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Originally Posted by pourmeanother
Aesop Rock and Sage Francis. I've tried Aesop dozens of times, and only gotten into "Daylight" and "None Shall Pass". As for Sage, every time I pop in on him I fail to find a track that stands out. I know both have a decent following here.
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I'm with you on Sage. With Aesop you just have to accept that a lot of what he spits doesn't make sense and that he's really going for alliteration and the texture of sounds in words and phrases. It's not meant to make sense all the time. It's supposed to be cryptic and make you think. It's like Reading Thoreau, you got to be confused for a bit before you stumble onto that profound bit that moves you. He has a style that is very unconventional, albeit somewhat inaccessible in a genre that's flooded with cookie cutter rappers.
Listen to how Aesop's goes into triple time at 2:43 in the track:
In addition to this, He's an amazing storyteller: