Aesop Rock Quotes

Everyone’s been on the “hip-hop is dead” campaign for years, and now it’s the most unsure-of-itself genre ever.

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Year, Hip Hop, Campaign, Dead, Everyone, More, Unsure, Itself
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Batter Callousness Child Exploitation Sickness
I started freestyling with friends about eight or nine years ago. I started writing also around the same time, but didn’t meet blockhead until about ’94. I started making beats not until about ’96.

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Writing, Eight, Year, Started, Freestyling, Friend, Eight, Nine, Ago
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Batter Callousness Child Exploitation Sickness
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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Rap, Year, People, Maintaining, Certain, Sound, Era, Like
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Batter Callousness Child Exploitation Sickness
The alleycats manipulate the blocks with gutter magic

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Block, Magic, Gutter, Alleycat, Manipulate
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Batter Callousness Child Exploitation Sickness
If I had interesting things to say, I would have been a speechwriter.

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Mean, Thinking, Interesting, Speechwriter
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Batter Callousness Child Exploitation Sickness
I’ve been able to sell records still. I want to be the guy that stands out there and says thank you personally to everyone. And I try after my shows and kick it because I want to genuinely say thanks.

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Show, Kick, Genuinely, Say, Personality, Thank, Stand, Record, Thanking
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Batter Callousness Child Exploitation Sickness
The only bridge I’ve ever burned along this legacy

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Bridge, Cities, Legacy, Burned, Along, Ever
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Batter Callousness Child Exploitation Sickness
I’ve been able to tour because of my music and I’ve learned a lot about myself while on the road. I think some of the imagery of my writing are snapshots of where I’ve been and my feelings about the world.

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Writing, Thinking, Feeling, Tour, Music, Learned, Myself, Road
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Batter Callousness Child Exploitation Sickness
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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Interesting, Doing, Record, People, Musician, Time, Head, Fan, Base
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Batter Callousness Child Exploitation Sickness
God helps those who have no-cut contracts.

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Cutting, Helping, Contract, Help, God, Cut
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Batter Callousness Child Exploitation Sickness

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