Showing posts with label Aesop Rock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aesop Rock. Show all posts

Saturday, November 15, 2025

Billy woods & August Fanon "Complications" (feat. Aesop Rock)


The official music video for "Complications," by billy woods and August Fanon, featuring Aesop Rock, is now available. The track is off their recently released album, gowillog (October 31, 2025), which is available exclusively from BackwoodzStudioz.com. The visuals were directed by Evan Gütt & Nimi Einstein.

Friday, June 21, 2024

Heard Right​(​feat. Aesop Rock, Homeboy Sandman) by M Slago

 


from the album And We Are Here, releases August 9, 2024

Friday, January 19, 2024

Friday, December 8, 2023

Aesop Rock - All City Nerve Map


VIDEO CREDITS:
Shot by Rebecca Cedeño
Directed & Edited by Aesop Rock

SONG CREDITS:
Written and produced by Aesop Rock
Keys by Asher Fulero
Cuts by Forest Pond

Saturday, November 11, 2023

Aesop Rock - Kyanite Toothpick (feat. Hanni El Khatib)


Aesop Rock has released a music video for his song "Kyanite Toothpick" which features Hanni El Khatib.

Friday, November 10, 2023

Integrated Tech Solutions by Aesop Rock


 


For the better part of three decades, Aesop Rock has used the syntax of the moment to expose the fault lines in that moment's supposedly solid foundation. With his tenth album, Integrated Tech Solutions, Aes wields insidious corporatespeak as a tool to pry this parasitic worldview away from the parts of life that really matter.

A concept album about an organization that offers "lifestyle and industry-specific applications designed to curate a desired multi-experience," Integrated Tech Solutions picks apart the charlatan language that hears app inventors place themselves on continuums starting with cavemen and continuing through da Vinci. On "Mindful Solutionism," the wheel evolves seamlessly into modern agriculture-and then into atomic bombs, Agent Orange, cigarettes, and surveillance cameras. In a rare moment of transparency, Aes engineers sum up the spiral in a few words: "We can't be trusted with the stuff we make."

Fittingly, the album sounds like the past and the future at the same time. Largely self-produced, Integrated Tech Solutions captures Aes at his leanest and most innovative, juxtaposing the careening bounce of "Solutionism" with the wistful "By the River" or the slow creep of "Salt and Pepper Squid." The effect is a record that sounds like an organism itself, growing, mutating, hurtling toward profitability - and then destruction. As fans have come to expect, Aes is at once bitingly funny and slyly profound, whether recounting a childhood restaurant run-in with Mr. T ("100 Feet Tall") or quipping on "Pigeonometry" that "white dove is a pigeon-you motherfuckers are bigots." At the same time, Integrated Tech Solutions is working on another parallel project: tracing the sprawl of modernity and cutting directly to its core. "I've been doing laps of the lost worlds," he raps on "All City Nerve Map," sounding at once exhausted and invigorated. "I can draw a map to the raw nerve."

Friday, October 27, 2023

Aesop Rock - Infinity Fill Goose Down


VIDEO CREDITS:
Directed by Aesop Rock.
Lyric animation by Aesop Rock.
Visuals and effects by Justin "Coro" Kaufman.

SONG CREDITS:
Written and produced by Aesop Rock.
Editing by Forest Pond

Friday, November 19, 2021

Aesop Rock x Blockhead - Flamingo Pink

 

Aesop Rock and Blockhead show the visual to the track "Flamingo Pink" from their collaborative album "Garbology".


Thursday, October 14, 2021

Aesop Rock & Blockhead - 'Jazz Hands' / 'Garbology'


 

Aesop Rock & Blockhead drop new single 'Jazz Hands' ahead of new collaborative album 'Garbology'

Aesop Rock and longtime musical ally Blockhead have announced the upcoming release of the collaborative album Garbology via Rhymesayers Entertainment on November 12. Though the pair’s collaborative relationship stretches all the way back to when they were first starting out in the late 90’s, including Blockhead producing two of the most popular songs of Aesop’s back catalog (“Daylight” and “None Shall Pass”) as well as several features across each other’s releases, Garbology marks their first full length release together. The pair have shared an early taste with album track “Jazz Hands,” a stunning stream of consciousness musical and lyrical sprint bolstered by an accompanying music video by Rob Shaw – watch here.

Garbology came together in the midst of Aesop processing the loss of a close friend in January of 2020, which resulted in a creative lull. “The world got really weird during those months,” recalls Aesop. “I knew at some point I had to get back to making something. Make a beat. Draw a picture. Write. Just go. But the idea of making a beat felt like math homework, and drawing is just so hard. Writing is hard too, but at some point I had to pick one.” Having ultimately decided on writing as the path forward, Aesop hit up Blockhead for beats. Initially, there wasn’t any particular plan beyond creating some songs, but as the songs kept piling up it wasn’t long before an album was born.

Garbology musically encapsulates our current moment; a snapshot of Aes and Block entertaining themselves in an era where social interactions are limited, all while “anchored on a goulash of cabin fever, fear, anger and boredom”, as Aesop describes it. As for the title, he explains that “Garbology is defined as the study of the material discarded by a society to learn what it reveals about social or cultural patterns. I find a lot of parallels between that and the idea of picking up the pieces after a loss or period of intense unrest, and seeing what’s really there. It’s information that speaks to who I am, who we are, and how we move forward. Furthermore - the idea of digging through old, often neglected music from another time with an ear tuned for taking in that data in a different way than your average listener would is exactly what Block does. Go through the information and see what you find.”

In the spirit of the album’s theme, the vinyl has been pressed as an “eco-mix", a 100% recycled compound comprised of trimmed flash and left overs from other color vinyl pressings which cannot otherwise be reused, resulting in every copy of the LP having its own unique appearance while significantly reducing the environmental impact of the pressing process.


Thursday, July 22, 2021

Homeboy Sandman - Lice Team, Baby (feat. Aesop Rock)


Presenting the next single by Homeboy SandmanLice Team, Baby’.

Featuring Aesop Rock, (also on the drums!) this certified banger is single No 3 from the up coming project ‘Anjelitu’.

The MC’s bounce off each other in true style, providing a further insight into the up coming release.

 

Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Aesop Rock - Jumping Coffin



Rhymesayers Entertainment
presents Aesop Rock with the visual "Jumping Coffin" from the "Spirit World Field Guide" album.

 

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Quattro Formaggi (Cam'ron x Freeway x Aesop Rock x Empuls​)​ -​ "You Mad"

 A new group with old faces enters the hip hip stage. Quattro Formaggi are Cam'ron, Freeway, Aesop Rock and Empuls. Here is the The Alchemist produced track "You Mad" of the extraordinary combo.

Saturday, January 9, 2021

Lice (Aesop Rock & Homeboy Sandman) - Ask Anyone

 

Aesop Rock & Homeboy Sandman team up again to form the combo Lice. Her track "Ask Anyone" for the legendary MF Doom has just come in.

Saturday, November 14, 2020

Friday, October 16, 2020

Aesop Rock - Pizza Alley

  

Aesop Rock releases "Pizza Alley" for a highly crafted video from the recent album titled "Spirit World Field Guide".