Aesop Rock - Shovel

“My kitchen sink leaks like your itching to speak a secret ‘bout the world spins but nobodies pledged allegiance and why? His beaming smile knew a private agony that burns and when the children met divinity, I sat to watch the merge.” Since 2001 I’ve been bobbing my head to Aesop Rock, because he’s “6 foot 4 with a sick flow”, then, Aesop Rock’s rhymes were mind boggling (and they still are) in fact too much for a sophomore high school mind to follow. Back then I didn’t comprehend music fully; instead I understood beats and rhythms, melodies which put me into a coma of listening. I can remember so many occasions where I found that one song and would have to play it at least 3 or 4 times a day to reach my musical satisfaction of the day. When Aesop Rocks’ Labor Days came out I discovered one of my favorites from The Aesop Rock collection, Shovel. To me Shovel has the type of beat that gets the brain waves cooking in a way that motivates or inspires ingenuity in the form of how to approach rough days ahead. Every time I listen to Shovel I feel like I’m conspiring something big, plans and thoughts of how I can take over the world haha, but that’s just the beat, wait until you listen to the song and try keeping up with Aesop’s wordplay. Guarantee it’s going to be hard to follow, in fact you may think, damn Joe what the F**k are you listening to, but you have to give him a chance. Being an underground hip hop fiend I definitely have the patience for rappers good and bad, but trust, Aesop Rock is Hip Hop in its truest form. Most importantly through his lyrics you can tell he’s content with his current status in the social listening of Hip Hop. His lyrics aren’t meant for you to keep up with, they’re meant for you to sulk over and rewind from time to time, to figure out what he means when he said “I don’t shrug instead of the ramifications of my shovel, loving the consequence of uprooting the jungle.” Thank you Aesop, for real Hip Hop.
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http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Shovel-lyrics-Aesop-Rock/D1AB138B3734BD1048256D0B001101E6