Post 5

We were talking about Lyrical Essays and things like that in class the other day and I brought up Aesop Rock. When I was reading about a Lyrical Essay it reminded me a lot of Aes's writing style. Aesop Rock is really hard to get into and even sometimes I can't listen to him because his stuff is so complex and doesn’t flow like anything anyone else has heard. Sometimes all you really want to do is just sit back and relax and listen to something easy.  Something that you don’t need to look at every little word to understand what he is trying to rap about.  I feel that is how Lyrical Essays are too.  Sometimes it is just nicer to sit back with something that is easy to read and just enjoy yourself so if you are looking for something like that you wouldn’t want to read a piece that is written like a Lyrical Essay.  I can completely understand why people don’t like this style.  I know it took me forever to get into Aesop Rock but after you get used to it and you understand what is going on it becomes fun.  I’ve never tried to write in this style and I’m not sure I would want to.  It seems like such a difficult style to write that I just don’t think it would be any fun.  The Brown Study was one of those pieces though that you would have to read 2 or 3 times I feel to really understand what he is trying to get through too.  I know if anyone else was like me they would have read it once and gave up.  But if we would have read it 2 or 3 times maybe then it would have gotten through a little better and more people would have enjoyed it.  I have to do the same exact thing when I listen to Aesop Rock.  Another technique that Aes uses that a writer can’t use is Aes creates big beats with a big sound to catch a listener’s attention.  If he can catch the attention of a listener with the sound, then they will keep listening to it and go through and figure out what he is saying though his words.  And like I said before Aesop Rock is one of those artists that is fun to listen to every once in a while and I think if most people got more used to the idea of a Lyrical Essay, they too would enjoy reading them more every once in a while.

Here is an example of an Aesop Rock song.  The song is called Daylight.  It is one of Aes's bigger songs that he has come out with.  And when I say bigger I mean it is a song that is more popluar then a lot of his others.  An example of some good lines that Aesop spits comes around the middleish of the song when he says " Life's not a bitch! Life is a beautiful woman, You only call her a bitch because she won't let you get that pussy, Maybe she didn't feel y'all shared any similar interests, Or maybe you're just an asshole who couldn't sweet talk the princess." To me, that is a cool way of putting it becuase I know the new thing with mainstream artists right now, well at least it seems like every rapper comes up with their own version, is calling life a bitch and then coming up with some sort of funny or cocky statement to say about it.  I think Aesop Rock put's this in a very cool, interesting, different way.