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AESOP ROCK
For a guy who didn’t expect a fan base whatsoever, I’m pretty stoked. People say they don’t understand it, and I say that’s okay.
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Honestly, I don’t feel pressure to live up to anything I’ve done because I tend to not listen to my work once a year passes.
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We the American working population Hate the nine-to-five, day-in day-out When we’d rather be supporting ourselves By being paid to perfect the pastimes That we have harbored based solely on the fact That it makes us smile if it sounds dope.
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…I’ve never had a dream in my life, Because a dream is what you wanna do, but still haven’t pursued.
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There’s smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids
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The older I get, the less I care about what’s cool. I realize I’m old and weird.
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I think it gets to musicians’ heads a lot of the time. Just because people like your records doesn’t mean what you have to say is going to be interesting.
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The alleycats manipulate the blocks with gutter magic
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People are very adamant about maintaining a certain sound or a certain era, like, “There were three years of rap that were great, so let’s just keep doing that.” The genre itself is just stuck in place. It’s been treading water for a while.
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I don’t think that there’s a problem with being too concerned about videogames, especially for me, because I’m not in the industry. I’m just a consumer. But hip-hop is constantly like, “What are you doing for the scene?”
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In a time where everything’s a flavor of the month, and it’s hard to have any sort of longevity,
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I dance is the one that linked the cities of prosperity and chance.
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Too bad your inner sheep never forgets to follow.
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You can’t get someone to like something they aren’t feeling. After you press play, there isn’t anything you can do.
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Now we the American working population Hate the fact that eight hours a day Is wasted on chasing the dream of someone that isn’t us And we may not hate our jobs But we hate jobs in general That don’t have to do with fighting our own causes.
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I don’t think anyone can argue that I’m not trying to do my own thing at least.
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