Word: aesopã
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...Aesop??s gravel-voiced verses abound with extended metaphors, complex rhyme schemes, and passages that just plain don’t make sense, leading critic after critic to bring “the poetry question” forward in discussion of his artistic output...
...ain’t shit.’” Battle raps and posse tracks often serve to pad out “albums” lacking any unified theme, even in the “underground” scene in which he operates. An inextricable part of Aesop??s appeal is the relative lack of such pseudo-macho posturing in his work; in his own words, he doesn’t want to spend his “15 minutes of fame shitting on someone...
...Aesop??s seemingly facile dodging of the “But is it poetry?” question strikes at the arbitrary nature of this balkanization of artistic expression, an othering which manifests itself across many cultural boundaries. In an example of Aesop??s, a punk kid in D.C. and a weekend free-styler in the Bronx both lack “money, [and] don’t have a singing voice...
...this point, it seems as though conscious appeals to the academic merit of his work aren’t even needed. Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory Jorie Graham was so inspired by Aesop??s lyrics that she assigned one of her poetry classes to bring in samples of rap lyrics for analysis...
...Float,” before any mention of media theory or tumbling measure, was a simple and immutably subjective judgment: “I like it.” As the academy warms up to the rigorous analysis of hip-hop, it is finally beginning to appreciate Aesop??s dedication to “spittin’ the illest shit,” whether he likes...