Aesop Rock (born Ian Matthias Bavitz on June 5, 1976) is an American hip hop hip hop music artist and producer. He was at the forefront of the new wave of underground underground hip hop and alternative hip hop acts that emerged during the late 1990s and early 2000s. He is signed to El-P's Definitive Jux label and is a current member of The Weathermen The Weathermen (hip hop group) . Regarding his name, he said: "I acquired the name... [read more] - Fast Cars
Who's that walking with a whole in his head?Big bad Bazooka Tooth, I came to break bread.What's a troop's recipe for treacherous times?I tell 'em fast cars, danger, fire and knives.Fast cars, danger, fire and...
- Winners Take All
Parachute ratty. One bunk chord, now the air is scooped badly. Dripping out the sticks like a twig tweed hammock. Miter cut the cables for that quick, clean transit. Miser tuck the big screen panic near the business...
- Rickety Rackety
Aesop RockSmack dab in the middle of the cuddles and kills, guerilla jimmy city limits with a bucket of pills hollring 'no I don't immediately ameliorate 'em. I meet 'em, greet 'em, read 'em, and rate 'em, see if I...
- Zodiaccupuncture
Intro:March. The more the merrier. Get a couple of whores to carry you to the burial. F-R-E-S-H. Fresh to death and keep it def to the left. Well it was Capricorn, Virgo, Aquarius, Cancer, Leo, Sagittarius, Pisces,...
- Holy Smokes
Well they were selfish with the helmets on the little bus 'til break fluid sewage crippled up the get retarded nickle punks. Slowly cope, but swore his lowly robot foley folk would one day rise in sections to...
- Number Nine
Deliver us from evil. Litter bugged amoedba simmer on the brimestone. Grime tone. Bring him home. Authoritative restoration will be rationed righteously to those deemed suitably fit to police their own sobriety....
- Cook It Up
Cook it upSpookySaluteLookZoop, well hook it upShoop the local Wendy Cooper loopyLow brow, low brimShe asked me, "What's the name?"I flashed the grossest fangs in show bizJumped out where it's open:"What's yours?""Um,...
- We're Famous
[El-P]I brought that genuine shit in '96Before you knew the underground or independent existedI watched the whole scene straight jump on the dickAfter stepping to KCR lit and flexing my shitNo gun talk, no gimmicks,...
- Greatest Pac-Man Victory In History
Chorus]Get up to get down nowGet up to get down now (like this)Get up to get down now (like this)Get up to get down now (alright)I don't wanna do it anymoreCouldn't do it if I tried, wouldn't do it if I wanted itHeyI...
- Mars Attacks
These lil', lil' ***in' Martiansyou gotta love em' thoughMars attacks wit' electric gatsNot for sapien abduction (what's up then?!)Billy took a laser to the mug piece; hallowed out the mandibleChannel headquarters...
- Limelighters
AESOP- Pain cave uno, smoking a broken blue note. Tar pit escape artist carcass linger in the bull doze. Rose radio Lazarus via linear bark screaming 'I'm back to kill the video star and I'm double parked!'CHIBA- You...
- Bazooka Tooth
[Verse 1]Diamond colored spineArmadillo armor that bends around the bladesBugs in the beardEbony in the lungpieceBricks in the TimbsBazooka in the tooth that he's flashing at your friendsThis is the lifestyle,...
- No Jumper Cables
Burn train buffersMy fancyUp jumps the boogie delivering eye jammiesWalk through the muck with a clutch on a tridentNever give a *** how far Pi wentYou are dealing with a reborn icicle age poltergeistUprock, sidewalk...
- Freeze
It goes welcome the pop off, some pop soft. We bang b-bang b-bang bang out loud. Ready on the left with a face full of death. We slanged out fang mouth bang out now.This is a never dug disco, Zoo York tycoon,...
- 11:35
Some cats grow by the laws of the wildSome learn slower and lag in the mudSome stand up in defense of a styleSome let the big dogs eat them upAt exactly 11:35pm on January 21st I fell asleep soundAt exactly 11:35pm on...
- Babies With Guns
radio, check check, video, check checkthis is how the city folk and mole people connectsomebody warp the message right i'll pass it to the nextnow the perferrated county's making you upsetharvest all brand x clark...
- Basic Cable
Television, all hail grand pixelated god ofFantasy, murder scape and perspective*** a sore channel changed digitI sit with a nasty network intervenes planWith a stable diet of my cable pirateYo, the doctor is in, the...
- Boom Bye Bye
[Buckshot]I'm about to be a millionaireMoney on the street, like dovesHustlin my lyrics like drugs, I find it bugMuthaf**kas always gotta lock the safe, but they don't do jayBut anyway, it's another day, another...
- Prosperity
Sulking and bulking a halfsulking a laugh crash testfigure the mixtures digging up his last breathgrief leaf thief briefly turned chieftanthe tapwaters on the waters off the waters leakingso this is bluemy frame...
- Oxygen
I'm twice born, once and seven somethingOnce is the resurrection of honorable functionBeen shoveling a coal as the engine's doctorLong enough to see my silhouette acquire a permanent kink in a posture The metenance of...
- No Splash
[Aesop Rock]January, I fell to the cobblestoneIn April, I cut little paper flowersIn August, I drank cold tea all my lonesomeIn October, I was introduced to scourersI love New York SaturdaysBut Mondays last longerAnd...
- From The Back Of A Broken Dream
As your soul drifts on the plateTo the floor where she is standingRising by the fireFrom the torch you were burningMany years, but many tearsAnd many more will soon be arrivingBut I drink this final dropTo enter your...
- How To Be A Carpenter
So you want to be a carpenter, do you?Well it takes more than a hammer, boy, you're gonna need blueprints and a will to build, and...Straighten your cap! you look like you've been through a war.Wipe that grin off your...
- Attention Span
[Aesop Rock] 3xEvery little step we take breaks the dreamsOf a warm pig itching to re-stitch the seams[Vast Aire]Namsayin, when I walk, I wanna break concrete!Ox'll spit some shit that'll reflect off the mirrorMy...
- Big Bang
[Aesop Rock]Well, so we meet again(He said he's grown spiritually since the last TIME)Ok, this is the dawning of the book of bitter aspectsWhere the jackals sit and watch the PEDAGOGUES last fleshPoison functions...
- Requiem For A Dying Song
There' a government whip cracked a across your backWhere the order of the day is don't listen attackSee the blood run down in your blood swept townRevolution is the gimmick gonna jugle this clownWhere the voice of the...
- Us Of Lesser Gods
There's a breeze that's blowin' in from the landInstead of salt air, all we breathe in is sandCrippled the cloud that once brought the rainGood job, now we'll never see our coasts againBut those of us, those of usUs,...
- Drawbridge
[Aesop Rock and Dose One]This is not your ordinary balladWith a perfect little bow around the middleAnd a black man on a white horseOr a white man on a black horseIt's got all these tired parts whereWe don't even sing...
- Skip Town
On the trainWatchin' the rainbows (thank you windows)I mean, it's all the same to someBut that cityscape makes me numbWalkin' the wire between firewater and water - I'll take the tapStill managed to end up thirsty the...
- The Story So Far
You always had what you wantedSo leave it behindAnd if the glass isn't brokenThen the futures not blindAll that you know means nothing to youBut its the loss of control shatters the truthHere's the story so farIt's...
- 6B Panorama
I was sitting on my fire escape and I saw...sturdy bridges, decorated with dirty pigeonsa vagabond begging for three pennies and a princessa junkie tourniquet surgeon urging the needle ina batty senior citizen...
- Float
Drink away the rest of the day,Wonder what my liver would say,Drink, It's All you can.Blackened days With their bigger gales,Blow in your parlor to discust the day,Listen it's all you can.Ah but don't, don't sink the...
- Major And The Crook
no more pencils no more booksi built the city out one brickI had a mayor and a crookI made the crook stab the mayor then slay himself in the gillsi stole the brick back and migrated east, now let's buildevery...
- (No More) Paddy's Lament
Wipe the blood from your lipWith the flesh of your handTheres no thorn in the side left to growSo lets cherrish the names that we lost for an ageWith the rue now the supper must goWhere traditions they blend lives a...
- You Won't Make A Fool Out Of Me
Rank these woodsWhere lost ispirationAin't that a barrel full of laughsWipe you arse of the crumbs on the tableWhere they fall hungry on your land\Whatever became of the seed that once grew in your handAnd the darts...
- Us Of A Lesser God
There's a breeze that's blowin' in from the landInstead of salt air all we breathe in is sandCrippled the cloud that once brought the rainGood job now we'll never see our coasts again[Chorus:]But those of us, those of...
- On The Back Of A Broken Dream
As your soul drifts on the plateto the floor where she is standingRising by the firefrom the torch you were burningmany years but many tearsand many more will soon be arrivingbut i drink this final dropto enter your...
- Man With No Country
Picture an ending before it's begunThe art of forgiveness is not what we're taughtReek of the havoc already madeThe cradle was damaged, dug by the graveWhere you lie in the sin, for mortal's the soulForgive me this...
- I'll Be OK
[Slug]Burn it down...Pad the circles 'round your lifeTo capture all the sides you sightMagic tricks where skeptics sinkThe ice is thin, stay off the lakeWaiting for a clock to punchWish I could breathe and stop for...
- Garbage
The ritual goes, same window different visual.Wing of wax, or wing of gold leafChoose one. Float or plummet 20 thousand cold leguesMy nourishment's provided in the summerSo that I wonderHow y'all chasin' dreams when...
- Punch Drunk Grinning Soul
It took me everything I hadTo give all that I couldWalk beside me while I sleepSteer me from the slumber wolfTangled forest of the mindSpeaks to me of self-despiseClose the window through the paneHear the siren's...
- Fascination
Shooken to Casper. Illustrate beautiful disaster. Flight of the mothership lift to badger the male-factor. Marionette vs. the threat of wire cutter function. Stereotypical grinch bashing your pumpkins. Plug. Try to...
- Lightning Storm
This loney exsistence paves the wayFor the hard of hearts must beat be braveWhile this crying lightning stormWreaks the harvest gold we try to sowSo it beginsThe way the light still dances beneaththe skin there the...
- Float
So I heard y'all wanna float...Yo, this fallen angel could stitch a wing With a shoestringPrime directive selects reflective Aviation bathed in mood swingI'm broke; I know a walking corpse That spit icicle dagger to...
- Commencement At The Obedience Academy
Verse One:The harvest appeared less plentiful than last seasonI imagine sloppy seed handling avoke the stroke of tardy plantingAnd the crops we'd have harnessed in mid NovemberIt only brushed the blossom bracket then...
- Odessa
shhhDose:Well or,And this is, new york cityAesop:Where the shiftiest sources leak out the back door,For more and this is new york cityDose:oh I see these hear walk,I,Simply a shade of shephard,seems we share fate,...
- Shere Khan
"You can come, I'll leap right overAny day you likeSystem 605, Union 91"[Aesop]I forever wallow in glitches grimly distributed by side effectsConsumed, cocooned in antisocial trenchesDrenched! Gridled between dense...
- Abandon All Hope
Aesop Rock (Aesop Rock)... (x16)Is it love such as that which I exhibit for my practiceThe factor which then amalgamates the baits with straight-jackets and ROBESHuddled in brackets that blacken the average...
- Wake Up Call
[Aesop Rock]Wake up, wake upAyo Percee P, it's time to wake these kids up[Percee-P]Word up Aesop Rock, they'd better take their fingers offpause and hit record[Aesop Rock]Is you fat cats or lab rats?Trails to my...
- The Substance
Four rooms, a ceiling and a floor but there's more(close to insanity)A desk with a subtle light, a window and a door(close to insanity)One bottle of the bluest inks your iris ever saw(close to insanity)One child...
- 89.9FM Nighttrain Promo
whats up this is Aesop Rock for wkcr]I traded my title as bent pedestrian for passenger status to coast mutedFinding the night train mildly therapeuticRugged ***er flashing mood full of swingsBeneath this puppet...
- Troubled Waters
[Verse One]You replicas overlooking the guidelines of acousticsMiserable attempts result in miserable conclusionsParagon pen dragon tactician on freeformThen a comfortable silence try to combat cliquesThat unexpected...
- Maintenance
[Aesop Rock]Count that for me...thanks[Robotic voice] 4xOne, two, one, two, three, four[Aesop Rock]Well any asshole with a book of matches can light a fire freshMake that sucker burn for days, I'll be impressedCirclin...
- Nickel Plated Pockets
[INTRO: Vast Aire & Aesop conversing]Yo, (Alright Ok)Can I get a quarter or something?Little hungry, you know what I'm saying? (Alright Ok)Homeless...I need a Lucy yo...(Yo...)[VERSE ONE]Walk into the store with a...
- 1 Of 4
1 of 4...My name is Ian Mathias BavitzI was born in 1-9-7-6, at Biosfet hospital, located in Long Island, NYI am 6 foot, four I weigh 2-0-0 poundsI have brown hair and green eyesI enjoy writing songs, painting, movies...
- Night Light
[Aesop Rock]Night Light suckas.. Put one up s***le me, not clean logic procreationI did invent the wheel, in a previous generationWhile the triple sixers lassos keep angels roped in the basementI locate my old halos...
- Alchemy
[Blueprint]I spit with an immense amount of powerSkull flame showers, cowards, cower, underneath ourStorm clouds that indicate the acid rain hoursNow or, never, ever, ending on a bad noteRipping ya' craft spoke, for...
- Flashflood
We'll have more news after this commercial word'(As so it goes..)'At least I think I was here asleep...Is it possible, conceiveable that I sleepwalked out of my apartmentAnd went berzerk?'[Aesop Rock]In slipped...
- Battery
[Aesop Rock]Yo change the ***in channelI burn a Coma candleWhen the flame fades, consider my flatline a soldier's sampleWe them cats talkin noise behind that New York trash heapWhere the stench of commuter briefcase...
- Coma
We now present to you...music *cut up*Music to make you stutter[Aesop Rock]I've been a biplane dog fighter Henson inventionTrooper burst result of Dragon Ball Z/Speed Racer gene splicing Mach force, blind the extorted...
- Labor
'This is labor' {*echoes*}{*sample cut and scratched*}[Aesop Rock]Who put the monkey wrench in well oiled prefectionist emblemJust to watch these moniters spit white noisethrough your office space auto madeI infect...
- One Brick
[Aesop Rock]I start my city with a brick (one brick)Then add another brick (two bricks)Brick by brick, I manufacture homes for fallen angelsI ain't no great Samaritan, that's just the way the game goesRespect the...
- No Regrets
Lucy was 7 and wore a head of blue barettesCity born, into this world with no knowledge and no regretsHad a piece of yellow chalk with which she'd draw upon the streetThe many faces of the various locals that she...
- Bent Life
Aesop Rock}YoI take 10 steps with a bedlamped visionStudy the disorders we've absorbed inside the villageI understand the plagues and shake hands with my grimace that remain up inmy face like top to bottom train car...
- Boombox
Raw, I'm going to give it to youWith no triviaRaw like that Aesop rock iron-fisted list militiaWhile bent funny bone grown communitySpit a thousand and 1 ripples to cripple the continuityTap water builds...
- Save Yourself
(Chill with that ill behavior) - KRS samplePull the pin out, sheep creep in wolf garbFronted by the Hail Mary parry lunge mixerKill the populace for stability, jeopardy's a sticklerIts bob and weave amalgam played the...
- 9-5ers Anthem
[Aesop Rock]Zoom in to the fuming of an aggravated breedVia the study of post-adolesent agitated seedsHalf the patients waste themselves prior to CommencentSo I focus on the urban Oxygen samples, the hot that made it...
- Catacomb Kids
I was a dark, dumb studentNo hooky, rookie day trippin on visions of chickens that looked like R. Crumb drew emThey grew em in the royal dirt of Suffolk Co.'s flooringWith the blood of an alcoholic clergyman in his...
- The Harbor Is Yours
Dead men tell no talesUp push the daisies till the soil is staleAnd the powder blue tux for the farmer's taleMister big sleep with the carbon (?cale?)Once upon a time in the days of yore, when the people lived fresh...
- Hold The Cup
Verse One:And the saints come marching inSerpentine regime ordered by response sort of fell this populationCaboose humming no fence me in a van with common patriotsThe parody plastered every red brick in siteWhere had...
- Same Space (The Tugboat Complex Pt. 2)
Killaz reflect the destiny of the villageSo when 20 count regrets float down futility spillageSee I'll pass the broken arrow this time for certainYea but from here on out its hoof the mare the bare footed urchinDig it...
- Sick Friend
Thou mayest indeedTune onto the forbidden channelAnd see it like it is baby*Record Scratch in*You should be a championNever fall on meDeceit, deceit, deceit*Record Scratch out*"Getting dusty in the cellar"[Verse 1 -...
- 1,000 Deaths
Verse One:I saw the rod-eye cross and murder circle above my turretSlither spiraling banister down a hideMy ruby glass glazed specs staple to trade the market thievesWhere vendors cop the stolen citrus out they...
- Dryspell
On a sunny afternoon in lower east side New York...You about ready? (Yeah)Good morning my sweet vision of morbid disorderAnd Good evening wonderful riddance and suchMaybe today I'll touch the burgundy haloTrimming the...
- The Yes And The Y'all
[Aesop Rock] *acapella*Jiggy-jabberjaw vitamin idol and primal ragesWhen bible page verse tidal waves has begun (Water one)I wrote the book that shook America to splinters In a winter wastelandIcicle-bound barren...
- The Tugboat Complex (Part 3)
I could make 'em all dance, or I could sleepI could walk with a limp and make your step feel incompletepeople are made of match sticks, light this bread a flamesnote at the craft work door the last smirk of the the...
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