Aesop skirt
Aesop Rock , real name Ian Mathias Bavitz (born June 5, 1976 on Long Island , New York ) is an American hip-hop musician from New York.
biography
Aesop Rock has been under contract with the independent Def Jux label since his 2001 album Labor Days . The label stands for its own, often dark, industrial-futuristic sound, with Aesop Rock musically being on the more accessible side. The texts are characterized by complex imagery that always follows a guideline. The range of topics is broad and includes gloomy urban visions as well as stories about affectionately drawn outsiders of society or hip-hop-specific topics. Set pieces from pop culture can often be found in his work, which led a critic of the Boston Herald to the remark, "Listening to Aesop Rock is like taking your brain on a futuristic urban hell-ride through pop culture". The album Bazooka Tooth , released in 2003, has a much more pessimistic tone and deals, among other things, with the 11th of September and the murder of the hip hop pioneer Jam Master Jay from Run DMC . In February 2005 the EP Fast Cars, Danger, Fire & Knives , published with an 80-page book, followed . His album None Shall Pass was released in 2007.
Aesop Rock's texts are characterized by a particularly wide variety of vocabulary used.
Aesop Rock is a member of the hip-hop groups Hail Mary Mallon (together with Rob Sonic and DJ Big Wiz), The Weathermen (together with Cage , El-P and Tame1) and The Uncluded (together with Kimya Dawson ).
Discography
Chart placements
year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks |
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US | |||
2003 | Bazooka Tooth |
US112 (1 week) US |
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2005 | Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives |
US190 (1 week) US |
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2007 | None Shall Pass |
US50 (4 weeks) US |
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2009 | Felt 3: A Tribute to Rosie Perez |
US131 (1 week) US |
Slug & Murs with Aesop Rock
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2012 | Skelethon |
US21 (2 weeks) US |
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2016 | The Impossible Kid |
US30 (2 weeks) US |
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2019 | Malibu Ken |
US176 (1 week) US |
Aesop Rock and Tabacco are Malibu Ken
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Solo albums
- 1997: Music for Earthworms
- 2000: Float (Mush Records)
- 2001: Labor Days ( Definitive Jux )
- 2003: Bazooka Tooth (Definitive Jux)
- 2007: None Shall Pass (Definitive Jux)
- 2012: Skelethon (Rhymesayers Entertainment)
- 2016: The Impossible Kid (Rhymesayers Entertainment)
EPs
- 1999: Appleseed
- 2002: Daylight EP (Definitive Jux)
- 2005: Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives (Definitive Jux)
Mix tapes, remix albums and instrumentals
- 2003: Build Your Own Bazooka Tooth (Definitive Jux)
- 2005: B-Sites & Rarities Vol. 1: 1999–2003
- 2006: B-Sites & Rarities Vol. 2: 2003-2006
- 2007: All Day: Nike + Original Run (Continuous Mix) (Mix album in collaboration with Nike )
- 2007: None Shall Pass - Instrumentals and Accapellas (Definitive Jux)
- 2009: B-Sites & Rarities Vol. 3: 2006–2009
- 2014: The Blob (Rhymesayers Entertainment)
Hail Mary Mallon
- 2011: Are You Gonna Eat That? (Rhymesayers Entertainment)
- 2014: Beastiary (Rhymesayers Entertainment)
The Uncluded
- 2013: Hokey Fright (Rhymesayers Entertainment)
Singles
- 2001: Coma / Maintenance (12 ″; Definitive Jux)
- 2001: Boombox / Kill 'Em All Remix / Labor (12 ″; Definitive Jux)
- 2001: Daylight / Night Light / Nickle Plated Pockets (12 ″; Definitive Jux)
- 2003: Limelighters (12 ″; Definitive Jux)
- 2003: Freeze / Greatest Pac-Man Victory In History (12 ”; Definitive Jux)
- 2003: Easy / No Jumper Cables (12 ”; Definitive Jux)
- 2004: All in All (Definitive Jux)
- 2007: None Shall Pass / Puff Tuff (7 ”; Definitive Jux)
- 2007: Coffee (CD; Definitive Jux)
- 2012: Zero Dark Thirty (Rhymesayers Entertainment)
- 2012: ZZZ Top (Rhymesayers Entertainment)
- 2012: Cycles to Gehenna (Rhymesayers Entertainment)
With other artists
- 2000: Put Your Quarter Up (Molemen feat.MF Doom , Slug , Aesop Rock on Ritual of the ... ) (Fat Beats)
- 2001: Blacklist (Prefuse 73 feat.MF Doom, Aesop Rock on Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives ) ( Warp Records )
- 2002: Delorian ( El-P feat.Aesop Rock, Ill Bill on Fantastic Damage ) (Definitive Jux)
- 2002: Innercity Hustle (Aesop Rock & LIFE Long on The Bedford Files, Archives A / B (Compilation)) (Embedded)
- 2002: Success (Mr. Lif feat.Aesop Rock on I Phantom ) (Definitive Jux)
- 2002: Flesh (Remix) ( Atmosphere feat. Aesop Rock, I Self Divine, Musab on Godlovesugly / Flesh (Remix) / Bleed Slow (12 ”)) ( Rhymesayers Entertainment )
- 2003: Final Frontier (Remix) ( RJD2 feat.Aesop Rock, MURS, Blueprint, Vast Aire on The Horror ( EP )) (Definitive Jux)
- 2003: Happy Pills ( MURS feat.Aesop Rock on The End of the Beginning ... ) (Definitive Jux)
- 2003: Love to Fu * k (SA Smash feat.Aesop Rock on Smashy Trashy ) (Definitive Jux)
- 2003: Shut Down (Push Button Objects feat.Aesop Rock on Ghetto Blaster ) (Chocolate Industries)
- 2004: Posse Slash (Vast Aire feat.Aesop Rock, Breez Evahflowin ', Poison Pen, Karniege on Look Mom ... No Hands ) (Chocolate Industries)
- 2004: Crooked (Evil Nine feat.Aesop Rock on You Can Be Special Too ) (Marine Parade)
- 2004: Kill Switch (DJ Krush feat.Aesop Rock auf Jaku ) (Columbia Records, RED Ink Records)
- 2005: Preservation (Aesop Rock & Del Tha Funky Homosapien on Wu-Tang Meets the Indie Culture ) (Think Differently Music)
- 2008: Dirt (Tobacco feat.Aesop Rock on Fucked Up Friends ) ( Anticon )
- 2009: Felt 3: A Tribute to Rosie Perez (Felt (Murs and Slug), Aesop Rock produced the entire album) (Rhymesayers Entertainment)
- 2014: Tom Shall Pass (as Aesop Waits , mash-up with songs by Tom Waits )
- 2019: Malibu Ken (Aesop Rock and Tabacco are Malibu Ken)
Web links
- Aesop Rock at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Largest Vocabulary in Hip Hop. Retrieved June 28, 2014 .
- ↑ Aesop Rock in the US album charts (Billboard)
- ↑ The Blob on Soundcloud (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Aesop skirt |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bavitz, Ian Mathias |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American hip hop musician |
DATE OF BIRTH | 5th June 1976 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | on Long Island , New York |