Welcome to Music Banter Forum! Make sure to register - it's free and very quick! You have to register before you can post and participate in our discussions with over 70,000 other registered members. After you create your free account, you will be able to customize many options, you will have the full access to over 1,100,000 posts.
Aesop and El-P are bread and butter - they go hand in hand. No need to compare or say one is a wannabe. But anyway, I won't be able to say anything about Aesop Rock falling off until I hear his new album this year.
You don't hear any similarity in the way they spit? They sound pretty damn similar to me, Aes just spits slightly faster and a little more avante-garde. Both are super technical, have similar flow, and both incorporate weird scifi/fantasy references.
Aesop Rock has definitely fallen off lately, but he's been annoying to me since even before that, which is strange since Labor Days was one of my first hip hop albums. Maybe I'm not justified in calling him a "wannabe El-P", but I can't help myself from judging them against each other. I mean hey, El-p was doing his thing before aesop and and he also started the label that AR would eventually join.
I think your reaching a little bit to make your point that aesop is overrated. Which is very valid.
However, Aesop has been doing his thing for as long as el-p, and has always had a distinct sound. I think the comparison in flow and style is the result of them both being technically great rappers, being the same age, and being from the same general area.
"my daytime is on some, yes sir, okay sir, do you mind if breath sir, oh you do, well excuse me sir **** you"
To me Aesop is more vague like anti-establishment, imagery-driven, emotionally vulnerable type stuff, and El-P is more concrete anti-establishment, neo-future thematic type stuff. Which is why, like you, I think he's better because he's not hiding under a blanket of shit that's only "interpretive", he's actually commenting on stuff in a profound, digestible way.
Anybody up for a el-p vs aesop rock thread? I think that would be pretty interesting.
Maybe it's the Jim Beam talking, but I don't think Del is a particularly good rapper. He has character and sometimes has cool lyrics, but his flow is not only extremely repetitive, it always sounds like he's imitating some forgotten 80s rapper.
Linear Mode
