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View Poll Results: Hip Hop Poll: Round 1, Poll J
KRS-One 1 5.56%
Aesop Rock 11 61.11%
NWA 3 16.67%
Alias 2 11.11%
Geto Boys 1 5.56%
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Old 02-02-2011, 11:41 AM   #31 (permalink)
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Sage Francis?
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Old 02-02-2011, 11:44 AM   #32 (permalink)
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Sage Francis? LOL dude's corney

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Sage Francis? LOL dude's corney
Still better than Aesop lyrically.
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Still better than Aesop lyrically.
You still haven't given us one valid reason why.
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You still haven't given us one valid reason why.
uhh.. yeah, I did. Straight after your post.


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He uses to many words.
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uhh.. yeah, I did. Straight after your post.
Thought that was a joke. So in other words, he's too smart for you?
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Old 02-02-2011, 12:28 PM   #37 (permalink)
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Him using too many words doesn't make him a bad lyricist, it makes you bad at comprehension.
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hey I like Sage Francis for this song but he has had so many others that I like as well

Th-the devil,
Th-th-the devil,

The devil only exists because of your belief in him,
Same goes for that other guy,
I believe the sun is simply reflecting the shine from the moon (word?)
Stealing its spotlight, they'll have a ****fight at noon,
To settle their differences,
At midnight, rematch,
To stir up their similarities on turntables,
That chicken scratch proved to be unreadable,
The determining factor in who gets the pitch to control the tides,
No one decides a victor unless they give a fair listen to both the sides,
We're low-lives,
We go blind jerking off to the eclipse,
The sun was pulling cheap shots doing commercial body tricks,
Behind the back,
Under the leg,
I think he even did a headspin,
On a crossfader that sounded whack,
But looked excellent,
All of the sudden it gets dim,
The crater face steps in,
Puts mexican drumbreaks on the Technics,
He's like "Let's begin",
He conducted an orchestra so dope the sun started sweatin' him,
I guess he'd expected to win on pure artistic merit,
Composing complex plays with nothin but soundbytes,
Burned out the lights,
Made MCs too self conscious to put their mouths to mics
For a thousand nights,
It continued without a single slip up,
Except once the record skipped,
But it kinda sounded cool,

And fit within the rhythm he was juggling,
Poly-rhythms out of country western albums spinning,
It is plain that he had come to win,
But as always due to corrupt judging,
They drew a tie - Now it's do or die.

The sun was like,
no no no,
But the moon was like,
go go go,
(repeat x3)

And when the sun was chosen,
I came to the conclusion,
This guy doesn't know what he's doin'.

God's not a woman,
He's a big white guy in the sky,
And the deserts are reflections of his eyes,
He doesn't cry for us,
But when he does,
It's cause he's drunk,
(Say What?),
God's not a woman,
He's a big white guy in the sky,
And the deserts are reflections of his eyes,
He doesn't cry for us,
But when he does,
It's cause he's drunk,
And he's always ****ed up,
Bottoms up,

God's not a woman,
He's a bitch.

(Backmasked:
Praise Jesus,
Do everything your mother tells you,
Love thy Neighbor,
Do not murder everyone,
****, Pussy)

Th-the devil,
Th-th-the devil,
(repeat x4)

This is one hand clapping alone,
This is the smallest violin, (violin)
Run rabbit when they fight to kill your baddest poem,
The devil is the ****ing white man,
This is one hand clapping alone,
This is the smallest violin, (violin)
Run rabbit when they fight to kill your baddest poem,
The white man (the white man).

(Th-th-the devil)..
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Still better than Aesop lyrically.
I don't even care about his comparison to aesop, i just really think Sage Francis is a corny, just because he raps about middle class and how bad organized religions are doesn't make him any more of an insightful lyricist.

That being said,in terms of actual wordplay, Aesop Rock is pretty unbelievable, sometimes. I don't think he's the best out there like many seem too, but he does have some really, really good songs.



also,"human the death dance" as an album name puts a smile on my face everytime :P
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Him using too many words doesn't make him a bad lyricist, it makes you bad at comprehension.
Seconded. It's not necessarily anyone's fault. You hear it a few times, catch a bunch of new stuff. Rinse and repeat until you've caught the whole song.

If you don't have time for it, you don't have time for it. But it's certainly not bad because it's complex.

Just because there could be a college course/major based on interpreting/analyzing Aesop lyrics, doesn't mean it's TOO complex. I like a challenge, and with such great beats who minds relistening?
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