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Originally Posted by ProggyMan
I've given None Shall Pass another listen, and concluded that Coffee is one of the most interesting thing's I've ever experienced.
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Hey, Rap lovers,
A new member, "Balling like a fool," told me some of his favorite rap artists are Immortal Technique, Atmosphere, and Aesop Rock, so (never having listened to Rap), I listened to Aesop Rock's "None Shall Pass" to learn more about rap.
I also listened to Immortal Technique's "Dance with the Devil," which I could easily understand since it is a narrative song, and I listened to Atmosphere's "Glass House," "You," and "Guarantees," which I could understand, too, but
I cannot figure out the meaning of Aesop Rock's "None Shall Pass." I listened, I looked at the lyrics, and looked at them again, but the only meaning I can extract from them is that the singer wants revenge, perhaps due to police brutality or an unhelpful god??? I've posted some of the lyrics below. Would someone please give me a synopsis of the song? What is the main point? I am lost in all the details that don't make sense to me. I get (I think) the reference to money or wealth in the first line...but after that it's pretty much zippo.
--Erica
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From Aesop Rock's "None shall pass"
Flash that buttery, gold
Jittery, zeitgeist, wither by the watering hole
What a patrol...
What are we to Heart Huckabee?
Art ****ery, suddenly?
Not enough young in his lung for the waterwings?
Colorfully vulgar poacher, out of mulch
Like, "I'm a pull the pulse out a soldier and bolt."
(Fine...)
Sign of the time we elapse
When a primate climb up a spine and attach
Eye for an eye by the bog life swamps and vines
They get a rise out of frogs and flies
So when a dogfight's hog-tied prize sort of costs a life
The mouths water on a fork and knife
And the allure isn't right
No score on a war-torn beach
Where the cash cow's actually beef
Blood turns wine when it leak for police
Like, "That's not a riot it's a feast. Let's eat!"
And I will remember your name and face
On the day you are judged by "The Funhouse" cast
And I will rejoice in your fall from grace
With a cane to the sky like, "None shall pass."
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