Aesop Rock - 39 Thieves

[PvtGundel]

Wow this is GREAT..

[lavabone]

The user is TearyHesticles. Win.

[8BitPicklez]

240p But the bass still hits pretty hard!

[izelkay]

That sample sorta sounds like LA Noire

[MrSlaytanix]

@izelkay Listen to "How to be a Carpenter"

[beckylikesmusic]

yuh!



[silverballer1911]

@beckylikesmusic nuh

[beckylikesmusic]

@silverballer1911 :-)

[silverballer1911]

@beckylikesmusic die

[beckylikesmusic]

@silverballer1911 why do you want me to die?

[silverballer1911]

@beckylikesmusic i forgot

[byf1864]

murderous genomes throughout thiis song

[KINGBEASTBLOOD]

Damn this whole Album is Banging

[Dr1Doctor]

Sample from Mr. Lif, respect.

[lacesoutchris]

@corey Jmurphey bahahahaha

[MultiColoredColorado]

Bullets don't take bribes stupid, they shoot shit. <--- GREATEST LYRIC EVER.

[iancoheekelsey]

Abstract lyricists are the greatest. I miss Eyedea...

[MultiColoredColorado]

@iancoheekelsey Irrelevant?

[Dmarchant6923]

Aes Rock is, by far, THE most intelligent rapper i have ever listened to. hands down.

[PetrolDemon]

@Dmarchant6923 Eyedea & Aes imo.

[nicklongworth212]

the sample with the guy talking what is that from?

[levildevil]

@nicklongworth212 Its Mr. Lif "The people are dead but the money keeps talking" if thats the sample your speaking of.

[nicklongworth212]

@levildevil no the part that starts around 2:10 ends around 2:30 

[levildevil]

@nicklongworth212

Thats Aesop Rock himself.

[nicklongworth212]

@levildevil doesnt really sound like it but now i hear it thanks!

[byf1864]

chills up my spine

[hiitsmcjosh]

240p? What is this, Africa?

[kannabiz420]

@hiitsmcjosh If you need to see a higher quality version of the album cover, try searching Google. You will find quite a selection. You whiny bitch.

[Wizue]

@hiitsmcjosh look @ look at the upload date omg

[silverballer1911]

@Wizue gyhjbvghjyghjgj

[snakebite784]

Never let an anchor drop

Never had a home

Never talk to strangers

Never trust a friend

This is the life and the life will not end.

BOSS

[zensunraw]

bullets don't take bribes they shoot shit

[AngryRussianMobBoss]

fuck shit, damn what his iq

[vietdumbass]

I think this is his only song where I feel I completely understand it

[ZaneCase84]

Ace/Aesop Rock a.k.a. Sir Flowhammer of Flowmheist

[maniwambdi74]

Aesop Rock can kill motherfuckers wit words this shit is ill

[MrGetsomesucka]

Ian Bavitz is from Earth. Aesop Rock, however, is not. Respect foo.

[8ballstreet]

mE Do n0t unDerstAnd.. I mean you have to do a bunch of research to fully (if that's even possible) understand his lyrically content for each song. though I can fit a few bricks into the puzzle, I need a fucking guide

[Ievolovel]

Atmospheric rhymes. I am in a land I do not recognize, and it's beautiful.

[murphyhurtme]

money money money money money money money money

[yogocomedy]

his lyrics are complex codes if you look at the lyrics once typed out you'll figure out this guy isn't human and is fucking intelligent

[NamezJamez007]

If I could meet anyone living in this planet, or that HAS lived on this planet.. I'd choose Aesop Rock... I'm not just saying that either, I really would. It would be worth it. The things he would or even could say, the wonder is endless.

[CoreyJMurphy]

If there's any reason for me to not like Aesop Rock, it's because I often find myself not capable of understanding his complex and intellegant lyrics.

[paramedixation]

@CoreyJMurphy

"Intellegant."

Oh, the irony.

[CoreyJMurphy]

@paramedixation wow. good one bro... *intelligent* HAPPY?!

[sobeita]

@paramedixation He meant "int'elegant".

[CodyJMoore]

@CoreyJMurphy We have ridiculously simmilar youtube names. You must die now.

[Kestroid]

when will aesop BRING BACK PLUTO.....there are 39 THEIVES hiding there..when they die it will be DARK HEART NEWS...because NONE SHALL PASS when the DAYLIGHT is NIGHTLIGHT....lol there aint NO CITY

[sosaucysc]

how does this not have more views???? is there an official video for this song?

[ufuckfacesonofabitch]

"The people are dead but the money keeps talking", where is that sampled from?

[lanceshitheadnada]

@ufuckfacesonofabitch Mr. Lif

[allwhitelegos]

"We're not concerned with the community aloofness

Duke, we're animals, we just go where the most food is

Lower the toast, most formal etiquette is useless

Truth is you're equally expendable if spoonfed

(Money Money)

Money is cool, I'm only human

But they use it as a tool to make the WORKERS feel excluded

Like the shinier the jewel the more exclusive the troop is

Bullets don't take bribes stupid, they shoot shit"

[HackSupreme]

@allwhitelegos sickest lines I've heard in a while

[racebends]

How does he come up with these lyrics? Living life with careful observation, never buying anybodys bullshit. It's subliminal visually put into words. Depending on my mood I get different meanings every time I listen to his songs.

[J0KAHs]

Aesop is a fuckin animal imagine if eyedea did a song with him before he passed that would have been INSANE. both of there lyrics are un humanly

[byf1864]

@J0KAHs is true. These lyrics rip faces off

[lost524]

heard a sample of this on npr today, i almost died

[major1maggot]

bullets dont take bribes stupid, they shoot you

[dohertydude12]

1 person does not like this song

[343clement]

quite poetic indeed.

[thanouuuulis]

he is alien!

[llabeoll]

The 40th Thief must not have liked being excluded from this track.

[theOldskoolPy]

"but they use it as a tool to make the workers feel excluded

like the shinier the jewel the more exclusive the troop is

bullets don't take bribes stupid, they shoot shit"

fuckin love it

[jdotglenn]

great rapper or greatest rapper?

[Kaiaana]

serious respect, i can't keep up with the lyrics while trying to sing along .. great words, great song, the best .

[ericelementskater]

if i met aesop rock id kill him hes to insane for this planet!

[allspirits111]

@ericelementskater No... wrong. This planet is to stupid for him... I think everyone else should fuckin leave.

[cucuay]

he is By far my All time Favorite M.C.! He is one of the most consistent M.C.!

[SuperDonnie43]

A god among MCs

[SeattleMashUps]

Is Aesop rock the best rapper ever.....YES

[kurtdingy]

Mein I keep on trying to understand this guys but the more I keep trying the more I get confused.

[theprimeform]

@xinviseo using his MIND!

[aenubis666]

"Lower the toast, most formal etiquette is useless, truth is you're equally expendable as spoon fed."

Genius is an understatement.

[mrschropp75]

Love the way his mind thinks!

[thehunteredlife1]

Aes also takes mad shrooms to...makes sense...

[afterlife116]

"bullets dont take brives the shoot shit, stupid"

[Jarvald]

no its "bullets don't take bribes stupid they shoot shit"

[afterlife116]

he rips this shit up. Eminem, 50, Lil Wayne, these guys cant stand up to his sick ass rhymes, or his badass vocabulary. my opinion.

[Shralla]

That's not an opinion it's straight up FACT. Of the guys you mentioned, Eminem is easily the least shitty, but even though he has some pretty powerful stuff about his life, he just doesn't have the flow or vocab of Aesop and other dudes like him like Del the Funky Homosapien.

[aenubis666]

@Shralla Not that I disagree with you, but a lot of those guys just do what sells. I think some of those guys would surprise a lot of people if they dropped a conscious record, but not many of them could. I'd love to see Em and maybe The Game do it, but I'm not losing sleep over it. Right now, can't put this album down, or Immortal Technique's Revolutionary vol 2.

[Olav999]

absolutely-no his commentary and complete domination of language-

[xinviseo]

How the hell does he come up with some of his lyrics..

[TairyHesticles]

I often wonder the same thing.

[SeasemeStreetz]

Ditto

[Maziyar]

@TairyHesticles

he takes ketamine.

Bazooka Tooth?

i thought it was obvious.

he even has it in one of his songs.

11:35 Ketamine Mr Lif

[Enzbeau]

@TairyHesticles i often wonder things too

[blazedballa420]

@TairyHesticles

some very bomb herbs

[stopcicles]

@xinviseo Weeeeeeeeeed.

[Retaliation69]

@xinviseo a well read and informed education and life experience, and a nack for poetry.

[Maziyar]

bazooka tooth moler pistols. Aesop Rock? Drug of Choice? Ketamine. New York Native needs a brain rest like chinese slaves and heroin. another dark night another not-all-right another bad ritual art is pain so ill bang my head against any wall you can build

[bloddfolife243]

@xinviseo who cares man this shit is fuckin tight ... dont complain or he might stop

[DrawpBombz]

@xinviseo i think a lot of the shit is from aesop's fables retold in his own special way :)

[primusayso]

@DrawpBombz um don't see any connection. aesops name comes from a character he played for a friends amateur video when he was young

[alphabetsessions]

@xinviseo shrooms,

[GaitRock]

@xinviseo mushrooms make his tonka truck go beep beep beep...

[gorillailla202]

@xinviseo high doses of acid and lsd. Thats the only thing I can think of

[vitunpaskiainen]

@gorillailla202 LSD is acid jackass.

[Lycerate]

@vitunpaskiainen maybe he was talking about citric acid. ;)

[vitunpaskiainen]

@Lycerate lol, I take no chances with stupidity. 

[yusukeshonen]

@xinviseo Drugs are a great source of inspiration.

[tetrisclock]

It's abstract, you just start listing out words to certain tempo, and after awhile, the lyrics start falling in place.

[IPunchBabiesPl0x]

@tetrisclock That is exactly how I described it haha.

[Nintendor]

@xinviseo grab a dictionary and an encyclopedia and learn

[footflowerface]

@xinviseo he has 79 wives,

[BigBearfromthe206]

@xinviseo drugs

[2L4RL]

@xinviseo

From mind to hand to pen on paper.

[paramedixation]

@xinviseo

Read the book "How to Rap."

[pcpwireless]

@xinviseo it's called e x p e r i e n c e

[TrainerAshKetchum]

@xinviseo It's said that if he finds a quote or sentence he likes, he'll put it in one of his songs.

[MRnMRSBAWS]

@xinviseo Hes the king of metaphores

[kannabiz420]

@xinviseo He must be very studied in literature. I've heard more than a few vague references to books in his lyrics.

[thafuknouz]

@xinviseo He thinks.

[panda2621]

@xinviseo read the book called "How To Rap" he explains in it hahah

[sinnison23]

I've been bumpin' Def Jux since Labor Days, and I'll be bumpin' Def Jux until the day I die.

[SeasemeStreetz]

REAL TALK

[kandiboyraver]

funny when i first heard this song u i thought he was a heavy set black guy..turned out to be a white guy taught me a lesson in not to judge..either way he rips shit all of his song i like, which is hard to say about any artist, considering he has like 60+ songs

[Akluvum]

wow. Ft. Lif and E-lp

[seltsamurai]

the people are dead, but the money keeps talking

[JustinsBank]

"like a flatline fetish had his feathers fanned out"

unreal

aesop is not human

[LucidPeriphery]

if he weren't human he wouldn't be so pithy

[ClandestineZoologist]

@JustinsBank do you understand what the line even means? or what any of this song means? I love aesop but his lyrics are beyond obscure

[ObeseChess]

@ClandestineZoologist

I get a very firm anti-war-profiteering vibe with a lot of hunting metaphors, personally.

[ObeseChess]

@ClandestineZoologist

I get a very firm anti-war-profiteering vibe with a lot of hunting metaphors, personally. Also a lot of very subtle class warfare jabs, along the lines of rich sending the poor to die in a war and pitting them against their own interests.

[ClandestineZoologist]

@ObeseChess thanks... very interesting interpretation whether or not it seems immediately clear to me. i love listening to these kinds of songs over and over again until meaning gradually emerges

[lightrings]

this is the life and the life will not end

[arashi86]

"Hunters with their dogs and deer rifles, thousands of them line the pavement, like patient pupi waiting to become worms"

[JangosSoulja]

This is good! Thanks for the upload!