aesop rock - five fingers

[AsAssin4life]

ONGELOFELOOS



[thatcreepydude1]

AESOP ROCK FOR LIFE

[lillisund]

Whats the sample from in the beggining?

[Blothus]

I wish I could understand the meaning of his lyrics..

[TheTvrulesthenation]

Blothus

Its about a kid who starts to steal & grows up stealing + gets the buzz off it. You'll cop it the very second you listen to it in that context

I LOVE the production around 2:00 (''one by one'') if you listen to it on headphones, it zooms from one ear to the other before kicking in almost like this 3d effect. Very subtle but cool

[stewpidsmart]

I hope the fruits of ur labor outlive the initial rush/ Step on the...

[Ban21Dit]

dope song, made my life that much better, hella

[byf1864]

soul = healed

[byf1864]

straight up legend.

big <3

[wazdz]

white rapper

[everywhereimnot]

How cool are you posting Google under the lyrics description?

[5321885]

Yes.

[Treysluvsgirls]

capture the flag, drag that crass little bastard flat through the hazmat glass. WOOT

[thesmacker464]

i hope the flipping of the system will be heavily clocked cuz oporunities figgle if they are trippled in stock; capture the flag drag that crisp little bastard through the hasmat glass; haha :) love it

[thesmacker464]

pillar collar me bunny killer hovering by the mother feed gutter greed king and a crumy mother fucker breed fuck wit me it go knock knock rummy and at broker speed the seeds all grownsed up playin grown people games keep the lanes grown and covers the whole steeplechase GRIP better get the master plan so when the workers are asleep the trap expands yes a pig is a cop i gota fill up the flock so when i rake in the bigun i hope the kidies watch

[thesmacker464]

and finize on the prize and the itch aint flush. to hope the boots of ya leg run of initial blush like step on the obizmal cuffs but match makers try and make the signals fucked and they can make the mut baby do a stigmuz crush. like he will learn to walk after he inlists in drugs and this is certified milk by the new york department of skull duger shop lift quicker than you shoulda speed click misty tip a tounge collaly in another mudy river ruter untill the water bleeds skip around a money

[thesmacker464]

the chemy in the cloment (i assume drugs) get your money from the richest get your pussy from the flies; one by one like little confused penguins larsanies yes for new and used weapons like a little bitter little burglar g'in up- about to fuckin see hes dumb enough to see the public go im a fucking thing nope; gota configure the five fingers so the hot wire vehicular skill is implicable (gang to know how to rob a car)

[thesmacker464]

you with the sharp a n b m did you forplay the gm or are you cardplay the dm; wore play the porn game born to get the sword where the freedom of the coreplay of the sword playin heathens; trickery im back talk fresh outa highschool, on the prickery catwalk of the modern grind slide rule; heavy last number of in his history got its own little hustle butnuzzle up with a victory thanks! bath in a bottle of your finest, hackleberry sift through the pistol wicked sudomists vwarderhell seems to put

[thesmacker464]

momas purse; and bought enough fireworks from the bulleys to blow up a small barn that he kept in a box in the yard and the park isnt far from a cut tho anthem but the clut tho tanchen previs the grand canvis. dents to the dirt; stand up celebret the need to own what aint earnt; see a roll of a turn like a smoke ring rolls out the lung till its done; ready set kept but he steps till a postit later a plan of motives to a moment of some grown shit hey

[thesmacker464]

anytime you anytime you im not even guna say it anytime.

take take the medicine tastes great got the key to the city and wait n bake; way before the media shitting of 12 zipper gang paint the origin of a thievery needed would take place; two coke bottles; during the road todler; reble the refridgerater; deft of a wivleinator and no role model provoke him to shift focus because he noticed a cookie tastes better when its stolen. gives got the darnest crooks all of his arms skipt forward for his

[TacoNinja098]

Why's everybody hatin on the poster.

He brought you this track. If you don't understand the lyrics, shut the fuck up and listen closer like the rest of us.

[skidshard]

lifes not all about that hard core shit putting bullets in people rapeing bitches drive bays all that crap give the white man with mic and give him a chance to spit.

[derilism]

I really appreciate that you didnt mess with the volume

[jman224333]

Just WOW! 2:31

[byf1864]

Doing LI and the whole NY proud, this man.

Unreachable talent.

[ScruffyBueno]

this song is amazing high... just hit replay over and over again. Aesop Rock is HIP HOP ALL DAY!!!!!!!!

[FreestyleFletcher]

Does anybody know the lyrics to the happy birthday song?

[fookii99]

slow n low, do or die stuck

capture the flag!!!!

[LemonZeppelin]

Get your money from the richest, Get your pussy from the flyest.

Aesop Rock = awesome

[JaesopRocks]

lyrics.wikia.com/

[GenerationXReject]

Anyone who wants the lyrics can go to Definitive Jux's website and download the entire None Shall Pass album's lyrics for free.

[CeatcodeDelta32]

everyone probably debates over the line said at 00:36, but if you listen closely it sounds like "so 11 arms skip jars for his mama's purse" or something similar, showing that he stole from his mom so often it was like he had 11 arms doing it, or him and his friends that influenced him. the "jars" are jars that you would keep quarters in, as in he skipped earning money and instead stole it.

[MyDormantSoul]

could it be said that aesop got his sample from Sonic Adventure DX Music: Hot Shelter 2?

[thapoint09]

@MyDormantSoul:

Uhhh... no.

[MyDormantSoul]

@thapoint09 the saxophone sounds strikingly similar, but yeah its most likely not the same.

[thapoint09]

@MyDormantSoul:

Kind of, yes.

[riotmaker7771]

all i have to say is that im amazed by this pemanentley tripping lyricist!

[KyaputenFarukon]

TAKE TAKE THE MEDICINE TASTES GREAT

[CeatcodeDelta32]

what i love about all of Aesop's music is that they tell stories not about himself like most half-ass rappers (theirs are mostly made-up or wannabe gangster shit), but about fictional people and places,

hints the name *Aesop* Rock

[deadeyeDD]

song deserves a proper video

[primusayso]

tanks 4 upload

[Cornbreadddd]

Anyone know where thats sax sample in the beginning came from?

[sinoDI]

Japanese mother!!!!!

[McDoxal]

hes one of my fav white boys next to apathy & celph titled and eyedea & abilities

[deadeyeDD]

@McDoxal

celph titled is cuban...and not spanish cuban

[McDoxal]

@deadeyeDD he looked white to me.*.*. but thats kool.*.*.*

[TheCountDooku]

:57 - 1:10 = i fell outta my chair

[kurk666]

i like aes rock more than any of you wannabe fags.

[Bluejerra]

I read a few comments and discussions on the lyrics of this osng and decided it definitely has alot to do with a child who first stole a cookie when he was 9 and how it escalated to pinching pennies from his mom's purse to robbing banks. He's trying to show how criminals start and don't remorse later in life because tehy aren't taught right early on.

[paintballfreak678]

Aesop Rock raised the bar in my world of hip hop

[Redsparrowe123]

As an english major and a hip hop enthusiast this is like my wet dream. It's insane how good Aesop Rock is. it's not even debatable. If this is not your cup of tea then you deserve to be thirsty. mmm delicious.

[Nvelopmusic]

@Redsparrowe123 couldnt have said it better.

[Shalacrious]

@Redsparrowe123

This man. Clearly gets it.

[BlahZayy1190]

check out my "Getaway Car" remix on my channel. first video up

[cb2198]

Nice

[BoluzB2]

Pro-Gressive as helllll!

[lv71389]

does anyone know the sample in here the one in the background that sounds bassy or what other song its in its driving me nuts!

[fiend4hiphop]

get you money from the richest get your pussy from the fliest.....like the best line on the whole album hahaha that may be an exagerration but i like it

[fiend4hiphop]

singing along is hard...bt when uve listened to this song like a million times....its easy :). ready set bet kept petty theft on a post it!!!

[oblover4ever04]

one of my favorites along with None Shall Pass.. i wish all hip hop was like this.. its real and it doesnt follow tha stupid trend that everyone follows..

[kl0wn64]

if all hip hop was like this /this/ would be the stupid trend everyone follows

fact : half the majority is trying to be the minority

just enjoy the music.

[davesababe]

ha true. he probably meant he wishes everyone looked for the truly artistic forms of music like this instead of following all those shitty trends in music.

and you speak truth, when you're TRYING to be the minority, you're the fucking majority. people just need to find the truly good shit that you can really enjoy because there's no fucking way anyone actually enjoys that shit on mtv. shit makes my brain bleed.

[fromthebackATL]

A.D.Omni says if you go to the realm of permanence and stay there long enough till you're in it "permanently" you can literally change your body if you dont have sex for about 13 months. "I will live to be a thousand with the patients of a saint"

[darksamus2k]

best

[Alphabethoven]

For some reason this sound bizzarringly familiar to DJ Quik's "Dollaz and Sense

[shrint]

trying to sing along to this is unbelievably difficult

[skater4nater]

@shrint I have yet to hear someone memorize an entire aesop song.

[tiago650]

@skater4nater

I totally agree

I'd like to see someone try to roll out Blackalicious's 'A to Z" remix without fucking it up

[ScruffyBueno]

@shrint haha been learning the lyrics for months.

[MrBiace]

@shrint lol I know :D

[ugene1975]

this man, will have u done up in a vocabulary homicide..........

[allspirits111]

@ugene1975 That's what I'm sayin, Bazooka tooth bustin off a rockets in syllables.....

[ILLER121]

dope

[tacotuba14]

If you need lyrics I have a good FUCKING idea....Re-listen to the song. OMGOSH it works. Good job taco, good job.

[Padooshka]

You have to understand that people learn differently. For some people, viewing the lyircs help them capture more of a meaning to the song because they are audio learners. Some peaple, maybe you, are able to decipher lyrics while just listinging to the song hence making them visual learners.. There are different ways of learning!! You visual learning nazi.

[FlawlessAngle]

informative, except the last part was pretty ignorant... -1

[Padooshka]

Indeed. I was pretty childish in my saying "Visual learning nazi." I guess sometimes people just tries too hard.

[akute1]

Cool, and here's an idea. Don't write down lyrics to be a good MC. Just say shit!!!

Dope analogy.

Reading and listening will help you learn lyrics faster than simply listening. It's like going to college without textbooks. You can do it with the power point handouts, but the books help you get the A.

Another dope analogy.

[cecropsfucker]

y'all complain way to much about the lyrics being wrong, theres no more lyrics, fuck all of you. seriously stop your bitching and use google.

[DeFo06]

Get mad about it?

[darksonic50047]

@cecropsfucker yo chill bro. Calling people out and swearing is degrading to your own level of maturity, all you had to do is appoligizee and tell them you tried your best then ignore anything from anyone ignorantly harrassing you because they were too lazy to look the lyrics up themselves. But, if you are unsure of the lyrics in the first place you probably shouldn't post them to avoid situations such as this as well as confusion.

[Chugulung]

@cecropsfucker Everyone should stop bitching about the listed lyrics and just enjoy the song...

[kidwikkid616]

@cecropsfucker when it comes to aesop it speaks to everyone differently man least thats how i have seen it for everyone ive heard try to sing his music they all say the lines a little diffrently

[freaks182]

Take Take the medicine taistes great, gotta keep awake in the sitting i'm way baked? i'm really not sure what he says there, gah i wish there was some place to find his lyrics. i really want to know what he is saying alot of the time :(

[bolognium420]

got the key to the city awake bake

[konreezy151]

got the key to the city i'm way baked

[Jevff]

11's arms skip jars for his momma's purse.

lyrics are in the downloadable def jux pdf

[MyHipHopTunes]

All time fav Aesop song, well either this or Bent Life, both are awesome.

I would quote summin now like everyone else but I can't choose just ONE so ill resist.

Peace .M.

[piranha55x]

id go bent life but this is great too

[mob1217]

im surprised this doesnt have more views..def one of his top 5 songs

[nytactic]

well that sorta makes sense, but I'm sure about tha momma's purse part

and IDK WHY my comment was thumb downed

I was trying to figure out what the lyrics are

at least I got the momma's part

[NegativeCommentsSuck]

Yo, dog, I give you props just for knowing that line...Aesop rock is off the hook!!!

PEACE...

[DRaelrich]

Some Aes fans get defensive about his lyrics being really friggin' complicated and abstract. It's nothing to be ashamed of, though; that's how modern poetry works, why not lyricism?

[DaylightEnterprise]

I'm not going to argue the meaning, I'll say there is a lot to this.

Anyways, love the album, love the MC, and this song is frackin hard. The jazzy baseline is sick, the old disco voicecut changes the feeling by a ton, genius, the marching snares took me by surprise.

Overall, lyrical greatness and absolutely original producing.

[angeloMoVi]

G - E - N - I - A - L !!!

[nytactic]

"All? get from an honest person"

i kno it's

sumthin sumthin skip sumthin "THRU HIS MAMA'S PURSE AND"

because it makes sense wit tha next line.

"All??? get from an honest person"-doesn't make much sense wit the next line

idk, jus my 20 cents

[cecropsfucker]

I think the line is actually "all of his arms get quarters. the lyrics on every site for this song dont have this line.

[cecropsfucker]

yes it is "all of his arms get quarters from his mommas purse"

[nytactic]

wurdd that sounds like it's write

update yur lyrics yo

"all of his arms get quarters from his momma's purse"

[Dschmizz]

11ʼs arm skip jars for his mommaʼs purse

[FifthDynasty]

@cecropsfucker

Actually. It's "11's arms skipped jars for his momma's purse." As in, the kid is 11 and not stealing cookies anymore, but rather money from his mom's purse.

This song is amazing.

[iheartsydneyart]

i like how the guy who posted wrote the lyrics out as he heard them and got them wrong and skipped. try cut and paste

[cecropsfucker]

i like how you dont think before you speak

[AxMxF151]

@cecropsfucker i like how you like something that shouldnt be liked about iheartsydneyart

[DeFo06]

I like that you judge people b/c they have difficulty deciphering difficult lyrics by an amazing lyricist. You are a tiny person (in terms of having any respect for others. Don't wanna confuse you)

[BadruAkeem]

does the republic owe him a fucking thing? nope.

[cecropsfucker]

eviscerate the proletariat!

[dingles4breakfast]

Yeah, They owe him some fucking respect.

[BadruAkeem]

ace is saying that since they claim to owe us nothing we'll do whatever we need to survive.

[BadruAkeem]

for the first time someone's saying somethin i can relate to... sorry er talin' so much

[BadruAkeem]

if the clas is too advanced go listen to the slow ones

[BadruAkeem]

tall hoods

[L0K1666]

you guys are over thinking this its a song enjoy it

[cecropsfucker]

paraphrasing seperates music from noise. these lines have meanings, not just "FUCK THAT BITCH SHIT!"

[L0K1666]

true he is very artistically articulate and has a deeper meaning in his words than most people will understand but nonetheless it is still just a song.

[techsmartly]

And you can also enjoy the deeper meaning as well.

[deathcanonFX]

sick spitting.but even just plain lyrics look good. Five fingers is about stealing pretty sure. You from them, them from us.

[GuitarHeroDragon]

I freakin' love Aesop Rock.

=]

[ergocalciferol]

Then he turns it political and a game by accentuating capture the flag and talking about pigs, cops as the crops and grown up seeds his masterplan opposes.

this is how i PERSONALLY interpret it:

he's a criminal

but the governing powers are none less

and he becomes like them to alleviate his pain

and he doesn't get they'd hate him for being treated the they treat him.

kind of anti-political.

[astralFinger]

da fuck u on about, son?

[bootlipnaga]

interpretation of lyrics. listen. comprehend. that's hip hop artist want you to do with their kyrics

[astralFinger]

get a sense of humour. comprehend.

aesop regularly celebrates criminality in his lyrics.

[ergocalciferol]

Now notice the second verse confused PENGUINS, has shit to do with ice and him not understanding why its wrong to steal (related to refrigerators) as the fruits of your labor relieve the INTIAL RUSH (to plunder) and CRUMBY muthafucka got shit to do with crops. And he talks against the sinful (freedom will correlate with the sword play and heathens) STIGMA of stealing to favor his own side and interest.

Matchmakers again MELT him.

[ergocalciferol]

Still, a refrigerator elaborate but a klepto-tangent prefaced the grand canvass and educated enough fresh outta high school to climb up the food chain and indulge in bourgeois to merely celebrate by bursting rising crops standards, bought enough fireworks from the bullies to blow up a small barn.

[ergocalciferol]

He actually represents himself as a refrigerator rebelling for its right to be functioning, robust and high, by taking some medicine pill, a cookie, but getting busted warplay the porn game and being set on fire, thus hot, fiery and into temperature/climate/thermostat anomalies.

[ergocalciferol]

lavender is the missing word.

[djehnron]

Aesop is the truth. Cookies do taste better stolen.

[swhitston]

true dat

[RusteeJux]

this track is fucking fireeee

[5845147]

lol @ bestbet... truth is, i dont understand a damn thing he says... i mean, the dude has badass delivery, but i cant understand the lyrics and what the hell he's talkin about. it's just str8 poetry and rhyming, it's a badass song, i know it's about stealing, but other than that, if there is something more to it, i dunno haha

[bestbet06]

my dick is about to explode

[advillaner]

capture the flag!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[aztecsmurf]

Aesop slaps yo mamas advice off the fuckin roof..!

[aztecsmurf]

Aesop slaps yo mamas advise rite out the fuckin roof..!

[lildaniel317]

the best aesop rock song ever in my book u just can't touch his lyrics

[henri333]

:O a's flow is.. damn!

[VMAM]

Every time I listen to this song, the whole CD really, if it's not blowing out my speakers, it's not loud enough. Superb.

[Mussman24]

This is one the best rap songs I have heard in a while....simply dope.