Aesop Rock - One Brick

Labor Days. Definitive Jux. 2001

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Music

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• Aesop Rock
• Labor Days
• One Brick
• Definitive Jux
• Def Jux
• Hip Hop

[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.

[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.

[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

[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.

[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.

[yugo91aesop]

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

[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.

[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



[CaptainTrechabomb]

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

[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