During the making of None Shall Pass, Aesop Rock's gentler, narrative-heavy new CD, the hip-hop MC moved from his beloved New York to San Francisco, got married, and turned 30. “So, those were the ...

Hip-hop has always cleared a little extra space in the attic for eccentrics—the rappers too weird for the mainstream but too in?uential to be ignored. Whether taking the form of Kool Keith’s unhinged ...

Aesop Rock and Rob Sonic dished up a venomous set of classics old and new — with lots of Hail Mary Mallon stuff thrown in there — with DJ Abilities spinning intergalactic beats throughout. Whatever ...

As Aesop Rock returns to Northampton with the release of his new album: “None Shall Pass,” a lesser-known performer rides in the back seat. For all the genius that is Aesop Rock, much of his ...

If Aesop Rock’s latest CD, None Shall Pass, sounds different from the rest of his catalog, it’s because his life has changed dramatically of late. In the past two years, the hip-hop MC moved from his ...

Aesop Rock has been touring solidly to promote “None Shall Pass,” and will hit the 9:30 Club on Aug. 20 — his second show there in less than a year — with fellow Def Jux labelmates Yak Ballz, Rob ...

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Thanks to a string of highly imaginative, expectations-defying albums, Aesop Rock is one of underground hip-hop's most celebrated personalities. The lyricist and producer's genre-advancing ways don't ...

While his Definitive Jux labelmate El-P is P.K. Dick-obsessed and fellow Caucasian rap-adours Buck 65 and Sage Francis delve into bloggish beatnik narratives, Aesop Rock seems like the last white ...

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