[Illogic:] We the peak of bipedal civilization Zombie style, steppin' through life in single-file formation I see no foul, defacing the monument you all worship On a quest to fall before you learn to crawl, immersed in inertia [Aesop Rock:] Okay, it goes novocaine skin, same skeleton within I tip my swine pass to the zookeeper, then sneak my teacher in Rusty angel with a DayGlo halo, predicate burner With a car fueled with pediment, silkworm resident [Illogic:] My soul can bask in the rays of freedom reflecting from a seismic sphere I'm lying here, very alive in speech, elated to be deceased Immersed in words that reach the highest degree Just now realizing that I'm an emcee [Aesop Rock:] I'm a corroded miner with a shovel and a pick This tunnel stripped of all basic congeniality, muddy pig leg kickin' Lickin' my chops for the fast-laners who never stopped in the kitchen With an overall hate for the plate of coals, my fellows dig in [Illogic:] Now I think ink has to be the savior of my sanity [Aesop Rock:] The link wasn't supposed to be missing, hence the calamity [Illogic:] Webs of calculated deception lures words to demise [Aesop Rock:] So pocket your little sob stories and hand out goodbyes [Illogic:] Concrete passages float loosely in gravity defiance Until moving at the speed of light twice removed Non-aging soothed the savage feast of no-brainers It's rhyme water in the form of Asian combat rhyme slaughter return Retainer of mind, manipulative matrix talk Life is a gift, and it makes its twist the politically correct Intersect clefts of limericks, open doors to mimics And allow the timid of herd in the rich Shift to Warp 7, after I left heaven on a bed of eleven clouds As the seventh son, am I never free to run realistically? Simplistically dance on tables and be that imbecile that will never really be an artist Or in this case impersonate one You win some and you take some, attempt to recreate some And some recreate you, if you allow them Stepping in a place is to create yourself Encase yourself in upper-shelf and never be heard It's your choice if you want to be a waste of words You want another serving? I know you can taste the words Are they filling your tummy? Mumbling wafted cadences over indigo loops with scarlet drums and a caramel bassline They're unable to reprogram, that's why I hate mine Thinking on two feet, next to the fire hydrant Where puppies greet you with urine samples With ample conformity in your system, you walk with urine-soaked slacks Soaking in sensationalism, hatin' your wisdom I see you're not amusing or amused as you're abused by the mic I hold in your other right, my left appendage You're being abused by this mic that I hold in my other right (my other right), your left appendage [Aesop Rock:] There's a knot inside my gut that's growing faster by the day So pardon my not showing up to your Saturday matinee [Illogic:] Now dive into the fishing hole, and retrieve the souls lost Dangling from the hook and line, while I spill wine to kill time [Aesop Rock:] Nah, I'mma sit right here, and I'mma skip these stones Until they realize that money couldn't buy a backbone [Illogic:] Please iron out the creases before blankets of thoughts are shown Covering the hovering mass of wilted poems [Aesop Rock:] Wanna buy a lung? It's not broken, it just needs coaxing Comes with a free five-minute warranty and tar coating When fortune tellers turn Old Yeller, these propellers sputter through space And dispatch they last smoke cloud in the name of good faith These eyelids flitter for the love of little Hitler hybrid littering pleasant arena [I pitchforks for the wiring and his heartaches mire dead man?] Drew a triplicate-six day trip faded prior to time Allowing the devil escape fabrication [Illogic:] Drilling through its shell right now [Aesop Rock:] I'll be there when it hatches Catching z's on a mattress of matchsticks, ashes to ashes Both confirm the high noon oil for life Stuck my gutterbug intentions to the engine that repelled your candlelight (cinema classics) Cinema classics, caught a man beat for living I strike backwards with an iron fist driven through the skull of [malice?] siblings Line 'em up like laminated rookie cards While famine ate your fortune cookie shards Ok, ready on the left? (I'm ready) God, please, I was born sloppy on an origami tugboat in high seas Now I spend simmering summers dragging bigger boats on home To dock and soak in spotlit evenings, while I sweat and watch Thieves, bandits, biters, and scum luring their sheep with a dead God A broken promise in abundance I am not a product of the blizzard, I don't sweat semiotics, baby Half as much as I admire a clear "yes", "no", or "maybe" So, um, here's the good 'ol gold-plated wingspan Spread incredible or dead your pinnacle Wipe your sweaty eyes, sigh, ease back Television, pen, pad, dime weedsack, breathe, nap, then repeat [Illogic:] Never before have you seen two hybrids dismantle silence Palms handle violence, dilating the candle virus [Aesop Rock:] Yeah, mummify the high, and they can teach mortals to float And I'mma show you how Beelzebub and Serenity elope [Illogic:] We're shedding light on the otherwise dreary tomorrow Leaving breadcrumbs in the streets for the cannibals to follow [Aesop Rock:] We weed a garden of stardom with ten dirty nails and a bucket Waiting for the makeshift broken wing and dark angels to plummet Credit: ILLOGIC feat. AESOP ROCK - Killing Time
really good lyrics, couple corrections: [i soak] and bask in the rays of freedom overall hate for the plated coals my [bellows] dig in palms handle violence dilating the [candle's iris] waiting for the makeshift broken-[winged] (pronounced 2 syllables) dark angels to plummet
Lovely wordplay yourself, Dub me thee aborted day - the poorest Shelf|Illadelph in alumni, animus deaf yet Deft when I delve unto Aesop's self Whelp, I've become a whisp whispered about differed routes to sanity I mean calamity, semi's sheen|Sensi dream, Sensei my casualty casually Leans
Hes better with lyrics than eminem and honestly some of his beats have been better too. Problem is the lyrics are very complex so it's not gonna be as popular cuz peoople 100 IQ its gonna sound like gibberish
I can see how Aes Rock and Illogic together could be Waaay too much for a lot of people. As a guy who grew up coming to music specifically for the lyrics this is the content that gets my head nodding, my mouth shut and my ears attempting to wrench themselves open wider than a great white who learned from a boa how to unhinge the jaw so he could swallow a blue whale. Some folks want their brain off and the lyrics to hit them slowly and only after so many listens that the words turned to gibberish and back. I wanna rush through that process on every listen. Ian and Jawar hit like Dali and Huxley arguing in a fever dream Aristotle had the night Socrates drank the hemlock.
Illogic and Aesop should do an album together. Race is irrelevant, but I really do see Illogic as the black Aesop, and Aesop and the white illogic. Their lyrics are both very deep and cryptic, their styles go perfectly together. Would be a dream come true.
1) He was talking about a collection of the best tracks from those 5 artist on one album, not those 5 artist on one track, so Rhymesayers didnt do anything close to what he was suggesting . 2) The song obsolete is by The Orphanage which was a loose collective that included Slug, Blueprint, Aesop Rock, Eyedea and Illogic. The group never officially released any projects but obsolete appeared on Blueprint’s 2003 release, The Weightroom.
We're shedding light on the otherwise dreary tomorrow Leaving breadcrumbs in the streets for the cannibals to follow We weed a garden of stardom with ten dirty nails and a bucket Waiting for the makeshift broken wing and dark angels to plummet
It's on one of Illogic's albums, which are next to impossible to find online. Your best bet is to order it, either from your local record shop, or from some site. The album is probably worth the buy. I'd get it, but I'm more broke than Zimbabwe.
Now i think ink has to be the savoir of my sanity(Illogic) The link wasn't supposed to be missing hence the calamity (Aesop Rock) I'm gonna sit right here and skip these stones Until they realize money couldn't buy a back bone. (Aesop Rock) I'm not a product of the blizzard, I don't sweat semiotics baby, Half as much as i admire a clear yes no or maybe. (Aesop Rock)
When are we getting a remastered version? I'm buying y first car soon and I'll be damned if I leave the dealership without this my grand exit anthem...
I'm Killing Time listen to these two masters kill time, while at the same time killing dictionaries too slow, and these guys kill my mind. I'm killing the like button.
La mejor canción me recuerda a cuándo estuve en lo más profundo de mi vida, dónde no podía bajar más sentía demasiada desesperanza y no tenía ningúna ilusión, ahora tengo mucha incertidumbre pero estoy mucho mejor
I feel like Rhymesayers should take all the most profound, insightful tracks from Eyedea, Slug, Aesop Rock, Illogic, Blueprint, etc, put them in one big collaboration and call it "How to Be a Wiser Man".
@GoldLegend Or "Capture the sun inside a riddler's shadow just to simplify the glow." Solving a problem with a desperate action only to create a bigger problem.
Yeah, you're right. Artists that pass away never continue to release material. Unrelated: Who was that really famous rapper that got shot in Vegas again, can someone else refresh my memory?
That picture creeps me out haha, especially with aesops voice and that beat. But I love this song so much, illogic is the greatest I've ever heard, just so abstract and literate, I love his delivery, so calm, so smooth, its chilling. Aesop is amazing too of course :) but I find that illogic makes it a little easier to truly decode his lyrics, and he keeps it straightforward and orderly, while aesops lyrics are much more up for interpretation, which is a testament to his mastery of the language
60 seconds = 60 seconds, no matter what activity one engages in or what drug one consumes. When you say "not many people in this world truly understand it", I think you are a part of that group.
[Illogic:]
We the peak of bipedal civilization
Zombie style, steppin' through life in single-file formation
I see no foul, defacing the monument you all worship
On a quest to fall before you learn to crawl, immersed in inertia
[Aesop Rock:]
Okay, it goes novocaine skin, same skeleton within
I tip my swine pass to the zookeeper, then sneak my teacher in
Rusty angel with a DayGlo halo, predicate burner
With a car fueled with pediment, silkworm resident
[Illogic:]
My soul can bask in the rays of freedom reflecting from a seismic sphere
I'm lying here, very alive in speech, elated to be deceased
Immersed in words that reach the highest degree
Just now realizing that I'm an emcee
[Aesop Rock:]
I'm a corroded miner with a shovel and a pick
This tunnel stripped of all basic congeniality, muddy pig leg kickin'
Lickin' my chops for the fast-laners who never stopped in the kitchen
With an overall hate for the plate of coals, my fellows dig in
[Illogic:]
Now I think ink has to be the savior of my sanity
[Aesop Rock:]
The link wasn't supposed to be missing, hence the calamity
[Illogic:]
Webs of calculated deception lures words to demise
[Aesop Rock:]
So pocket your little sob stories and hand out goodbyes
[Illogic:]
Concrete passages float loosely in gravity defiance
Until moving at the speed of light twice removed
Non-aging soothed the savage feast of no-brainers
It's rhyme water in the form of Asian combat rhyme slaughter return
Retainer of mind, manipulative matrix talk
Life is a gift, and it makes its twist the politically correct
Intersect clefts of limericks, open doors to mimics
And allow the timid of herd in the rich
Shift to Warp 7, after I left heaven on a bed of eleven clouds
As the seventh son, am I never free to run realistically?
Simplistically dance on tables and be that imbecile that will never really be an artist
Or in this case impersonate one
You win some and you take some, attempt to recreate some
And some recreate you, if you allow them
Stepping in a place is to create yourself
Encase yourself in upper-shelf and never be heard
It's your choice if you want to be a waste of words
You want another serving? I know you can taste the words
Are they filling your tummy?
Mumbling wafted cadences over indigo loops with scarlet drums and a caramel bassline
They're unable to reprogram, that's why I hate mine
Thinking on two feet, next to the fire hydrant
Where puppies greet you with urine samples
With ample conformity in your system, you walk with urine-soaked slacks
Soaking in sensationalism, hatin' your wisdom
I see you're not amusing or amused as you're abused by the mic I hold in your other right, my left appendage
You're being abused by this mic that I hold in my other right (my other right), your left appendage
[Aesop Rock:]
There's a knot inside my gut that's growing faster by the day
So pardon my not showing up to your Saturday matinee
[Illogic:]
Now dive into the fishing hole, and retrieve the souls lost
Dangling from the hook and line, while I spill wine to kill time
[Aesop Rock:]
Nah, I'mma sit right here, and I'mma skip these stones
Until they realize that money couldn't buy a backbone
[Illogic:]
Please iron out the creases before blankets of thoughts are shown
Covering the hovering mass of wilted poems
[Aesop Rock:]
Wanna buy a lung? It's not broken, it just needs coaxing
Comes with a free five-minute warranty and tar coating
When fortune tellers turn Old Yeller, these propellers sputter through space
And dispatch they last smoke cloud in the name of good faith
These eyelids flitter for the love of little Hitler hybrid littering pleasant arena
[I pitchforks for the wiring and his heartaches mire dead man?]
Drew a triplicate-six day trip faded prior to time
Allowing the devil escape fabrication
[Illogic:]
Drilling through its shell right now
[Aesop Rock:]
I'll be there when it hatches
Catching z's on a mattress of matchsticks, ashes to ashes
Both confirm the high noon oil for life
Stuck my gutterbug intentions to the engine that repelled your candlelight (cinema classics)
Cinema classics, caught a man beat for living
I strike backwards with an iron fist driven through the skull of [malice?] siblings
Line 'em up like laminated rookie cards
While famine ate your fortune cookie shards
Ok, ready on the left? (I'm ready)
God, please, I was born sloppy on an origami tugboat in high seas
Now I spend simmering summers dragging bigger boats on home
To dock and soak in spotlit evenings, while I sweat and watch
Thieves, bandits, biters, and scum luring their sheep with a dead God
A broken promise in abundance
I am not a product of the blizzard, I don't sweat semiotics, baby
Half as much as I admire a clear "yes", "no", or "maybe"
So, um, here's the good 'ol gold-plated wingspan
Spread incredible or dead your pinnacle
Wipe your sweaty eyes, sigh, ease back
Television, pen, pad, dime weedsack, breathe, nap, then repeat
[Illogic:]
Never before have you seen two hybrids dismantle silence
Palms handle violence, dilating the candle virus
[Aesop Rock:]
Yeah, mummify the high, and they can teach mortals to float
And I'mma show you how Beelzebub and Serenity elope
[Illogic:]
We're shedding light on the otherwise dreary tomorrow
Leaving breadcrumbs in the streets for the cannibals to follow
[Aesop Rock:]
We weed a garden of stardom with ten dirty nails and a bucket
Waiting for the makeshift broken wing and dark angels to plummet
Credit: ILLOGIC feat. AESOP ROCK - Killing Time
really good lyrics, couple corrections:
[i soak] and bask in the rays of freedom
overall hate for the plated coals my [bellows] dig in
palms handle violence dilating the [candle's iris]
waiting for the makeshift broken-[winged] (pronounced 2 syllables) dark angels to plummet
Thanks for writing this out 🙏
Aesop rock has more wordplay than you could ever imagine or fathom, lonely phantoms buried in the grounds of lyrical mansions...
Woah..nice rhymes
Lovely wordplay yourself,
Dub me thee aborted day - the poorest
Shelf|Illadelph in alumni, animus deaf yet
Deft when I delve unto Aesop's self
Whelp, I've become a whisp whispered about differed routes to sanity
I mean calamity, semi's sheen|Sensi dream, Sensei my casualty casually
Leans
Illogic is more cryptic than Aesop.
Hes better with lyrics than eminem and honestly some of his beats have been better too. Problem is the lyrics are very complex so it's not gonna be as popular cuz peoople 100 IQ its gonna sound like gibberish
@@ethosterros9430some folks listen to music so they don't have to think
I listen to this on Sundays instead of going to church. These two rappers turn a verse into a spiritual experience.
I can see how Aes Rock and Illogic together could be Waaay too much for a lot of people. As a guy who grew up coming to music specifically for the lyrics this is the content that gets my head nodding, my mouth shut and my ears attempting to wrench themselves open wider than a great white who learned from a boa how to unhinge the jaw so he could swallow a blue whale.
Some folks want their brain off and the lyrics to hit them slowly and only after so many listens that the words turned to gibberish and back. I wanna rush through that process on every listen. Ian and Jawar hit like Dali and Huxley arguing in a fever dream Aristotle had the night Socrates drank the hemlock.
whoever disliked this doesn't know what good rap is
3.4 up, 56 down. Good numbers, only 56 we need to teach.
"Imma sit right here and skip these stones until they realise that money couldnt buy a back bone" - Aesop Rock
Illogic and Aesop should do an album together. Race is irrelevant, but I really do see Illogic as the black Aesop, and Aesop and the white illogic. Their lyrics are both very deep and cryptic, their styles go perfectly together. Would be a dream come true.
Qwel is also very similar to these two, especially aesop. Listen to vincent van gogh coke ad.
nicnotnick Thanks for the recommendation! Loving it!
WakeWorkRepeat glad to hear it (:
you are absolutely correct and i agree 100%
One brick was dope
Everything about this song is godly. The beat is amazing.
So many bars go over my head, hear something new every time, these two are 🔥🔥🔥
1) He was talking about a collection of the best tracks from those 5 artist on one album, not those 5 artist on one track, so Rhymesayers didnt do anything close to what he was suggesting . 2) The song obsolete is by The Orphanage which was a loose collective that included Slug, Blueprint, Aesop Rock, Eyedea and Illogic. The group never officially released any projects but obsolete appeared on Blueprint’s 2003 release, The Weightroom.
Potentially my favorite song of all time directly behind everything by the orphanage...
Agreed!!
Illogic and Aesop, two of the best wordsmiths out there, hell yeah
mhm, when you hear good music- your mind takes off, you connect with that gnosis.
what a dope ass track.
Illogic the only emcee that can touch Aesop poetically
revisiting this joint . used to bump this joint heavy in high school!
heck yeah aes was in my hs jam so hard
This carried me through the perilous era of highschool
BBC gé niality.... Th0 0 saviors
Real Hiphop is not dead... Its buried deep underground.
Two of the most intelligent poets of our time. Super creative wordsmiths. Impressive vocab.
90% of people who dislike Aesop/Illogic music do so out of pure confusion. The other 10% just don't care for their voice.
100% can't be my friend
this song still slaps
We're shedding light on the otherwise dreary tomorrow
Leaving breadcrumbs in the streets for the cannibals to follow
We weed a garden of stardom with ten dirty nails and a bucket
Waiting for the makeshift broken wing and dark angels to plummet
Aesop is on of the best MC i ever heard
I hope that you've discovered his work since this comment. Aes is the greatest rapper and lyricist, no contest.
Underrated Artist + Underrated Artist = Great Collab(s)
THIS SONG IS AMAZING
It's on one of Illogic's albums, which are next to impossible to find online. Your best bet is to order it, either from your local record shop, or from some site. The album is probably worth the buy. I'd get it, but I'm more broke than Zimbabwe.
ugh illogic was featured on aesops labor days album and i cant believe it took me this long to look him up. This is fucking dope
Aesop Rock, Illogic and Blockhead. Wow.
Simply wicked !
Dope shit🔥🔥🔥
I could listen to Aesop rap for days no homo
exactly, hip hop was considered dead, but when you go underground you find it's not.
im describing My individual perceptions of time. the idea of time is mos def real but not many people in this world truly understand it.
i forgot about this track. i love rediscovering music. good shit.
I meditate to the harmonics of this song. Genius
Classic ❤️🔥💯
I fell asleep with this song on repeat and when i woke up i knew everything about everything...YES even that...
These 2 work great together
Aesops verse @ 2:58 is simply awesome.
This is an excellent song.
holy beans ,u are a god damn genuis.
This is how hip hop is !!!!
Now i think ink has to be the savoir of my sanity(Illogic)
The link wasn't supposed to be missing hence the calamity (Aesop Rock)
I'm gonna sit right here and skip these stones
Until they realize money couldn't buy a back bone. (Aesop Rock)
I'm not a product of the blizzard, I don't sweat semiotics baby,
Half as much as i admire a clear yes no or maybe. (Aesop Rock)
He's a excellent artist as well, mos def.
When are we getting a remastered version? I'm buying y first car soon and I'll be damned if I leave the dealership without this my grand exit anthem...
i aint heard this in years,this hella old!
this beat is like "sweet dreams" beat slowed and remixed, awesome sick !!
Really good
man aesop just drops GOLD on every track
space age shit
been listening to alabama shakes gotta get my feet back on earth and pavement...
I'm Killing Time listen to these two masters kill time, while at the same time killing dictionaries too slow, and these guys kill my mind.
I'm killing the like button.
P yo I just drove into the fishing pole apparently I need to pay the f*** attention I love this thank you
La mejor canción me recuerda a cuándo estuve en lo más profundo de mi vida, dónde no podía bajar más sentía demasiada desesperanza y no tenía ningúna ilusión, ahora tengo mucha incertidumbre pero estoy mucho mejor
i hope the people who disliked this will someday discover true hip hop
damn this is dope
k big boy, good job.
Great track and sick MCs. BTW, got the same sample as "esclave 2000" by Assassin.
Came here from One Brick Peace to my brothers on this track so sick
sneakerheadforlife You have really good taste in music.
the music as good as the lyrics
2020 still sidestepping through life
@charliebrown293 labor, daylight, no jumper cables, and take me to the basement are in my top 5 definitely
Word!
real music great song
aesop and mf doom!!! that would be the sickest collab possible, no one could touch or compare
Aesops the first man!
Novacaine skin, same skeleton within. I tip my swamp hat to the zookeeper then sneak my teacher in.
Sooo epic.
doom and aesop are the last authentic indie rap artists a.k.a. the two best
one of the best ever to do it. Up there with Qwel,Rakim and other underground legends.
Beat is lit
I feel like Rhymesayers should take all the most profound, insightful tracks from Eyedea, Slug, Aesop Rock, Illogic, Blueprint, etc, put them in one big collaboration and call it "How to Be a Wiser Man".
Damn that song underrated
ILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
I would love to see someone try and animate this song according to the imagery. THAT, would be a task for the ambitious.
this one is dope
my god this mans a god
Dude Imagine.....Aesop Rock,illogic and Dose one On A Track O.O...........
I'm going with Illogic and Aesop. Those guys are on another planet mentally. Slug and Murs are dope, though.
YOOOO CHRIST G! SOULF-SOULFI-SOULFIST-SOUL-SOULF
We the peak of bipedal civilization. 🤸♂️
hiphop is buried alive
its underground and still alive
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
a couple Frozen likes of Dope for you today Sir for the Time chamber, of course iv Paid already
Discovered this song in 2020 tell my story
@GoldLegend Or "Capture the sun inside a riddler's shadow just to simplify the glow." Solving a problem with a desperate action only to create a bigger problem.
We're shedding light on an otherwise dreary tomorrow, leaving breadcrumbs in the streets for the cannibals to follow
Yeah, you're right. Artists that pass away never continue to release material. Unrelated: Who was that really famous rapper that got shot in Vegas again, can someone else refresh my memory?
i need this instrumental! Perfect
Ty
Yes
in my opinion this kid is bringing this style back in depth
look up him EzDig
New School can't handle the truth
Good call
And it's brilliant, so too's the song. I knew it'd be great from the beginning, when Illogic laid out the cast.
Killin’ time like Pennywise in a rehab/jail center.
dope shit !
Oh, what i would do for this instrumental... the nun's that i would beat..
Same . That sample
The nuns id fuck...
@@TheGameLix czcams.com/video/NCa8TBrAT4o/video.html
That picture creeps me out haha, especially with aesops voice and that beat. But I love this song so much, illogic is the greatest I've ever heard, just so abstract and literate, I love his delivery, so calm, so smooth, its chilling. Aesop is amazing too of course :) but I find that illogic makes it a little easier to truly decode his lyrics, and he keeps it straightforward and orderly, while aesops lyrics are much more up for interpretation, which is a testament to his mastery of the language
HAHDORGEKDB!!! THIS IS AMAZING
Where does this picture come from? I love it so.
60 seconds = 60 seconds, no matter what activity one engages in or what drug one consumes. When you say "not many people in this world truly understand it", I think you are a part of that group.
They should do a full album. They gel better than anyone else they work with.