i think i need to honestly listen to more aesop rock before i do him. i've only ever heard labor days and his guest appearances on a few other tracks. which, don't get me wrong, gives me plenty of ammo to **** on him with. but i get the feeling you guys listen to his more recent stuff so my criticisms of him from back in 2005 when i still gave half of a flying **** about nerdy underground rap music might not apply today.
i've been listening to danny brown's most recent album because i resent the fact that this buckwheat looking crackhead made me break the rules to my own thread. i'm thinking i will have some ammo on him soon enough. the first thing that comes to mind is that i assumed he was from the south from his sound but then listening to some more of his lyrics it sounds like he's from detroit. which is pretty fake to me. why does every new up and coming mainstream (i assume?) rapper feel like he has to put on a southern mask. there was a time when rap critics didn't respect the south at all and rappers like outkast and ugk had to go out of their way to prove that some southerners have half a brain on them. now it's the reverse where drake, meek mills, etc are all trying their hardest to sound southern while actually being from in arctic ****holes that actually have their own hip hop culture and their own unique sound to build off which these rappers just utterly disregard.
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