Aesop Rock - Shere Kahn

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  • čas přidán 30. 06. 2011
  • Album: Music For Earthworms (1997)
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Komentáře • 210

  • @ontherims3284
    @ontherims3284 Před 4 lety +65

    I just can't help but pour over your work. Gonna buy your albums. I want them all. I'm hanging them on my wall. When people ask what's that?..i'll say
    ....get the hell out of my house.

    • @bossdula
      @bossdula Před 2 lety +8

      I know this comment is late and I'm late to hearing this but this is the best comment I've ever seen on CZcams

    • @OracleTheRonin
      @OracleTheRonin Před 2 lety +7

      hang them as art, as they are. Aes says he's a failed artist turned rapper but he actually found himself creating a new type or painting which resides in your minds eye.

    • @GysiedeWaal
      @GysiedeWaal Před 2 lety +3

      Music for earthworms is super rare, don't even think it's available.

  • @Rebazar
    @Rebazar Před 6 lety +78

    Mad props to the dude who hooked me up with Appleseed and Music For Earthworms in 1998, shit changed my life

    • @danfontaine8179
      @danfontaine8179 Před 4 lety +5

      Amante good shit, I've managed to turn like 3 people onto Aesop. Most people think it sounds like garbage *shrug* guess they need a catchy tune to appreciate musical art

    • @GetMoreOdder
      @GetMoreOdder Před 3 lety +3

      those who cannot stomach Aesop are not ready for Aesops' words yet.

    • @scladoffle2472
      @scladoffle2472 Před 3 lety +2

      @@danfontaine8179 You need to realise not everyone has to enjoy music in the exact same way you do. I can guarantee those people enjoy other things that you simply don't, because that's how people are. It says a lot about you that you put people down for not appreciating a musical artist you like.

    • @vinny5638
      @vinny5638 Před 3 lety +6

      @@scladoffle2472 it says he wants his peers to relate to how much interest he has in an artist? You taking this personally is pretty weird buddy, especially with this whole "it says a lot about you" shtick. He made an off handed comment about music and you're turning it into some shitty psychology class.

    • @OracleTheRonin
      @OracleTheRonin Před 3 lety +2

      @@vinny5638 true

  • @lupasatanas8458
    @lupasatanas8458 Před 5 lety +121

    this picture taken just to the left of windows background

    • @seabassgilligan9396
      @seabassgilligan9396 Před 5 lety

      You mean right?

    • @danfontaine8179
      @danfontaine8179 Před 4 lety +1

      xD it fits really well with this song

    • @seanrobinson2270
      @seanrobinson2270 Před 4 lety +1

      @@seabassgilligan9396 doesn't it depend which direction you're facing?

    • @seabassgilligan9396
      @seabassgilligan9396 Před 4 lety +1

      sean robinson thank you for bring me back to this song man!
      And nah definitely right.

    • @seanrobinson2270
      @seanrobinson2270 Před 4 lety +1

      @@seabassgilligan9396 no problem! Oh fairs lol i don't know the place but surely if you are stood on the opposite side it would be on the left?

  • @DUBskateproductions
    @DUBskateproductions Před 11 lety +18

    the best aesop song to blaze to imo

  • @mariomandujano7333
    @mariomandujano7333 Před 10 lety +69

    This beat is freaking insane !!!!

    • @ReasonExtremist
      @ReasonExtremist Před 9 lety +15

      mario mandujano pretty much the case with all aesop songs

    • @christopherjoseph9702
      @christopherjoseph9702 Před 4 lety +2

      When I first heard this song, I thought I will never make a song as good as this.

    • @Kevin-ne5yq
      @Kevin-ne5yq Před 4 lety +2

      @@christopherjoseph9702 that's my reaction to most Aes songs. Some days he inspires me, other days he makes me want to quit writing.

  • @atoasttototoro
    @atoasttototoro Před 7 lety +26

    every bit of scratching in this tune make's my heart flutter.

  • @sanholo2776
    @sanholo2776 Před 2 lety +7

    how am i still finding aesop songs i havent heard yet

    • @TheChrisPutnam
      @TheChrisPutnam Před rokem

      This is the first Aesop song I ever heard

    • @JasmineMcCue-ll3lg
      @JasmineMcCue-ll3lg Před 21 dnem

      oh buddy, ive benn in the "how am i still finding aesop songs i havent heard yet" rabbit hole for 5 years

  • @LAMEHERC1
    @LAMEHERC1 Před 5 lety +12

    production is super impressive for '97

  • @Stretchlucas
    @Stretchlucas Před 12 lety +6

    I salute my fellow earthworms.

  • @jds1980ful
    @jds1980ful Před 3 lety +4

    This song encompasses everything that is hip hop

  • @adgrMAG
    @adgrMAG Před 3 lety +21

    I forever wallow in glitches grimly distributed by side effects
    Consumed, cocooned in antisocial trenches drenched!
    Gridled between dense pillars of polar value lies
    A grey so blueless it's got eye fiendin for the sky
    Synthesized lies rise synthetic
    Sittin inside solidified plastics who's latteral burns germ compatible
    My firm's radically piloted, dodging a fire swiftly
    Yellow brick stalker walking shifty
    I am but a prototype metroid programmed to holocaust style
    While you're soakin in the stages of denial
    Your petty soldiers seem fragile like Giacometti sculptures
    Embedded in aramatic cultures. We's rock steady vultures
    Plus I's the guise of rowin a soul
    My wingspan stands flags in the snow of the poles
    Bezerk
    Swerve my alignment towards solitary confinement and jade it
    Stripping, color my passion mitigated
    Slipping
    You always seem like a small grey cat to me
    Sleepin underneath the silvery moon
    Paws curled beneath your head
    'Til the sun came round just around noon
    And you would greet me, purring in your doorway
    Drawing up your tail around my hips
    And I would go to your mouth wide open
    Waitin for my nourish to come from your lips
    And I move you
    And you like it
    Just enough
    To let me
    But I hate you
    Cause you're lonely
    And you know how
    To forget me
    For the love of my personal practice I reside
    Where obstructive fluxes and societal withdrawl collides
    Slide fuel by the fury
    Spun a ring around my honor
    But the opulence took shelter in my horror
    Melancholy masquerade
    Cast amongst the braiding of biligerence
    And blazing terror that blew the lock down off my placement
    I stay special agent till the sky falls
    Reverse the curse till my fellow lost children disperse
    And your footsteps leading down the pathway
    Never seem to be quite like my own
    Your mind is smokey circles
    It blinded me till I turned towards home
    And you would watch me far in the distance
    Hands held high above your head
    I only leave the territory where there's nothing left, to be said
    And I move you
    And you like it
    Just enough
    To let me
    But I hate you
    Cause you're lonely
    And you know how
    To forget me
    "You can come, I'll leap right over"
    I make music and connect color to canvas
    Swoop down from the trees with potpourris and other bandits
    Landed randomly upon the valleys of the grimace
    Saw my planted leaf stars burnin from the oustide in
    Meaning your clout lies thin
    Salt prep the blades prior to five phase in my ever changin underworld
    Serate a day to decorate a traitor
    That sting never fades like belly wounds from sling blades
    Follow my portion, Im gonna swallow distortion and spit the filter
    "You can come, I'll leap right over
    Any day you like
    System 605, Union 91"

  • @bigwaynebigwayne1084
    @bigwaynebigwayne1084 Před 3 lety +2

    There's so much I could say about him and this song but I'll just say, So Dope!!!

  • @MrEpic-qe2tt
    @MrEpic-qe2tt Před 7 lety +4

    Best song on the album.

  • @ryan2798
    @ryan2798 Před 10 lety +11

    AESOP RYHME KILLER THE BEST SO MUCH LOVE MAYNE

  • @MrLiquidpoet
    @MrLiquidpoet Před 3 lety +2

    Feelin it, like always.

  • @devonripley5744
    @devonripley5744 Před 10 lety +70

    Don't read the comments.

    • @doomfan12345
      @doomfan12345 Před 9 lety +4

      Lol Sometimes it's best to just watch to videos and move on (at least on YT).

  • @Paddy31775
    @Paddy31775 Před 6 měsíci

    Discovering this song and Portishead @ Roseland at the same time was a good night

  • @dirtyaznstyle
    @dirtyaznstyle Před 12 lety +1

    Brings me back to Highschool.....

  • @skilllager10
    @skilllager10 Před 9 lety +35

    LMFAO WTF THIS IS INSANE

  • @hippiejr2385
    @hippiejr2385 Před 5 lety +1

    Just amazing

  • @TRUUTAH60559
    @TRUUTAH60559 Před 5 měsíci

    God I love this song.

  • @zacarony
    @zacarony Před 3 lety +2

    “your petty soldiers stand fragile like giacometti sculptures” LMFAO. GAS.

    • @patrickdabs
      @patrickdabs Před 3 lety +1

      Such an obscure and sick reference. Aes is more cultured than bacteria in a petri dish.

  • @coolstuffin5
    @coolstuffin5 Před 4 lety

    amazing

  • @djflatline86
    @djflatline86 Před 9 lety +17

    Intro reminds me of the rugrats inro

  • @saintd_ii
    @saintd_ii Před 3 lety +10

    I've always loved how relentless his verbosity was in the first album.

    • @SunShine-hn7qk
      @SunShine-hn7qk Před 3 lety +3

      facts he was going for their friggen necks.

    • @jackstern5737
      @jackstern5737 Před 2 lety +3

      Its not like he's chilled out on the verbosity

  • @brikfilm
    @brikfilm Před 11 lety +2

    The woman singing is named Ann Colville. From what I've seen, her verses are original to this song.

  • @fofo69
    @fofo69 Před 7 lety +1

    GR8 BEAT

  • @thirdlawofmotion
    @thirdlawofmotion Před rokem +1

    Better late than never

  • @HawkBit9231
    @HawkBit9231 Před 12 lety

    perfect high music right here :P

  • @ThePiercepick
    @ThePiercepick Před 11 lety +1

    good call on the shadow on his shoulder

  • @chrisgould101
    @chrisgould101 Před 12 lety

    for some reason its one of my favorite aes rock tracks beats nice, wouldve been the firstr aesop track i heard

  • @alpacajones3932
    @alpacajones3932 Před rokem

    This song brings me back to when my ex was alive and I would take the bart train to see her and smoke weed and listen to this

  • @EsoStoicInjun
    @EsoStoicInjun Před 7 lety +3

    Look at the youth in his face. Ugh getting older.

  • @4some2joe0
    @4some2joe0 Před 11 lety

    Well said

  • @dundalkfights
    @dundalkfights Před 12 lety

    thanks was trying to figure that one out for like a week until i listened to every song on Music 4 Earthworms. it's a pain in the ass searching lyrics from that album. i do really dig how he starts wake up call with "Is you fat cats, or lab rats? Trails to my steppin' got em sweatin' flash backs."

  • @elguapoburro
    @elguapoburro Před 25 dny

    I saw a Giacometti sculpture once. It looked fragile indeed.

  • @thetrojanman87
    @thetrojanman87 Před 12 lety +1

    Aesop Rock: President 2012.

    • @TempestBob
      @TempestBob Před 4 lety

      2020, we got another shot at this

  • @aimeebeardsley
    @aimeebeardsley Před 12 lety +1

    DUDE. I love this Shit. There is a loop from the Jungle Book in this track. Aes is genius.

  • @OracleTheRonin
    @OracleTheRonin Před 10 měsíci

    sample from zero zero - mike batt, also sampled on plastic soldiers

  • @MrBiace
    @MrBiace Před 11 lety

    Well I've learned that there should be a period at the end of the sentence when I was 5-6 y. o.
    But when I was 10 I had an English class which taught me to distinguish between YOU ARE and YOUR.

  • @silmatkii
    @silmatkii Před 12 lety

    yeah whole music for the earthworms is a masterpiece. same goes for float which is my favourite rap album.

  • @lokinkuli050
    @lokinkuli050 Před 4 lety +11

    I named my second son Aesa after aesop rock! One day he'll realize what ive done. Lol

    • @doos4966
      @doos4966 Před 4 lety

      The rock would have been better

    • @Kevin-ne5yq
      @Kevin-ne5yq Před 4 lety +2

      Dude that's awesome - respect!

    • @user-dd9qq1ru7s
      @user-dd9qq1ru7s Před 4 lety +1

      Thats cool levi is a cool name also

    • @andreajustine1982
      @andreajustine1982 Před 4 lety

      I gave my son the middle name Aes after Aesop! Our kids are cooler than they even know. Haha

  • @dundalkfights
    @dundalkfights Před 11 lety

    The album it self is called Music 4 Earthworms, not sure why, but he uses the hipster shorthand.

  • @denismysenko1690
    @denismysenko1690 Před 6 lety +1

    Massive Attack vibe

  • @littlejln213
    @littlejln213 Před 6 lety

    20 years later. still a fucking ripper

  • @autumnsnead1539
    @autumnsnead1539 Před 11 lety +1

  • @soulsynthesisrecords
    @soulsynthesisrecords Před 3 lety

    Love how this beat makes no sense until the words flow

  • @silmatkii
    @silmatkii Před 12 lety +2

    "wake up call"

  • @SeattleMashUps
    @SeattleMashUps Před 11 lety +1

    word son

  • @acmbilly
    @acmbilly Před 12 lety

    WOW

  • @chess4774
    @chess4774 Před 12 lety

    @gnarlycorinne it is on Music For Earthworms.... it is not in print right now

  • @3mepleasenow
    @3mepleasenow Před 2 lety

    Akela we will do our best pest is what this reminds me of. Who dares wins.

  • @mobuslol
    @mobuslol Před 12 lety

    Shere Kahn is actually the tiger from Jungle Book one and two, and Ann Colville is singing about a cat who she's reminded of who's now cowering. In Jungle Book Shere Kahn is pretty much ruler of the jungle and is arrogant, but, at times humbled. So, something along those lines?

  • @ShadowVoodoo43
    @ShadowVoodoo43 Před 12 lety

    God damn, but is this smooth.

  • @MuirDahl
    @MuirDahl Před rokem

    i f o r e v e r w a l l o w

  • @3mepleasenow
    @3mepleasenow Před 2 lety

    Come here my honorific title. Nunc.

  • @joeybaldwin8516
    @joeybaldwin8516 Před 6 lety

    That beat is Fucking insain hip hop

  • @shyko95
    @shyko95 Před 12 lety

    Eargasm,

  • @stankdankbank
    @stankdankbank Před 5 lety

    Cold ass jungle beat

  • @johnnylove5826
    @johnnylove5826 Před 7 lety

    where is the whistle sample from? i know he uses it in other songs. i heard someone whistling it the other day.

  • @VambzBatt
    @VambzBatt Před 11 lety

    @gettopimp1762- thanks for telling me that:)

  • @BahzillaJr
    @BahzillaJr Před 11 lety

    Aesop Rock: President (till death do us part)

  • @jesterlogic6886
    @jesterlogic6886 Před 6 lety +6

    Made literally around 20 fucking years ago................

    • @WarShroud
      @WarShroud Před 6 lety +2

      And I still play it and always will.

  • @grungebobbz
    @grungebobbz Před 11 lety +2

    They used to teach that in 4th grade, but it's wrong. You can do whatever you want literary. I think I can find quite a few examples of such in famous works.

  • @fluffykittenredneck5
    @fluffykittenredneck5 Před 3 lety

    Gotta love ads on a song that ain't even yours

  • @transformersloverjon
    @transformersloverjon Před 11 lety

    2016

  • @OracleTheRonin
    @OracleTheRonin Před 2 lety

    shortest 6min+ song ever

  • @transformersloverjon
    @transformersloverjon Před 11 lety

    Shit, man, I like 40% asleep when I'm on the internet(or anywhere else)

  • @adamaultman3651
    @adamaultman3651 Před 3 lety

    Awesome song to trip lsd too..lol

  • @allthegoodonesarealreadytaken

    Skip the almost part and you're over 100% right about the 3rd. ,)

  • @capernoitedquidnunc8392
    @capernoitedquidnunc8392 Před 11 lety

    what song is the girls voice sampled from?

  • @MinoTauren
    @MinoTauren Před 11 lety +2

    His painting degree will really help out in this field

  • @thehindmost88
    @thehindmost88 Před 11 lety

    Hy visionarie, at least they aren't forcing us to use real names. Ad I still can't find myself using google. I think they're managing privacy pretty well.

  • @chrisgould101
    @chrisgould101 Před 12 lety

    is there a sample from a video game 'goblins' from the 90's i just clicked... maybe

  • @rh3428
    @rh3428 Před 7 lety

    Misanthropes Unite!

  • @esappatryerson
    @esappatryerson Před 11 lety

    Shere Kahn means "King Tiger" in Hindi. Rudyard Kipling is cool.

  • @transformersloverjon
    @transformersloverjon Před 11 lety

    "Special again till the Skyfall?"

  • @christufts6787
    @christufts6787 Před 2 lety

    Anyone know who produced this?

  • @Bonjour612
    @Bonjour612 Před 11 lety +1

    whats the chorus sample from

    • @lawfulremedies1838
      @lawfulremedies1838 Před 2 lety

      Mike Batt. A weird fucking Rock Opera type thing in the eighties that nobody could digest at the time. Blew my mind when I heard it.

  • @MrCivicGuy
    @MrCivicGuy Před 12 lety +3

    Aesop is losing his mind cause of assholes that can't understand his music. this man is a musical genius. DON"T
    LOSE YOU'R MIND PLZ I LOVE U!

    • @modusengineering6065
      @modusengineering6065 Před 4 měsíci

      "Party over here. I'll be over there."
      +
      "Old pros throw bows to the 808s. You couldn't throw a rope over a baby gate!"
      ...that line shows how the rest of the game remains generations behind his isolated development and eventual flight away from what is /now/ considered "hip-hop".
      When they say it's a movement, you take, add, contribute and make it move, he did. Hip-hop still alive orbiting silently away from the mainstream in subtle but intense forms like Aesop carries.
      Fellow artists or even fans catch up slowly like "how'd I miss this!??" And it's already too late. He's smoking a cigarette and got a grey beard like "yeah, ok" but when people do catch onto his wavelength it's mastery. C-ray Walz, Rob sonic, Slug, etc. You feel like you're really /witnessing/ something transcend into our world. And leave again in a dazed "what did they just say?" Disbelief.

  • @Jordyjg
    @Jordyjg Před 12 lety

    wouldint that be something?

  • @MrEpic-qe2tt
    @MrEpic-qe2tt Před 5 lety +1

    Am I the only one who sees the dog on Aes's shoulder?

  • @transformersloverjon
    @transformersloverjon Před 11 lety +1

    So, it's probably time to correct myself

  • @stonedquality
    @stonedquality Před 11 lety

    EzDig brought me here

  • @Jughand
    @Jughand Před 9 lety

    47 52 flow from the computer

  • @maggot840
    @maggot840 Před 4 lety

    Y’all ever tripped and listened to his shit????

  • @mazinais31
    @mazinais31 Před 12 lety

    @thetrojanman87 hmm... those would be some interesting presidential speeches

  • @MrZombeezie
    @MrZombeezie Před 9 lety +1

    What album is this off of?

  • @VambzBatt
    @VambzBatt Před 11 lety

    you know whats funny. Princess Jasmine has a tiger and her name is Rajah.

  • @rahlinrigsby
    @rahlinrigsby Před 8 lety

    yellow brick stalker walkin shifty

  • @whys0srs
    @whys0srs Před 6 lety

    1

  • @maxman8345
    @maxman8345 Před 4 lety

    Proceed with caution this song is known to cause respiratory problems & heart palpitations

  • @Sneezac
    @Sneezac Před 8 lety +3

    Someone knows the meaning of the mispelled khan ? Knowing Aes it means something, but what...

    • @revedombre96ditchweed94
      @revedombre96ditchweed94 Před 8 lety +1

      not everone knows how khan is spelt

    • @Sneezac
      @Sneezac Před 8 lety +2

      I've seen this orthograph on many websites. Don't think this is an error

    • @revedombre96ditchweed94
      @revedombre96ditchweed94 Před 8 lety +1

      +Sneezac i wouldnt weigh on it too heavily... from language to language, from time to time spelling becomes more artful... maybe that was the idea...

    • @Sneezac
      @Sneezac Před 8 lety

      Maybe yes... By the way this is one of my favorites

    • @rickyspanish2720
      @rickyspanish2720 Před 7 lety +2

      In the description I believe its spelled right but idk

  • @andresramirez7224
    @andresramirez7224 Před 9 lety +1

    Very good hip hop ! Burn the imposter

  • @p3ngi3
    @p3ngi3 Před 2 měsíci

    This track was not made by Aesop rock. It was made by the controls. You should change your label for legal purposes

  • @youtubenoob
    @youtubenoob Před 12 lety

    hahaha, werd, you got me. now, tell me in what way does capitalization change the context of any sentence? this may go way over your head...

  • @spaarks84
    @spaarks84 Před 9 lety

    dundalkfights "does anyone know which song has the line "senoritas suck the woodie like termites, then wonder why they get labeled dick hungry damsels in distress"? i am pretty sure it is off "Music 4 Earthworms""
    It is part of some group freestyle on KQRX or something like that that appeared on the same album with "Night Train". He singes a verse of "Shere Kahn" in the session and he singes the bit you referred too. I have never heard that part in any official song, but it looks like he went on to make a full fledged version of "Shere Kahn". He might have made "Shere Kahn" first, but I heard the radio freestyle version a year or so before I heard the album version of "Shere Kahn".
    That being said, your snippet inspired me to finish as much as I could from memory:
    "We all new and improved, poetically portable. Aesop Rock available in stores with my, highly suggestive parental discretion, in 99 brilliant new dimensions..bust it"

    • @QuervoJones
      @QuervoJones Před 9 lety

      It's off"wake up call". And I think dude already figured that out

  • @TFCrysis1
    @TFCrysis1 Před 12 lety

    No* There* Guy*

  • @ergman3
    @ergman3 Před 9 lety

    I think this might be *the* hardest to understand aesop song.

    • @ShutUpCleanYourMonitor
      @ShutUpCleanYourMonitor Před 6 lety

      Checkout a website called Genius

    • @jonah5329
      @jonah5329 Před 5 lety

      nah check out "a mayor and a crook" i dont know if thats the right name but its easy to find

    • @user-vy8op6rr8r
      @user-vy8op6rr8r Před 2 lety

      Read in between his lines. Themes of love and polar values.

  • @TFCrysis1
    @TFCrysis1 Před 12 lety

    You're*