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Old 06-05-2010, 11:04 PM   #706 (permalink)
Fruitonica
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Now that I've warmed to Aesop's voice I would say he is a much stronger MC than EL-P, at least as far as flow is concerned. They both have a really dense delivery, but Aesop never seems to trip, or bunch up like EL-P does in places where he crams too many syllables into a line.

Lyrically I think EL-P walks a much better line between abstraction and coherence. Aesop crafts incredibly dope lines, and half the time they add up to great songs - but a lot of the time I find it difficult to follow a thread through the song and I'm left with a bunch of disjointed images and no real message. Sometimes EL-P falls into this trap, but on the whole I can appreciate his songs in a holistic sense because all the pieces come together.

And production wise, Aesop is good but I wouldn't quite put him in the same league as EL-P.
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