragon fashion
Flashed in a effort to smash your pattern
Better magnanimous
To sail a little on this ancient foundation
They found na-tions running bases for nickeltips
Coordinate the zoning and the speed is trickle drip south
I'll skip town once these upright citizens sit down
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Pretty crazy stuff, and i think some of it is really vivid descriptions through the eyes of videogame characters, but then halfway through stops being coherent enough for me to get anything out of it really.
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h, yo I go next, put your quarter up
For bets, put your daughter up
MF is sure to corrupt
Not to be confused with the fake ?fly raw sound?
Still the one who used to take your high score down
With more rhymes and germs to spit, more carry
As I fly through the air like Pitfall Harry
**** y'al fairies take a loss like Swolodon
This goes out to man, woman, and child from Robotron
Before the end, I save the world like the Fiddler
It's no for curling up to Hurl for my bender
Like back when you last five member went to ween
More likely on like twenty rounds of Centipede
If it go fast or slow, no mattering
The flow down pat like the whole Acro pattern
Those need to learn the technique, take heed note
And switch like Spy Hunter when he psst to the speedboat
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Doom keeps it simple and just references some video games, but that just makes me like his character and give me and idea who he is when listening to his music. It's like the more you listen to his more music the more you know about the supervillian, all his fetishes, awkward robberies, evil plans, being a drunken bum or whatever.
Aesop for sure has connections his dislike and paranoia of "uptight citizens" is one I've noticed in that song i quoted and others. His albums except for none shall pass have usually had a clear theme to them. His frantic flow is often enough, and gets me energized.
him rapping over the second beat in this song is hard as f
uck
It seems because rap has always been thought of in part, as a means to get out of poverty, and get stacks, it has had to be even more of an industry then other genres. It's always been more focused on trends and gimmicks, and those don't have any lasting appeal so older rappers can't really appeal to a younger demographic. Artist integrity isn't as important as just having the latest sound. Some of what I'm saying is an exaggeration, but I really don't think a rap artist has as many ways to mature as a band, and often they just gotta do some gay singing ****, a la ceelo or andre3000.
Public Enemy is considered one of the greatest groups of all time and nobody buys their new album because they're sound is outdated. This isn't the case for teenagers and nirvana who are the same rough time period. There aren't even old people buying new public enemy or de la soul.