Aesop Rock - One Brick

[pkacua]

if you read into you will find less then you set out to find. Just enjoy the music, this isn't the Church of Aesop and this isn't one of his teachings, tihs is a song, he made to make a living, whhich started with 1 brick

[Buchy1369]

aes talks about building a city with one brick.. ex. the mayor and the crook.

i wonder what it represents

[ANONPWNING]

Slingin bottled prosperity for the kamikaze colonels

Yeah rocks the match that burned the Nazi journals

And plottin verticals amidst blatantlly horizontal

Models then swallowed by famished potholes

[yugo91aesop]

@ANONPWNING correct lyric is *bronze* the match that burned his Nazi Journals

[RobKarmic]

it's so crazy how I'm still listening to all these songs since I heard labor on Tony hawk pro-skater 4 I played that game for ages mostly for the music

[57gameboy]

who spits at 1:52?

[Aeonius88]

@57gameboy illogic...

[Darius2Cool]

all of his songs are weak

[FloWz361]

he does what he can to help others be good. And he can always add another brick because weve been forgiven

[FloWz361]

aesop rock + illogic + beat = holy wisdom!

[drernst58]

just buld brick by brick cut out the weak links thats brick by brick



[Aeonius88]

oh my god...ILLOGIC SOMEONE STOP HIM!

[Aeonius88]

And as societys fabric of orthodox is dismantled i see human race in the pentagram within its crucifix disguise...ILLOGIC for president...

[Tyler7975]

i love how aesop's language is so peculiar that everyone discusses it and really there is no wrong answers :)

[jope7]

the "hour glass" cross-fade, both in volume and across L / R channels, at 1:48 [and 3:45 in reverse] is a genius little detail. love it.

[bigrubeglp2]

he builds homes for deamons

[Animalchemy18]

*you can lead a man to the city, but that doesn't guarantee civility*

Tr00F!

[theskyisdyingoutdoor]

Is this the theme to GTA chinatown wars? haha

[Damian2354]

Aesop and illogic are tha shiiiit.

[850kell531]

i love aesop rock. heaven is piecing with this in the background.

[ubernoob121]

with aesop rock his words are always up for your own interpretation. but I think it has to do with his internal struggles hence in his city hes housing his deamons

[poltronafrau]

YOU CAN BEAT A MAN TO DEATH WITH AESOP ROCK BOOTLEG CDs!!!!!

[Konnalyohm]

I'm still trying to figure out what those first words mean.

He says:

I start my city with a brick, and add another brick.

Brick by brick I manufacture homes for fallen angels.

I'm still trying understand the connotation of this.

[EsotericMotion]

let me know when you get it

[boogiepop14mc]

By "homes for fallen angels" I think he means Hell. Since fallen angels are those angels that opposed God and thus fell from his good graces, were expelled from heaven and became devils. And the home of devils is hell. So maybe Aesop means that through a series of small steps (adding a single brick) he has constructed a hell.

[blotebilledans]

i was thinking the same .. nice said

[referencemark]

@boogiepop14mc I only read your interpretation after posting mine. Amazing how we got two completely different meanings out of the two lines lol.

[CKtestvids]

@boogiepop14mc Well, he was also living in NYC during this time period, so maybe its about hells kitchen.

[theskyisdyingoutdoor]

@Konnalyohm Reminds me of the Wall By pink floyd.

[referencemark]

@Konnalyohm

"I start my city with a brick, and add another brick

Brick by brick I manufacture homes for fallen angels"

It's a metaphor for his writing process I'd say. He "builds" up his song (city) with bricks (words) and with each word he "manufactures homes for fallen angels" (makes songs to comfort the downtrodden).

[BDD420]

@Konnalyohm

Egyptian or Summerian legend of building the pyramids for "Fallen angels"

[jeffersontool]

@Konnalyohm Who cares? Just listen and enjoy. Make your own meaning.

[RaverGuy2009]

@Konnalyohm Just understand it. :3

[GodlessMartyr666]

@Konnalyohm its a metaphor, the brick is obviously a brick of hash or cocaine, it's also a regular brick though, see that's the beauty of a metaphor, you have to find your own meaning. And unless you can personally ask him what his perspective was with those bars, you're left to absorb thoughts as to what the metaphor means. Thats part of the reason lyrics draw people in, and thats a big part of the songwriting process.

[Aeonius88]

@Konnalyohm to be honest the way i see it aesop is talking about the construction of a city that will provide home to regural people,just like us calling them fallen (and later on the song wingless) angels because we have so far fallen from our natural peacefull state and now what the city shelters in its homes is fear and comformity and evil in all its psychological forms.hope this covers your question,but then again,no one can really know what aesop was thinking when he wrote those lines :)

[darphinparis]

@Konnalyohm he's talking about working for corrupt corperations. a day of work (brick) then another day so on and so on. You think you work for yourself, but in the end it's for the people higher up on the ladder. (thats just the way it goes)

im just a lil baked

[Aeonius88]

@darphinparis word french people always on the frontline:)

love from greece here,im stoned as fuck one love

[muahahaha101]

@Konnalyohm

I think of it as if he is saying "Im slowly building homes for people who need help" He might be using home as a metaphor for his music, or he could be speaking in someone elses perspective? Im not sure

[ithinkiheardothat]

@Konnalyohm he says what he means. aesop= sit down shut up learn something

[datni99awithahair]

@Konnalyohm just a simple thought, it could mean that fallen angels become normal people, and people should be respected no different than the next, so he helps them out since they have nothing no matter how much work it takes

[durringtonatlive]

@Konnalyohm i think he's regarding ghetto life

[nickcarveth]

@Konnalyohm social services possibly? Harbouring the underpriviledged and oppressed, the poor, racialized and marginalized social groups and communities. Just my two cents on what it could be about, I suppose its also my bias as a social worker... I just feel that is what he intended by fallen angels, especially given the content of his more recent music video for the track "none shall pass" and the lyrical content of "Battery" Aesop seems to feel alot of solidarity with the homeless.

[SpudSpudoni]

@Konnalyohm It means, atleast from my prospective, that he is saying he started out low, and he built his way up from his lowest state. He does this to help others that were in the same state of slum that he was in, not forgetting the other little guys he left behind while "building his city."

[mrpsycho420]

@Konnalyohm listen to pink floyd another brick in da wall youll figure it out

[mur1234567]

@Konnalyohm he's comforting the so called "evil" people with his music, helping them cope. in a diferent song of his, he says something like this "theives, bandents, low life scum, the punks who (i cant remember) from the beat of my drums."

[DCurt2287]

@mur1234567 "It goes thieves, bandits, lowlives, scum Punks that buckle under the rumble of my drum" :-)

[TheSuperDragonKiller]

@Konnalyohm go to rapgenius(dot)com

[MrIllmyrin]

@Konnalyohm

The bricks are concepts he builds with his body of work. He could have said something like "with ever song I offer out to the world I'm driven to lure people to my art because I believe when compared with other material that people seem to like that my work is actually good for you all and when you've recognized the difference between what I produce and what people are buying you're new job is to force feed my art in peoples faces by beating them over the head with bootleg CDs."

[Bam2106]

@Konnalyohm I Honestly Think Its A Way Of Saying He Wants To Build Homes For The Deceased Or Homies He's Lost And Pay Homage To Them at The Same Time Just My Guess Lol :P

[lechienman]

@Konnalyohm Hes slowly but surely building a refuge or safe house for fallen angels(saints,dead rappers,etc.) thats how i see it

[CaptainTrechabomb]

@Konnalyohm The bricks are words, he builds his songs one word at a time. When artists like him tap into their own imaginations they construct their own reality (my city) and we (fallen angels) can relate through interpretation. It's abstract so interpretations vary. Peace.

[TheRidllerXXThree]

@CaptainTrechabomb Nice observation dude, very smart! Helped me understand his art a little more...no sarcasm PEACE!!

[CaptainTrechabomb]

@TheRidllerXXThree Glad I could help man, happy listening. Peace.

[Inconseethebilletee]

Its the matrix.

[bryancaptain]

@Konnalyohm his catholic background, coupled with holy smokes and none shall pass makes it arguable that he's literally talking about building a home for fallen angels the catholic church says a repeated sin = a lack of repentance n that it can eventually lead to possible possession? not 100% but I feel like the religious background and 180 attitude would lead to a certain mockery of it with a constant amount of referencing in his music because he is familiar with the religion.

[Hoodyrulez]

@Konnalyohm i get that but still decoding everything else. exact opposite of you iguess. in my opinion, its like fuck living in the city hes starting a village for people just like him, fallen(in a shit situation) angel (divine people). or he might be talking about squatting. either way he doesnt want to be homeless yet society FORCES alot of people to be. he was in that situation.

[Lateral0Thinking]

@Konnalyohm I think he's either calling mankind devils after The Fall of Satan and his allies. Or it's just another name for humans after the fall from eden. And the city he's starting is the same as any other modern city I think.

[TheTwistedFilms]

@Konnalyohm maybe he is being a "good samaritan" for building a city for the ones who fought for good and lost but doing it in proper respect so he says he isnt being a good samaritan for doing it cuz it had to be done or something

[MrSlaytanix]

@Konnalyohm WE ARE THE GODS