"aesop rock doesn't try to contend with rap music's commercial villains. instead, on "labor days," his first release for the def jux label, aesop ignores the mainstream and displays an unshakable confidence rarely seen in independent hip-hop. although a staccato, dadaist delivery is his trademark, subsequent listens reveal his storytelling gifts and rhyme structures to be thick with purpose. there's also a sensitivity only hinted at on "float," his first mass release. On "daylight," he informs, "life is not a bitch / life's a beautiful woman," while "no regrets" tells the life story of a woman who only communicated through her drawings until her death in a nursing home. surely, this is a fine example of hip-hop's formidable underground." -
arno kazarian
tracklist:
labor 01
daylight 02
save yourself 03
flashflood 04
no regrets 05
one brick 06
the tugboat complex pt. 3 07
coma 08
battery 09
boombox 10
bent life 11
the yes and y'all 12
9-5ers anthem 13
shovel 14
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