<![CDATA[Overdubbed]]>https://piercedowell.comhttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!T7X5!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F826f64da-cfda-4983-addd-bb8067ff5365_800x800.pngOverdubbedhttps://piercedowell.comSubstackWed, 06 May 2026 11:10:52 GMT<![CDATA[Aesop Rock: A Compendium of Influence - Part 3 (The Reference Index, Credits, and Other Bits)]]>https://piercedowell.com/p/aesop-rock-a-compendium-of-influence-e46https://piercedowell.com/p/aesop-rock-a-compendium-of-influence-e46Tue, 31 Dec 2024 22:30:32 GMTThis is Part of 3 of 3— The Reference Index, Credits, and Other Bits
Part 1— Solo Albums & EPs
Part 2— Collabs, Singles, Features, and Other Rarities

Part 3— The Reference Index, Credits, and Other Bits

Here is the collected list of all the references in alphabetical order per category. I’ve provided links wherever possible for additional reading/context.

Artists

Alberto Giacometti
Live on 89.9FM Nighttrain, Shere Kahn

Alex Pardee
Lotta Years, Untouchable

Andy Warhol- Campbell's Soup Cans
Suicide Big Gulp

Bob Ross
Dog Years, Field of Dreams, Get a Dog

C. M. Coolidge- Dogs Playing Poker
Kirby, Puff Tuff

Claude Monet
Saturn Missiles, Welcome Home Warrior

Cope (Graffiti)
The Dirt and the Filth

Diane Arbus
Sword Box

Donatello- David
Corn Maze

Dondi White
Junkyard

Ed Emberley
Saturn Missiles

Fab Five Freddy
Delorean

Georges Braque
Flamingo Pink

Ghost (Graffiti)
The Dirt and the Filth

H. R. Giger
Cycles to Gehenna

Kilroy was here
Dog Years

Kim Jung Gi
Living Curfew

Leonardo da Vinci
Dorks, Field of Dreams, Freeze, Knievel, Mindful Solutionism, Pigeonometry, Strange Hours

M.C. Escher
Lazy Eye

Man Ray
Cycles to Gehenna

Mark Rothko
Strange Hours

Michelangelo
All City Nerve Map, CD Only Bonus Track

Mike Giant
The Explanation

Norman Rockwell
Saturn Missiles

Pablo Picasso
Flamingo Pink, Rogue Wave, Wolf Piss

Piet Mondrian
Strange Hours

Pieter Bruegel the Elder- Big Fish Eat Little Fish
Apocalypse Zone

Pushead
Homemade Mummy

Rene Magritte- The Treachery of Images
The Four Winds

Robert Crumb
Catacomb Kids, Nickel Plated Pockets

Rembrandt
Float, Off Broadway

Saul Bass
Jumping Coffin

Taki 183
Coma

Twist (Graffiti)
Labor

Vincent Van Gogh
Delicate Cycle, Jazz Hands, On Failure, Strange Hours, Whales

Vaughn Bode- Cheech Wizard
Fast Cars, TUFF

Zerofriends
Zero Dark Thirty

Biblical

This is an entirely different can of worms I don't feel qualified or willing to sort more thoroughly. On one hand, I feel this category is necessary to include because The Bible has to be the most influential and therefore most heavily referenced text of all time, but on the other, the farther I get into the weeds, the harder it is for me to distinguish what to include or not.

As I run into words like freedom fighter, zealot, messiah, etc., are these things I should include or not? On that too, should I also include every single mention of Jesus Christ, Satan, Lucifer, Heaven, Hell, etc.? Sure, they're all mentioned in scripture but due to the history, and widespread influence of the text, when these things are mentioned, does that make them inherently biblical? Or can it be argued they're used more to invoke more general Christian imagery?

Say something vaguely 'Christian' is mentioned, the seven deadly sins for example, while not mentioned verbatim in The Bible are however based in scripture. Is this something I should include since it's rooted in the religious practice rather than The Bible itself? Because once I open that door, that's a whole other set of rabbit holes I need to go down.

See, I didn't grow up in the church and I've yet to read The Bible in full, much less studied it. So I have a very limited understanding and frame of reference outside of the most popular stories, i.e. Adam and Eve, Noah's Ark, David and Goliath, The Nativity, The Crucifixion, etc. So I've made the decision to try to keep this list to either specific stories and verses mentioned and not necessarily everything that invokes Christian imagery.

Abaddon
Leisureforce

Adam and Eve
Field of Dreams, The Tugboat Complex Pt. 3

Armageddon
Citronella

Azazel
Kirby

Babylon
Abandoned Malls, All Day: Nike+ Original Run, Bring Back Pluto, Citronella, Junkyard, Many Headed, Puff Tuff, Salt

Beelzebub
Dollywood, Killing Time, Untouchable

The Bible (by name)
Acid King, Battery, Corn Maze, Fixed and Dilated, Fumes, Grace, Holy Smokes, Mars Attacks, Nickel Plated Pockets, Nuclear Five, Stand Up, Try Not to Die, The Yes and the Y'all

Breaking Bread
Commencement (at the Obedience Academy), Dog Years, Fast Cars, Mars Attacks, The Dirt and the Filth, Try Not to Die, Worlds Collide, Zilch

Cain and Abel
Off Broadway

Cherubim
Water Tower

Conversion of Paul the Apostle
(The Road to Damascus)
By The River, Catfish

Corinthians
Fumes

Crossing the Red Sea- Exodus 14:21
1,000 Deaths, The Active Element, Bermuda, Kill 'em All, Panacea, Ruby '81, The Substance

Crown of Thorns
Battery, Bracket Basher, Fascination, Same Space (The Tugboat Complex pt. 2), Tugboat Complex, Yoohoo

Crucifixion of Jesus
1,000 Deaths, Basic Cable, Battery, Dollywood

David and Goliath
Easy, Hold the Cup, Oxygen, Plastic Soldiers, Prosperity, Saturn Missiles, ZZZ Top

Destroying angel
Water Tower

Elhanan
Saturn Missiles

Eucharist
(Not mentioned verbatim in Bible, read more)
Fryerstarter, Holy Smokes

Exodus, Book of
Grace, Salt and Pepper Squid

Eye for an Eye
None Shall Pass

Fall of Jericho
None Shall Pass

Feeding the multiple
Blood Sandwich, Jumping Coffin

Fire and brimstone
Many Headed, Side Quest, Smoke if You Got'um

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
(White horse, Red horse, Black horse, Pale Horse)
Acid King, Air Pegasus (Le Cadeau), Corn Maze, Cycles to Gehenna, D-up, Lice Team, Baby, Strange Hours

Gabriel
Shrunk

Garden of Eden
Abandon All Hope, Chasing New York, Field of Dreams, Legerdemain, More Cycles, Tuesday

Gehenna
Cycles to Gehenna, Strange Hours, Vititus

Genesis:

Gideon
Citronella

Golden Calf
Many Headed

Holy Spirit/Ghost
Blue in the Face, Churro, Holy Smokes, Tomorrow Morning

Jesus walks on water
Pizza and Burgers

John:

Judas
All City Nerve Map, Attaboy, Fizz, Manik

Lamb of God
Abandoned Malls, Badminton

Last Supper
Left it to Us, Supercell

The Lord's Prayer- Matthew 6:5-15
1+1=13, Coveralls, Crystal Sword, Number Nine, Rogue Wave

Mark 12:31
Corn Maze

Mary Magdalene
Plagues and Bacon

Matthew:

Moses
Tetra, We're Famous

Nativity of Jesus
(manger)
Holy Smokes, Reports of a Possible Kidnapping, Strange Hours, Tuesday

Noah's Ark
Acid King, Babies With Guns, Infinity Fill Goose Down, Limelighters, Lovecraft in Brooklyn (remix), Maintenance, Mindful Solutionism, Pigs, Rabies, Shovel, Tits Up

The Number of the Beast- Revelations 13:18
Antisocial, Facemelter, Kill the Messenger, Save Our Ship, The Substance, Troubled Waters

Parable of the Lost Sheep
Pizza and Burgers, Try Not to Die, Wise Up

Parable of the Prodigal Son- Luke 15:11-32
Battery, Drawbridge, The Yes and the Y'all

Pontius Pilate
No City

The Promised Land (Milk and Honey)
Antisocial, Food, Clothes, Medicine, Gun for the Whole Family, Katz, King Cone, Kodokushi, Take Me to the Basement

Psalms 23:4
The Explanation, Fizz

Raising of Lazarus- John 11:1-44
Babies With Guns, Bug Zapper, Limelighters, Dog Years

Resurrection of Jesus
Oxygen

Saint Michael
Acid King

Saint Peter
Leisureforce

The Sea Turns to Blood- Revelation 16:3-7
1,000 Deaths

Seraphim
Button Masher, Mystery Fish

Sodom and Gomorrah
Crystal Sword, Holy Smokes

Son of Perdition
All City Nerve Map

Three Wise Men
Dog Years, Same Space (The Tugboat Complex pt. 2)

The Trinity
(although not mentioned verbatim in The Bible, including as the combination between The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit)
Blue in the Face, Facemelter, Live On 89.9FM Nighttrain, Mississippi, Save Our Ship, Vititus

Virgin birth of Jesus
Holy Smokes, Oxygen

Virgin Mary
Put Your Quarter Up

Water Into Wine- John 2:1-11
1,000 Deaths, Abandon All Hope, Fixed and Dilated, None Shall Pass, Water

Books/Comics, etc.

Included also are poems, short stories, plays, and anything else in a primarily written form.

There’s some overlap between this category and Movies in trying to decide where best to categorize them. A lot of the works listed here might be both books and movies based on those books. I’ve used my best judgment to categorize everything into the category that the reference is the most popular. Say The Wizard of Oz for example, while it’s a movie based on a book, I would argue that the film is more popular. Inversely, there are several film adaptations of Moby-Dick, but it can be argued that the book is more popular.

Another dilemma is where to include big media franchises that appear in multiple categories, i.e. Batman appearing in comics, cartoons, and movies. In these cases, it would be impossible to prove which one is being referenced, so I’ve organized them how I best see fit.

1984- George Orwell
9-5'ers Anthem, 39 Thieves, Boombox Apocalypse, Bug Zapper, Dead Pan, Freeze, Frijoles, The Gates, Junkyard, One Brick

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Mark Twain
Frijoles

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
(From One Thousand and One Nights- Collection)
39 Thieves, Kill 'em All, Merit, Run the Numbers, Tomorrow Morning

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland- Lewis Caroll
Dead Pan, Fumes, The Greatest Pac-Man Victory in History, Kyanite Toothpick, Leisureforce

All's Well That Ends Well- William Shakespeare
The Active Element

Allegory of the cave- Plato
Coffee

Allen Ginsberg
Get a Dog

Animal Farm- George Orwell
Easy, Infinity Fill Goose Down

Appleseed- Masamune Shirow
Appleseed Intro

Archie
Fast Cars, N.Y. Electric

The Art of War- Sun Tzu
Getaway Car

Atlantis (Plato- Timaeus and Critias)
Atlantis, Float

Batman
Appleseed Intro, Crooked, Daylight, Nightlight, Octoberfest

Beetle Bailey
Hall of Game, Save Yourself

The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath
Garfield

Beowulf
Shrunk

Bizarro
Abandon All Hope, Mindful Solutionism

Blondie (Comic)
Homemade Mummy

Bloom County
Citronella

Br'er Rabbit and the Tar-Baby
Jailbreak

Bram Stoker
Akinesia

Brave New World- Aldous Huxley
Defender

Britannica (Encyclopedia Britannica)
Side Two

Buster Brown
Field of Dreams

The Call of the Wild- Jack London
Save Our Ship

Calvin and Hobbes
Bats

The Catcher in the Rye- J.D. Salinger
Rogue Wave, Save Yourself, Untouchable

Cat in the Hat- Dr. Suess
Comfy

The Celestine Prophecy- James Redfield
Bazooka Tooth

Charles Dickens
CD Only Bonus Track

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory- Roald Dahl
Button Masher, Coma, N.Y. Electric, Number Nine, Table Talk

Charlotte's Web- E.B. White
Pigs

Chicken Soup for the Soul
Bring Back Pluto

A Christmas Carol- Charles Dickens
Blue in the Face, Easy, Get a Dog, Nightlight

Conversations with Professor Y- Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Infinity Fill Goose Down

The Day of Doom
Meter Feeder

Dick and Jane
Sink Or Swim

The Divine Comedy- Dante Alighieri
Abandon All Hope, Troubled Waters, Commencement (at the Obedience Academy), Shovel

Dr. Seuss
Untouchable

Don Quixote- Miguel de Cervantes
Dirt

Dracula- Bram Stoker
Kiss the Cook, Oh Fudge

East of Eden- John Steinback
Boot Soup

Ender's Game- Orson Scott Card
Commencement (at the Obedience Academy)

Farmer's Almanac
Oatmeal Cookies

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas- Hunter S. Thompson
Easy

Flowers for Algernon- Daniel Keyes
Citronella

For Whom the Bell Tolls- Ernest Hemingway
Bazooka, Chameleon, Robot, The Harbor is Yours, Miss By A Mile, No City

The Fountainhead- Ayn Rand
Easy

Frankenstein- Mary Shelley
Cycles to Gehenna, Dokken Rules, Facemelter, Primor, This Lonely Rose, The Yes and the Y'all

Franz Kafka
Super Fluke

Friedrich Nietzche- If you look long enough into the void...
Kyanite Toothpick, Rogue Wave

George Orwell
Acid King

The Giving Tree- Shel Silverstein
Spare a Match

The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Breakdance Beach, Put Your Quarter Up

Gulliver's Travels- Johnathan Swift
Kiss the Cook, Puff Tuff, Wood-Chip Grinder

Gunga Din- Rudyard Kipling
Dirt

Hamlet- William Shakespeare
Leisureforce, Puff Tuff

The Highwayman- Alfred Noyes
Garbage

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy- Douglas Adams
Attaboy, Shovel

Homes and Gardens
Shrunk

How to Eat Fried Worms- Thomas Rockwell
Zero Dark Thirty

H. P. Lovecraft:
Bug Zapper, Defender, Lovecraft in Brooklyn (remix)

The Hulk
Wonderful

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings- Maya Angelou
Sick Friend

The Invisible Man- H. G. Wells
Marble Cake

Isaac Asimov
BOSICO

James and the Giant Peach- Roald Dahl
Maintenance, The Yes and the Y'all

Jet Jungle
Ace Rocks

Judy Blume
The Library

Julius Caesar- William Shakespeare
No City

The Justice League
One Brick

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow- Washington Irving
Bracket Basher

Leo Tolstoy
Rogue Wave

The Lesser Key of Solomon
Fixed and Dilated

Li'l Abner
Freeze

The Little Engine That Could
Fascination, Sheesh, Skip Town, Thorns, Tugboat Complex

Lord of the Flies- William Golding
Abandon All Hope, All Day Breakfast, Bracket Basher

The Lord of the Rings and/or The Hobbit- J.R.R. Tolkien
(sorry Tolkien nerds, I’m bundling these together though one might appear in one and not in the other. Middle-earth in general is a can of worms I won't try to make sense of.)
Babies With Guns, Crystal Sword, Easy, Float, Limelighters

Magick (Book 4)- Aleister Crowley
Kiss the Cook

Malleus Maleficarum
Defender

Moby-Dick- Herman Melville
1+1=13, One Brick

The Monkey Wrench Gang- Edward Abbey
Labor

The Mothman Prophecy- John Keel
Bazooka Tooth

Motorcycle Sport & Leisure
All Day Breakfast, Blood Sandwich

National Geographic
TUFF

The New Colossus- Emma Lazarus
Daylight

New York Times
Button Masher

O Captain! My Captain!- Walt Whitman
Drawbridge

The Odyssey
1,000 O' Clock

Ogden Nash- I Eat My Peas with Honey
Racing Stripes

Oliver Twist- Charles Dickens
Krill

Outliers- Malcolm Gladwell
Button Masher, Flamingo Pink

Paddington Bear
Pizza Alley

Paradise Lost- John Milton
Commencement(at the Obedience Academy)

Pet Sematary- Stephen King
Diabolical Fun (remix), Leisureforce

Plastic Man
Untouchable

Punisher
Zero Dark Thirty

Raggedy Andy
Number Nine

Ranger Rick
No Jumper Cables

Rime of the Ancient Mariner- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D-Up, Dorks, Hot Dogs

R.L. Stein
The Library

Rip Van Winkle- Washington Irving
Coma, Save Yourself

Ripley's Believe It Or Not
Easy

Romeo and Juliet- William Shakespeare
Take My Hand

Runner's World
Solid Gold

Sin City- Frank Miller
(Comic Book, because song predates movie (2005))
Blue in the Face- Possible

Slaughterhouse-Five- Kurt Vonnegut
Flashflood, Hold the Cup

Spiderman
Labor, Rickety Rackety

Spin Magazine
Zodiaccupuncture

Strange Case of Dr Jeckyl and Mr Hyde- Robert Louis Stevenson
Cook it Up, Coveralls, Gopher Guts

Superman
Babies With Guns, Kryptonite, Purple Moss

Sun Tzu
Mystery Fish

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn- Betty Smith
Lovecraft in Brooklyn (remix)

Tales for the Midnight Hour (The Ten Claws)
Castles

Through the Looking-Glass- Lewis Carroll
Antisocial, Fizz, Save Yourself, The Yes and the Y'all

To Kill A Mockingbird- Harper Lee
Abandon All Hope, Boot Soup, Spare a Match

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea- Jules Verne
1,000 Deaths, Atlantis, Garbage, Inner City Hustle, Live on 89.9FM Nighttrain, Maintenance, Odessa, Train Buffer, Wake Up Call, Water

Unsigned Hype (The Source)
Zero Dark Thirty

Vampirella
Attaboy

The Veldt- Ray Bradbury
Zilch

The Village Voice
Blood Sandwich

A Visit from St. Nicholas- Clement C. Moore
Flashflood, Legerdemain, My Belly

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader- C.S. Lewis
More Cycles

Voynich manuscript
Suicide Big Gulp

War and Peace- Leo Tolstoy
1,000 O' Clock, Blood Sandwich

Watchmen
Lazy Eye

Weekly World News
Corn Maze

Where's Waldo
The Gates, Kiss the Cook, Number Nine, Racing Stripes

Where the Red Fern Grows- Wilson Rawls
Bermuda

Where the Sidewalk Ends- Shel Silverstein
Puff Tuff, Rabies

Where the Wild Things Are- Maurice Sendak
Babies with Guns, Bug Zapper

William Shakespeare
Pizza and Burgers, Tits Up

The Wind in the Willows- Kenneth Grahame
Kyanite Toothpick

The Wizard of Id
Save Our Ship

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance- Robert M. Pirsig
Cycles to Gehenna

Zippy the Pinhead
Bracket Basher

Locations (New York, specifically)

While not exactly fitting the goal of how “other art has influenced Aesop Rock,” I found the frequency with which he’s mentioned locations in his home state of New York to be of note as this certainly has influenced his work. He hasn’t been based in New York for quite some time now and has since most notably also resided in San Francisco and Portland, OR, but hasn’t referenced either of them anywhere near as much as New York (by a large margin).

6 Train
Hall of Game, Katz

7th Avenue
100 Feet Tall

The 40/40 Club
Untouchable

Amityville Aslyum (South Oaks Hopsital)
Acid King

Attica
Facemelter

Bellevue Hospital
Facemelter

Birdland
Church Pants

The Bronx
Bracket Basher, Hall of Game

Bronx Zoo
Sabbatical with Options, Untouchable, Zodiaccupuncture

Brooklyn:
Ask Anyone, Catch 22, Church Pants, The Dirt and the Filth, Final Frontier (remix), Freeze, Jet Son, Junkyard, Kyanite Toothpick, Limelighters, Lovecraft in Brooklyn (remix), Pigs, Sabbatical with Options, Shut Down, Solid Gold, Super Fluke

Brownies
Ask Anyone, The Red List

Bruckner Expressway
Five Fingers

Carnegie Deli
100 Feet Tall

CBGB
Shrunk

Chinatown Fair
Tetra

Coney Island
Boombox Apocalypse, The Explanation, Maintenance- Wonder Wheel

East River
Bracket Basher, By The River, Field of Dreams, N.Y. Electric

Empire State Building
N.Y. Electric, Off Broadway

FDR Drive
Church Pants, Lovecraft in Brooklyn (remix)

Flatbush Avenue
Living Curfew

Fulton Street Mall
Pigs

Gracie Mansion
Run the Numbers

Hamptons
Panacea

Hell's Kitchen
Commencement (at the Obedience Academy), Garbage, How to Be a Carpenter, Junkyard, Shovel

Herald Square
Yoohoo

Holland Tunnel
Nuclear Five

Hudson River
By The River, Ponzu Sauce

Huntington
Catacomb Kids, Try Not to Die

I-495
Puff Tuff

Jones Beach
Battery, Difficult

JFK International Airport
TV On 10

Kings County
Lovecraft in Brooklyn (remix)

Liberty Island
Lovecraft in Brooklyn (remix)

Long Island
Ask Anyone, Boomerang, Catacomb Kids, Frijoles, Holy Smokes, One of Four (Thank You), Sniff Glue, So Strange Here, Tomorrow Morning, Untouchable

Long Island Sound
By The River

Major Deegan Expressway
Super Fluke

Manhattan
100 Feet Tall, Attaboy, Defender, Fizz, Jumping Coffin

Midtown
Off Broadway

New York City:
(Including mentions of 'New York' even though in some cases it might technically refer to the state as a whole and not just New York City. Other variations include: NY, NYC, The Five Boroughs, Zoo York, The City That Never Sleeps, etc)

11:35, 100 Feet Tall, Ace Rocks, Akinesia, Atlantis, Bad Samaritan, Basic Cable, Battery, Boomerang, Cat Food, Citronella, Coward of the Year, Crooked, Cycles to Gehenna, Delicate Cycle, The Dirt and the Filth, Dog Years, Facemelter, Five Fingers, Flashflood, Flesh (remix), Freeze, Hall of Game, Holy Smokes, Homemade Mummy, Inner City Hustle, Junkyard, Many Headed, Mars Attacks, Molecules, More Cycles, N.Y. Electric, None Shall Pass, No Splash, Number Nine, Odessa, Off Broadway, Pigs, Pizza Alley, Posse Slash, Rings, Sabbatical with Options, Same Space (The Tugboat Complex pt. 2), Save Yourself, The Sea, Sink Or Swim, Sniff Glue, So Strange Here, Strange Hours, Super Fluke, Sword Box, Teleprompters, TUFF, Tugboat Complex, TV On 10, Used Cars, Wonderful, The Yes and the Y'all, Zodiaccupuncture

Northport
Acid King

Playland
Breakdance Beach

Poughkeepsie
Mindful Solutionism

Queens
Pigeonometry

Queens Expressway
Lovecraft in Brooklyn (remix)

The Ritz
Blood Sandwich

Riverside Park Tunnel (Freedom Tunnel)
The Yes and the Y'all

Selmer's Pet Land
Infinity Fill Goose Down

Shea Stadium
Field of Dreams

SUNY Buffalo
Shrunk

Suffolk County
Boomerang, Catacomb Kids, Difficult, Klutz

Times Square
Long Legged Larry

Upstate, NY
Ask Anyone

Walt Whitman Mall
Purple Moss

World Trade Center
Kyanite Toothpick, Nickel Plated Pockets

Movies

This category suffers the same dilemma as Books, as some of the items listed might be based on books, comics, or other written material. If that’s the case, I’ve included it here if it appears that the movie is the more popular of the two, i.e. The Godfather is based on a novel but if you mention it in conversation, most people are likely to think of the movie, not the book.

12 Monkeys
Try Not to Die

12 O'Clock Boys
Kyanite Toothpick

300
Coveralls

2001: A Space Odyssey
Blood Sandwich, Katz, Kill the Messenger

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Happy Pillz

Airplane
Labor

Aladdin
Merit

Alien
Dead Pan

Alfred Hitchcock
Wolf Piss

American Nightmare
Daylight, Nightlight

Anchorman
Dorks

A Nightmare on Elm Street
Delorean, Fast Cars, Klutz

Apocalypse Now
Abandon All Hope, Bazooka Tooth, No Jumper Cables, Play Dead, Train Buffer

Back to the Future
Akinesia, Delorean, Facemelter, Love to Fuck, N.Y. Electric, No Jumper Cables, Super Fluke

Back to School
By The River, I Went Outside Today

Bad News Bears
We're Famous

Bambi
Dirt, Garfield

Barbarella
Akinesia, Button Masher, Catfish, Love to Fuck, Nickel Plated Pockets, No Jumper Cables

Beat Street
Labor, Many Headed, Saturn Missiles

Beetlejuice
The Mayor and the Crook, Meter Feeder

Benji
Shrunk

Beyond the Black Rainbow
Leisureforce

Blade Runner
Off the Top, Plastic Soldiers, The Substance

Blazing Saddles
Prosperity

Boogie Nights
Love to Fuck, Merit

The Breakfast Club
Catacomb Kids

Breakin'
Tetra

Bring it On
Numb (To the Guns)

The Cable Guy
Lazy Eye

Caddy Shack
Mars Attacks, Puff Tuff

Carrie
Flamingo Pink

Catch Me if You Can
More Cycles, Ponzu Sauce

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Bracket Basher, Kill 'em All, No Jumper Cables, Shut Down, Sniff Glue

Child's Play
Fizz

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Ponzu Sauce

Cinderella
Bracket Basher, Fryerstarter

Citizen Kane
Same Space (The Tugboat Complex pt. 2)

Citizen X
Rickety Rackety

Children of the Corn
Not Going Anywhere

A Christmas Story
Flashflood, Katz, Zodiaccupuncture

The City of Lost Children
Antisocial, Coordinates, Live on 89.9FM Nighttrain, Merit, Shere Kahn, Wake Up Call

A Clockwork Orange
Garfield, Mystery Fish, Saturn Missiles, TUFF

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Coordinates

Cool Hand Luke
Easy, Play Dead

Cujo
Numb (To the Guns), Run the Numbers

Dancer in the Dark
Train Buffer

Dark Days
Teleprompters

Dawn of the Dead
Try Not to Die

Dawn of the Mummy
Infinity Fill Goose Down

The Day the Earth Stood Still
Fascination, Skip Town

Dead of Winter
Crows 1

Death Becomes Her
The Poconos

Death Proof
Environmental Studies

Demolition Man
Jazz Hands

Donnie Darko
Church Pants, Super Fluke

The Doom Generation
Akinesia, Basic Cable

Do the Right Thing
Bug Zapper, Delorean, Limelighters, Shut Down, Sniff Glue

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Save Our Ship

Drugstore Cowboy
Super Fluke

Dumb and Dumber
Babies With Guns

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Drums on the Wheel, Field of Dreams, Low Tide, Many Headed, Mars Attacks, Saturn Missiles

Edward Scissorhands
Alchemy, Flamingo Pink, Helium, Scissorhands

Eraserhead
Gauze

Escape From New York
Holy Driver, Limelighters

Everything Everywhere All at Once
Aggressive Steven

The Exorcist
Abandoned Malls, Fixed and Dilated, Hot Dogs

Fantasia
Nickel Plated Pockets

Fantastic Planet
Labor

Fantastic Voyage
1,000 O' Clock

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Dog Years

The Fifth Element
Live on 89.9FM Nighttrain, Merit

Finding Nemo
Voltronic Instructional Espionage

Fire in the Sky
All Day: Nike+ Original Run, Dollywood

First Blood (Rambo)
CD Only Bonus Track, Final Frontier (remix)

The Fisher King
Mystery Fish

Flashdance (Michael Sembello- Mania)
All In All

Friday the 13th
Ask Anyone, Krill

From Russia With Love
Nuclear Five

Full Metal Jacket
Winners Take All

Galaxy Quest
Button Masher

Gattaca
Facemelter, Sniff Glue

Get a Clue
Untouchable

Ghost
Zodiaccupuncture

Ghostbusters
Crystal Sword, Jumping Coffin, The Poconos, Rogue Wave, The Sea

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Strange Hours

Gigli
Smock

The Godfather
Delicate Cycle

Godzilla:
Bracket Basher, Nightlight, Train Buffer

GoldenEye
Happy Pillz

Gone Fishin'
That is Not a Wizard

Harry Potter
Easy, Lookout (remix), Octoberfest, Yoohoo

Good Morning Vietnam
The Greatest Pac-Man Victory in History

The Goonies
Sleeper Car

The Great Escape
Gun for the Whole Family

Groundhog Day
Bug Zapper, Kodokushi

Guys and Dolls
Katz

Hard Ticket to Hawaii
Difficult

Harry and the Hendersons
Bring Back Pluto

Hayou Miyazaki
Junkyard

Heavy Metal Parking Lot
Frijoles

Hi, Mom!
Leisureforce

The Hills Have Eyes
The Gates

Hollow Man
Jonathan

Home Alone
1,000 Deaths, The Mayor and the Crook, Same Space (The Tugboat Complex pt. 2)

House of 1000 Corpses
Salt

How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)
Fascination, Freeze, Frijoles, Marble Cake

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Antisocial, Live on 89.9FM Nighttrain, Tuesday

The Iceman Cometh
Tap Dancin' for Scratch

Invasion of the Body Snatchers
(Not a direct reference, read more)

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Fizz, Hot Dogs

Isle of the Dead
Attaboy

I Heart Huckabees
None Shall Pass

The Iron Giant
Alchemy

It's a Wonderful Life
Wonderful

James Bond
Strange Hours

Jumanji
The Sea

The Jungle Book
Comfy, Shere Kahn

The Karate Kid
Akinesia, Rogue Wave

King Kong
Boot Soup, Holy Driver, Long Legged Larry, Love to Fuck, More Cycles, N.Y. Electric, Off Broadway, Suicide Big Gulp

Ladyhawke
No Jumper Cables

Lassie
Final Frontier (remix), Kill the Messenger

Late Show with David Letterman
100 Feet Tall, The Greatest Pac-Man Victory in History

Leaving Las Vegas
11:35

Lethal Weapon
Sniff Glue

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Zilch

Little Shop of Horrors
Dirt, Forward Compatibility Engine, Shut Down, Tuesday

Lorna Doone
Oatmeal Cookies

The Love Bug
Food, Clothes, Medicine, Freeze

Mad Max
Get a Dog, Same Space (The Tugboat Complex pt. 2)

Man on Wire
Dog Years

Mars Attacks
Mars Attacks, No Jumper Cables

Mary Poppins (Julie Andres- A Spoonful of Sugar)
Big Bang, Oxygen

The Matrix
The Mayor and the Crook

Melancholia
Coveralls

Mickey and the Beanstalk
Black Snow, Catacomb Kids

Mommie Dearest
BMX

Monsters Inc.
We're Famous

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
None Shall Pass, Prosperity, Save Yourself

Moonstruck
Save Our Ship

Muppets Take Manhattan
Dollywood

My Neighbor Totoro
Rogue Wave

New Jack City
So Strange Here

Nope
Infinity Fill Goose Down

O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Jazz Hands

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Pumpkin Seeds

One Hundred and One Dalmatians
Black Snow

Oldboy
Rogue Wave, Untouchable

Old Yeller
Killing Time, Klutz, Oxygen, Sniff Glue, Try Not to Die

Our Gang
Helium

Over the Garden Wall
Coveralls

Panic Room
Heard Right, Racing Stripes, Suicide Big Gulp

The Passion of the Christ
Tumbleweed

Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
Bring Back Pluto, Dollywood

Pee-Wee's Playhouse
TV On 10

The Phantom of the Opera
Bug Zapper, Dollywood, Jonathan

Pinocchio
1+1=13, Freeze, Frijoles, The Mayor and the Crook, Nickel Plated Pockets, Try Not to Die

Plan 9 from Outer Space
Final Frontier (remix)

Planet of the Apes
Dryspell

Pleasentville
Tugboat Complex

Police Academy
Akinesia, Five Fingers

Poltergeist
Dollywood, Drums on the Wheel, Facemelter, Nickel Plated Pockets, No Jumper Cables, Untouchable, Water

Ponyo
The Soup

Porky's
Krill, Numb (To the Guns)

Predator
Kyanite Toothpick

The Princess Bride
1,000 O' Clock, Save Our Ship

Princess Mononoke
Tetra- Possible, Rogue Wave

Project Grizzly
Bring Back Pluto

Pulp Fiction
Pins and Needles

The Purge
Fixed and Dilated

Queen of the Damned
ZZZ Top

Raiders of the Lost Ark
Couple Things, Environmental Studies, Fryerstarter, Legerdemain

Rain Man
Breakdance Beach

RoboCop
Antisocial, Live on 89.9FM Nighttrain

Rocky II
Molecules

Rocky III
100 Feet Tall, Sleeper Car

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
1,000 O' Clock, Eyeball Soup, Gopher Guts, Supercell

Rumble in the Bronx
Bazooka Tooth

Rushmore
Bazooka Tooth

The Sandlot
Corn Maze, Junkyard

Saw
Katz

A Scanner Darkly
Suicide Big Gulp

Scarface
Scissorhands

Serpico
Quiet

Sea of Love
Panacea

The Shawshank Redemption
Boomerang

The Shining
Defender, The Greatest Pac-Man Victory in History, Knievel, Rogue Wave, Welcome Home Warrior

The Silence of the Lambs
Coveralls

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
The Greatest Pac-Man Victory in History, Hot Dogs, Low Tide

The Sound of Music
Bring Back Pluto, Zodiaccupuncture

Soylent Green
Kill Joy, Molecules

Spirited Away
The Explanation

Stand By Me
Grace, Horse Flakes

Star Wars:
1+1=13, Abandon All Hope, Dirt, Flashflood, Garfield, Horse Flakes, Kiss the Cook, No Jumper Cables, Octoberfest, Reports of a Possible Kidnapping, Rogue Wave, So Strange Here, Teleprompters, Untouchable, Wonderful, The Yes and the Y'all

Sudden Impact
No City

Super Fly
Save Yourself

Super Size Me
Facemelter

The Sword in the Stone
KOWP, No Splash

Tarzan
Sniff Glue

Taxi Driver
Black Snow

This is Spinal Tap
Rabies, Sabbatical with Options, Zodiaccupuncture

The Three Amigos
Dirt

Throw Momma from the Train
Numb (To the Guns)

Titanic
That is Not a Wizard

Total Recall (1990)
Merit- Possible

Tokyo Gore Police
1,000 O' Clock

Toy Story
Klutz, The Yes and the Y'all

Troma Entertainment
The Poconos

Tron
More Cycles

Trouble Man
Tuesday

True Grit
Ask Anyone, Yoohoo

Van Helsing
Kiss the Cook

Vanilla Sky
Super Fluke

Videodrome
KOWP

Vixen!
Dead Pan

Wake of the Red Witch
Garbage

WarGames
No Jumper Cables

The Warriors
Labor, Maintenance

Watership Down
Infinity Fill Goose Down, Super Fluke

Water World
Water

Wattstax
Environmental Studies

Weird Science
Horse Flakes

West Side Story
Frijoles

When Harry Met Sally
1,000 O' Clock

White Wilderness (Lemmings)
9-5'ers Anthem, Blue in the Face, Encounter, Kill the Messenger

The Wicker Man
Ponzu Sauce, Superhands Mantra (Fuck Us All)

Wild Style
Crooked, Nightlight

The Witch
Couple Things, Infinity Fill Goose Down

Wilhelm Scream
Leisureforce

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Super Fluke

The Wizard of Oz
Abandon All Hope, Bad Samaritan, BMX, Bracket Basher, Daylight, Delorean, Difficult, Dollywood, Dragon Coaster, Fascination, Fizz, Freeze, Frijoles, The Gates, Happy Pillz, I'll Be OK, Kill the Messenger, KOWP, Krill, Lazy Eye, Live on 89.9FM Nighttrain, Marble Cake, The Mayor and the Crook, Merit, Nightlight, No Jumper Cables, No Splash, Number Nine, Octoberfest, Sabbatical with Options, Save Yourself, The Sea, Shere Kahn, Sink Or Swim, Solid Gold, Suicide Big Gulp, That is Not a Wizard, Water

Wynken, Blynken and Nod
Save Our Ship

Xanadu
Citronella, Suicide Big Gulp, Solid Gold

Zombieland
The Sea

Mythology/Folk Tale/Fables/Fairy Tale/Other Religions

Aphrodite
Freeze

Arcadia
Puff Tuff, Shrunk

Ares
Bermuda

Asclepius
Gauze

Athena
Fast Cars

Big Bad Wolf
Homemade Mummy

The Boy Who Cried Wolf
The Tugboat Complex Pt. 3

Camazotz
Salt

Cerberus
Bring Back Pluto, Quiet, Which Way Is Up?

Chicken Little (Henny Penny)
Spare a Match

Chimera
Mystery Fish

Chronos
Rabies

Cocytus
Kiss the Cook

Cupid
Bad Karma

Elysium
Lookout (remix)

Epic of Gilgamesh
Save Our Ship

Ganesh
Lazy Eye

Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Rogue Wave

The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs
Panacea

Griffin
Untouchable

Hades
Lotta Years, The Next Best Thing, No City

Harpy
Church Pants, Sink Or Swim, Tomorrow Morning

Hansel and Gretel
Drums on the Wheel, Mystery Fish, No Splash, Shrunk, Welcome Home Warrior

Hecate
Supercell

Hecatoncheires
Kodokushi

Helm of Darkness
Solid Gold

Hercules
1,000 O' Clock

Hydra
Purple Moss

Icarus
Bad Karma, Daylight, Garbage, Helium, Spare a Match, Troubled Waters

Jack and the Beanstalk
Ace Rocks, Big Bang, Oxygen, Save Our Ship, Shovel

Jason and the Argonauts
39 Thieves

King Midas
Easy, Fascination- Possible, Plagues and Bacon, Rings, Tap Dancin' for Scratch

Lady of the Lake
Catacomb Kids, The Harbor is Yours

Little Red Riding Hood
CD Only Bonus Track, Marble Cake

Medusa
The Mayor and the Crook, Shut Down, Stop the Bleeding

Minotaur
Knievel, Zero Dark Thirty

Mothman
Church Pants, Zero Dark Thirty

Oedipus
Kodokushi

Orion
Defender

Paul Bunyan
Homemade Mummy, Rogue Wave

Pegasus
Hot Dogs

Pied Piper of Hamelin
Church Pants, Defender

Poseidon
1,000 O' Clock, Church Pants

Prometheus
Kiln, Lice Team, Baby

Rapunzel
We're Famous

River Styx / Charon

Attaboy, The Four Winds, Leisureforce, Marble Cake, Poor Pavel

Robin Hood
Big Bang, Jazz Hands

Rumpelstiltskin
Freeze, Odessa, The Tugboat Complex Pt. 3, Zero Dark Thirty

Sasquatch
Rabies

Shambhala
ZZZ Top

Shangri-La
Molecules

Sisyphus
Abandon All Hope, Bug Zapper, Inner City Hustle, Water

Supay
Pizza Alley

Tartarus
Kodokushi, Which Way Is Up?

Thor
Delorean, Easy, Garfield

Three Billy Goats Gruff
Barcade, Bug Zapper, Tetra

The Three Little Pigs
All Day Breakfast, Basic Cable, How to Be a Carpenter, No City, None Shall Pass, Pigs, Super Fluke, Water Tower

The Ugly Duckling
Ponzu Sauce, Same Space (The Tugboat Complex pt. 2)

Valhalla
Castles, Sheesh

Vishnu
Air Pegasus (Le Cadeau)

William Tell
Leisureforce, Jazz Hands

Yama
Reports of a Possible Kidnapping

Yeti
Bring Back Pluto, Kryptonite

Zeus
Blacklist, Encounter, Float, The Four Winds, The Yes and the Y'all

Nursery Rhymes, Lullabies, etc.

Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
Infinity Fill Goose Down, Kodokushi

Humpty Dumpty
All Day: Nike+ Original Run, Basic Cable, None Shall Pass, Spare a Match

Hush, Little Baby
Fast Cars, The Mayor and the Crook, Zodiaccupuncture

I'm a Little Teapot
Boot Soup, Bracket Basher, Train Buffer

Itsy Bitsy Spider
Easy, Hot Dogs, Mississippi

Jack and Jill
11:35

K-I-S-S-I-N-G
Couple Things

London Bridge Is Falling Down
Knievel

Mary Had a Little Lamb
Plagues and Bacon, Oatmeal Cookies, Reports of a Possible Kidnapping

Peter Piper
I Went Outside Today

Ring a Ring o' Roses
89.9FM Nighttrain Promo, Bermuda, Black Snow, Jazz Hands, Jumping Coffin

Rock-a-bye Baby
Hold the Cup, Spare a Match, The Yes and the Y'all

Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Pizza Alley, Saturn Missiles

Rub-a-dub-dub
Tuesday

She Sells Seashells
BMX

This Little Piggy
Bad Samaritan, Legerdemain, Pigs

This Old Man
4AM

Three Blind Mice
Salt and Pepper Squid

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
The Poconos

Other of Note

Everything else I thought fit the spirit of the project but didn’t quite fit in any of the other categories.

1010 WINS
All Day Breakfast

Cardboard City
None Shall Pass

Crazy Eddie
No Jumper Cables

Damn Daniel
Klutz

Dave Chapelle- Purple Stuff
I Went Outside Today

Dungeons and Dragons
No Jumper Cables

Freedom Rock
Hang Ten

Future Primitive
I Went Outside Today, Racing Stripes, Superhands Mantra (Fuck Us All)

Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep
Abandon All Hope, Bracket Basher

Pledge of Allegiance
All In All, Citronella, Final Frontier (remix), Odessa

Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America
Abandon All Hope

The Search for Animal Chin
Racing Stripes

Shackle Me Not
Daylight, Nightlight

Soy Bomb Incident
Boot Soup

Rich Hall- Supermarket Sniglets
Easy

True Mathematics
Legerdemain

Upright Citizens Brigade
Put Your Quarter Up

WKCR 89.9FM / Night Train
89.9FM Nighttrain Promo

People (Other)

I didn't include other generally notable people, i.e. Albert Einstein, The Wright Brothers, etc.

I tried to keep the list to people relevant to music, movies, or art, i.e. the inclusion of Bob Barker due to his connection with The Price is Right, a TV show.

Some notable exceptions include:

People relevant to skateboarding. While this doesn't fit my general criteria of art, I feel skateboarding is an important influence on Aesop's work and therefore necessary to include. With that being said, since skateboarding is likely better classified as a sport, I'd like to clarify I won't be extending the same consideration to other notable sports figures mentioned, i.e. Babe Ruth, Michael Jordan, or Don Mattingly.

Also outside of my definitions, I decided to include other generally 'theatrical' or 'performative' types, like Harry Houdini, Evel Knievel, P.T. Barnum, etc.

I’ve also included known personal friends though their mentions might not be specifically to their art, i.e. Camu Tao, Kurt Hayashi, etc.

Bob Barker
Super Fluke

Charlie Chaplin- The Tramp (Character)
Daylight, Nightlight

Dennis Busenitz
Kyanite Toothpick

Evel Knievel
Holy Smokes, Jambi Cafe, Knievel, More Cycles

Fabio
Cook it Up

Harry Houdini
Drums on the Wheel, Jazz Hands, Klutz, Mailbox Baseball

Kathryn Frazier
One of Four (Thank You)

Kurt Hayashi
Abandoned Malls, Wolf Piss

Micheal McCloud
Salt and Pepper Squid

Mr. T
100 Feet Tall

P.T. Barnum
Cook it Up, Delorean

Robert “Bobbito” Garcia (The Stretch and Bobbito Show)
Ask Anyone

Steve Caballero
Leisureforce

Tommy Guerrero
Superhands Mantra (Fuck Us All)

Tony Alva
Bug Zapper

Tony Hawk
Blood Sandwich

Vanik Hacobian
The Greatest Pac-Man Victory in History

Wolf Blitzer
Numb (To the Guns)

Songs/Albums/Musicians

2Pac
Dog Years

4-Ever Fresh - Urban Sound Surgeon
Freeze

50 Cent- Get Rich or Die Tryin'
Kyanite Toothpick

99 Bottles of Beer
Antisocial, Babies With Guns, Dark Heart News, Happy Pillz, Hold the Cup, Prosperity

10,000 Maniacs
Rogue Wave

AC/DC:

Afrika Bambaata:
ZZZ Top

Agnostic Front
Holy Smokes

Alanis Morissette- Jagged Little Pill
Klutz, Molecules

Alaska (Atoms Family)
Ace Rocks

Alien Sex Fiend
Blood Sandwich

Akinyele
Smoke if You Got'um

Amazing Grace
The Dirt and the Filth, Encounter, Gun for the Whole Family

America the Beautiful
Maintenance, Super Fluke

Apathy
Frijoles

Aretha Franklin- Respect
N.Y. Electric

A Tribe Called Quest- Check the Rhime
Pins and Needles

The Atoms Family
Ace Rocks, Apology, Hall of Game, Save Yourself, Tap Dancin' for Scratch

Audio Two- Top Bilin'
Vertigo

The B-52's- Love Shack
Wonderful

Baby Dayliner
Pizza Alley

Bad Brains
Crooked, Salt and Pepper Squid

Baha Men- Who Let the Dogs Out
Train Buffer

The Bangles- Walk Like an Egyptian
Saturn Missiles

Bar-Kays
Purple Moss, Tetra

Beastie Boys:

The Beatles:
Air Pegasus (Le Cadeau), Tetra

The Bee Gees
Kill the Messenger

Big Daddy Kane
Dorks

Birdman
Nineteen

Billy Joel:
Bug Zapper

Billy Ray Cyrus- Achy Breaky Heart
Kiss the Cook

Bingo
Shrunk

Black Sabbath:
Acid King, Walk Like Thunder

  • Sweet Leaf
    Blue in the Face

  • War Pigs
    Atlantis, Attention Span, Hall of Game, Labor, Pigs, Take Me to the Basement

Black Sheep- The Choice is Yours
Number Nine, Miss by a Mile

Blackstreet- No Diggity
Cook it Up

Blockhead
89.9FM Nighttrain Promo, Ask Anyone, Babies With Guns, Bad Samaritan, Battery, Bracket Basher, By The River, Cat Food, Coffee, Frijoles, Happy Pillz, I'll Be OK, Live on 89.9FM Nighttrain, No Jumper Cables, One of Four (Thank You), Secret Agents, Try Not to Die, TV On 10

Blueprint
Alchemy, Encounter, Frijoles, Kyanite Toothpick, Lo-Fi Funk

Bobby Pickett- Monster Mash
Bazooka Tooth, King Cone

Bob Dylan- Subterranean Homesick Blues
Save Our Ship

Bob Seger- Night Moves
Yoohoo

Boots Randolph- Yakety Sax
Katz

Brand Nubian- Punks Step Up to Get Beat Down
Barcade, Train Buffer

Braniac Dum Dums
Crooked, Train Buffer

Breeze Brewin
Ask Anyone

Brian Eno:
Living Curfew

Britney Spears- Gimme More
Attaboy

Bruce Springsteen
Krill

The Buggles- Video Killed the Radio Star
Citronella, Limelighters

Busta Rhymes- Woo-Hah!! Got You All In Check
Fizz

Busy Bee- Making Cash Money
Infinity Fill Goose Down

C-Rayz Walz
Frijoles, Kill Switch, N.Y. Electric

Camp Lo
Jazz Hands

Camu Tao:
By The River, Easy, Get Out of the Car, I Went Outside Today, Jet Son, Living Curfew, Racing Stripes, TUFF, Water Tower

  • King of Hearts
    Cat Food, Crows 1, Crows 2, Get Out of the Car, Knievel, Rings, Walk Like Thunder

Cannibal Ox:
Bracket Basher, Inner City Hustle

Canon- Pachelbel
Bug Zapper

Captain Beefheart
Hang Ten

Carrie Underwood- Jesus Take the Wheel
Gauze

Chaka Khan
Attaboy

Chase Phoenix
Secret Agents

Christian Side Hug
Holy Driver

Company Flow- Simple
Easy, Limelighters

Conway Twitty- Hello Darlin’
Bermuda

Crushkill Recordings
Tetra

Cryptic One
Ace Rocks

Culture Club- Karma Chameleon
Crows 1, Hang Ten

Dark Time Sunshine
Poor Pavel

David Bowie:
Bug Zapper

Dead Kennedys:
Saturn Missiles

Dean Martin- That's Amore
Mystery Fish

Deck the Halls
Attaboy, Castles, Supercell

Deep Purple- Smoke on the Water
Lice Team, Baby

Def Jam
TUFF

Definitive Jux/Def Jux
Ace Rocks, All In All, Bazooka, Chameleon, Robot, Bazooka Tooth, Bracket Basher, Dead Pan, Easy, Flesh (remix), Frijoles, Hall of Game, Happy Pillz, Inner City Hustle, Nightlight, No Jumper Cables, Rickety Rackety, Save Yourself, Shut Down, Sniff Glue, Train Buffer, Worlds Collide

De La Soul- Millie Pulled a Pistol on Santa
Church Pants, Super Fluke

Del tha Funky Homosapien - Mistadobalina
Kiss the Cook

Depeche Mode- Personal Jesus
Smock

Dio- Holy Diver
Holy Driver

Dischord
TUFF

DJ Big Wiz
Junkyard, The Red List, Rickety Rackety

DJ Cip One
Ace Rocks, Easy, No Jumper Cables, Sniff Glue

DJ Ese
Side Two

DJ Krush
Kill Switch

DJ Khaled
Badminton

DJ Snake and Lil Jon- Turn Down for What
Dog Years

Dolly Parton:
9-5
9-5'ers Anthem

Dokken
Dokken Rules

Doug E. Fresh:
Labor

Drunken Sailor
The Tugboat Complex Pt. 3

Dub-L
89.9FM Nighttrain Promo, Bad Samaritan, Live on 89.9FM Nighttrain

Earth Crisis
Easy

Earth, Wind & Fire:
Pizza Alley

Edelweiss (The Sound of Music)
Bring Back Pluto

Einstrüzende Neubaten
Blood Sandwich

El-P:
Bracket Basher, Delorean, Easy, Nickel Plated Pockets, No Jumper Cables, One of Four (Thank You), Super Fluke, Train Buffer

Elton John- Rocket Man
Manik

Elivs Presley- Hound Dog
(While not originally written by Elvis and having been recorded hundreds of times, his version is the most well known.)
Attaboy

Enya
Nickel Plated Pockets

EPMD- Crossover
Hot Dogs

Ese (also DJ Ese) & Hipsta
Inner City Hustle

Evil Nine
Crooked

The Exploited

Eyedea
Miss by a Mile

Fat Boys- Stick 'Em
Happy Pillz

The Five Stairsteps- O-o-h Child
1,000 Deaths, Kyanite Toothpick

Frankie Goes to Holywood- Relax
Food, Clothes, Medicine

Franz Schubert
Shrunk

Frosty the Snowman
Stop the Bleeding

Fu-Schnickens- La Schmoove
Oatmeal Cookies

Fugazi- Repeater
The Greatest Pac-Man Victory in History

Gang of Four
Dollywood

Gang Starr- Step in the Arena
Black Snow, Get a Dog

Gene Chandler- The Duke of Earl
Daylight

Geto Boys- Mind Playing Tricks on Me
Octoberfest

Gil Scott-Heron- The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Coma, Jazz Hands, We're Famous

George Gershwin
Save Yourself

Germs
ZZZ Top

Ghostface Killah
Rogue Wave

Gloria Gaynor- I Will Survive
Kodokushi

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five- The Message
Try Not to Die

Great Green Gobs of Greasy, Grimy Gopher Guts
Gopher Guts

Grimace Federation
Strange Hours

GS Boyz- Stanky Legg
Environmental Studies

Guns N' Roses:
Bermuda, Couple Things, Dirt, Hot Dogs, N.Y. Electric- Axl Rose, Sleeper Car, Untouchable

Hangar 18
Frijoles, Try Not to Die

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing!
No City

Hawkwind
Zero Dark Thirty

Hieroglyphics
Preservation

House of Pain- Jump Around
Five Fingers

Ice-T- I'm Your Pusher
Klutz

Ice Cube:
Racing Stripes

Iron Maiden
Water Tower

James Gang
Breakdance Beach

Jam Master Jay
Babies With Guns, Freeze

Jeepers Creepers
Tomorrow Morning

Jest (Jestoneart)
Ace Rocks

The Jesus Lizard
Field of Dreams

Jethro Tull- Aqualung
Final Frontier (remix)

Jim Morrison
The Greatest Pac-Man Victory in History

Jimi Hendrix- Little Wing
Tugboat Complex

Joey Raia
One of Four (Thank You)- Possible

Johann Sebastian Bach
Rogue Wave

Johannes Brahms
Badminton

John Coltrane:
Couple Things, Rogue Wave

John Denver:
Sleeper Car

John Peel
Blood Sandwich

John Zorn
Untouchable

Judas Priest
Acid King

Juice Crew
Kyanite Toothpick

Julie Andres- A Spoonful of Sugar (Mary Poppins)
Big Bang, Oxygen

Katrina and the Waves- Walking On Sunshine
Commencement (at the Obedience Academy)

Kelis- Milkshake
Time Moves Differently Here

Kenny G
TUFF

Killing Me Softly
(unsure who to credit, read more)
Dark Heart News

Kool G Rap
Holy Smokes

KMD:

KRS-One:
No City

Kumbaya
Zodiaccupuncture

Lead Belly- Goodnight Irene
1,000 O' Clock

Led Zeppelin:
The Explanation, Saturn Missiles

LL Cool J:

Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!
Black Snow

L.I.F.E. Long
Inner City Hustle

The Little Drummer Boy
Garbage

Lloyd Chandler- O Death
Black Snow

Lonesome Valley
Black Snow

Lou Reed- Walk on the Wild Side
Environmental Studies

Love and Rockets
Catacomb Kids

Madonna- La Isla Bonita
Get a Dog

Madvillain:

Massive Attack
Fascination

Master P
Rabies

Max Roach
Catfish

MC Hammer:
Heard Right

Megadeth
Superhands Mantra (Fuck Us All)

Melvins
BMX

Men Without Hats- Safety Dance
Hall of Game

Metallica:

MHz- Rocket Science
Cat Food

Michael Jackson
Off Broadway

Michael Sembello- Mania (Flashdance)
All in All

MF DOOM:
Ask Anyone

Miles Davis- Bitches Brew
Klutz

Ministry
Blood Sandwich

Minor Threat
Kyanite Toothpick

Mötley Crüe
Tugboat Complex

Motörhead:
Easy

The Mountain Goats- Alpha Rats
Cat Food

Mozart
Attaboy, Strange Hours, Tetra, Water

Mr. Lif
11:35, Bracket Basher, Easy, Frijoles, No Jumper Cables

Mr. Magic
Katz

Mr. T- Treat Your Mother Right
100 Feet Tall

Muddy Waters
Ask Anyone, Diabolical Fun (remix), Pizza Alley

Murs
Bracket Basher, Easy, Frijoles, Happy Pillz, No Jumper Cables

Musical Youth - Pass the Dutchie
Smoke Weed

My Favorite Things (The Sound of Music)
Zodiaccupuncture

Nas:
Ponzu Sauce

New Edition
Lotta Years

Nina Simone- Mississippi Goddam
Mississippi

Nirvana- Come as You Are
Sleeper Car

Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
Difficult, Same Space (The Tugboat Complex pt. 2)

The Notorious B.I.G.:
Holy Driver, Marble Cake, TUFF

O.C.- Time's Up
Environmental Studies, Lazy Eye

Oh My Darling, Clementine
Mud, TAOS Two

Ol' Dirty Bastard- Brooklyn Zoo
Kill Switch

Ol' Man River
Jet Son

Omega One
89.9FM Nighttrain Promo, Coma

The Orphanage
Hall of Game, Save Yourself

Os Mutantes
Pizza Alley

Outkast- So Fresh, So Clean
Bazooka Tooth

The Overground
Hall of Game, Save Yourself

Over the River and Through the Woods
Mud, Smock

Ozzy Ozbourne
I Went Outside Today

Paul Simon:

Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth- The Basement
Infinity Fill Goose Down

Percee P
89.9FM Nighttrain Promo, Wake Up Call

Peter, Paul and Mary- Puff, the Magic Dragon
Bracket Basher, Dead Pan, We're Famous, The Yes and the Y'all

Pharoahe Monch- Simon Says
Nightlight, Posse Slash

Pink Floyd:

Pixies- Trompe le Monde
Salt

Poets of Darkness- Ready on the Left
Catch 22, Encounter, The Explanation, Killing Time

Poison- Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Fascination- Possible

Pop Goes the Weasel
Air Pegasus (Le Cadeau), Tumbleweed

Pop Will Eat Itself
Sniff Glue

Power Pill Fist
Dirt

Prince
Rogue Wave

Public Enemy:

Quelle Chris
Yoohoo

Quiet Riot- Metal Health
Lazy Eye

Rad Moves (The Backyardigans)
Cat Food

R.E.M.- What's the Frequency, Kenneth?
Kyanite Toothpick

Raekwon- Only Built for Cuban Linx (Purple Tape)
TUFF

Raffi- Bananaphone
All City Nerve Map

The Ramones- Blitzkrieg Bop
1,000 O' Clock

Rihanna- Umbrella
Sleeper Car

Rob Sonic
Cat Food, Junkyard, King Cone, The Poconos

Robert Johnson- Cross Road Blues
Fixed and Dilated, Supercell

A Rocket to the Moon
100 Feet Tall, Difficult, Long Legged Larry

Rockets From the Crypt
Citronella

Rock Master Scott & the Dynamic Three- The Roof Is on Fire
1,000 Deaths, Freeze

The Roling Stones:

Rhymesayers Entertainment
Hall of Game, Save Yourself

Richard Berry- Louie Louie
The Greatest Pac-Man Victory in History- Unlikely

Richard Wagner- Ride of the Valkyries
89.9FM Nighttrain Promo, Bazooka, Chameleon, Robot, Bazooka Tooth, Catacomb Kids, Chameleon, Coffee, Fascination, No Jumper Cables

RJD2
Bracket Basher, Frijoles

Run-D.M.C.:

S.A. Smash
No Jumper Cables

Sad Trombone
Comfy

Sam Cooke
Homemade Mummy

Sean P
Untouchable

Semisonic- Closing Time
6B Panorama

Sex Pistols:
Fast Cars

Shania Twain - Honey, I'm Home
Molecules

Silent Night
Fryerstarter, Hot Dogs, Legerdemain

Simon & Garfunkel:

Sing a Song of Sixpence
Crows 1, Crows 2, Kill Switch

Sisqo- Thong Song
Love to Fuck

Skinny Puppy
Blood Sandwich

Sleater-Kinney- Modern Girl
Delicate Cycle

Slick Rick- Children's Story
Catacomb Kids

Slow Suicide Stimulus
Akinesia

Slug
Miss by a Mile

Snoop Dogg- Gin and Juice
My Belly

Soundgarden- Black Hole Sun
Homemade Mummy

Soulposition
No Jumper Cables

Stanley Turrentine- Don't Mess with Mister T
100 Feet Tall

The Star-Spangled Banner
Basic Cable, Flashflood

Stronghold
Hall of Game, Inner City Hustle, Save Yourself

The Sugarhill Gang:
Rhymeslayers

Sun Ra
Yoohoo

Survivor- Eye of the Tiger (Rocky III)
Bazooka, Chameleon, Robot, Kill Switch, Left it to Us, Sleeper Car

Sweet- Ballroom Blitz
Pins and Needles

Taps
Bats, Numb (To the Guns), Oatmeal Cookies, One Brick, Salt

Technotronic- Pump Up the Jam
Ponzu Sauce

Techno Animal- We Can Build You
Train Buffer

This Little Light of Mine
Big Bang, Merit

Tobacco
Dirt, Suicide Big Gulp

Tom Petty- Free Falling
Attaboy

Tom Waits:

Tommy James and the Shondells- Crimson and Clover
Diabolical Fun (remix)

Tone Loc
Mystery Fish

Trini Lopez- If I Had a Hammer
Tugboat Complex

Ultramagnetic MCs- Critical Beat Down
Black Snow

Uncommon NASA
Frijoles, Zodiaccupuncture

Van Halen:

Van Morrison- Days Like This
Maintenance

Vast Aire
Ace Rocks, Apology, Frijoles, Numb (To the Guns)

Vince Staples- Blue Suede
Untouchable

Violent Femmes- Blister in the Sun
Apology, Know That to Know This, Tugboat Complex

Vordul Mega
Ace Rocks, Helium, Nickel Plated Pockets

Wang Chung- Everybody Have Fun Tonight
Save Our Ship

The Weathermen
Bring Back Pluto, Citronella, Coffee, Fast Cars, Junkyard, Pigs, Preservation

Weightless Recordings
Lo-Fi Funk, Save Yourself

When the Saints Go Marching In
Hold the Cup

When You Wish Upon a Star (Pinocchio)
1+1=13

Whitesnake- Here I Go Again (Tawny Kitaen)
Low Tide

Whistle While You Work (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
The Greatest Pac-Man Victory in History, Low Tide

The Who- Pinball Wizard
Saturn Missiles

Wild Blue Yonder
39 Thieves

Will Smith- Big Willie Style
Abandon All Hope

Windnbreeze
Ace Rocks

Wu-Tang Clan:
Side Quest

Yanni
Numb (To the Guns)

ZZ Top
ZZZ Top

The Zeros:
ZZZ Top

TV Shows/Cartoons/Anime, etc.

20/20
Manik

90210
Solid Gold

The A-Team
100 Feet Tall

A.L.F.
Pizza Alley

Abbott and Costello
Table Talk

The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends
Frijoles

American Chopper
Left it to Us

The All-New Super Friends Hour
Tetra

America's Funniest Home Videos
TV On 10

Animal Planet
Crooked

The Backyardigans
Cat Food

Beavis and Butthead
Pizza and Burgers

The Benny Hill Show
Katz, Superhands Mantra (Fuck Us All)

Blind Date
Numb (To the Guns)

Boy Meets World
Zodiaccupuncture

The Brady Bunch
1+1=13, Coveralls

Carnivàle
Sniff Glue

Casper the Friendly Ghost
Fascination, One of Four (Thank You), Same Space (The Tugboat Complex pt. 2)

Columbo
Bracket Basher, Table Talk

CNN
Crooked, Numb (To the Guns)

Deadwood
Pizza and Burgers, Take My Hand

Doctor Who (The Rebel Flesh (S6 E5))
Tetra

Dragon Ball Z
Coma

The Dukes of Hazzard
Left it to Us, Rickety Rackety, Sniff Glue, Table Talk

Fantasy Island
Acid King

The Flintstones
Attaboy, King Cone, Mars Attacks

Fraggle Rock
Ace Rocks, Babies With Guns, Tumbleweed, We're Famous

Futurama
The Gates

Game of Thrones
Purple Moss

G.I. Joe
Get Out of the Car, No Jumper Cables

Ghost in the Shell
Tugboat Complex

Gomer Pyle
Rogue Wave

Goofy (Disney)
Run the Numbers

The Great Grape Ape Show
No Jumper Cables, Tits Up

Gundam
I Went Outside Today

Happy Days
The Aquarium, Cycles to Gehenna, Dokken Rules, Tuesday

He-Man
Environmental Studies, King Cone

The Herculoids
No Jumper Cables

Howard Sandman Sims (Showtime at the Apollo)
Easy

I Dream of Jeannie
Cook it Up, Love to Fuck

Jeannie
Get a Dog

The Jeffersons
Racing Stripes

The Jerry Springer Show
Freeze

Jeopardy!
Acid King, Kirby, Tetra

The Jetsons
Forward Compatibility Engine, Jet Son, Super Fluke

King of the Hill
ZZZ Top

Lamb Chop's Play Along
Easy

Land of the Lost
Abandoned Malls

Leave it to Beaver
Frijoles

Let's Make a Deal
Pigs

The Lone Ranger
Purple Moss

Looney Tunes
Catacomb Kids, Dirt, Easy, Environmental Studies, Jailbreak, Love to Fuck, Pigs, Saturn Missiles, Strange Hours, Suicide Big Gulp, TUFF

Magnum P.I.
Zilch

Mickey Mouse
Bermuda, Tumbleweed

Mork and Mindy
Get Out of the Car, Kiss the Cook, Numb (To the Guns)

Morton Downey Jr.
Vititus

The Munsters
The Poconos

Peanuts
Bring Back Pluto, Coma, Forward Compatibility Engine, Freeze, Numb (To the Guns), Run the Numbers, Syrup, Welcome Home Warrior, Which Way Is Up?, ZZZ Top

Pokémon
Frijoles

Press Your Luck
Kill the Messenger

The Price is Right
Flamingo Pink, More Cycles, Syrup

Popeye
Knievel, Puff Tuff

The Muppets
Coffee, Fast Cars, Frijoles, Kill the Messenger, Mailbox Baseball

Mutant League
Stop the Bleeding

My Little Pony
Oatmeal Cookies

Pluto (Disney)
Run the Numbers

Project Runway
Low Tide

Robot Wars
Facemelter

Sailor Moon
BOSICO

Saturday Night Live
Holy Driver, Purple Moss

Saved by the Bell
Zilch

Scooby-Doo
Blood Sandwich, Infinity Fill Goose Down, Save Our Ship, Try to Remember

Seasame Street
Rogue Wave

Shark Week
Keep It Live

The Simpsons
1,000 O' Clock, Garfield, Salt and Pepper Squid

The Smurfs
The Sea

Space Ghost
No Jumper Cables

Speed Racer
Coma, No Jumper Cables

SpongeBob SquarePants
Mud

St. Elsewhere
Time Capsule

Star Trek
The Gates, Get a Dog, Mars Attacks, Sword Box, Take My Hand, The Tugboat Complex Pt. 3, Waiting Around

Tales from the Cryptkeeper
The Gates, Untouchable

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Molecules

That's So Raven
Sink Or Swim

Three's Company
Untouchable

The Three Stooges
1+1=13, Kill 'em All, Kiss the Cook

Thundercats
No Jumper Cables, Tetra

TNT
Numb (To the Guns)

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA)
Numb (To the Guns)

Transformers
Abandon All Hope, No Jumper Cables

The Twilight Zone
Alchemy

Voltron
N.Y. Electric, No Jumper Cables, Off the Top

(Watch Mr. Wizard) Don Herbert
The Yes and the Y'all

The Weakest Link
Easy

Wheel of Fortune
Kirby, Puff Tuff

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Leisureforce

Winnie the Pooh
Kill the Messenger, The Sea

The Wonder Years
Cook it Up, Smock

Yogi Bear
Catfish, Dokken Rules, Facemelter

Video Games

All forms—console, computer, and arcade games.

Ape Escape
Holy Driver, Jet Son, Junkyard

Arkanoid
Akinesia, Knievel

Boktai 2: Solar Boy Django
Bring Back Pluto

Borderlands
Rabies

Dig-Dug
Akinesia, Tits Up

Donkey Kong
Dirt

Donkey Kong Country
Dollywood

Duck Hunt
Daylight, Train Buffer

Excitebike
Acid King

Frogger
Smock

Frogs and Flies
None Shall Pass

Galaga
Button Masher

Golden Axe
That is Not a Wizard

GoldenEye 007- Also movie
Happy Pillz

The Legend of Zelda
Babies With Guns, Horse Flakes, Kiss the Cook, Panacea, Sleeper Car, Superhands Mantra (Fuck Us All), Teleprompters

Katamari
Living Curfew, Saturn Missiles

Killer Instinct
Tits Up

Mario
Easy, Ego Death, Holy Driver, I Went Outside Today, King Cone, Octoberfest, The Poconos, Rogue Wave, Super Fluke, Untouchable

Mario Kart
Infinity Fill Goose Down

Mega Man
Final Frontier (remix)

Metroid
Live on 89.9FM Nighttrain, Shere Kahn

Minesweeper
Live on 89.9FM Nighttrain, Wake Up Call

Mortal Kombat
Catacomb Kids

Mrs. Pac-Man
The Dirt and the Filth

Oddworld
Zilch

Oxenfree
Legerdemain

Pac-Man
The Greatest Pac-Man Victory in History, Jazz Hands, Save Our Ship

Pikmin
Living Curfew

Pitfall!
Dirt

Punch-Out
Black Snow, Kiss the Cook

Resident Evil
Bad Samaritan

Road Rash
Kyanite Toothpick

Ring King
Catacomb Kids

Sim City
Bazooka Tooth

The Sims
Saturn Missiles

Space Invaders
Boomerang, The Greatest Pac-Man Victory in History, Infinity Fill Goose Down, KOWP, Mars Attacks, Meter Feeder

Super Mario 3
Dollywood, So Strange Here

Tekken
The Explanation

Temple Run
Save Our Ship, Sleeper Car

Tetris
Corn Maze, Environmental Studies, Junkyard, Keep It Live, The Poconos, Tetra, Troubled Waters, Yoohoo

Tomb Raider
Coward of the Year, Flamingo Pink

Whac-a-Mole
Blood Sandwich

Zaxxon
Train Buffer, Tugboat Complex

Credits

In chronological order based on the Part 1 and Part 2.

[1] Nadsat
[2] Jimmytheshooter
[3] quale1442
[4] Cthulhu420
[5] MrGone1980
[6] bayrn
[7] Psychonautic
[8] Kneesbees
[9] CoryFinnegan
[10] SubMACHINE
[11] decognition
[12] PindakaasPelican
[13] Talib
[14] dfghytr
[15] Bluu
[16] Noir
[17] MisterWilson
[18] Human_Corkscrew
[19] soulzonice
[20] KingKongDiedForYourSins
[21] GoadGatsby
[22] MintMouse
[23] SteelyDeaconDan
[24] HONKYSAUCE
[25] Jason D. Morris
[26] DentalCannons
[27] methus
[28] soft_triceratops
[29] dandybishop
[30] AtlasTradeMarked
[31] 123andtotha4
[32] waffles27
[33] MC_Thesaurus
[34] wordgoeshere
[35] Graphomania
[36] Calamormine
[37] Scootch
[38] Kid Chainsaw (no link)
[39] Duke (no link)
[40] wanderingfern
[41] gryzem
[42] qahrp
[43] AphelionIcarus
[44] Aesop_Rocker
[45] orrery
[46] Wellhof
[47] rustle
[48] Kafka_esq
[49] JRL
[50] JohnnyBreaks
[51] GansitoSlim
[52] ToddBot
[53] thedude_ryan
[54] funnyfatale
[55] TrueHoustonEmcee
[56] zomBfc
[57] ElementOfSmash
[58] MPG
[59] James (no link)
[60] Rhettski
[61] Shut_Up_Bill
[62] LauraAngelaReilly
[63] frankoha
[64] KyleHenrichs
[65] jackson_gabbard
[66] ChiefJusticeJR
[67] noSLEEP
[68] carcinoGeneticist
[69] KillaKaneOfUNG
[70] tomweather
[71] SomeRandomAssDude
[72] KingPoetic
[73] Mr. Mendola
[74] GranpireVikingMan
[75] ikbensiep
[76] selphdefined
[77] iGingerBeard

]]><![CDATA[Aesop Rock: A Compendium of Influence - Part 2 (Collabs, Features, and Other Rarities)]]>https://piercedowell.com/p/aesop-rock-a-compendium-of-influence-93ehttps://piercedowell.com/p/aesop-rock-a-compendium-of-influence-93eTue, 31 Dec 2024 22:30:32 GMTPart 2— Collabs, Singles, Features, and Other Rarities

This is Part of 2 of 3— Collabs, Features, and Other Rarities
Part 1— Solo Albums & EPs
Part 3— The Reference Index, Credits, and Other Bits

Collab Albums & EPs

Included are the Albums, EPs, and Singles released under collaborative projects ordered chronologically by release year of the project first, then in chronological order per project, i.e. Bestiary (2014) precedes Hokey Fright (2013) as Hail Mary Mallon appeared earlier with Are You Gonna Eat That? (2011)

Hail Mary Mallon

Are You Gonna Eat That?

Released 2011, Listen | Purchase

Church Pants

Listen | Lyrics

When the rats rose up and broke their silence
And assembled on the shores of the closest island
With their folk beside them and a rogue defiance
Went 2 by 2 and awoke Poseidon
Pied Piper of Hamelin, Poseidon

Pink bunny slippers on the F.D.R. saying "follow that car"
Location

Moth man morph devoid of a new cocoon
More aches in his joints than joints in his human suit
No cigar,
Moth Man
Donnie Darko [56]

Scoop dirt smitty over hook-in-mouth
Foot work itchy for a hoof and snout, do or die intruder bound
Zoomed on the stupefying truancy of
Santa's little helpers watching millie pull her Brooklyn out
De La Soul- Millie Pulled a Pistol on Santa Claus, Location

Part hex, part dark RX, part kill the headlights when approaching a harpy nest
Harpy

I'm 21 spud guns burped over Birdland
Whole time swervin' the work van
Location

Garfield

Music Video | Lyrics

Spit the bait up, hide for days, track a trail of slime and waste
Catch you outside Kwik-E-Mart, the minimall, or time and space
The Simpsons

The dark heart news penny-ante necromancy
On to plan B: panic and channel the death of Bambi
Bambi

Rocking the bells in the rotary phone
Something awry in the way of the walk
LL Cool J- Rock the Bells

Death Star rebuilt, cozy inside the milk bar
Jukebox jonesing for the tone that break the bell jar
Star Wars, A Clockwork Orange, The Bell Jar

My thrill-kill cult consult with raw matter
It mill spilt guts and drums from Thor's hammer
Thor

Grubstake

Music Video | Lyrics

Hail Mary Mallon got too much posse
Public Enemy- Too Much Posse

Meter Feeder

Music Video | Lyrics

As the parking-ticketed guilty, Beetlejuice in the waiting room
Ogling this bird who put the Double D in 'Day of Doom'
Beetlejuice, Day of Doom

Personal space invader dais, pay-to-play-to-lose
If you can see a sitting duck grow up into a baying wolf
Live
Space Invaders

Root down to the brackish water
In a speed trap pro demasking marauders
Beastie Boys- Root Down

Smock

Music Video | Lyrics

Jowl line choppin up his wonder years
Druther's go forever undiscovered here
The Wonder Years

Out touch faith
Ye drown clutched unto thine flood gate
Peace out cupcake
Depeche Mode- Personal Jesus

Unbelievers run your codes and bonus features
A frogger in the traffic from a lair of lotus eaters
Frogger

Hello, I'm reaching
Peep the plain clothes and keep the J-lo, Gigli
Gigli

Over the river, under the fence
Over the TV, under again
Over the River and Through the Woods

The Poconos

Music Video | Lyrics

Hotel, motel, holy ghost
Razor blade, jailbait, overdose
Biblical- Holy Spirit/Ghost

No I've never driven and yes, death becomes me
Death Becomes Her

Hail the king, hail a cab, hail satan
Hail Zuul and the full that I'm paid in
Ghostbusters

Tire piles, broken bones, cloven toes, piss-pots
Troma quotes exploding onto rotoscoped film stock
Troma Entertainment

Twinkle twinkle little sinkhole, drinking decorative flamingos
Stippling a plastic lawn, picket fences, cats and dogs
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

Mallon juke left in bumper-to-bumper hazards on
Balance off, blackout, back for the Munsters marathon
The Munsters

Smash and grab everything tetris'd in the sprinter
With the "I'd Rather Be Cutting the Head Off a Serpent" sticker
Tetris

Our gang, wallop on some honestly it's now or now
Donkey in his crosshairs, Bobby taking Bowser down
Mario, Rob Sonic

Breakdance Beach

Music Video | Lyrics

On a very slow day made his way to the sea
Fuck Playland
BREAKDANCE BEACH!
Location

Windmill on sand and a James Gang tee
Rain Man: Definitely
BREAKDANCE BEACH!
James Gang, Rain Man

Take a breaker out the park, he the Great Bambine
Make him party at the waterfront, Jay Gatsby
The Great Gatsby

Table Talk

Listen | Lyrics

Who's on first
What took 2 with a fusion of thirst and a punk jump view
Abbott and Costello [57]

3, Mallon with no regard
Beyond full house clubs over lonely hearts
The Beatles- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

I'm on cruise, the devious rhyme
And rooster sauce
And still never cut the boosters off
Until a room of consumers and moody Veruca Salts
Can overlook a little whooping cough
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

We all cooped, up, loops, drugs
8 bit-crowbar loosen the drums
And become best friends like a noose and a lung
Or cooter removing a duke from a truck
The Dukes of Hazzard

I want silverbacks on the Jumbotron
My bad if Columbo's on, we don't plan really these things very well
Columbo

Mailbox Baseball

Listen | Lyrics

Feed into the fabric of distraction and death,
Statler alarmed, Waldorf upset
The Muppets

Pocket knives theatre, mutiny Houdini
Disappear before appearing sorcery is easy
Harry Houdini

Holy Driver

Listen | Lyrics

Title: Dio- Holy Diver

Ape Escape, corner by the cemetery death bells
Breath held, in his head he donkey with the red shells
Ape Escape, Mario

I'm a liar I'm a nuisance, I'm a fighter acting mulish
I'm a license owning pile who went to driver's ed with Toonces
Saturday Night Live

And early in the morning bore witness to the pie cut
Swerve on, serve a median that Christian side hug
Christian Side Hug

I escape New York like watching King Kong backwards
And you will know us by the trail of baffled dog catchers
On tippy toes, all gigantic net-swinging Baryshnikovs
Pattern like a final level peeled back to the mini-boss
Escape from New York, King Kong

Biggie on BLS, itchy palm, bead of sweat
Skidding in a ticking bomb, shitty brakes, Jesus fish
The Notorious B.I.G.

Knievel

Listen | Lyrics

Title: Evel Knievel

Minotaur, stacking apple boxes up to badger from
Crack or midi daggers through the Mack Truck or Mackie hum
Minotaur

Back and brought a Patty Hearst
As Arkanoid machines are being actively re-championed across the laundromat-iverse
Arkanoid

Voted most likely to be snowed-in at a desolate hotel writing a novel
Shining up his finest gospel
The Shining

I surface later, dirty version of Da Vinci undone
Beneath a little pinch of what these London Bridges become, run!
Leonardo da Vinci, London Bridge Is Falling Down

I got the ready aim, headache of a suicide face-card
Heartache of the same, and raise roofs made of radar
Camu Tao- King of Hearts

Ate food pay Tuesday, I'm goose eggs Monday
Popeye

Plagues and Bacon

Listen | Lyrics

If in the obituary column, sniff it
It was written by the forks and knives of Mary Mallon
Fever in the stew, sorta buried in rabbits and boiled cabbage
Had a little lamb - it was average
Mary Had a Little Lamb

Coulda been a Magdalene, Mary had a craft
It would ask her to master the oven of Manhattan's upper class
On a budget, lunched with the cemetery staff
Til her resume had slashed through the stomachs of the public
Biblical- Mary Magdalene, Location

Queen Mary Midas, if gold is a rose-colored virus
Alive in the vilest environments around
King Midas

Bestiary

Released 2014, Listen/Purchase

Jonathan

Music Video | Lyrics

If the medicine chest temper like a towny come untethered
To a busker with a twenty minute "Downeaster Alexa" ... cover
Billy Joel- The Downeaster Alexa

Hi Jonathan, meet the amazing Hollow Man
Turn a snow globe into a lava lamp
Hollow Man

I got tickets, again, to this Phantom of the Opera
Phantom of the Opera

Krill

Lyrics

I boards up doors, bored a cult, rewind Porky's
Borderline Vorhees, porridge line, more please
Pull up like a hundred flying Dorothys
Incorrigible, undermine authorities enormously
Sir!
Porky's, Friday the 13th, Oliver Twist, The Wizard of Oz

Eyes on slinkies, acid wash denim
Over iron-on Springsteen, pirates don't pick teams
Bruce Springsteen

Used Cars

Lyrics

Used coats, usurped thrones
FUBAR crews out New York homes
Location

Dollywood

Lyrics

Ollie on a dime, Dollywood elite
Posse in effect, poppy in his tea
Beastie Boys- Posse in Effect

Dottie I'm a rebel, cut away the pattern
Coffee on the dash, Muppets Take Manhattan
Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, Muppets Take Manhattan

Circulate the pest, faded corpse pain
Old tanooki suit, Gang of Four tape
Super Mario 3, Gang of Four

Gold Bazooka Tooth, eerie audio
Don't go in the light, here's Bobby, go
Poltergeist, Rob Sonic

Treading water in a dying industry
Covering his face, hiding in the wings
Phantom of the Opera

Born to hammer nails, bang a leader up
Die anonymous, face the Beelzebub
Biblical- Crucifixion of Jesus, Biblical- Beelzebub

Circling a drain, eye a lion's share
Fighting evil art, lions, tigers, bears
The Wizard of Oz

Little green men, pull a killer card
Fire in the sky, vultures in the yard
Fire in the Sky

The Soup

Lyrics

Aes stay gold like Ponyo
Hard headed, war-vetted, four-legged mongrel
Ponyo

4AM

Music Video | Lyrics

Use your illusion and move as a wounded gazelle
On a moonlit future in hell
Guns N' Roses- Use Your Illusion

Rats in the wall tap out drums
An amassing of non-retractable claws
This old man, he plays actual odds
On these detachable jaws
H. P. Lovecraft- Rats in the Wall [21], This Old Man

Hang Ten

Lyrics

Will empty from a crowded train
Oversee an evil plot
And blend in with the basic layman
Hey man, is that freedom rock?
Freedom Rock

Won't hold back homie
Start a cult, paint the world black
Old world magic, of a re-imagined skull snaps hope
The Rolling Stones- Paint it Black

What it really is
A culture of chameleons
Who muster up a hairy eyeball
Deep behind the peeling skin
Culture Club- Karma Chameleon

Drink from the river
'til he return three eyed
Talkin back to a Beefheart B-side
Captain Beefheart

Whales

Music Video | Lyrics

Alligator sailboat, dollar sign eyes
Fill a warehouse full of Van Goghs twice
Get money
Vincent Van Gogh

Merlin

Lyrics

No references

Picture Day

Lyrics

No references

Kiln

Music Video | Lyrics

Guts pecked out pigs snout gross beard
A B C fingers stuck in both ears
Prometheus

King Cone

Lyrics

Wide world slam dance to the gambit, bamm-bamm
Hands of a bandit, temperament of Ram Man
The Flintstones, He-Man

Act important get sorted behind a Jollibee
Promised land blue collars hopping on piranha plants
Biblical- The Promised Land (Milk and Honey), Mario

Whether blood from a stone or tapenade from an olive branch
Hail Mary Mallon do the monster mash!
Bobby Pickett- Monster Mash

Half-apes get money in a mass grave
As Bobby illustrates on the following splash page
Rob Sonic

Octoberfest

Lyrics

This year Halloween fell on a weekend
Vacate shells in a heat lamp
Free man teeth on a five finger meal plan
Knight might go Sistine with his free hand
Geto Boys- Mind Playing Tricks on Me

King of the keypad, egad
Please be careful
Can't trust Weasley or werewolf
Batman, Yoda, Luigi, Scarecrow
Out from an evening of air holes
Harry Potter, Batman, Star Wars, Mario, The Wizard of Oz

The Red List

Lyrics

Marginal charisma lived over brownies
Location

My DJ is Wiz, when he plays he wins, he go
DJ Big Wiz

Horse Flakes

Lyrics

I know, you skirted catechism, snuck in the movie theater
Heard that a train had hit person and left school to see it
Us too,
Stand By Me

Back with a cyborg eye, four wives
Nine toes and the pieces of the tri-force high
The Legend of Zelda

Weird science settling away
Cleared by us on a diet of his pride and a Papaya King a day, ay
Weird Science

Now if the weed in your town was an Ewok brown
But there really wasn't ever any other shit around
Star Wars

Singles/Features

D-Up

From Definitive Jux Presents IV, Released 2009

Music Video | Lyrics

D-Up the way of the walk is how a bayonet is catered to the palest of horse
And if I haze greenhorns collaterally to cavalry skirting bigger meteors
Please don't read the Beeper's yours
Biblical- Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Sonny unaware a suicidal summer's here
And incubates the albatross and hangs him off the puppeteers
Rime of the Ancient Mariner

I came to wake some snakes
I was in the face of the Ace of Spades
Motörhead- Ace of Spades

Dark Time Sunshine- Poor Pavel (feat. Hail Mary Mallon)

From LORE, Released 2019, Bandcamp

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Skeleton boat rowers scind the city on shore leave
Breaking down doors, swinging oars at support beams
River Styx/Charon

Birds eye on the fires for the final shot
Dark star brightest, Dark Time Sunshine o’clock
Dark Time Sunshine

The Uncluded

Hokey Fright

Released 2013, Listen/Purchase

Kryptonite

Listen | Lyrics

Title: Superman

Bought a kryptonite baggie
And a science magazine with a yeti on the cover
Mitigating insecurity before the worry
Turn the skin a pretty guava color
Superman, Yeti

Delicate Cycle

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I can take my finger off, old dog, old trick
New twist like actually take the finger off
Wrap it in a blanket as you would a severed horse head
Mail it to a friend you wanna pinky swear more with
The Godfather, Vincent Van Gogh

My whole life is a
(My whole life is a delicate cycle)
Sleater-Kinney- Modern Girl

Inside a jar with a lid, a giant arm with head
They said it used to walk upright and like New York after ten
Location

Hang on, I'm overnighting eyes with a headlight-deer stare
One up, Vin Van, UPS an ear pair
Vincent Van Gogh

TV On 10

Lyric Video | Lyrics

Tony had a hive for the club
Where the toes of the tigers, arrive and erupt
Run's house flies in a ripening husk
Each unwound one too alive to instruct On his own,
Blockhead, Run-D.M.C.- Run's House

Surfing a 20 inch tube
In a home-videos-over-news kinda room
America’s Funniest Home Videos

Left JFK , smelled smoke in the vulture
Found fire in the hole, never found closure
Now a quote from his homeboy Jeremy:
"My mother took a night flight out of Kennedy"
Location

I remember that you rode your bike home
N.Y. autumn like a fright-night fight song
Location

Earthquake

Music Video | Lyrics

No references

Organs

Music Video | Lyrics

No references

Superheroes

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Jambi Cafe

Listen | Lyrics

Title: Pee-Wee's Play House

Scraped knees and a very bruised ego
You're a good kid just a goofy Knievel
Evel Knievel

Bats

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Never play Taps on a short-scale
Played dream wars with coffins and chalkboard nails
Sore thumb
Taps

Knife in the road
Scalp in his mitten
Glass house, decal of Calvin pissin
Calvin and Hobbes

Scissorhands

Music Video | Lyrics

Title: Edward Scissorhands

There are days when I couldn't fight my way out of a wet paper bag
Even if I had Edward Scissorhands hands
Edward Scissorhands

If I had Edward Scissorhands hands
I would whittle pogs into pentagrams
Like say hello to my little friends
Edward Scissorhands, Scarface

These stone snows
Scissorhands bets
Cut a pig heart from a wicked mans chest
Maybe hang it high on a fence for a fantasy alive in the eyes of revenge
Oh
And accidentally injure every jam band
If I had Edward Scissorhands hands
Hmm..
Edward Scissorhands

Eyeball Soup

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This is the collective voice of animals and misfit toys intruding
I'm kidding it's me, what are you doing?
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

The Aquarium

Music Video | Lyrics

I jump sharks too, not the kind that sink a fang in
The kind that make the people closest to you think you're Satan
Happy Days

Teleprompters

Listen | Lyrics

I was laying bricks in a line
Yap full of dog toy
Picturing a life beyond that of a protocol droid
Star Wars

I was laying bricks in a line
Yap full of copper-top
Picturing a life beyond that of a dish-washer bot
Robots [58]

Buzz ping
Criss-crossed arms in a tub ring
Learned heartbreak on a Zelda-1 sub screen-numb
The Legend of Zelda

Learned dark days by the scent of poached dove meat
Some part ways and it’s fugly
Dark Days [59](no link)

You need to get out more
I dunno-over 2 million dead bats in NY alone
Location

Alligator

Music Video | Lyrics

No references

WYHUOM

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Boomerang

Listen | Lyrics

Addressing injuries commissioned by the Suffolk county briar
When building coverage out of rubber tires
Or guns out of thumbs...
Location

Space invaders through a paper Rita Hayworth
Trying to tunnel 'till he ankle deep in pay-dirt
Or halo deep in water...
Space Invaders, The Shawshank Redemption

Long Island was the hatchery, NYC the wetstone
Sharpening the carving knives, foraging for breadcrumbs
I headed west, planned to boomerang back
Sidetracked by a trans-continental cage match
Locations

Tits Up

Listen | Lyrics

Hi, I don’t shake beer in the dark
I write but I’m no Shakespeare in the park
William Shakespeare

I’m a grownsed up punk with an ear for a heart and I hear you
Please wait here for the ark
Biblical- Noah's Ark

Shake hands with a foxhole raider
Got a grip like c-c-c-combo breaker
Killer Instinct

New high score on the Ihop Dig-Dug
Pretty cool otherwise pretty much tits up
Dig-Dug

Grape ape unveil plans for the van use
Drive to your shit town, tell you that your band rules
The Great Grape Ape Show

Oooooooooo

Listen | Lyrics

No references

That Cat Has Worms (Blockhead Remix)

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No references

Lice

Lice

Released 2015, Listen/Purchase

Vertigo

Listen | Lyrics

Ashes to ashes, catch the odd sonnet
What more can I say, Top Ramen
Audio Two- Top Bilin' [60]

Katz

Listen | Lyrics

Cats had better learn to do the worm before sixth grade
Same age, fix your man's fade and make a mask out a pig face
Saw

Cats had better not leave they fitted on the 6 train
Cats had better gimme back my Mr. Magic mixtape
Location, Mr. Magic

Cats had better beeline to the monolith
Cats had better never doubt the dollar bin
AKA the promised land
2001: A Space Odyssey [17] (from Blood Sandwich), Biblical- The Promised Land

Cats had better shout "aight" when Doug E. flip the "ayo"
Better yet take notes on the whole stage show, K?
Doug E. Fresh- I ight

Cats had better drink up all they Ovaltine
And recognize the flow is more important than the smoke machine
A Christmas Story

Cats had better name they horsey Paul Revere
And wear a smoking jacket when attempting to dramatically about face in they office chair
Guys and Dolls [61]

Aw yeah, cats had better save me a jelly-filled
Cats had better greet me with the theme song from Benny Hill
Boots Randolph- Yakety Sax, The Benny Hill Show

Environmental Studies

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Hit it! This is when you line your little bastards up
Set aside a muster point then run and get your candle snuffed
Beastie Boys- Hold It Now, Hit It

Muscle through the analog, a part of something heavenly
Rubber duckies in a row and Tetris-ing, it's therapy
Tetris

Raiders of the multiverse in bumper cars that don't reverse
Make a move, maybe you should grow out of your floaties first
Raiders of the Lost Ark

Speakers of an unknown dialect
Each breath comes with it’s own environment
You lack the minerals and vitamins
Treat hacks like flies to the spider-web
O.C.- Time's Up

There there, never been a shill for the shameful
He mainly, chills, laying bricks on his Grayskull
He-Man

I'm in the distance, tied to a cartoon rocket
Death proof, dressed like an art school project
Looney Tunes, Death Proof

Walk on the wild side, smile and a swamp hat
Lo-fi pro invoke trial by combat
Ah,
Lou Reed- Walk on the Wild Side

Mile-high Aes say grace over Wattstax
Aim for the gong or the conman
Wattstax

I’m an odd one, I’m a crazy 8
Call top bunk, do the stanky leg
GS Boyz- Stanky Legg

So Strange Here

Listen | Lyrics

My dude
I woke a million miles away from my original muse
The very soil on which he learned to conquer Mario 3
Build a fire, and out-maneuver any mark of the beast
Super Mario 3

I speak an alien argot, New York amass in his tongue
The vibe is basically martian, they smell the Jack in his blood
Location, New Jack City [62]

I ain't the kind that use New York as a crutch, I use the force of the funk
Enjoy the work and earn my portion of mush
Location, Star Wars

On a tour of the wild frontier, lying awake
I tell myself it's all to broaden my societal take
And while I sorta still believe it I'd be lying if I
Didn't admit I’d like to curl up on Long Island and die
Location

Get a Dog

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I step in the arena bumping Step in the Arena
Green wayfarers, no gray hair, it's a patina
Gang Starr- Step in the Arena

Don't play fair, you could tell by how he share his pizza
The 60/40 special from a porky Ebeneezer
A Christmas Carol

Reppin’ La Isla Bonita, brace for the brain rot
Four eyes, corners like a marble in a maze box
Madonna- La Isla Bonita

Set your phasers, obey or catch the vapors
My 1,2, unscrew a player from his trainers
Star Trek

Yapple Dapple, rappers like crabs in a barrel
Get trapped and blanched and snap crackled
Jeannie

I’m Ginsberg interning at the Magic Castle
I’m Bob Ross, happy accidents and rad afro
Allen Ginsberg, Bob Ross

Lice Two: Still Buggin'

Released 2016, Listen/Purchase

Zilch

Listen | Lyrics

I don't support a media that fetishize the wealthy 'cause it's weird
I'm here to help contextualize the Veldt
To a room of terrible cadets who dress like Mr. Belding I turn 'em into messengers Rebelling, it's compelling
The Veldt, Saved by the Bell

The cavalcade approach on the heels of obscene evil
It's easel is meteoric, it's beanie is Steve Zissou
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Oddworld bogmen, Slog through toxins
Groggy, Squash all goblins, Promptly
Oddworld

I'm at the table breaking bread with both the wicked and the righteous
It's hard to tell the difference through a history of violence
Biblical- Breaking Bread

East coast, eat slow, throwing pizza crust at pigeons
After dinner hit Ibiza with two Dobermans like Higgins
Magnum, P.I.

Couple Things

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Post punk, played it back, Raider of the rations
Blacksmith: forge Coltrane out of Klaxons
Zap!
Raiders of the Lost Ark, John Coltrane

The riddle wriggle on about the residue
A social advocate, a Black Phillip at the petting zoo
The Witch

And K-I-S-S-I-N-G, Eyes on his rivalries
Look at all these wonderful prizes inside his diaries
K-I-S-S-I-N-G

I write about delirium and disappearing devils
Then frame it with a margin of the most feared symbols
And a shitty drawing of me playing Guns n' Roses pinball
People peeking in my window like they might just wear my skin home
Guns N' Roses

Oatmeal Cookies

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Top stool, drop the pontoon
La Schmoove, Don clobber the chronically obtuse
Fu-Schnickens- La Schmoove

Put down the telephone around a crew and double back
Summoning a storm from the pulpit of Farmer's Almanac
Cleanly
Farmer's Almanac

Back in the cave for safekeeping
In the company of Lorna Doone
And polyphasic sleeping
Lorna Doone

Little lambs sure to go like everywhere that Mary went
Lions get therapy and branded as heretics
Mary Had a Little Lamb

Single tear, Aes play Taps on the theremin
Terribly serenade the death of transparency
Taps

Now we'll ride out out cloaked with no cronies
Watching alphas grow up into bronies, Oh geeze
My Little Pony

Mud

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Wide awake and snarling, the dark wings opening oh my darling
I speak in holy code and keep the rodeo alarming, homie
Oh My Darling, Clementine

Over the river through the woods, I eat the bread, I spoon the mush
Keep it dirty, we prefer misshapen over cookie cut
Over the River and Through the Woods

Spongebob PJs, dreaming of deep space
Sleep spooning a nuclear briefcase
SpongeBob SquarePants

Stop the Bleeding

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Greet a world with the rhyme face, don't play fair, I'm all
Eyes made of coal, I'm all snakes for hair, I'm all
Side-scrolling eye contact over speed chess
Blink once get a king deep sixed
Frosty the Snowman, Medusa

Ooh-eee true indeed, tuna to the truancy
Suit 'em up, two cents, choopin' out the mutant league
Mutant League

Triple Fat Lice

Released 2017, Listen/Purchase

Pins and Needles

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You on point, Sand? All the time, Aes
Well, then, grab the microphone—I'm late for my own wake
A Tribe Called Quest- Check the Rhime

Minister of shit's creek, Ballroom Blitzing
Under cloud cover, the color of fresh squid ink
Sweet- Ballroom Blitz

Five-dollar milkshake, half-raw New York strip steak
Jaguar shark in the fish tank
Pulp Fiction

Comfy

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Tough crowd, he the chew the cud king
Aw crud, thing one and two in one thing
Cat in the Hat

Rebel rebel, fuck a precious metal
I'm the dopest gettin' cozy with a pencil and a level
David Bowie- Rebel Rebel

The mostly grown-up Mowgli keep a
Scepter in the tendril
Here to walk into the light with the excessively disheveled
The Jungle Book

Bass in our media, spirits in our computers
Sad trombones in our futures, troopers
Sad Trombone

Pizza and Burgers

Listen | Lyrics

Ugh, clan leaders, sit around canned peaches
Divas who never scanned off-brand Cheez-Its
Deadwood [63]

Lost lambs in a sea of pleasant facial features
Hope you also plan to celebrate the rejects
Biblical- Parable of the Lost Sheep

Even if I'm Shakespeare on paper, in person, I'm Beavis
Homie, they don't make a Jesus that fits into what he preaches
Or walk how he do
William Shakespeare, Beavis and Butthead, Biblical- Jesus walks on water

Yoohoo

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My horse drinks on its own, I ain't gotta do shit
True grit from a coup to tell you "my dude's piff"
True Grit

Find that eye of the typhoon, it's my house
All I know is night moves, fried food, and dry mouth
Bob Seger- Night Moves

Haiku and magpies dyin' to peck your eyes out
Fly from the argyles to the barbed wire crown
Biblical- Crown of Thorns

Wait, I can't pretend to care, I'm busy down in Herald Square
Standing on a soapbox, yellin' out "repent, the end is near!"
Location

It got a little dark there for a second
I'm terrible at parties, I'm wonderful at Tetris
Tetris

I'm number 1 for anybody down to fudge the metrics
I'm Dumbledore for anybody down to smudge the lenses
Harry Potter

Rock bottom just got deeper
I bump Sun Ra and dodge frogs from the ether
Sun Ra

Wear sweatpants every day; are less a problem, more a feature
The posse is bottom feeders and possibly Hot For Teacher
Van Halen- Hot For Teacher

Toothpick throne on a pyramid of cheese cubes
None for you; Sand you can have some; Chris, get it
Lice
Quelle Chris

Panacea

Listen | Lyrics

Unless you're hard of hearing unicorns should start appearing
Yetis walk up out the forest, you could score a jar of faeries
The Legend of Zelda

When I'm on the microphone teeth start whitening
Geese lay golden eggs, seas part entirely
The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs, Biblical- Crossing the Red Sea

Drums that come with a sense of friendship
Will feed your shitty cat while you vacation in the Hamptons
Location

You will never know a boat that doesn't know the sea of love
You will find your favorite ever pair of shoes for cheap as fuck
Sea of Love

Singles

Ask Anyone

Released 2021, Listen/Purchase

Lyrics

Roses for the OG MF
Where were you when Bob dropped the OG "Dead Bent?"
MF DOOM, Bobbito:
(Robert Bobbito Garcia radio DJ, owner of Fondle 'Em Records. The Stretch and Bobbito show, research. Bobbito release MF DOOM's comback single Dead Bent in 1997 [64]), MF DOOM- Dead Bent

I was over Tony's on some "Whoa is that? No, is that?
Yes, it's Zev Love X, sounding reckless"
Blockhead, Zev Love X

I took it to the head and heart, you were back as Metal Face
And threatening my pearl-white Acura from the second bar
MF DOOM- Dead Bent

Sold the first Appleseed CDs at your Brownies show
While you were saying "something to remember like the Alamo"
Location, MF DOOM- Rhymes like Dimes

I was yelling every word and never late
And when you finally played "Hey!" I felt the venue levitate
MF DOOM- Hey!

Ask anyone, L.I. to upstate
Come to learn it's only phase one of the floodgates
Locations

DOOM stay gluing true grit to the bass line
And made himself a hero and a villain at the same time
True Grit

Back in '94, you had that line about the Nikes on the wire
I'd always see these Nikes on the wire when I was driving through a neighborhood somebody said you stayed in
Convinced I'd found the actual inspiration
KMD- Constipated Monkey

Thank you for the stories, and a fuck you to the normies
Brewin said we lost our Jordan, I would sprinkle in some Voorhees and agree
Breeze Brewin, Friday the 13th

Breeze, I have this memory of me and you
Rapping "Meat Grinder" to each other at a BBQ in BK
Got the same memory with a couple other people too
Trading DOOM lines, that's what people do
Breeze Brewin, Madvillain- Meat Grinder, Location, MF DOOM

Thirty Summers, a guide in the muddy waters
To the man with many names, I hope you're somewhere with your brother yeah
Muddy Waters, DJ Subroc

Catfish

Released 2022, Listen/Purchase

Lyrics

No road atlas, only roads to Damascus
Where the roses are for growing, not for throwing at some pageant
Biblical- Conversion of Paul the Apostle

I wake up every day and move different than I used to
Smarter than whichever bear's assuming that you do, too
Yogi Bear

Doozy after doozy, up and brushing off the lab coat
Cold bath, bo staff, back on his Max Roach
Max Roach

All you see is parachutes raining from the Matmos
All I see is parody and parroting and plateaus
Barbarella

Malibu Ken

Malibu Ken

Released 2019, Listen/Purchase

Corn Maze

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I'm the world weekly news Batchild
Beelining ash pile to ash pile to ash pile
Weekly World News

Criminy, ya killin' me Smalls, the fist balls up
I pull my hood down, I got some walls up
The Sandlot

Pick a one-horse town, four horsemen got his number
I feed each one the others camouflaged in Fluffernutters
Biblical- Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Are we Donatello's David or delicate Frozen Charlottes?
Even Davids know, in art, there often will be no catharsis
Donatello

Zero faithers, wearily fear his neighbors
Someday we'll find a way to make these billionaires obey us
Biblical- Mark 12:31

Someday we'll earn a subdivision gaudier than reprobates
Who sit around depressed and guess the order of the Tetris rain
Tetris

With biblical misreckoning, son of surly Satan torn asunder
Private number, public urination
The Bible

Tuesday

Music Video | Lyrics

The dandruff in a shaken globe is fit to gild a manger
The pizza face is pepperoni, carbuncle, and caper
Biblical- Nativity of Jesus

Not a butcher, not a baker
Pick a booger with a basic evolutionary failure
Rub-a-dub-dub

Chase dreams with the hellbound
Posture suitable for a job in a bell tower
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

A little light cleaning, keep the spiders off his eden
Maybe one day, he'll go deeper
Really exorcise the demon at the root
Biblical- Garden of Eden

From desolate to Little Shop of Horrors in a second
It's weird knowing life thrives more when you exit
Little Shop of Horrors

The Trouble Man, cuddle with a duffel bag of loose cash
Chews glass, scatterbrained, aspartame moo-stache
Mwah!
Trouble Man

Everything's coming up goose eggs
Sunday, Monday, Happy Days, Tuesday is Tuesday
Happy Days

Save Our Ship

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Ears flat back, middle finger like a meerkat
Moonstruck, two bear traps where his shoes was
Moonstruck

I'm in the basement mixing up the medicine with the Wizard of Id
If it deliver us from the grip of the grid
Bob Dylan- Subterranean Homesick Blues [65], The Wizard of Id

Spelling "Save Our Ship" with a stick in the sand
Pull a sock puppet off a 6-fingered hand
The Princess Bride

Everybody Wang-Chung with the spiritually bankrupt
Drank blood from the same cup he dump change from
Wang Chung- Everybody Have Fun Tonight

Doc Strangelove, lazy in the Lincoln Logs
Looking for some inkling of Wynken, Blynken, Nod
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Wynken, Blynken and Nod

Instead it's Blinky, Inky, Pinky and Clyde
I know the goal is split the chrysalis wide
I'm only in it to hide, come on
Pac-Man

Call of the wild kid, trade a cow for seeds
I'm in the clouds smelling blood from the cowards beneath
The Call of the Wild, Jack and the Beanstalk

Out here pigs play metal like kettle drums
Turn a quick deli trip to a temple run
Temple Run

Quills of the filterless
Document the wilderness from silverfish to Gilgamesh
Trinity or triple six
Epic of Gilgamesh, Biblical- The Trinity, Biblical- The Number of the Beast

And no love, look, loose dogs through Scooby-Doo fog
Looking for any semblance of yule log, let alone good jobs
Scooby-Doo

Sword Box

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Watch, con artist, give a fuck who the mark is
Whether gorgeous or New Yorkers through the eye of Diane Arbus
Location, Diane Arbus

Pick a card, tricky turn a vic' into a bobble-head
Absconders into clingers-on, Klingons into Romulans
Star Trek

Dog Years

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I'm three-eyed fish in the moat, I'm a joke
I'm a Kilroy pissed in the snow
Kilroy was here

Old portfolios openly dissed
OG morals, Tokyo drift
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

Bed-head Lazarus, climb out a time warp
No one to impress, what would I comply for?
Biblical- Raising of Lazarus

Hmm, I never ate dinners with pop stars
You wouldn't paint litter on a Bob Ross
Bob Ross

New York slobs hop scotch on rock salt
Less 2Pac, more pock marks, mmm
Location, 2Pac

Primordial metazoan friends
Break bread with a plan to coalesce
Biblical- Breaking Bread

Get served, thank the pig
No gold, no myrrh, no frankincense
Biblical- Three Wise Men

A little man-on-wire, no safety net
It's a way of life, it's a face of death
I cold came in the door sure as Rae is chef
Man on Wire, Raekwon, Wu-Tang Clan- Clan in Da Front

Burnouts at the prom
Turn down for your mom
DJ Snake and Lil Jon- Turn Down for What

Acid King

Music Video | Lyrics

Same year Bowie dropped
Two horns hatched and matured to gore Northport's '84
David Bowie- David Bowie, Location

Here is '84: Mary Lou Retton, Excitebike, AIDS, Jeopardy!
Wake up the Orwell in me
Excitebike, Jeopardy!, George Orwell

Left home in the dark
To curl up in a bear hug in Suffolk County's arms
With a bevy of heavy metal records and leather bibles
More Anton LaVey than Saint Michael
Location, The Bible, Biblical- Saint Michael

Sabbath and Judas and all tunes prudent
Seems tame now, but then it was Devil music
Black Sabbath, Judas Priest

Angus on the ax in the back
Foreground offering a pitch-dark animal corpse
And backyard black mass
Angus Young of AC/DC

Cops cuff him and stuff him in Amityville Asylum
It's fantasy island for Noah's Lions, at the time
South Oaks, but focus on the environment
And how it couldn't loosen the Lucifer out his client
Who would flee
Locations, Fantasy Island, Biblical- Noah's Ark

Pale moon, pale horse howling death
And LSD to make it mean more than it meant
Biblical- Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Suicide Big Gulp

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"A" is like a different type of animal
No brick road , no zip code Xanadu
The Wizard of Oz, Xanadu

Family, his and-what-army party in the panic room
Before he meet the man he feed his hands into the scramble suit
Panic Room, A Scanner Darkly

Glam channels wake up in a fantasy dismantled
We're championing vandals over Andy with the Campbell's
Andy Warhol

He the cold-hearted old guard, Holy Ghost crowbar
The postcards only know Crayola, no Rose Art
Bibical- Holy Spirit/Ghost

Ill communication aside
I'll kick a train off a bridge, I'll smack a plane out the sky
Beastie Boys- Ill Communication, King Kong

Place bets, eight heads and the radio flyin'
The kid Tobacco is a face in the fire on the fucking mountain
Tobacco

My Bugs Bunny tunnel-out is perfect
Don't be there when we bubble to the surface, usurpers
Looney Tunes

Been seen petty spoils void steady acumen
I'd rather be avoided, a voice of the Voynich Manuscript, boy-o
Voynich manuscript

1+1=13

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Passionately waiting in a sea of cursed funk
I'm a vacationing Brady with a tiki, surf's up
The Brady Bunch

There is no amount of tourmalated quartz
That would counter the disturbance in the force he endures
Star Wars

Where luck is a white whale, love is a work of fiction
Amity is a service sold outside his jurisdiction
Moby-Dick

Ayy, when you wish upon a barn star
Deliver us from "nyuck, nyuck"and "hardy-har-har"
When You Wish Upon a Star
Pinocchio, Biblical- The Lord's Prayer "deliver us", The Three Stooges

Got a face for radio, break a mirror every morn'
Turn seven years into seven more, it's yours
Nas- The World is Yours

Churro

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Oh, happy day, that unmistakable brown plumage
As accented by a snow white head and tail, I've seen the holy spirit
Biblical- Holy Spirit/Ghost

Like a giant fuckin' eagle
Or I don't know
Maybe Mona Lisa cheesin' from the easel
Or I don't know
Leonardo da Vinci

Purple Moss

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I talk like it hurts to talk, mascot of Murphy's Law
From the claw game at the Walt Whitman mall
Location

Standby for the van by the river
Built ramps in the summer, tanned hides in the winter, anti-winner
Stare at the stars from an empire builder to anywhere far
Saturday Night Live [66]

Never mistook for a bird or a plane
Mistook for a hearse in the rain
Superman

Germ in a wound
Bit a few heads off a Hydra
Deadbeat friends in the lens of his Leica, yikes
Hydra

Hi-ho silver
Live from an empire builder
The Lone Ranger

Night king, wild Earth, bite a hand with the serum
His old man haunt him, his own fam' fear him
Game of Thrones

Do not make me turn this car around
No sleep 'til the bars of Barbertown
Beastie Boys- No Sleep Till Brooklyn

Bar-Kays bump through a claw marked Arkham
Bars on the window, barbs in the jargon
Bar-Kays, H. P. Lovecraft

Features, Non-album Singles, Rarities and everything else

Included are feature verses, stand-alone singles, rarities, and everything else. Organized in alphabetical order with corresponding album information, streaming, and purchase links where applicable.

Despite scouring Rate Your Music and Wikipedia to make this section as comprehensive as possible, I’ve opted to exclude a handful of songs—namely anything “freestyle”. Though there might be a few potential missed references, I feel the spirit of the project is to focus on the “written” songs.

Ace Rocks

Listen | Lyrics

Soundtracker Cip One
Hands like vinyl killers that’ll run around
And cut them dubplates down to 7-inches
DJ Cip One

And I Jukie Ace
Boogie face
First do it from the base of the Six Flags
Def Jux movement
Definitive Jux

And he Jukie Cip
Boogie mixtape hustle
Push consecutive classic materials for new Jet Jungles
Definitve Jux, DJ Cip One, Jet Jungle

See Bazooka with his arms folded
Fists balled up
Called up Ox to ride the European tour bus
Cannibal Ox- Battle For Asgard [67]

Insidious dirt funk litterbug in the New York chronicle form phenom slang
Peep the game
Location

It goes peace to the Atoms
What? Add ‘em up
Crypt, Jest, Wind, Vast, Vor, Cip, Alaska
The Atoms Family, Cryptic One, Jest, Windnbreeze, Vast Aire, Vordul Mega, Cip One, Alaska

I let 'em crowd the new record the fuck up for the sensors
You don’t know what you forgot, you’ll remember in September
Earth, Wind & Fire- September–Possible:
(“Do you remember
The twenty-first night of September?”
Bazooka Tooth came out on 9/23)

It’s gonna make these little style-biting Fraggles lasso they dentures
Learning innovation mixed with inherent respect for mentors
Fraggle Rock

Fee fie fo fum smell the dummy tears
I’m ghost, Cip take us the fuck up outta here
Jack and the Bean Stalk, Cip One

The Active Element

From Mush Records- Ropeladder 12, Released 2000, Listen

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Heads gathered from every battered aspect of the march
To swap gossip
Who parted what sea? And
Who's hungry? And
Who's parched?
Biblical- Crossing the Red Sea

Stick figures stand at attention, deficit
And all's well that blends well with a warm hazardous combine
All's Well That Ends Well

Air Pegasus (Le Cadeau)

by MarQ Spekt & Blockhead, (also feat. Open Mike Eagle)

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He got The Beatles in his pinky
Every leader venal
The face line ate, I ain't street legal
The Beatles

Lead a pale horse in a ear tag some deer ticks
A winged horse to a queen's air strip, flares lit
Biblical- Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Screws loose, quicker than a pit crew up fish news
Eighty-eight with a eighty-six feud
Vishnu

POP go his temper, knock knock the fenders
Peck bound plots under cosmic embers
Pop Goes the Weasel

Akinesia

From Slow Suicide Stimulus- Slow Suicide Stimulus, Released 2006, Listen | Purchase

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I push the cloak dagger
Broke swagger
Yap over a Tackleberry
Smoke stack or dope crack Pumpernickel with adversaries
Police Academy

Throwback or Bram Stoker
Rap dough snatching all the matmos
Hackers get chocked in the gopher trap
Bram Stoker, Barbarella

The batty out of New York mud is alive and active
(?) back lit hawk in the fatal fabric
Location

Eagerly the flagship burrow under the eagle beaks
Dig-dug dirt beneath your posses orthopedic sneaks
Dig-Dug

Slumped in the company DeLorean bucket of muck
Chucklin' at another cluckin' whore with a budget deluxe
Back to the Future

Look we ground up slow on the suicide stimmy
Quick on the gimme gimme chauffeur the Cobra Kai with me
Slow Suicide Stimulus, The Karate Kid

Doom generations wasted marker toys versus two balls to the wall like Arkanoid biatch
The Doom Generation, Arkanoid

All Day: Nike+ Original Run

Released 2007

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Ease on down to the catacomb
Crash into another man's babylon
No matter which path y'all travel on
We spin this city in a gravitron
Biblical- Babylon

Fire in the sky with a focused temper
Two sides know it as a noble gesture
All the kings men let the poison fester when the knucklehead choir sang "No surrender,"
Fire in the Sky, Humpty Dumpty

All In All

From Definitive Jux Presents III, Released 2004, Listen

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He's a Maniac. Maniac
Flash Dance (Michael Sembello- Maniac)

Who the fuck, needle Jux property
Definitive Jux

All for one and one for all and justice for all and fiddlin' with dead mice
Only toughens the claws,
Pledge of Allegiance

Apocalypse Zone

From Cryptic One- The Anti-Mobius Theory, released 2004, Listen/Purchase

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Stuck the key in what I thought would stitch the boons of man
And still the big fish ate the little fish
Yeah guess which one I am
Big Fish Eat Little Fish

Apology

By Vast Aire, from Atoms Family- Atoms Family Archives Vol. 2, Released 2005, Listen/Purchase

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Vast Aire and Aesop Rock I rise when the freaks come out
Vast Aire

Worm headers nurse the berserker circus to breathe post flat line of a currents Day Tripper
The Beatles- Day Tripper

Blister in the sun splinter in my tongue
Bitter
Violent Femmes- Blister in the Sun

Just when y'all figured there couldn't be no thicker plot
Find yourself trapped between an atom and an Ae-fucking-sop Rock
The Atoms Family

Atlantis

By Shelshock, (also feat. J-Smoke, Mojo). From Various Artists- Atlantis Sessions & The Deadly Art Of All Day Brainstorming, Released 2002, Listen

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Enter Atlantis home of the sunken city mantis
Where drunken dizzy bandits wander out on branches
Atlantis

Breach through the surface and it's war pig saturated styles
When a politics flew circles round your pirate ships(?)
It 20,000 Leagues of liquid cell block fury
(?)
Black Sabbath- War Pigs, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

It's now high noon
And all is not well
In the city of New York
Location

While your third criminals barter plans
I run the Atlantis planet gauntlet with your heart in my hand
Atlantis

Bad Karma

From Various Artists- Angels & Insects, Released 2002, Listen

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These wings have seen things most men would melt apart from
Icarus

I accidentally killed Cupid with his own weaponry
And man that was my homie
Talk about not cut out for these pristine pearly robings
Cupid

Badminton

From Onry Ozzborn- BlvckBeachBoi, Released 2023, Listen/Purchase

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Catch me at the ramp in hand me downs

Meant for the lamb of god

Is guided by the major keys of Khaled and Johannes Brahms

DJ Khaled, Biblical, Lamb of God, Brahms

Twelve live geese in his bubble coat
It's the new style
Beastie Boys- The New Style

Bad Samaritan

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The dry season New York's five reasons flock to the marketplace
Targets chase targets oblivious to if they heart a splash of bull's eye
Location

The Dub-L installation swivels to click Messiah's dirty art
Like my lungs upon display'll make the room turn dark
Dub-L

Resident Evil
We alone hold current cycle to define
Graceful ascension over
Wasteful intervention
Resident Evil

This little pig hides behind his faithful train collection
Bends the tension in trip wires at every landmark
This Little Piggy

I discipline the workers in my colony with glorious intention to write
Just to walk on my home-made yellow brick height
The Wizard of Oz

Just yesterday my main amigo Block described the sinuses
To pull the halves which bleed a scene on opposite assignments
Blockhead

Barcade

Also feat. MF DOOM, from Atmosphere- WORD?, Released 2021, Listen/Purchase

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Uh
Duck, duck, I'm too next
Punks jump to get suplexed
Brand Nubian- Punks Step Up To Get Beat Down

Ain't shit but some sick joke, I don't mix well with this milquetoast
Day ones get wished well, but I give hell to these bridge trolls
Three Billy Goats Gruff

Bazooka, Chameleon, Robot

From Karniege & Uncommon Nasa- From the Left, Released 2008, Listen/Purchase (Also appears on Definitive Jux Presents III, Released 2004)

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Up jumps the Jukie
The Sugarhill Gang- Rapper's Delight, Definitive Jux

Luxury impedance dripping as it was written by the underlings and cheetahs
Who boogie the bell tolls
Shell toes gather round to break bread quicker than I break cell phones
For Whom the Bell Tolls

Eye of the tiger vision
Zoom and snipe the cyber bitches
Survivor- Eye of the Tiger (Rocky III)

Flight of the fighter engine
Weep around the viper kisses
Ride of the Valkyries

Beyond

Also feat. Del the Funky Homosapien, from Luck & Lana Kill the Computer- GO, Released 2016, Listen/Purchase

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No references

Black List

Also feat. MF DOOM, from Prefuse 73- Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives, Released 2001, Listen/Purchase

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God made me a fine instrument of style
Zig-zag Zeus fist
Don't make me throw these great bolts blindly until your mood shifts
Zeus

Borrowedtime

Also feat. Slug, from Luckyiam- Most Likely to Succeed

Listen | Lyrics unavailable

No references

BOSICO butchered by Aesop Rock

By Grimace Federation

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Each a little Isaac Asimov
Actually down to accurately whack-a-mole
And get the taxidermy cataloged
Isaac Asimov

25A, feeder full of chicks on horseback
Sailor Moon roof spewing horn hats
Sailor Moon

Captain Lou

Also feat. Bryan Danielson, from Kimya Dawson- Thunder Thighs, Released 2011, Listen/Purchase

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No references

Castles

Also feat. Sadistik, from CunninLynguists- Strange Journey Volume 3, Released 2014, Listen/Purchase

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I mow a dead lawn, aim for the alpha
Ten claws deck the halls of Valhalla
Tales for the Midnight Hour:
(Childrens story from book Tales for the Midnight Hour

However, Aesop only sees “Ten claws”. ‘The Ten Claws' is a children’s story from the book, Tales for the Midnight Hour where a small town is plagued by monsters. It’s safe to assume they are in reference to his torn relationships in his life. [24]), Deck the Halls, Valhalla

Catch 22 (Aesop Rock Remix)

From Grimace Federation- Tasted by Chemists, Released 2008, Listen/Purchase

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All that glitters is gold with no frills
Post no bills, and the rigmarole is so ill
Madvillain- Figaro, Madvillain- Figaro

And roadkill bake over BK blacktop
Summer of tough lovin' for that decayed mascot
Location

Hey, you, ready on the left
I was high with the winged, I was deep with the dead
I was dragging a dagger through the dim city dregs
With a blacksmith cough and a box of cassettes
Hey, you, ready on the right
I was air with the missiles, I was irked with the mights
Poets of Darkness- Ready on the Left

CD Only Bonus Track

Also feat. Diamond D, from Open Mike Eagle- Diamond D Component System with the Auto Reverse, Released 2022, Listen/Purchase

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Daddy got a brand new plan for the Rambos
Hint: There's only one ampoule of antidote
They don't disappear without a ransom note
First Blood

Meet 'em at the Dunkin' bring a dozen Michelangelos, pronto
Michelangelo

Aes love a cold harsh winter
Over cozy, under glowing-in-the-dark star stickers on the ceiling
Feel the bargain bin Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens

My dinner goes, "Grandma, what large slippers"
Little Red Riding Hood

Chasing New York

From Atmosphere- Fishing Blues, Released 2016, Listen/Purchase

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All these roads to Eden
Maps to nowhere, cold to breathe in
Biblical- Garden of Eden

Crooked

From Evil Nine- You Can Be Special Too, Released 2004, Listen | Purchase

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A blind date with CNN
CNN

Motherfucking deep space evil nine millimeter
El-P- Deep Space 9mm

Zook up in it, crook with a cord
With a cord with a two tonne gimmick
Batman [68]

Deep space evil nine millimeter gimme
Damn needle point in this pin cushion family
El-P- Deep Space 9mm, Evil Nine

Hot dam at the N.Y. resin
I soaked the bad air, the smoke we sold
Location

Wild style, child’s smile like a moby cobra
Low key dozer revoked me ultra
Wildstyle

We don't wanna babble on the bad brains dum-dum brainiac bust out, girder, flushed out
Bad Brains, Braniac Dum Dums

But if I gotta see another roller skating parrot
On Animal Planet on a needle point eye
Animal Planet

And the evilest of nine's guaranteed to shoot crooked
Evil Nine

Face to the floor drop it
Still carry the evilest nine weapons
Evil Nine

Dead Pan

From Def Jux Presents 2, Released 2002, Listen

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Somebody live enough to bust through the belly
Put a fist up
Alien

I recognize the takers by the mechanical stagger
As opposed to the skip of Big Brother badge slasher
1984

Theologies who seem to keep the jukies caffeinated
Like a Mad Hatter had to sleep now
Ask after
Definitive Jux, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

I drink a bad glass of gumption
Not bad meaning bad
But, bad meaning ... disgustin'
Run-D.M.C- Peter Piper

Right now
I'm here to break apart a Bic's piston
Plus my "straight and narrows" got more curves than a Russ Meyer vixen
Vixen!

Little Jackie paper and a magic dragon sack of dirty shrubbery
Peter, Paul and Mary- Puff, the Magic Dragon

Delorean

Also feat. Ill Bill, from El-P- Fantastic Damage, Released 2002, Listen/Purchase

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Fabulous 5 Freddy Krueger finger discount bliss
Fab Five Freddy, A Nightmare on Elm Street

Aim high, when a flying monkey swoops down over Dorothy sound system
To capture the bitches and Toto, two victims
The Wizard of Oz

Y'all pimps front on some indestructible day trip
With the lifespan of a box playing Public Enemy in Sal's famous
The Beatles- Day Tripper, Do the Right Thing, Public Enemy- Fight the Power

Another colossal blunder
Born as heir to Thor inside of spirit
Better scatter for your teepee
Thor

For every American sleepy teen parked in TV-friendly apartments
Carving this creepy nations of P.T. Barnums
P.T. Barnum

Who's that riding shotgun? That's the homie El-Producto
Pedal to the floorboard, DeLorean be gone, peace
El-P, Back to the Future

We need to go back in time to when motherfuckers could rock
88 miles per hour, bring it back to the block and get (McFly)
Peel the fuck out before the lightning hit the clock
Back to the Future

Diabolical Fun (remix)

Also feat. Slug, Zerostar, from Ill Poetic- Ill Poetic “Loosies”, Released 2010, Listen/Purchase

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No head chicken out the coat check kicking
With a thousand leathers bombers
That's muddy water commerce
Muddy Waters

Green around the gills, game over
We decorate our Pet Sematarys Crimson and Clover
Pet Sematary, Crimson and Clover

Dirt

From Tobacco- Fucked Up Friends, Released 2008, Listen/Purchase

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Quixote comma Don, dine by the squatters dogs
Caught by the shaman's O well in bombin' the common grog
Don Quixote

The chubbiest canary in the mind's overdoses
When the Canis lupus halitosis smells like guns and roses
Guns N' Roses

Are you the singing bush? (Yep) Spring the quid and minor keys
Ain't nothin a mechanic on the linus to the virus reigns tiger
The Three Amigos

Coyote comma Wile E, fighters never stand still
Chase birds, dodge pianos and falling anvils
Looney Tunes

Any weather, the Macy's November with few tethers
We spotlight to the city like a Bambi eye collector
Bambi

Power Pill Fist, Donkey Kong, chess, check the gesture
Pine-cone avalanche hit the decker
Power Pill Fist, Donkey Kong

With no gorilla sign language break through for the moment
Just a pitfall harry for the clothes that no one owes you, bitch
Pitfall!

Kenobi comma Ben mingled the common men
He had the fangs of Genghis Kahn, he had the heart of Gunga Din
Star Wars, Gunga Din

Tobacco in the bleachers bright confetti everywhere
To celebrate the influx of the topiary bears
Tobacco

We stock up on the 99 octane and DDT
Like Seymour's little shop in a moment of me, me, me
Little Shop of Horrors

The Dirt and Filth

From Percee P- Perseverance, Released 2007, Listen/Purchase

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Fortify the fort I'll put the fork and knives to work
To work us straight to break breaker if ya'll organize the birds
Biblical- Breaking Bread

We could take a BK Barbecue martyr backyard
Fill them with show laminates and kodak worthy boxcars
Location

Aes diesel the pause taper the boom box wars
Feed Amazing grace fever to pop stars
Amazing Grace

Retired the graff hand still inspired by Cope and Ghost throwups like a bulimic Mrs. Pac-man
Cope, Ghost, Mrs. Pac-Man

Yeah that's the dirt
Yeah that's the ugly
Yeah thats the side of NY when its hungry
Location

Dragon Coaster

By Aesop Rock & Mojo, from Various Artists- The Bastard EP, Released 2003, Listen

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Man, I walk a bridge with tin cans, with both my flags within hands
Barnished and tarnished skeletal frames sentinel devil tin man
The Wizard of Oz

Cannibal taught me about an iron galaxy where I sleep
Yeah but I'm trying to find that if my tin-figure is special or obsolete
Cannibal Ox- Iron Galaxy

Dry Bones (remix)

By Oddjobs, also feat. Vast Aire, Kimani

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No references

Ego Death

Also feat. Danny Brown, from Busdriver- Perfect Hair, Released 2014, Listen | Purchase

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Before long, boil the bones
A little celery chop
A little pepper, a little milk of the poppy
Little posse in effect
Beastie Boys- Posse in Effect

The Mario pajama bottoms clumsily rappelling
Under a gibbous moon
Hunting for shitty food
Mario

Encounter

From Blueprint- Chamber Music, Released 2004, Listen/Purchase

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Yo Blueprint, let's put it on these cats. Check it
Zig-zag Zeus fist
Blueprint, Zeus

I'm ready on the left/right discipline transaction
Poets of Darkness- Ready on the Left

Triple throng amazing grace roll mayhem stem magnificent
Soothing with a little clip of doom for the honorees oozing innocence
Amazing Grace

Don't buckle down 'til every last crop is harvested
Harlequins parade like lemmings parlaments
White Wilderness

The Explanation

Also feat. Reason, and Eligh, from The Gigantics- Die Already, Released 2008, Listen/Purchase

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Most days promote the close range
The city on my back in black with chrome fangs
AC/DC- Back in Black

Walk through the valley of death with no face
Hold flames to the laminate cancel in both names
Biblical- Psalm 23:4, Spirited Away

Tugboat lug no weapons stole the front row
One more Tekken for the cutthroat sections
Tekken

Ready on the left for the boom town battery
That shower medicine over the municipality
Of the freaks on the fritz where the scenery depicts
More skulls than a Mike Giant opening at 6
Poets of Darkness- Ready on the Left, Mike Giant

Welcome to the terror dome, make yourself at hellish home
All you need is bread and a zenith to play the Zeppelin on
Public Enemey, Led Zeppelin

Skip to the wall all stoney
And hit the deck running like a snow cone at Coney, homie
Location

Field of Dreams

Also feat. Elzhi, from Your Old Droog- TIME, Released 2021, Listen/Purchase

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From E.T., Buster Brown’s, Tang and TV dinners
To East River Jesus Lizard feet in beaver slippers
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Buster Brown, Location, The Jesus Lizard

Learn to pop shit over Shea Stadium hotdogs
Barricade the gate and pray you wake up in a Bob Ross
Location, Bob Ross

Flock a sky flaws(?), hallowed be the aura for Da Vinci flicking ashes off a balcony in autumn
Nothing flashy but his falconry was awesome
It turned their Jimmy Dean to rabbit sausage, apple orange
Leonardo da Vinci

I sorta find a rabbit hole of data storage
A distraction to my everyday as Adam in the garden
Biblical- Adam and Eve, Biblical, Garden of Eden

Final Frontier (remix)

Also feat. Blueprint, Murs, and Vast Aire, from RJD2- The Horror, Released 2003, Listen/Purchase

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We breathe adrenaline, Rambo crime Mega Man dust
Fuck computer, I'm 21-bazooka tooth salute
First Blood, Mega Man

'Plan 9 from Outer-', with a BK-wild hooker out the silo
You can file the 'Frontier' under 'Final'
Plan 9 from Outer Space, Location

Liberty and justice
Plus Timmy's stuck in a ditch without his dog for once
Pledge of Allegiance, Lassie

Gatekeeper, [?], receivers, & bump aqualung
Where vertebraes are optional, personally I rock one
Jethro Tull- Aqualung

Flesh (Remix)

Also feat. I Self Divine, and Musab, from Atmosphere- Sad Clown Bad Dub 4, Released 2003, Listen

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Middle of New York with a sack full of action
Cash with the school kids toke crack with magnums
Location

Jukie, jet black, black lungs, black hoodie
Definitive Jux

Give It Up

From Felt- Felt 3: A Tribute to Rosie Perez, Released 2009, Listen/Purchase

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No references

Hall of Game

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The post modernized western burn civilization
We infinite like NY kitchen cockroach infestation
Location

Avalanched over your safety dance coma
Stare-adactyl
Men Without Hats- Safety Dance

Paddle upstream like Bronx bound 6 trains
Tryna fill the void, lacking in the link in the bliss chain pissed game
Locations

See which Polly Pocket prodigy doctors yacht on the war pig harbors
Unaware the blue bearded run these waters
Black Sabbath- War Pigs

Man I rock New York City all years around
And my name is known, all over the town y'all
Location

Shovel coal for the slick pistons benedictions nah don't mention it
Just bless this pendulum's beetle bailey left right development
Beetle Bailey

It goes peace to the Overground
Peace to the Orphanage
Peace to the to Stronghold
Peace to the Hardcore’s finest (?)
Peace to the Atoms fam
Peace to the Def Jux
Peace to the Rhymesayers
Peace to the Waitlist (?)
Peace to the Brainchild (?)
Peace to the Golden monkey (?)
Peace to the Live spot (?)
Peace to the Head bob (?)
Peace the to Sight Beyond (?)
Peace to the Wax Poetic (?)
Peace to Aes Rock, there I said it and I meant it’
The Overground, The Orphanage, Stronghold, The Atoms Family, Definitive Jux, Rhymesayers Entertainment, All others unknown

Happy Pillz

From Murs- ….The End of the Beginning, Released 2003, Listen | Purchase

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Murs, you should go get us some food
Murs

What's on your mind, Big Murs?
Murs

I was cooling at the park with a couple of other Jukies
Our animated glitch suspended like milk money bullies
Definitive Jux

Like what? My vibes on that old "Ha ha ha stick 'em"
Like a 1950-something wire hanger abortion victim
Fat Boys- Stick 'Em

99 bottles of happy pills on the wall
Take 'em down, pass 'em 'round before me and Murs eat 'em all
99 Bottles of Beer, Murs

Blockhead!
This beat sounds like the theme song to the
Houston 500 Marathon Fuck-Fest
Get laughed at like dude last in line tryin' to fuck, that's suspect
Blockhead

Who's ante's up next?
Duck I'm Buckaroo Banzai kinda big pimpin'
With less money and women, money that's slippin'
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

Now it's Golden Eye with sniper rifles in the temple
Holding my bludgeoned-to-deranged cups, my triple doors tucked
GoldenEye

Okay
Murs is my pharmacist, cupboards full of Klonopin
I'm a seratonin re-uptake inhibitor, bronze US monument
Murs

See me in hell cashing in on that "see you in hell" thing
Decompose like Dorothy, water bucket plus witch equals melting
The Wizard of Oz

If someone doesn't let me use their phone
Yo, Murs, I gotta go home
Murs

Heard Right

Also feat. Homeboy Sandman, from M Slago- And We Are Here, Released 2024, Listen/Purchase

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I fashion a love supreme and don't fade
Y'all clap on the 1 and 3 so strange
John Coltrane- A Love Supreme

The last whimper of a dying animal is reaching through your telephone to snatch you out your panic room
Panic Room

I personally never had to pander to a camera lens wether sex drugs rock & roll or hammer pants
MC Hammer

Helium

From Vordul Mega- Yung World, Released 2004, Listen

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When the stone cold (?)
Unusually congruent with this angel that flew a little too high;
Feathers burst
While the tethers nursed em' back to my side
And when he woke he said he knows where the helium goes and why
Icarus

I got a spirit that springs to life when the scissor hands slit throat modules collaborate
It's nasty
Makes the school children disrupt the class with Mrs. Crabtree
Edward Scissorhands, Our Gang

Catch
Yo Vordul
Show these motherfuckers how to strike a match
Vordul Mega

Hold Mine

Also feat. Slug, Eyedea, and Illogic, from Printmatic- Vitamins and Minerals EP, Released 2004, Listen/Purchase

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No references

Hologram

Also feat. The Grouch, from Felt- Felt 4 U, Released 2020, Listen/Purchase

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No references

Home Again

From The Controls- One Hundred, Released 1999, Listen

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No references

Hot Dogs

Released 2017, Purchase

Music Video | Lyrics

Alright
Raised on dirty hot dog water and popcorn butter
EPMD tellin' me every popstar a sucker
EPMD- Crossover

My attitude is ghastly, any gallantry been going gone
I think I'm probably a lot like dating Mola Ram I should work on that
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

My name is Aesop Rock, I've been a mess for my entire life
All I know is fight or flight, what the fuck's a silent night?
Silent Night

Who the fuck are you to tell me who the fuck you even are
This is more than band-aids over itsy-bitsy bleeding hearts
Itsy Bitsy Spider

This is GNR announcing Jesus Christ on lead guitar
Finding Heather Hunter still inside your college VCR
Guns N' Roses

Mirror mirror on the wall, I feel like a fucking dog
Something this depraved is not a product of a loving God
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

Periwinkle Pegasus through rat-infested LEGO bricks
Hug his mother briefly, then we're off to see the exorcist
The Exorcist, Pegasus

Kick it ‘til the town forget the address or the house at all
This is how performance art exacerbates an albatross
Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Inner City Hustle

By Aesop Rock & L.I.F.E. Long, from Various Artists- The Bedford Files, Released 2002, Listen/Purchase

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Aesop Rock: L.I.F.E. Long
L.I.F.E. Long

Yo, L.I.F.E. Long, yo, how you feeling? (Aesop). Man, I’ve been kind of tired
Sort of stuck somewhere between a floorboard and a ceiling
L.I.F.E. Long

Raw paranoia. New York is gonna burn tonight
And goddamn if I’ma let you off easy (Goddamn)
Location

Twenty Thousand Leagues under a sleepy generation
With a line around a block and a populace sick of weight
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

I’m a twenty-something soldier, grown-ass man and I’d
Rather be pushing this boulder than pushing that stroller
Sisyphus

Stronghold, Def Jux, Can Ox, Ese and Hipsta
Stronghold, Definitive Jux, Cannibal Ox, Ese & Hipsta

I Went Outside Today

From Open Mike Eagle & Paul White- Hella Personal Film Festival, Released 2016, Listen/Purchase

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Yeah, I feel so uppity
Peter Piper picked the purple stuff before the Sunny D
Peter Piper, Purple Stuff [69]

Summer pants, all of my receptors up and under siege
Itchy middle fingers triple lindy out of the ugly tree
Back to School

Snap, Crack, show him to the closest blooming Onion
Reclusive Koopas moving out the dungeon into Gundam
Mario, Gundam

Money run along, sleeves up Tero on his upper arm
Sneak up on a thousand crows peppering the front lawn
Camu Tao

Bite a bat's head off before doors
I'll forward you the recipe bork bork
Ozzy Osbourne

The future primitive is skitching off the pace car
Rebel yell except for when he whistle by the graveyard
Future Primitive

Jailbreak

Also feat. Buck 65, and Dave Lamb of Brown Bird, from B. Dolan- Kill the Wolf, Released 2015, Listen/Purchase

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Vertical vertical vertical vertical
Diagonal Diaz-animal, eyes half mast
Time in a flatfoot lap, on the night of his briar patch act
Give him to the fire,
Br'er Rabbit and the Tar-Baby:
(This seems to be a reference to the story of Br'er Rabbit and the Tar-Baby, where Br'er Rabbit convinces Br'er Fox to toss him into the briar patch instead of burning, drowning, or skinning him alive. But the fox is unaware that the rabbit was born and raised in the briar patch, and so is unharmed. [70])

Never mind cabin fever on whisper road like it's wabbit season
I'm a bad bad man, I'm a maverick heathen
I am on the truck, I am past the beacon
Looney Tunes

Jet Son

Also feat. Camu Tao, from Blockhead- Music By Cavelight, Released 2004, Listen/Purchase

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Title: The Jetsons

Old Man Rivers poker face sink the crypt
Water in his soldier days before the bones decayed alone in Brooklyn
Ol' Man River, Location

I shape the shittiest Ape Escape in the lineage
But god damn it if imma match historian deliverance
Ape Escape

Sometimes he quiet when he watch
Mu call em eyes on the Block
Camu Tao

Then broke into his life story of war glory and BK
And how the hood has changed since he was knee high to your DJ
Location

Jinx Planet

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Junkyard

From Various Artists- NBA 2K6: The Tracks, Released 2005, Listen/Purchase

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Beautiful loser maneuver the goofy cubicle future alert
Big brother super-community burn
1984

Who BMX match rotate on guerilla Babylon
Darwin on a peg taking his inner ape to tag along
Biblical- Babylon

Ape escape gravitron, surly with two caps
One over the mask while plugging the flat black(?)
Ape Escape

Spray gradient, baiting for city tetris
Double-breasted hecklers bark at picket fences
Tetris

Or transfer greedy bruiser to user-friendly stanzas?
I guess it's like a (?) to Dondi's canvas
Dondi White

As written by the messenger pigeons of Hell's Kitchen
Thank you for the dollar, hope you dig it
Location

Heroes are never forgotten, legends never die
This is what I sound like alive
The Sandlot

Yeah Wiz now bring it back like
Weathermen in this
DJ Big Wiz, The Weathermen

Two milligrams later, hits the stage
With Big Wiz on the fader, gravy aviators
DJ Big Wiz

Miyazaki makeover the BK sky
So when the jungle hits the city, every insect is alive
Hayou Miyazaki, Location

And stiller's in her loch ness, clocked fresh and official
The missiles rock bells, no bells or whistles
Location, LL Cool J- Rock the Bells

Uh,
Rob Sonic
Rob Sonic

We know
It's that NY Electric again
Up at 'em
Location

Karma Killerz

Also feat. C-Rayz Walz, and Vast Aire, from DJ JS-1- Ground Original 2: No Sell Out, Released 2009, Listen/Purchase

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Keep It Live

From Greenhouse Effect- Electric Purgatory: Part Two, Released 2010, Listen/Purchase

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When every day is Shark Week
Everybody head strong
Wreckless
Heart weak hedging all your bets wrong
Shark Week

When rappers had a jet plane (?) failing
Do you rubbernecker Tetris it to safety?
Tetris

Kill 'em All

From Def Jux Presents, Released 2001, Listen

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It's now for the crumb bloodhound serendipity movement
Alien a triplicate stooge counter culture
The Three Stooges

Forty first thief dispatchee, they shake a stick at
My fins break water circling shoulder chips dipped in a well to rape the origin
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Fresh sneaker bows idle all killin'
Day tripping I beaker spillin, right?
The Beatles- Day Tripper

Bad spirit
Fad pyramids rust in the shadows of this cat on a hot tin something
Spittin disgusting
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Excuse me, for example if Moses had gills he could have fished without the split-sea macho circus
But he didn't and it don't really make a difference
Biblical- Crossing the Red Sea

Killing Time

From Illogic- Got Lyrics?, Released 2001, Listen/Purchase (can’t find source with Killing Time)

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When fortune tellers turn Old Yeller these propellers sputter through space
And dispatch they last smoke cloud in the name of good faith
Old Yeller

Ok, ready on the left? (I'm ready)
God, please, I was born sloppy on an origami tugboat in high seas
Now I spend simmering summers dragging bigger boats on home
To dock and soak in spotlit evenings, while I sweat and watch
Poets of Darkness- Ready on the Left

Yeah, mummify the high, and they can teach mortals to float
And I'mma show you how Beelzebub and Serenity elope
Biblical- Beelzebub

Kill Joy

From Rob Sonic- Alice in Thunderdome, Released 2014, Listen/Purchase

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Cleverbots bounce out of boiling sea, and foil hats hack toys into Soylent Green
Soylent Green

Kill Switch

From DJ Krush- 寂 -Jaku-, Released 2004, Listen/Purchase

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Yeah Krush
DJ Krush

Wrote this one in Europe with Walz while his ravi sick at home, It's killing him
C-Rayz Walz

Shake a room up scoop the venue phone
1-800 Brooklyn zoo, is Kenya home?
Ol' Dirty Bastard- Brooklyn Zoo

My chemical happy squad operate with freedom fighters
Eye of tiger pride prize fight Nighter off a Geiger
Survivor- Eye of the Tiger (Rocky III)

Sing a song of sick spit blood in savage
Illin' children, cuttin' papers lilacs in the attic
Sing a Song of Sixpence

Kiss the Cook

From Blockhead- Free Sweatpants, Released 2019, Listen/Purchase

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Notice the woefully unfrozen mosey up out of Cocytus
Dap his homie, check his vitals, swat a bogie 'til he spirals
Cocytus

Wookiee face, look
I don't panic in the fray, I broadcast all black magic with a K
OK!?
Star Wars, Magick (Book 4)

Late to his own selfies
The belly is King Hippo, the MO is Van Helsing
Punch-Out, Dracula

Blues crooners off the usual at Hooters
Drag a Lilliputian kicking and screaming into the future
Gulliver's Travels

Wakey wakey jaded makers of the Achy Breaky Heart
Feign valor, brain matter wading through the mason jar
Billy Ray Cyrus- Achy Breaky Heart

Sit down Waldo, his form is barely functional
Messenger of death, professionally uncomfortable
Where's Waldo

Blood vessel in his eye all fucked up
From holding up the sky all nyuck nyuck
The Three Stooges

Nanu Nanu, styles like wild javelinas stampeding over Bob Dobalinas
With a boomerang, bow, slingshot and ocarina
Rock shock, not the property of any knocking reaper
Mork and Mindy, Del tha Funky Homosapien- Mistadobalina, The Legend of Zelda, The Legend of Zelda

Klutz

Released 2018, Purchase

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The pick-a-booger-at-your-wake is bumping "I'm your pusher"
Also at your wake, juvenile intruders at the gate
Ice-T- I'm Your Pusher

Shriek into the vacuum if in spite of your accomplishments
You wake up feeling empty like Houdini’s grave probably is
Harry Houdini

Volley with the quintessential digital ager, I'm offended by everything
My opinions come in a manger, oh boy
Biblical- Nativity of Jesus

Bishop to queen 4 in Damn Daniels under ram skulls
Plan for cloudy with a chance of anvils
Damn Daniel

Fever dreams of padded cells and jagged pills in frozen pipes
Socialites from pageant hell with plastic smiles and robot eyes
Alanis Morissette- Jagged Little Pill

Come duck a bounty, it's a hoot, Suffolk County, it's a zoo
Puppy chow and bitches brew, it's not exactly chicken soup
Location, Miles Davis- Bitches Brew

Older yeller never knew a no-kill shelter in his doggie days
Now I draw my neighbors over kouign-amanns and coffee stains
Old Yeller

For a gallery of grifters channeling Sid’s action figures grafted
With his little sister’s after markers, glue, and scissors
It’s trippy,
Toy Story

The dogs I think are following me home are out to kill me
Your music makes a motherfucker wanna move to Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street

Here, wheels fall off of cars when they see him
Seas part, green trees march out of Eden
Biblical- Crossing the Red Sea, Biblical- Garden of Eden

Know That to Know This

From themselves- theFREEhoudini, Released 2009, Listen/Purchase

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Blister in the sun
Kiss it with your tongue
Violent Femmes- Blister in the Sun

Late for the Sky

Also feat. Slug, from Evidence- Cats & Dogs, Released 2011, Listen/Purchase

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Left it to Us

Also feat. El-P, Tame One, and Yak Ballz, from Cage- Hell's Winter, Released 2005, Listen/Purchase

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Shrug em off, Eye of Tiger, pan over the hideous
Watch the gorilla in em slither back through the lineage
Survivor- Eye of the Tiger (Rocky III)

And the award for scummiest ninja moment of the summer
Goes to mister slip a mickey to Christ at his own supper
Bibilcal- Last Supper

Boss Hogg's dogs sniffin' out victims for the quota sorta rogue put a slip on the system throw the WM's up for bounty hunters Paulie Junior mount the chrome bazookas on the Orange County Choppers
Dukes of Hazzard, American Chopper

The Library

From Kimya Dawson- Thunder Thighs, Released 2011, Listen/Purchase

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Excuse me, hi, this library's groovy
And I always like the book version better than the movie!
But I need a little help 'cuz I'm totally a noobie!
Where can I find all the Blume comma Judy?
Judy Blume

Hey where are all the Judy Blume books, anyway?
Judy Blume

Oh my gosh, hey what about R.L. Stein?
R.L. Stein

Lice Team, Baby

From Homeboy Sandman- Anjelitu, Released 2021, Listen/Purchase

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I stole fire from a god
Crept in quiet as a mime in a box
Prometheus

Waltz and walk with a strobe and the smoke on the water
Hold for the robot drummer
Deep Purple- Smoke on the Water

Ah, I, Fourth Horseman, drive the fork in
Primary source of the sword wind
Biblical- Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Lo-Fi Funk

From Blueprint- 1988, Released 2005, Listen/Purchase

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It's Blueprint right here man
That's my dog
Blueprint

Hold up, ha ha
Hold up, this Weightless right here look
Weightless

Long Legged Larry

Released 2021, Purchase

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Jump over anything, even King Kong
Jumping Jack Flash was his favorite song
King Kong, The Rolling Stones- Jumpin' Jack Flash

Well, it was Long Legged Larry, didn't open his mouth
Like a rocket to the moon through a cumulus cloud
Rocket to the Moon

Larry doesn't care
Jump so high grow a beard in the air
Jump over anything, even Times Square
Yelling "Long Legged Larry for mayor!, Here! Here!"
Location

Lookout (remix)

Also feat. Kurious, from Homeboy Sandman- Dusty, Released 2019, Listen/Purchase

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Peaced out with these Bs at the encore
G in the sock drawer, Ds at Hogwarts
Harry Potter

Creep through deep space
Squeegee over wheatpaste
Ski mask looking for Elysium to deface
Elysium

Lovecraft in Brooklyn (remix)

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Before the BQE & FDR, HP on the MTA
Wanted with his whole pink heart to honor and befriend BK
Locations, H. P. Lovecraft

Unbeknownst to all he'd soon defend each blessed breath he takes
For now he scrape his meat hooks on the reddest parts and penetrate
Summer lovin' snuck him toward the tarnished arms of liberty
Locations

Love is tough as muffin splits, grown-ups play the dozens best
Clap, Kings County feeded shrapnel to the saplings
From under canopy of attack and leathery bat wings
Location, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn [47]

Two of every animal; crawl out anything tangible
Dance with evils guaranteed to spin your parents' parasols
Biblical- Noah's Ark

Little Howie's parachute has flowered down the rabbit hole
No trespassing, violators get your tarots pulled
H. P. Lovecraft

Love to Fuck

From S.A. Smash- Smashy Trashy, Released 2003, Listen

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I got Barbarella's and Barbies in a DeLorean car piece
On a beat to eat to the grip, honey-dip reclines the car seat
Barbarella, Back to the Future

And when I lean, it's Foghorn Leghorn window steam
I guess i never heard the cops approach the whip over the screams
Looney Tunes

Aes Rizzle born to freak it to the Thong Song
Hold dimes close with a king-kong arm
Sisqo- Thong Song, King Kong

I dream of Jeannie, and fucking her obscenely
Make em sing
It's bliss, she kissed the bazooka ring
I Dream of Jeannie

Boogie Nighter, Maestro with a money shot, adrenaline win
23's ready to pick, pencil you in
Boogie Nights

By Eleven she was out, by Twelve I rolled a J
Fell asleep by One AM, man today was a good day
Ice Cube- It Was a Good Day

Low Tide

From DJ Signify- Of Cities, Released 2009, Listen/Purchase

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Apparently, if you are to actually whistle
While working
It is somehow proven to make the work
Either the workload less
Or the stress that comes on from the workload less
It somehow lessons the intensity of the entire event
Now, I have like a nervous tic where I whistle
And make a bird noise like (whistling)
I feel like that's the opposite
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

On the eighth day...
Built this city outta warm clay bricks
Stood outside the walls with harps and sharp sticks
Biblical- Genesis 2:2

I'm all
Slow motion baby
I'm in a zone, so frozen
Not a part of the phone home quotient
E.T.- the Extra-Terrestrial

"Oink oink" bellow from the bacon with the brawniest frame
That roll on your hood like Tawny Kitaen
Whitesnake- Here I Go Again

You ain't project gunplay, you Project Runway
Gentle and apprehensive twenty ways to Sunday
Project Runway

Manik

Also feat. Casual, from Brother Ali & unJUST- Love & Service, Released 2024, Listen/Purchase

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Palm coated in Clamatto a la Judas
You a plant from the bourgeoise
Out to poli with the sudras
Biblical- Judas

Spin the wheel pick a future to cue
A psychological thriller
A docudrama to binge
A 20/20 on some grifter getting properly rinsed
20/20

I’m rocket man got a penchant for ascending
Get a ticket to the launch
Get your kid a pressed penny
Elton John- Rocket Man

Many Headed

Also feat. Buck 65, and Self Jupiter, from A7PHA- Many Headed EP, Released 2023, Listen/Purchase

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Yeah
E.T. phone off
Beat Street road hog
E.T.- the Extra-Terrestrial, Beat Street

Closin' on the closest boa, choking out your chosen path
Walls closin' in, mould a patty from a golden calf
Biblical- Golden Calf

Crash, bang, no exact travelogue
Snow intact, Babylon
Biblical- Babylon

It's nuts and bolts and broken glass
Burn the car smoke the crack
Fire, brim, bone, ash
Biblical- Fire and brimstone

Miami Advice

From Kimya Dawson- Thunder Thighs, Released 2011, Listen/Purchase

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Miss By A Mile

Also feat. Slug, and Eyedea, from Various Artists- We Came From Beyond, Vol. 2, Released, Listen (incomplete)

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It’s like, we’ve been through the same shit a hundred times
If you see a penny, pick it up, like engine number nine
Black Sheep- The Choice is Yours

Okay, my attempt's to break the ice
I take a slice at pacifism
Classically conditioned to be a Pavlov
To stick in the kitchen while the bell tolls
For Whom the Bell Tolls

Eyedea could spit death and Slug could spit in your modem (motor?)
I could spit rap and attach the liberty bell makeover
Eyedea, Slug

Mississippi

From Blockhead- The Aux, Released 2023, Listen/Purchase

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Tick, tick, tick, leash your pets
Free a single bead of sweat
He'll bring his friend soon
The ringer's tee is drenched and Jesus wept
Biblical- John 11:35

Seven Mississippi, Mississippi God damn
Nina Simone- Mississippi Goddam? [71]

Say it with me, six Mississippi
Down came the rain and washed out the itsy bitsy
Itsy Bitsy Spider

Ay, rip the BAND-AID off of the wound
The holy trinity is in the house and all you consume
Biblical- The Trinity

Molly

From Tame One & Parallel Thought- Acid Tab Vocab, Released 2009, Listen/Purchase

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Moving at the Speed of Life

Also feat. Slug, from Living Legends- Legendary Music Vol. 1, Released 2006, Listen

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My Belly

Released 2016, Listen/Purchase

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Twelve o’clock midnight quiet on a beach
Not a creature is stirring they’re defiantly asleep
A Visit from St. Nicholas

All except one, eyes peeking at the shore
Mind on his stomach and his stomach on more
Snoop Dogg- Gin and Juice

The Next Best Thing

Released 2007, from Coffee 12”, Listen/Purchase

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He's in a band called "Birds" in a work of assertive poplars
With a root down deeper than the pockets on his doctors
Beastie Boys- Root Down

So selfishly melt through the piss of Hades
As to never note the critics, shake the hands or kiss the babies
Hades

Rhinestone cowboy, nursing his little phenom
As an even newer idea poke its head out for recon
Rhinestone Cowboy

Nineteen

From Onry Ozzborn- DUO, Released 2016, Listen | Purchase

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One of one
Not a son of gun
No flesh of his flesh no blood of his blood
Biblical- Genesis 2:23

Chew the chud slow homie rubber duck in the flood
Birdman turn puppets into buckets of chum
Birdman

Not Going Anywhere

From Grayskul- Zenith, Released 2013, Listen/Purchase

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Far away from puking with facials and unicorn tears
All black storms over children of the cornfield
Children of the Corn

Nuclear Five

Also feat. Karniege, and Masai Bey, from The Presence- Common Man's Anthems, Released 2005, Listen/Purchase

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You're up
The pig pen bugged when Big Ben stuck
And split like Lithuania From Russia with love
From Russia With Love

Ignore ways out snap and strap a rifle from an Eiffel bang!
The street Oxford campus quad with bazookas blunts and bibles
The Bible

9 0 MPH through the Holland tunnel
Pin targets steal paint scope wall Denmark it
Location

Mona Lisa frown
(?) Decoder ring around a cobra sting
I'm down
Leonardo da Vinci

Numb (To the Guns)

From Nature Sounds Presents: The Prof. In... Convexed Sampler, Released 2004

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Whatever's good I got this grave half dug (true)
With Yanni covering Taps to make the pain worse than it was (nooo)
Yanni, Taps

The iron fang drew 'em all loopy (real loopy)
So when he extended a hand the planet's Cujo's went Snoopy
Cujo, Peanuts

Lick chop dig-in, who dares lick a shot at pigeons?
Why I oughta... Vast get em!
Cannibal Ox- Pigeons, Vast Aire

Its Doc Roc full-effect, campfire stories
Like I "Threw Your Momma From the Train" to try to front on "Porky's"
Throw Momma from the Train, Porky's

I'm 'bout to crash this bitch to hibernate
Tell Wolf Blitzer holler at his boy when he hosts "Blind Date"
Wolf Blitzer, Blind Date

It goes spit on CNN and force the war back through the cable box
Where M1's are like stage props aimed at latest names dropped
CNN

Sing along, Zooka dies of chemical poison, and watching
Bring it on
Dag nabbit that cat's bastard
Bring It On

Me and mine find TNA on TNT
Pleasing to the iris more than TNT on DNA (oh)
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling

Morbid but important (right?)
I know, stop
Mork porked Mindy in this episode, watch
Mork and Mindy

Obsolete

Also feat. Slug, Eyedea, and Illogic (The Orphanage), Blueprint- The Weightroom, Released 2003, Listen/Purchase

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Off Broadway

From Rob Sonic- Latrinalia, Released 2021, Listen | Purchase

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Ape at the Empire State going ape
Midtown raining planes, I got
5-0 with the binos aimed, “Hey Chief
He up there painting his name"
"He up there saving the dames"
Dangerous game, as he label the rain
Locations, King Kong

When the anger and hate flare up
As a fatal attain, Abel or Cain
Biblical- Cain and Abel

Mage friends that forecast, my tongue pressed to this frog’s back
I am the walrus, it says walrus on my dog tag
The Beatles- I Am the Walrus

Red gauze on my paw pads, I’m like
Rembrandt when I moonwalk
Red, white, and blue sweatbands, the most deadpan in New York
Rembrandt, Micheal Jackson, Location

The Office

Also feat. Slug, Grayskul- Bloody Radio, Released 2007, Listen/Purchase

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Off the Top

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All emcees hold on to your chair I be robotic voltron sinking puppet fear
Into your blood vessel,
Voltron

Never heard before words galore for music's martyrs
When blade runnings our fire starter
Blade Runner

The One That Got Away

(Same as Fishtales and recycled into The Harbor is Yours)

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Poems 4 Post Modern Decay

From Zion I- True & Livin', Released 2005, Listen/Purchase

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Walk with a maggot brain affiliately over the main gate
Quicker than he flickerin' outta pain cave
Company Flow- Simple (from Limelighters) [19]

Ponzu Sauce

Also feat. Breezly Brewin, from Blockhead- The Aux, Released 2023, Listen/Purchase

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Every sock is a la carte
Every sneaker coated bronze
Orphans on the olive garden throwing pasta quoting Nas
Nas

Hold his breath 100 hours
Hudson river lucky shark
Run with scissors rumble pack ultra distance bumper cars
Location

Driving gloves Tin lizzy
Chitty bang
Every rev steady mob every fox chicken dance
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Even you pause the vid blow it up
Click enhance
I recognize that minivan
Now get inside the Wicker Man
Wicker Man

Shaman drums
Pump it up it's the jam
Fugly duck
Fast as fuck
Catch me if you can
Technotronic- Pump Up the Jam, The Ugly Duckling, Catch Me if You Can

Posse Slash

Also feat. Karniege, Breez Evahflowin, Poison Pen Look Mom... No Hands, Released 2004, Listen

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Y’all know the name:
Aesop fucking Rock. Ain’t a damn thing changed

Pharaohe Monch- Simon Says [75]

Jumping Jiminy in a gimme-gimme industry
New York bleed bricks, piss huts, and shit liberty
Location

Preservation

Also feat. Del tha Funky Homosapien, from Wu-Tang Meets the Indie Culture Vol. 1, Listen/Purchase

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Yeah... riff raff...
Uh, Weathermen, Hieroglyphics, what up? Ok
The Weathermen, Hieroglyphics

A.R. periscope, blast through the terror dome
Zoo wanna shark attack, clash til the thrill is gone
Public Enemy- Welcome to the Terror Dome

Green Earth bum, walk a rank plank, feet first plunge
Like Del keep the rugged Bay under his thumb
Del tha Funky Homosapien

Primor

From Dark Time Sunshine- Vessel, Released 2009, Listen | Purchase

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I feel they Frankensteined us all together for a purpose
To openly square up against the frenzy's greatest circlers
Frankenstein

Puff Tuff

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I was on a double yellow line
Beached with a Lilliputian army to suffocate and divide
Gulliver's Travels

Suicide kings on the 495, do the math, do or die, never knew to chew the fat
Location

Winter 88, baby made a nest out of stories of Babylon and galactic unrest
Caddy stack of rumors on the shoeless express
Where you could read your epitaph before your foot even slips
Biblical- Babylon, Caddy Shack

These are the slings and arrows that sing carols on Arcadian rain
They're honeycombing kings and cowards the same
Hamlet [72], Arcadia

Circle of abrasive parrots placed inside a room stay to
Duplicate the moves made, say form of lazy on some gladly pay you Tuesday
Popeye

Itchy finger crispy when a morning you were open
Spin of liquors frozen wheel of fortune down from any chamber chosen
Wheel of Fortune

One man dogs playing poker yoke a harpy up
One hand on his heart like his bubble juice pocket car key tuck
Dogs Playing Poker

One long mile of dog fence
Got him kicking a hornets nest until the sidewalk ends
Where the Sidewalk Ends

Pumpkin Seeds (feat. Lupe Fiasco)

Released 2022, Listen/Purchase

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I just been cooped up in that cuckoo's nest, one phase after complaining
Which depending on your frame is apathy or acclimating
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Put Your Quarter Up

Also feat. Slug and MF DOOM, from Ritual of The..., Released 2001, Listen

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I'm drowsy, who drifted by the lousy Virgin Mary night light
Luminants that blew a kiss to sin
Biblical- Virgin Mary

Multiple tasking, drastic unsocialable captain gasping
Jay Gatsby the great bashing open the plastic backspins
The Great Gatsby

Coordinate the zoning and the speeders trickle drips out
I'll skip town once these upright citizens sit down
Upright Citizens Brigade

Quiet

From Folk & Stress- The Box, Released 2008, Listen/Purchase

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Evading a multi-headed dog whose jaws are little daggers
Zig-zag off and then wash in the water hazards
Cerberus

I work alone (?) to vertigo
Every dirty merchant out to reinterpret Serpico
Serpico

Reports of a Possible Kidnapping

By The Weathermen, from Definitive Jux Presents IV, Released 2009, Listen (incomplete)

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There’s more, when Mary Mary’s little lamb is one of three absorbed
My friend, you are the pecking order’s whore
Mary Had a Little Lamb

Kshhht! Roger dodger, camp of the squalid contra
The single cell is scissors walking the two dogs of Yama on the choke
Star Wars, Yama

Fish eye on a cradle in a manger made of skulls
With overkill to follow, I’m just one to change the bulb
Biblical- Nativity of Jesus

Rhymeslayers

Also feat. Sa-Roc, and Slug, from Sol Messiah- GOD CMPLX, Released 2022, Listen/Purchase

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I play as a purveyor Of the good stuff
Who’s what, Sugarhill or sugar pills, choose one
The Sugarhill Gang

Rogue Wave

Released 2020, Listen/Purchase

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Paddling in circles with ten thousand maniacs in Yankee caps
Who get to know the neighbors every time they tip the ladle back
10,000 Maniacs

All work, no play
Dull boys rotate
Oldboy, Ghostface, Tolstoy, Coltrane
The Shining, Oldboy, Ghostface Killah, Leo Tolstoy, John Coltrane

Got skulls on his sails
Cobras on the pleather
Salt-and-pepper soldiers barely holding it together
The Karate Kid

But supposedly awoke and down to mobilize whenever
You're pretty much a Gomer Pyle to pester, remember
Gomer Pyle

I'm Pop-O-Matic Trouble, I will commandeer the goulash
Under hockey-hair
Zoom off on a blue ox through the blog-o-sphere
With poppies for your mama bear
Paul Bunyan, Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Nevermind the appetizer writhing in a spider web
Stare into it long enough, you biters just might find yourselves
Friedrich Nietzche (from Kyanite Toothpick [52])

Tea with the dark side
Slimer on speed-dial
Sleep on a couch or a street or a leaf pile
Star Wars, Ghostbusters

There is no amount of "Our Father"s
That could remedy the black dog breathing down his collar
Biblical- The Lord's Prayer

Mi casa like I'm Oscar, hot and poppin' out a flipped lid
Eyepatch, Prince wig
Disappearing grid blip
Sesame Street, Prince

Dirtbag don, don't provoke him to act up
I'm golden, doing doughnuts in the Totoro cat-bus
My Neighbor Totoro

Everything I touch turn to black sludge
Bugs in the bag lunch, punch through a Mack truck
Princess Mononoke [73]

We take it where the warlocks lock horns
Soda pop, popcorn
Top-notch gore set to Bach over foghorns
Johann Sebastian Bach

Ready Freddy, headlong into creeping death
Respawn where you least expect
Metallica- Creeping Death

I could pick a pin and tumbler right in front of the guard
Out the front with another Picasso under his arm
Hit the city limit still exhibiting his inner Caulfield, baby
Pablo Picasso, The Catcher in the Rye

I'm H-E-double hockey sticks on wheels
New dawn, show him how the voodoo doll feels
Plus launch fireballs from the palm heels
Mario

Run the Numbers

From El-P- I'll Sleep When You're Dead, Released 2007, Listen/Purchase

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Ask me about our specials, I'd go for the razor chicken
Hope his delivery radius play to Gracie Mansion
Location

Marker to garden weasel, he's usually mucho woozy
Brutally feuding, call your Pluto, Goofy, Cujo, Snoopy
Pluto, Goofy, Cujo, Peanuts

Moody mammal division, Weatherville is better faded
The world is yours, money, now
Nas- The World is Yours

Some of the city pissy, itchin' them lottery numbers
My 40 thieves enjoy your banquet of property owners
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Sabbatical with Options

From Prefuse 73- Surrounded by Silence, Released 2005, Listen/Purchase

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I hung a lung over the only oak in BK
This was after having perused every crook-nook tucked in a scrupula
Location

Let alone mad piper I don't wanna rat pack when a back's set for a tap spinal, get away bad driver
Rat Pack, This Is Spinal Tap

Eyesight like a bat's and a bad license both got a Bronx Zoo with a lockpick kid slip back by the last vipers
And tigers and bears you will hold down New York, I will be back to reclaim if I'm bored
Locations, The Wizard of Oz

Secret Agents

From Chase Phoenix- Cut to the Chase, Released 2004, Listen

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Bass fall on critical king pin
Terrible germ that spread like Chase Phoenix wingspan
Chase Phoenix

It's like I'm sure that Blockhead could tear the wings out of your shadow
And blemish that perfect moment when the bliss fuck the life out of you
Blockhead

Sheesh

From Homeboy Sandman- Anjelitu (Deluxe Edition), Released 2022, Listen/Purchase

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The little engine couldn't, welcome to your intervention
A popery of friends and family sealing off the exits
The Little Engine That Could

Got a hoodie on the helmet hair, rubies in my dagger
Hooters(?) on the TV, future in Valhalla
Valhalla

Shout It In (remix)

Lyrics

No references

Shut Down

From Push Button Objects- Ghetto Blaster, Released 2003, Listen

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Animatronic tapeworm raid germinate random tantrum
So I twitch every time the "feed me, Seymour" farmers plant one
Little Shop of Horrors

Where their heads get gingerbread enjoyment for a couples
Then sit and wonder why their Brooklyn bridges buckle
Location

Deaf motivate the def, juxtaposition (juxtaposition)
The lab rats procreate with whatever's left
Definitive Jux

Lone pledge, suck medusa nipples, spit Stonehenge
You suck Sambuca ripples, spit cookies
Stop acting like an asshole!
Medusa, Location

Hot tin roof uh dance with a beetle summertime airbrushed on a collapsible easel
When a war participant are southbound eagle kick the metal door off the hinge or peek through the keyhole
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Kick back and count the casualties then sadden motherfucker like radio Rahim buying batteries
Do The Right Thing

Side Two

From DJ Ese- Side: Two, Released 2006, Listen/Purchase

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Let's go, Ese. Aight, I'm ready. Uh, let's do this
DJ Ese

The short answer, I'm high. The long & more accurate answer
Make Britannica read like a fur is murder flyer
Britannica

Sinister

With Vast Aire, and Yeshua daPoED, from Various Artists- Euphony, Released 2001, Listen

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No references

Sink Or Swim

From DJ Signify- Of Cities, Released 2009, Listen/Purchase

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Post cannons up
Pull the pulse up outcha mans and what
Dick and Jane escape into the arcane where the phantoms fuck
Dick and Jane

Like army parkas marching
Through the marsh with buzzing sparklers
To carve apart the harpies
And disarm the budding marksmen
Are you charged up?
Harpy

These are the crazers of the Benadryl nation
That'll steal the very bacon
Off your plate, thats so raven
That's So Raven

Fitting the knitting needle splintered through the kewpie
Duke(?)
I speak in a dead language New York is hollerin' through me
Location

Note the lazy foe be seven clicks outside the poppy fields
Telescopes and coffee spills and folding chairs and orange peels
The Wizard of Oz

Smoke if You Got'um

From Rob Sonic- Sabotage Gigante, Released 2007, Listen/Purchase

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One time we was about to do a show and Rob straight he was (?)
Rob Sonic

Fire and brimstone, fighter no, tiger by the toe
Kick and bicker while the evil images flicker and grow
Biblical- Fire and brimstone

What a long day, what a dark night, what a cruel morn
What a demo of tomorrow's New York
Location

And this is fresh out the dimensions of your record collection
Between the AC and Akinyele sections, any questions?
Akinyele

Smoke Weed

Listen | Lyrics unavailable

Pass the dutchie on the left hand side
Musical Youth- Pass the Dutchie

Sniff Glue

Listen | Lyrics

Cold Ol' Yeller
Rogue shelter melter
Old Yeller

Drag a leech pelt caper to rubble he call home
Then leap out of Gattaca to cuddle in brawl mode
Gattaca

One man walkin' through a world of mother fuckers
Like one Ben Hawkins in a world of Brother Justins
Carnivàle, Carnivàle

Bust the Hellcat on a Hot Tin or rock a sars mask
And limp their red carpet
To cough in a pop star's hands
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

When the troublesome bubblegum music nation eats itself
The meek inherently evacuate his arm span
Pop Will Eat Itself, Biblical- Matthew 5:3-11

Tarzan of Long Island savaged to feed the fam
Who stuff candles alongside scavengers of the damned
Tarzan of the Apes, Location

Yeah, my up-jump's the boogie
You'll jump start the noogie-wagon
Lookie
Up jumps the Jukie
The Sugarhill Gang- Rapper's Delight, Definitive Jux

Till you buy my shit
Like Smiley to Mookie
Do the Right Thing, Do the Right Thing

Showed 'em how to
Dodge boss hogs when the markers are gripped
Screamin, "Damn! I'm gettin too old for this shit!"
Dukes of Hazzard, Lethal Weapon

Cip One
We kill 'em with cuts and no alibi
Fly shit
Raised in the heart of NY shit
DJ Cip One, Location

Speak Truth

Also feat. Kurious, and Breeze Brewin, from Homeboy Sandman- Kindness for Weakness, Released 2016, Listen/Purchase

Listen | Lyrics

No references

Stand Up

Also feat. Myka 9, from Awol One & Factor Chandelier- Owl Hours, Released 2009, Listen/Purchase

Listen | Lyrics unavailable

Now the bible (?) stark raving arts and entertainment
I was part news part barn raising
The Bible

Strange Hours

From Grimace Federation- The Measure in Mixture, Released 2015, Listen/Purchase

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The show shock reeks of smoke and gold bond
Home watching Ghost Dog on the phone with your mom
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

Ursus... ran from authority and churches
Pants low, Van Gogh climbs out his Cursive
Vincent Van Gogh

Aes Rock, it's short for James Bond
My booking agent calls me Michigan J. Frog
James Bond, Looney Tunes

Burnt black T-bone taking the whole plate up
Grimace hitting switches like the ghost of Amadeus
Grimace Federation, Mozart

This is not just paranoia this is something to eclipse
These are hunters from Gehenna, taking suckers to the crypt
Biblical- Gehenna

In a tweed dearstalker, asleep in the nearest manger
I wake up into clear and present danger, days later
Biblical- Nativity of Jesus

Da Vinci gave him muscle, drunken Vinny took his ear
Mondrian and Rothko made him feel like a square
Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent Van Gogh, Piet Mondrian, Mark Rothko

In the living room recording the voice of the unimportant
A fuck you from New Yorkers, maybe send this up to corporate
Location

Take a second... A the one man four horseman
Stampedes, add a couple doors to the floor plan
Biblical- Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Stuck With You

From Eligh- Grey Crow, Released 2010, Listen/Purchase

Listen | Lyrics unavailable

No references

Success

From Mr. Lif- I Phantom, Released 2002, Listen/Purchase

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No references

Superhands Mantra (Fuck Us All)

From Busdriver- Beaus$Eros, Released 2012, Listen/Purchase

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A barkin archived influential images
And hope your afternoon
Is Tommy G and Future Primitive
Tommy Guerrero, Future Primitive

Hoarded zelda maps and
And voted build a cap of president
With bells attached
Turn a silverback into a jellyfish
The Legend of Zelda

Amy Fisher lamb brand
Braceface gangrene
Sweating at the helm
Of a Benny Hill chase scene
Always
The Benny Hill Show

Wake up with a fever like a wicker man
Raking up his brow
Never bow unto a Pinkerton
The Wicker Man

I drop bass on a megadeath
Scale, exhale
In the company of delicately shredded entrails
Megadeth

Take, Hold, Fire

Also feat. El-P, From Mr. Lif- Mo' Mega, Released 2006, Listen

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We grew up in the hold it, now hit it
When hold it down meant it was better to hold the crown, not the image
Beastie Boys- Hold It Now, Hit It

Take A Titty Out

Lyrics unavailable

No references

Take Me to the Basement

From The Opus- First Contact 001, Released 2002

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Take me to the basement
Lets zoom into that war pig sensation
Black Sabbath- War Pigs

Well I'm wallowin', followin' my little lost princess to the promised land
Hollerin' my potent slogan, hell, if Nostradamus can
Biblical- The Promised Land

Take My Hand

From Dark Time Sunshine- ANX, Released 2012, Listen/Purchase

Music Video | Lyrics

Deemed unkind by his one time owned
Never green blood line do time in a hole
Star Trek

Lunch at the cat post, dinner in a ditch
I sift through vics like mister Wu's pigs
Deadwood

Elaborately, come splash in the hazard
Dibs on the flask and the dagger after
Romeo and Juliet: (Act 5, Scene III of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet where Romeo commits suicide [74])

TAOS Two

Also feat. Mr. Dibbs, from Nigel- Tantrum, Released 2020, Listen/Purchase

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I march into the party like an archer on safari tag a trophy piece of protein drag it home behind the Arby's
(?) Smoking dope behind the Arby's oh my darling
Oh My Darling, Clementine

Tap Dancin' for Scratch

By Aesop Rock & Vast Aire, from Various Artists- The Bedford Files, Released 2002, Listen/Purchase

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I'm high as fuck
The shameless exploitation of that Midas touch
King Midas

I'm talking Iceman Cometh
Mic stands smacking the polite fans by the hundreds
Clustered up in green bunches
The Iceman Cometh

Waddle back up to your block
And find yourself trapped between an atom
And an Ae-fucking-Sop Rock
The Atoms Family

This Lonely Rose

Also feat. Blueprint, Released 2015, Listen/Purchase

Lyrics

Oh my low-tech bolt neck, go time, no myth
I'm a slow death goldmine
Frankenstein

Thorns (feat. Eyedea & Slug)

Listen/Purchase

Lyrics

Bound to blossom festive knock on wood
Salute the little lonely troglodyte that could
The Little Engine That Could

Time Capsule

Also feat. Vast Aire, from Illogic- Celestial Clockwork, Released 2004, Listen/Purchase

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Dear then, I'm writing from the now
Trying to steer this crooked zen to St. Elsewhere and warn your crowds
St. Elsewhere

Tomorrow Morning

From Ghosts of the Barbary Coast, Released 2008

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Marigold
The garish allure of the burning Barbary
Underbelly born of 40 thieves in whorish harmony
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Hammering for the dark and heartless
Harpy, shark and harlot argue breathing room
Do not let the arson jeeper-creeper you
Harpy, Jeepers Creepers

With no sign of a holy ghost
More the polar: horns and rosy cloven toes
Bunny-hop claims, fold and overthrow
Biblical- Holy Spirit/Ghost

Train Buffer

From Various Artists- Urban Renewal Program, Released 2002, Listen

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Army green eyes with ColecoVision bash casually
While punks jump up and jeopardize my head banger reality (ah)
Brand Nubian- Punks Step Up to Get Beat Down

Godzilla jukie
Red five minus the whiny Wookiee
Gobble gromits with a jaw that swivels backwards off the hinges
Godzilla, Definitive Jux, Star Wars: Episode IV- A New Hope, Star Wars

As a dysfunctional dancer in the dark
My smart bomb mechanism ticks adjacent to the broke city
Art yester-vision
Dancer in the Dark

But brainiac dumb-dumb, bust the duck hunter
I let the fuckin' dogs out and they're breeding in big numbers
Braniac Dum Dums, Duck Hunt, Baha Men- Who Let the Dogs Out

Confession one:
Aesop was raised to the Colonel Kurtz daycare center
For disgruntled youths where it's brilliant to flee the sheep flock
Apocalypse Now

You're a little teapot homie please don't feed the pigeons
They're tryin' to spread their peacock feathers
And bleed through the system
I'm a Little Teapot

Touch the prickly outer shell of reptilian
Minimal nighttime Z-catcher
20,000 league mapper, and um
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Thanks to y'all that came to school with paint stains on your fingertips
And brought a little life to those Long Island railroad city trips
Location

Please, remember I can build you my friend
And if I'm not happy, I'll break you the fuck down and build you again
Tehcno Animal- We Can Build You [75]

Sitting at the movies with a large bucket of Xanax
Extra butter and a spring water
Kamikaze Zaxxons
Zaxxon

El-P, where the fuck you at?
Yo El, call, call that escort service
Tell her the address
That's it
El-P

Try Not to Die

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Good morning everybody, my name is Aesop Rock
This is my friend Blockhead
We don't like you very much
I'm sorry
Blockhead

Broken glass everywhere
Aesop Rock pissing flares on city staircases next to the base heads
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five- The Message

These wooden wings got Geppetto jealous
But when a boy may detect every lie, "I can fly"
Pinocchio

Brought up in a cripple triple six litigant cellar
Where under a creaky step huddled to scorn of this old yeller
Old Yeller

Yes, you feeling that?
Maybe they didn't understand the ramifications encased in the new Blockhead dental plan
Blockhead

A bitch called politic cycles
Idolizing germ breeding and worm bibles
The Bible

Now you can let the horns blow 'til you're blue in the face
You preach the end of your rope before the dawn of the shoe laces
Dawn of the Dead

As far as I'm concerned
Every lost lamb sees through a bulls-eyes
The hand that feeds happens to hold a hammer and a lie
Biblical- Parable of the Lost Sheep

Monkey thirteen
Seen with a broke crown around the bend
Pissing on cloud nine from cloud ten
12 Monkeys

Try to Remember

From Hangar 18- The Donkey Show Volume 1, Released 2006

Listen | Lyrics unavailable

Something bout a tracer(?) with a roman candle chaser for the younger neighbors faces
Sounds foul but sort of shaped him like Youth Huntington station
Bring your (?) had money on the front porch with a shotgun waiting
Location

These meddling kids and now we got dumb for fun (?)
The lump sum rest in his 76 chest
Scooby-Doo

Aes break bread for his heyday
Like Breaker 1-9 Hangar 1 8 Mayday
Biblical- Breaking Bread, Hangar 18

Tugboat Complex

From Insideout: Vol. 1- A Fool Blown Compilation, Released 2000, Listen

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Dig it, I split my lip kissing the winter
Nursed the blister in the sun
Strung a hammock between spring and where the willows turn to blood
Violent Femmes- Blister in the Sun

I-dentify all saints linked around the fountain's warmth
And for a second taste of pain when removing that crown of thorns
Biblical- Crown of Thorns

Anatropic motley clique (?), born hostile, pacifist huddled in subtle masochist
Stamp the blame on following an inkling
Mötley Crüe

If I had a hammer, I'd build a city on stilts
So my feet would stay dry when God's wine glass tilts
If I had a shovel, I'd dig a hole in the dirt
And I'll be hiding when his drunken stupor lands upon earth
Peter, Paul and Mary- If I Had a Hammer

And if your little wing is broken
I'll see the poacher in hell
I can't afford another anti-burden soldier to cell
Jimi Hendrix- Little Wing

Where the sleepers feed the cycles
Stop, watch the eagles board the little engine that could not
The Little Engine That Could

Ghost in a shell
And it fell in my lap
Passion posted the bail but the guard had misplaced the key ring (that's wonderful)
Ghost in the Shell

I lead a fleet of blazing Zaxxons directly into the village
Power supply burning the bridge between the magnet and my eye
Zaxxon

Now how many cadavers satisfy a mad man?
And how many crooked samaritans turn plesantville to bad land?
Pleasentville

Biting my lip
Skin and bones, stringent
Bingin' on rancid baits
Mummified well inside a muddy New York minute
Location

Tumbleweed

Also feat. Elucid, rom billy woods- Dour Candy, Released 2019, Listen/Purchase

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Z-z-z-z, pop go the landscape
Belly-up throwing socks at the fan blades
Pop Goes the Weasel

One o’clock, dummy lock eyes with a mickey mouse pancake
Pox on his tipping side handshake
Mickey Mouse

Another mac the knife with the passion of christ
I would rather be trapped in ice
The Passion of the Christ

Might break off from the pack like Uncle Traveling Matt
Mail a couple suspicious packages back
Fraggle Rock

Untouchable

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Three's Company, Appetite for Destruction tee
Chunky Monkey, Funyuns, I can feel the cat judging me
Three's Company, Guns N' Roses- Appetite for Destruction

Or middle schoolers protesting the mystery meat and Catcher ban
Castaways walk into the same light as Carol Anne
The Catcher in the Rye, Poltergiest

Dagger in his teeth and treat a rapper like a rack of lamb
His allergy is middling, his middle finger's Plastic Man
Plastic Man

It's a medley of defiance and outfoxing
Born in a storm's eye alongside Long Island swamp kings
Location

Shoegaze rap, get your blue suede
Get used to the goofy get-a-clue face
Blue Suede [2], Get a Clue

Off-leash gryphons at the Westminster Kennel Club
As vessels of Beelzebub bite the hand that belly-rub
Griffin, Biblical- Beelzebub

Up and feeding Alexander Pardee art into the silk-screen
Still here, sleeping with the lights on and quill near
Alex Pardee

Dork-proof, type to forge a sword in his dorm room
Break fiends, drain threes from the warp tube
Mario

Long tooth, short fuse, Stormtroopers over John Zorn loops
If you ain't core, it ain't for you
Star Wars, John Zorn

Trash can fire in the middle of the crib
Where the coven swap recipes and riddles from the crypt
Tales From the Cryptkeeper

It's monsoon season, keep the log flumes leanin'
Religious paranoia get the Doc Seuss treatment
Dr. Seuss

Breaking out the Bronx Zoo, tabletop the Mongoose
Grey fade; ain't afraid to knock a few cogs loose
Location

I'm from where it's "Defense!" on three
And anybody with a fucking brain bump Sean P
Sean P

Old boy, might combine the carve with the stalefish
All aboard the mid-life snail's pace tailspin
Oldboy

I'm Trivial Pursuit cards at the 40/40; buzzkill
Aesop Rock, code name: "Yo, son, chill"
Location

Voltronic Instructional Espionage

From Grayskul- Deadlivers, Released 2005, Listen/Purchase

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Parry the parlor tricks [?], sleep with the marlin shit
Find Nemo then parallel parked from martyr bliss
Finding Nemo

Waiting Around

From billy woods- Maps, Released 2023, Listen/Purchase

Listen | Lyrics

Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor, not another brick in the wall
Star Trek, Pink Floyd- Another Brick In The Wall

Walk Like Thunder

From Kimya Dawson- Thunder Thighs, Released 2011, Listen/Purchase

Listen | Lyrics

On a March Black Sabbath
News from the ministry of make-believe that reach a tarmac in Minneapolis
Black Sabbath

Wait-two years ago a friend of mine
Called me to redefine all enemy-kind
Run-D.M.C.- Sucker M.C.'s

Deplane slow, comatose of baggage
From King of Hearts to carrion for jackals
Camu Tao- King of Hearts

Water

From Various Artists- Euphony, Released 2001, Listen

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I'm 20 something, pumping acrylic tomorrow sideways
Blazing passage with a map tattooed on the back of the classless
Waterworld [76]

I'm Mozart with a focus on the tide
Hiding the inconsistencies of man behind water and wine
Mozart, Biblical- Water Into Wine

Check potion, addressed the ghost inside my TV with a ruler
Adhered to the back bone, stone pusher
Poltergeist, Sisyphus

Here ten thousand hackers deep in the movement
That's 20,000 crucial ruby heels clicking in unison
The Wizard of Oz, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Welcome Home Warrior

From Clipping.- Dead Channel Sky, Released 2025, Listen/Purchase

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Ten-hut, ten ton tuffy
In the Red-rum, Red-rum
Punk's not dead, but
The Shining, The Exploited- Punk’s Not Dead

Rebel to rebel, I’m bell rung and out radical-ed
Help me to the breadcrumbs, make it look natural
Hansel and Gretel

Optimistic infancy to middle seat infinity
To citizens that splinter in our roving gangs of infantry
And weapon-toting soldiers built like Charlie Brown's Christmas tree
Peanuts

My water lilies on a light box glow like this
That's lo-fi shit
Claude Monet

Which Way Is Up?

From Atmosphere- Rhymesayers Vinyl Picture Disc, Released 2011, Listen

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Boar's head helmet, long in the tooth
I walk a three-headed dog, I call him "Duck, Duck, Goose"
Cerberus

Ooze through the cookie isle hands down marvelous
Possibly escorting hundred-handers outta Tartarus
Tartarus

Kid Schroeder, ivories picked over
Parts marched out to sea on sick shoulders
Peanuts

Wise Up

From Tags of the Times 3, Released 2001, Listen

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Boogie bullseye upon that dim excuse for group effort triple thin oxidized box cutter lost lamb ecosystem, dribblin' on my person
Biblical- Parable of the Lost Sheep

Wonderful

Also feat. Homeboy Sandman, from billy woods- Known Unknowns, Released 2017, Listen/Purchase

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Out a love shack into a Blood bath, hustling
Young king snakes through skull tats
The B-52's- Love Shack

Knowers of the whole half, Hulk smash overture
One man Motorcade, none stand holier
The Hulk

Cowabunga Houses of the Holy fuck in free New York
It's Hoodie over Goalie mask, for Obi-Wan, two, three and four
And five and six
Led Zeppelin- Houses of the Holy, Location, Star Wars

Bump in the night, black hearts under the knife
Money, it's a wonderful life
It's a Wonderful Life

Wood-Chip Grinder

From Mac Lethal- Love Potion Collection Vol. 5, Released 2009

Listen | Lyrics

Grand piano ivory smiling minor keys,
Harvest moon suspended over lilliputian rivalry,
Gulliver's Travels

Worlds Collide

From Rasco- The Dick Swanson Theory, Released 2005, Listen/Purchase

Listen | Lyrics unavailable

And when the babies play to hug a sucker punch
Stubborn jukie biting the knuckle that hook his supper up
Definitive Jux

No new laws for guerilla citizens
If you get a crumb break bread with your lineage
Biblical- Breaking Bread

Zero or a Zillion

From Kimya Dawson- Thunder Thighs, Released 2011, Listen/Purchase

Listen | Lyrics

No references

Part 1— Solo Albums & EPs
Part 3— The Reference Index, Credits, and Other Bits

]]><![CDATA[Aesop Rock: A Compendium of Influence - Part 1 (Solo Albums & EPs)]]>https://piercedowell.com/p/aesop-rock-a-compendium-of-influencehttps://piercedowell.com/p/aesop-rock-a-compendium-of-influenceTue, 31 Dec 2024 22:30:30 GMTFor those of you who don’t need the intro bit, click here to get started. And desktop users remember, there’s a table of contents feature if you hover over the left-hand side of the page. Otherwise, CTRL+F will be your best friend if you’re trying to find something specific.

A quick consideration on the formatting:
I realized late in the process that Substack might not have been the best place to compile this project because the editor doesn’t seem to like over 55,000 words and thousands of hyperlinks in one place. When I try to load everything together, all it does is crash. Since my other writing is already here and I want to keep it that way, I’ve had to split this into 3 separate posts. I’d rather it all be in one place, but alas, as The Rolling Stones once said you can’t always get what you want.

This is Part of 1 of 3— Solo Albums & EPs
Part 2— Collabs, Singles, Features, and Other Rarities
Part 3— The Reference Index, Credits, and Other Bits

What is this?

I’ve spent the past handful of months intently listening to and studying every Aesop Rock song trying to find every reference and allusion he’s made throughout his entire discography. I listened to every original song on every Album, EP, and Collaboration. I also listened to every non-album single, feature, and other rarities I could find. If he rapped on a track, I listened to it and compiled it here (save for a couple of caveats).

Since Aesop Rock isn’t exactly known for being easy to interpret, this will never be the 100% perfect, complete, or exhaustive list of every reference/allusion he’s ever made. I’ve tried my best to be as thorough as possible, but there are most certainly things I missed and/or the other folks on Genius didn’t catch or annotate either.

I’ve opted to focus specifically on references to other art and forms of media: Movies, TV Shows, Video Games, Songs, Books, etc., and not necessarily EVERY reference/allusion to a person, place, or thing (i.e. Albert Einstein, The Wright Brothers, etc.)

If you think I missed something, know that this is a living document that I will update if something is brought to my attention, either feel free to comment on this post or DM me either on Substack or Reddit. That being said, I will also update this post as new songs come out.

The caveats:
I opted not to include freestyles and a couple of other extremely rare oddities. Although some were recorded and featured on releases from other artists (see here for the full list), I’m more concerned with the official and finished songs and features found on albums, EPs, or as singles. Although there might be references and allusions in the freestyles worth considering, I don’t exactly consider them “songs” on their own.

*DISCLAIMER*

Although this was a massive undertaking requiring many hours of my time to complete, this document is by no means an original work. Despite sections in which original commentary may be presented, this project still falls under the category of reference material and should only be considered as such. Due to the nature of the format, the bulk of the words contained within are not my own but rather sections of lyrics written by Aesop Rock presented verbatim and with their corresponding annotations. So all credit goes to him for the source material.

With that being said, I must stress that this was strictly a passion project with absolutely zero intent of financial gain so as not to infringe on the rights of the proper rightsholders of the music and lyrics. The information presented here is done so only in a factual, not-for-profit, and educational way.

If you appreciate the work of Aesop Rock and have the financial means to do so, PLEASE BUY HIS MUSIC TO SUPPORT HIM THE MOST DIRECTLY. Sure, streaming is cool and all, but you know what else is cool? Supporting your favorite artists so they can keep making more of the art you love. So please, if you can, buy his music from any of these places:

I’ve also included streaming links for every album and song presented here, and also purchase links granted I could find one. I prioritized sources like Bandcamp and Quboz first and YouTube second.

On the lyrics

Most of the lyrics presented here were sourced from Genius.com.

Links to the lyrics are provided on every song. And in the occasional event where lyrics weren’t available, I went by ear. In those cases, it’s likely that I might have missed things—I only know what I know.

The bulk of the references presented here are either obvious or can be figured out with a quick internet search, i.e. Wookiee for Star Wars, or Spittle County for The Simpsons. And I don’t think it’s necessary to thank InsertUsernameHere specifically for pointing out who Mr. T is in 100 Feet Tall—a song clearly about Mr. T—just because they pointed out the obvious before anyone else.

Because of this, I’ve only included credits to other users who pointed out references I wouldn’t have been able to find my own, either from my own knowledge or with the help of the internet. All of those can be found in the Credits section at the end of Part 3, if you see your name on the list, thank you for your help! They will be noted through out like this [x] with a link to their Genius page.

I did find some things on my own, some obvious but not noted on Genius for whatever reason, and some hopefully a little more obscure. As for the more obvious ones, I did not add annotations on Genius as I don’t think they’re necessary as I stated in the previous paragraph. As for the other ones, I hope I uncovered something new for at least one of you.

Also, it should be noted that it would be impossible to prove every reference presented here, some are direct and undeniable but others might only be possible. Whether intentional or not on Aesop’s end, if an argument can be made for something being a reference, I’m assuming that it is one.

One last thing

My intention was to compile all of these things that already existed in disparate places into one cohesive and convenient document in hopes that another fan like myself might find value in it. So if you found value in this, all I can ask of you is to please share it with another Aesop Rock fan who might also enjoy it. And also to leave a like or comment on this post so that the almighty algorithmic overlords might bless a potential new fan with this post who might not have found Aesop otherwise.

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Part 1— Solo Albums & EPs

Music for Earthworms

Released 1998 — Listen — Not available for purchase, limited CD-r only release (read more).

Abandon All Hope

Music Video | Lyrics

Title: The Divine Comedy

Drunky peasants, honor the shifty Megatron presence
Transformers

Crooked rumors turn zoomers when rookies talkin'
Bad seeds blossom the Wookiee walk hawk and let a sucker drift
Star Wars

Fuck a badge, light a bonfire dancin' jig around the pig
Lord of the Flies:
("The boys, reduced to primal instincts, torture and kill a pig to be sacrificed to a being known to them as The Beast. The Beast turns out to be the evil within them." [1])

Wine and water chose me
Bored: lasso down Polaris, let the glow amuse me
Biblical- Water Into Wine

Ok, I lay me down to sleep, creepin' a slumber under red skies
Heads splittin', straight sippin' a drip of dead vibes
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep

From ducks in my carnival to vipers in my garden
You flash identify by them genus, species and class
Biblical- Garden of Eden

So like sadly, my style spooks juveniles like Boo Radley
To Kill a Mockingbird

Radically weak assume the Colonel Kurtz in our platoon soon enough
Apocalypse Now

I live for the moment of truth when Big Willie rapper
Acknowledges failure and states
"Goddamn my shit is trash It's time to let go!" Tin man banging upon his chest to hear the echo
Will Smith- Big Willie Style, The Wizard of Oz

See we the people of the united, starving artistic
Militia keep movin' in order to form a more perfect union
Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America

Rugged serpentine climb, pebble to rock
Let your pretty pink cloud nine expectations please you not
Sisyphus

I'm, Ae-*fucking*-sop Rock, mic bizarro
Bizzaro [2]

Abandon all hope y'all
The Divine Comedy

Wake Up Call (feat. Percee P)

Listen | Lyrics

Ayo Percee P it's time to wake these kids up
Percee P

I played a part of minesweeper, plunking sneakers in my sunken city
Minesweeper

When I was a boy I employed styles exhausted
By every lost child at present normally I drill pillars of normalcy
The City of Lost Children

Twenty Thousand League nappers and the swelling increases
Once the mortar hit the pestle your whole vessel fell to pieces
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

The Substance

Listen | Lyrics

Begging for death, concerns off with a zephyr tread and leg in a web
Caught triple-six couriers; beckon, they fled
Biblical- The Number of the Beast

All I need is the nourishment, the courage and the burn
To ascend from a number, to brave Blade Runner
Blade Runner

In the summer it rains buckets of hunger pains
In the winter it's the same, with an added climate change
The remaining two quadrants balance the polar values equally for mid-range
Yet the songs of thirst remain the same
Led Zeppelin- The Song Remains the Same

You could turn the whole cold reservoir to liquor
Hell, split the ocean on its seams if it boosts your esteem
Biblical- Crossing the Red Sea

Merit

Listen | Lyrics

Paladin tribe, break beat elitists, element five
The Fifth Element

Unto my game, defy the Siamese approaches
Whose delinquent dichotomy comps Emerald City in wondrous novelty
The Wizard of Oz

Drink drum, sip a snare to spit a rigid sequence, that's when freak sons
Fade to black just like these pretty pink lungs, slugger
Metallica- Fade to Black— Possible

And all I think about's the motion, exerted to color mavericks alerted
Herd a billion nervous lost child prodigies home to flourish
The City of Lost Children

I in turn apply policies which require intrinsic merit (Uh)
Try to wallow down these yellow bricks with yesterday's appendix on hold
The Wizard of Oz

Spot it like sky horizon, posed as barcodes
Load your fantasy, interject a bad dream candidly
Total Recall— Possible:
(Total Recall tells the story of a construction worker, Douglas Quaid who after seeing an advertisement on the train goes to Rekall, a company that sells 'realistic memory implants' to purchase his own memory of a Mars vacation. After selecting 'secret agent' and other preferences, something goes wrong during the procedure ultimately undoing previous mental tampering returning Quaid to his original self--also a secret agent. Upon discovery of his reawakening, the powers that be seek to return Quaid to his former modified self by convincing him that this has all been a bad dream.)

Forty thieves received the cue
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Bizarre pattern with a bad vibe like Jafar to Aladdin
Aladdin

We slipped these boogie nights, sucked wattage from rookie lights, now you proud
Boogie Nights

This little light of mine shines at a hundred billion times
The magnitude of every star within an ample sky sample
This Little Light of Mine

89.9FM Nighttrain Promo

Listen | Lyrics

Title: WKCR 89.9FM, Night Train

What's up? This is Aesop Rock for WKCR, check it
I traded my title as bent pedestrian for passenger status to coast muted
Finding the night train mildly therapeutic
Night Train

Sick of it all, sick of the stalls, sick of the thick brick in the wall
Pink Floyd- Another Brick In The Wall

It's flight of the intruder and we all fall down
Ride of the Valkyries, Ring a Ring o' Roses

Mic sweltering measures like melting my rings together and you never
Seen I, Aesop Rock, flop for the love of eighty-nine point nine
I'm here to ride upon the night train
Yeah, WKCR, eighty-nine point nine, it's night train
WKCR 89.8FM, Night Train

Yeah, WKCR, eighty-nine point nine, it's night train
WKCR 89.8FM, Night Train

What's up to my man Apex, Kinetic, DJ Ely, Baz, My man Dub-L, my production, the mighty Ger, my Man Patrick, Blockhead, Mr. Roper, Omega One, my man hates one, Percee P, Andre
Dub-L, Blockhead, Omega One, Percee P, all others unknown

Live On 89.9FM Nighttrain

Listen | Lyrics

Title: WKCR 89.9FM, Night Train

Check it, in a box marked "divinity", I trap the trinity
Of honor, evolution, and serenity
Biblical- The Trinity

This archetype hyped oddities of style
Lost child prodigy intrigued
The City of Lost Children

Brick in the wall installments draw a fallen performance
Fifth element, critical endurance
Pink Floyd- Another Brick In The Wall, The Fifth Element

Kids wanna know the Aesop Rock...
The off the top, prototype, straight RoboCop
RoboCop

If you're Quasimodo and you're slo-mo to stop
Ya rock bells
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, LL Cool J- Rock the Bells

Verse from Wake Up Call:
I played a part of minesweeper, plunking sneakers in my sunken city
Minesweeper

When I was a boy I employed styles exhausted
By every lost child at present normally I drill pillars of normalcy
The City of Lost Children

Twenty Thousand League nappers and the swelling increases
Once the mortar hit the pestle your whole vessel fell to pieces
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

First verse from Shere Kahn:
My firm's radically piloted, dodging a fire swiftly
Yellow-brick stalker walking shifty
The Wizard of Oz

I'm but a prototype Metroid programmed to holocaust style
While you're sulking in the stages of denial
Metroid

Your petty soldiers stand fragile like Giacometti sculptures
Alberto Giacometti

I stay special agent 'til the sky falls
Reverse the curse 'til my fellow Lost Children disperse
The City of Lost Children

Yo Aesop Rock, gotta say what's up to
Niles, Big Ger, Blockhead, The Baby Show, Dub-L,
Peace to Apex, Kinetic, and Ely, and everyone that works up here letting us come up
Blockhead, Dub-L, all others unknown

Coward of the Year (feat. Percee P)

Also on The Controls- One Hundred, Released 1999, Listen

Listen | Lyrics

Load a back alley shaman liquid Tomb Raider with a most fertile assortment of spitting logics for the lab rats gone colossus in the spotlight
Tomb Raider

The New York MC population dancing uncontrollable expansion
Location

Shere Khan

Also on The Controls- One Hundred, Released 1999, Listen

Listen | Lyrics

Title: The Jungle Book

My firm's radically piloted, dodging a fire swiftly
Yellow-brick stalker walking shifty
The Wizard of Oz

I'm but a prototype Metroid programmed to holocaust style
While you're sulking in the stages of denial
Metroid

Your petty soldiers stand fragile like Giacometti sculptures
Alberto Giacometti

I stay special agent 'til the sky falls
Reverse the curse 'til my fellow Lost Children disperse
The City of Lost Children

Antisocial

Listen | Lyrics

Now slow-mo Quasimodos teeter on ringleader status
While I spit satellite photos while teetering on the stratus
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Aesop Rock, prototype RoboCop
Jabberwocky rocking on the highest hilltop
RoboCop, Through the Looking-Glass

Swept off your meridian.
It’s operation Start With a Slummy Raped Your Milk and Honey
Biblical- The Promised Land (Milk and Honey)

Hit him with my ninety-nine metal plated mics upon the wall,
Take em' down, pass em'round, rock em' all.
99 Bottles of Beer

I’m forever building my City of Lost Children
The City of Lost Children

The magic-maker dragging devils to add triple sixes
Melt the triple glitches on your console,
I calibrate my mics prior to claimin' shit is rockable
Biblical- The Number of the Beast

Coordinates

Listen | Lyrics

I target the crux of all that's considered sin
The lost child venomous neck that spittles off my chin
The City of Lost Children

Close encounters of the first kind
Contact cursed minds
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Plastic Soldiers

Listen | Lyrics

The sound of silence vers' the sound of War
Simon & Garfunkel- The Sound of Silence

Crooked cynic tyrant
Your ignorant bias is my Goliath
Biblical- David and Goliath

My secrets unfold codes of conduct, raid
Blade runner, intimidating
Figment in the minds of the malignant
Your opinion: not significant,
Blade Runner

Troubled Waters

Listen | Lyrics

Bridge over troubled water drown, sound study intensive
My square drops to erase your lines like Tetris
Tetris

Plot twist foolhardy Icarus shifted in facets of my form
Icarus

One life polluted, concerned muffle moans
From the nine rings of Donnie's hell burn you in your slumber
The Divine Comedy

The evil-minded tried to triple six me but he missed me
Intervene; emcees appear as red blips on my color radar screen
Biblical- The Number of the Beast

Appleseed

Self-released 1999, re-issued 2021 on Rhymesayers Entertainment, Listen/Purchase

Appleseed Intro

Listen | Lyrics

Title: Appleseed

APPLESEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED!
Appleseed

Black spot of Gotham, fragile
Castle and master passageway
Batman

Dryspell

Listen | Lyrics

This splendors, shimmy splinters all up in day-tripper visuals
The Beatles- Day Tripper

The broken spoke cyclers choking open Doctor Zaius born fetus
In a matchbox keylessly padlocked to the hammer base
Planet of the Apes

Same Space (The Tugboat Complex pt. 2)

Listen | Lyrics

Well sure my crown is formed of thorns
Yeah but my thorns are formed of sound
And I have found sounds what keeps me warm
When mornings born with frozen ground
Biblical- Crown of Thorns

Throw the rope down, pull me from where the buzzards cleared
The meat from the bones of you and your little bad-ass mad max musketeers
Mad Max

Friend it don’t take the wisest men in triplicate pacing to find
I don’t condone the blasphemy hatchery’s procreation
Biblical- Three Wise Men

The company of similars couldn't excite the motor
But hermit crab Aes home a-loner
Home Alone

Buckled, the troubles I've seen
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen

On my left, one finger for each borough I can touch
On my right, one finger for each time that I wake up midsummer night
Location

Born for one task indeed
To spoil the citizen kane
Emote self this ugly duckling seed
Citizen Kane, The Ugly Duckling

Look I too am tired of draggin' the baggage over the seesaw seats
When the reapers turns mortals to Caspers
Casper the Friendly Ghost

Sick Friend

Listen | Lyrics

I choked when the caged bird sings it stings
Springs me up delirium to stitch the clipped wings
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Hold the Cup

Listen | Lyrics

And the saints come marching in
When the Saints Go Marching In

Goliath dipped in slipshod posture conceived evening
So I feed idea turn sun dial to bastards son adopt the reroute dreaming
Biblical- David and Goliath

So it goes
Slaughterhouse-Five

Take one down, pass it round among us
Liquor tip a drink, drink, drunk, drunk, and drunkest
99 Bottles of Beer

They'll be dodging more than cradles when the bough breaks
Note the eviction slip clipped to your little visions into cloud shapes
Rock-a-bye Baby

1,000 Deaths

Listen | Lyrics

Oooh child, raised as oddity, son of a circus side-show freak
Pertinent to the slide show, the wino's leak but I won't speak
The Five Stairsteps- O-o-h Child

And I'm reborn every time the wine metamorphs back to water, my god
Sweet Christ, crucify me with railroad spikes
Use my skull to bash them all in, gather sit and grin, weave
Biblical- Water Into Wine, Biblical- Crucifixion of Jesus

I mean I'm only one servant, making one hell of a diversion
And if the masses have agreed to split the sea then let it bleed
Biblical- Crossing the Red Sea, Biblical- The Sea Turns to Blood

I roam in a social coma
Jonesing for home alone days to sit and count my poems,
Home Alone

In honesty promise me twenty thousand sloppy leagues
And dive and finding my thriving ivy leaves climbing up the pit fall
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Told them the roof was on fire, when that structure burned to ashes
All y'all saw was Aesop Rock holding an empty book of matches
Rock Master Scott & the Dynamic Three- The Roof is On Fire

Blue in the Face

Listen | Lyrics

Squirming in terms in conditions of un-satisfact destiny magnet
Where the Ebenezer to Cratchit ratio tragic
A Christmas Carol and A Christmas Carol

Abide thy crass itinerary barely suitable for common slum cats
And the lemmings will follow you to the blood bath
White Wilderness

I don't mind y'all looking in
It's just watching Sin City steam slips under my skin
Sin City (Comic)— Possible

Mechanized idols inhabit malleable colonies
'Till the fire ant dropped the sweet leaf, grief
Black Sabbath- Sweet Leaf

That's better than colony
My own father's son is the holy ghost, suck that theology
Biblical- The Trinity, Biblical- Holy Spirit/Ghost

Odessa (ft. Doesone)

Listen | Lyrics

Where the shiftiest sources leak out the back door
For more and this is New York City
Location

Oh, now wait a minute
I notice there making mockeries of mad men
Tend not to bend in the honesty
My twenty thousand leagues ending grants sardonic fatigue
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

And I live beneath the scenic yeah, where the fossils pledged allegiance
Where the centipedes and serpents bigot on territorial disagreements
Pledge of Allegiance

Man I purposely spun straw to gold to lace each last stitch perfectly
Rumpelstiltskin

Float

Released 2000, Listen/Purchase

Float

Listen | Lyrics

I'm Bilbo Baggins with stilts tipping the Petri dish
The Lord of the Rings and/or The Hobbit

Divvy the servings and study the traits that deemed killer breed credible
That's a harp of a different color but the song remains identical
Led Zeppelin- The Song Remains the Same— Possible

Fire ant with a hunger pain gut be gone
Belong to something civil, saint, cuz this Rembrandt paints on
Rembrandt

I alone personify mankind's collective sulk
As a result of one angry Zeus fist blistering cult pulp in bulk
Zeus

Make it rain 'til the levy breaks
Led Zeppelin- When the Levee Breaks

Commencement (at the Obedience Academy)

Listen | Lyrics

It's down beneath your sappy sing-a-longs
Let's take it further down, we'll let Dante decide which ring I'm on
The Divine Comedy

Nova
Ender's Game:
("Could be a reference to Ender’s Game, a novella by Orson Scott Card, in which Ender yells Nova to signal his friends to defend themselves when some older boys attacked them during a practice session."[3])

Now I'm like point:
I guess I could spare a splash for a couple of heads
Counterpoint:
During my famine I never got broke your bread
Biblical- Breaking Bread

I'm tryin' to walk on top of sunshine
But it's ridiculous at times. That's why I'm touring with this warning
Katrina and the Waves- Walking On Sunshine

Ante up the slight cost of exhaustion
To salute the moon above paradise lost and you're a spectator, stringent
Paradise Lost

Big Bang

Listen | Lyrics

Every man's got a field to plow (I know that now)
But it's like, man I really can't afford the oxen
Fee fie et cetera
I smell the warm blood of the bill collector knockin'
Jack and the Beanstalk

Cabin fever meter peggin' ludicrous
Beautiful cartoon troopers
Swallow brutal futility with a teaspoon full of sugar
Mary Poppins (Julie Andres- A Spoonful of Sugar)

I'ma burn with this little light of mine
This Little Light of Mine

Alien to shallow alchemy
If you gon' metamorph the base-metal to precious
Might as well steal from the rich, bewitch the peasants
Robin Hood

I'm floating this homing pigeon out Hell’s Kitchen window
Left an S.O.S. infested bottle nestled in his grip so
Location

I was us up all night with a rusty hammer
Trying to build a fence around these magic beans
My dreams have gathered
Jack and the Beanstalk

Garbage

Listen | Lyrics

Wing of wax? Or wing of gold leaf? Choose one
Float or plummet twenty thousand cold leagues
Icarus, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Snake bite, breath too heavy to hold
Caught up in the wake of the red witch trying to swim it
Wake of the Red Witch

Honor and a loud thirst submersed in a trap
Little drummer boy vs. thunderclap
The Little Drummer Boy

And I'm a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas
Alfred Noyes- The Highwayman [4]

Pitching my back to Hell’s Kitchen
Location

I'll Be OK (ft. Slug)

Listen | Lyrics

I wanna lift every yellow brick
The Wizard of Oz

There's a storm outside my tenement
Beats upon my windows with Mother Nature's adrenaline
I guess that's why my homie Blockhead stays glued to the television
Blockhead

Breakfast With Blockhead

Listen

No references (instrumental)

Basic Cable

Listen | Lyrics

And I abide great idiot box power supply, fuzz vapor
Black out of New York, hey honey, get the generator
Location

I'm in a doom, doom generation, pacin', ancient electric secret
Never sleepin' to miss the AM oasis
The Doom Generation

Plug it in, turn it on, be my mother when she's gone, great
Wipe the spittle off my chinny-chin during the breaks
The Three Little Pigs

Deleted passions sacrificed to one electron monster
Crucify my little future to the monitor
Biblical- Crucifixion of Jesus

Stereo mastered often kill the freak seekers, eyes spiraling
Tangled in the star-spangled wiring
The Star-Spangled Banner

I can turn from toxicated visuals
And all the kings horses abort the loyalty to royalty
Fuck the fortress
Humpty Dumpty

Adamant students within the fine school of possessed graduate catalysts
Channel zero addict, immaculate
Public Enemy-She Watch Channel Zero?! [5]

Fascination

Listen | Lyrics

Shooken to Casper
Illustrate beautiful disaster
Flight of the mother ship lift to badger the male-factor
Casper the Friendly Ghost, Ride of the Valkyries

Marionette versus the threat of wire cutter function
Stereotypical Grinch bashing your pumpkin
How the Grinch Stole Christmas

One massive attack, hunted, confronted and gutted
Most pungent component cloned in outrageous bunches
Massive Attack— Possible

Plucking the petals but every rose had its thorn
Poison- Every Rose Has Its Thorn— Possible

I think I can, I think I can
The Little Engine That Could

And everything I touch magnificent
King Midas— Possible

Picking apart a drunken township
Sitting in the rain rusting the nails my crown's bound with
Biblical- Crown of Thorns

If I had an anchor I would lay it in the dirt and mark today
"The Day The Earth Stood Still" while I complete my search
The Day the Earth Stood Still

You honor delusions and falsified life comfort systems
As boy in the bubble huddled up to simple Simon subtle
Paul Simon- The Boy in the Bubble [6]

With a delectable style compiled of that which stands
To buff a child's yellow brick vision of slick living
The Wizard of Oz

Oxygen

Listen | Lyrics

Can't touch this
MC Hammer- U Can't Touch This

I'm twice born, once in 7-something
Once as the resurrection of honorable function
The Notorious B.I.G.- Respect [7], Biblical- Resurrection of Jesus

I'm a sovereignty columnist fathering doom document
Curséd version of a certain Virgin Mary womb occupant
Biblical- Virgin birth of Jesus

Paling in comparison to Matthias, Goliath
Lies the rickety frame of the wicked silence
Biblical- David and Goliath

Better land a two-hand grip on that spoonful-of-sugar medical chaser
Credible crazer antidote's terrible, taste her
Mary Poppins (Julie Andres- A Spoonful of Sugar)

‘Gimmie gimmie’, crooned the Old Yeller community cartoon
Old Yeller

Beanstalk with a fiend walk and my name is mud
But that’s got a ring to it, so my soil welcomes the flood
Jack and the Beanstalk

That stairway to heaven’s merely a legend so the peasants dream well
Led Zeppelin- Stairway to Heaven

Skip Town

Listen | Lyrics

My time is the day before the day the earth stood still
The Day the Earth Stood Still

This turning in my sleep is getting old and older still
I think I can, I think I can, I think I can
I think I will
The Little Engine That Could

6B Panorama

Lyrics | Lyrics

A hole in the wall bar kicking drunks to the gutter, it's closing time
Semisonic- Closing Time

Lunch With Blockhead

Listen

No references (instrumental)

Spare a Match

Listen | Lyrics

I was born where all the king's men couldn't mend a broken spirit
Humpty Dumpty

I was born where it don't matter if you stand, sit, or fall
To live and die as a brick brick brick in the wall
And I'm a brick brick brick brick brick in the wall
And I'm a brick brick brick brick brick in the wall
And I'm a brick in the wall, drop in the bucket, yes y'all
Pink Floyd- Another Brick In The Wall

And so the epic went and every cirrus hung
The bow breakers turned a cradle fatal, every spirit clung
Rock-a-bye Baby

Croon for the slick Icarus brain children busy splitting the giving tree
Building fresh canoes for freaks to cross the spill in
Icarus, The Giving Tree

Be wary when the stratosphere tints
I Scout like Atticus Finch
Inching up slow in the games of reconnaissance
To Kill a Mockingbird and To Kill a Mockingbird

Stick stone conglomerate activate massive
But the sky is falling, fuck you
Chicken Little

Attention Span (ft. Vast Aire)

Listen | Lyrics

Every little step we take breaks the dreams
Of a war pig itching to re-stitch the seams
Black Sabbath- War Pigs

He followed the precedent set by war pigs of a yesteryear
Black Sabbath- War Pigs

How to Be a Carpenter

Listen | Lyrics

My house ain't made of bricks and straw but never has it crumbled
The Three Little Pigs

How to make a vision sing while twigs cling to your pigeon wings
Fission militia, indent bent to split blood in Hell's Kitchen sink
Location

Prosperity

Listen | Lyrics

I've done it all, from pixie dust to cramming pins in voodoo dolls
And ninety-nine dreams linked on the shooting gallery wall
99 Bottles of Beer

Sprung by the sling of David
to pierce gutter bug batch prior to hatch
Biblical- David and Goliath

Blazing saddle remnants alive analyze pensive
Blazing Saddles

Well, did you touch that slugger?
Banging on the table with an old tin cup, thin luck
Tom Waits- Gun Street Girl [8]

Bring out your dead, I got a pile sky high
Monty Python and the Holy Grail [12](From Save Yourself)

No Splash

Listen | Lyrics

I love New York Saturdays
But Mondays last longer
Location

I got a mantle, and the mantle is a candle
And my candle is a flame that burns to symbolize the day Gretel met Hansel
Hansel and Gretel

I be the matador making your pretty little heels click
I be the Sword in the Stone of the contemporary eclipse
The Wizard of Oz, The Sword in the Stone

Drawbridge (ft. Doseone)

Listen | Lyrics

Who put the fun in dysfunctional?
I, prodigal son combustible,
Biblical- Parable of the Prodigal Son

Then the masses wanna lean on me like O Captain! My Captain!
Not considering maybe this orphan hosts morbid attachments...
O Captain! My Captain!

Dinner With Blockhead

Listen

No references (instrumental)

The Mayor and the Crook

Listen | Lyrics

By the way if that diamond ring don't shine
That's cause I bought it at the five-and-dime but don't neglect the sentiment
Hush, Little Baby

I'm fresh out of Geppetto's woodwork asylum
See the frame, wire-bound knuckles
Let a tug of the puppeteer steer my hustle
Pinocchio

I got this slicky sycamore handshake
That mimics digit splinter entry
Thereby filtering citizens Tin Man prior to axe descending
The Wizard of Oz

I'll burn the campus to impress him
Then rock like Medusa glances
Medusa

Home alone sipping beetle juice
Just to numb it, then shimmy the needles loose
Home Alone, Beetlejuice

I've patched the little leakage in the shell around my greed
In case Tommy Turbulence located The Matrix that impedes
The Matrix

Labor Days

Released 2001, Listen/Purchase

Labor

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Who put the monkey wrench in well-oiled perfectionist emblem
Just to watch these monitors spit white noise through your office space
The Monkey Wrench Gang

I twist characters like Twist characters
Twist [9]

Tally up the alley cat aggression in this Doug E. Fresh infested
Mess of bass line lust and automatic b-boy Krylon can combust circuit
Doug E. Fresh

Working these war pig cyphers
with Ted Striker stability
And kamikaze chivalry
Black Sabbath- War Pigs, Airplane

Fantastic planet urchin putting work in
Searching for pertinent verse minus the murderous diversion
Fantastic Planet

This old Green Goblin web cutter butts up against
Crayola daydream landscape spitting bedlam. Dead 'em
Spiderman

I got an inkling this gon' be the one the children bicker over
It's that Warriors vs. Baseball Fury element
To glitch his motor sensory development
The Warriors [10]

I am a star, really
That Big Bang bastard's back with a one-way ticket to Beat Street
Beat Street

Daylight

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Put one up for Shackle Me Not, clean logic procreation
I did not invent the wheel, I was the crooked spoke adjacent
Shackle Me Not

I pace my game for zero hour completion cretin, splash
Duke of early retirement picket dream
American Nightmare hogging the screen
Gene Chandler- The Duke of Earl [11], American Nightmare

I promise, tempest-tossed breed with a bleeding conscience
See, the creed accents responsive but my sports divorced the wattage
Emma Lazarus- The New Colossus [10]

I hock spores coursed by the morbid
Spreading of mad men, Alley gospel
Sinking your Lincoln-Log cabin and Charlie Chaplin waddle
Charlie Chaplin- The Tramp

Another thick installment of one night in Gotham
Without the wretched; Houston, we have a problem
Batman

Attached to the festive batch of city goblins
Who split holiday freaks on a box cut cinema high road bellow
Head gripped, watch red bricks turn yellow
The Wizard of Oz

Sort of similar to most backbones at camp Icarus
Where all fiddler crabs congregate and get pampered for bickering
Icarus

Life's not a bitch, life is a beautiful woman
You only call her a bitch 'cause she won't let you get that pussy
Maybe she didn't feel y'all shared any similar interests
Or maybe you're just an asshole who couldn't sweet talk the princess
Nas- Life's a Bitch

Stomach full of halo kibbles
Wings span cast black upon vigils
Here to Duck Hunt ticker tape vision and pick apart the pixels
Duck Hunt

Save Yourself

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I branch out, arms flailing backwards
Whaling upon a tidy sound circuit, slightly foul Gershwin
George Gershwin

Stood innocent bystand, witness the die-hard fans turn Rip Van
In the poppy fields of N.Y.'s orchestrated brick gauntlet
Rip Van Winkle, The Wizard of Oz, Location

Now I'm thinking, "Who am I?" Jabberwocky Superfly,
Through the Looking-Glass, Super Fly

Kill 'em all, yield
Naw, man, it wasn't me it was Holden Caulfield, brother
I just read and pulled the trigger
The Catcher in the Rye

I don't flick needles like my sick friend
I don't march like Beetle Bailey through a quick trend
Beetle Bailey

Bring out your dead, we can put 'em in a pile
And burn 'em with the novels for the kiddies to admire
Monty Python and the Holy Grail [12]

The Orphanage, they ain't got nothin' to save
The Overground, man they ain't got nothin' to save
Def Jux, they ain't got nothin' to save
The Atoms Family, they ain't got nothin' to save
Weightless, they ain't got nothin' to save
Stronghold, man, they ain't got nothin' to save
Rhymesayers, baby, they ain't got nothin' to save
The Orphanage, The Overground, Definitive Jux, The Atoms Family, Weightless Recordings, Stronghold, Rhymesayers Entertainment

Flashflood

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And so it goes...
Slaughterhouse-Five

Contestants get the New York home game with real life shoot 'em up-action
Thug, vagrant, yuppie and art freak game piece all included
Location

And not a creature stirred
A Visit from St. Nicholas

I drifted out the main spelunking unit with watered down
Sample of cancelled development, courtesy America
Land of the freebase, home of the triplicate grill character
The Star-Spangled Banner

I rock a crooked lid piece and sweat a bit to make my Wookiee ends meet
Star Wars

Passionate while they whine on some "Daddy's gonna kill Ralphie" shit
A Christmas Story

No rEgrets

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No references

One Brick (ft. Illogic)

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Killer cotton candy clouds and huckleberry justice league
The Justice League

Aight then, flinch for the great granddaddy payback
When Little Billy bought a tugboat
Now he thinks he's Captain Ahab
Moby-Dick

I ain't too good for tap water
Play taps out of order for a ballad, corpse a dead man walking
Taps

Platforms have been erected
Effigies built
Slogans coined, songs have been written
Rumors have been circulated
Autographs faked
George Orwell- 1984 [13]

The Tugboat Complex Pt. 3

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What should we do with a thousand drunken sailors?
"Kill 'em all, locate their family address, release a mailer:"
Drunken Sailor

I spin gold
Rumpelstiltskin

I sat to breathe. Adam and Eve without the Apple seed's useless
Biblical- Adam and Eve

Now I stand to breath as not to disturb the plumage
And I know that sob story, it no longer turns my stomach
Hollering wolf in the form of one frustrated culprit
The Boy Who Cried Wolf

You choked a few comments to the wrong Vulcan who out of respect
and honor leaked your program
Star Trek

Coma

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I've been a biplane dog fighter
Henson invention Trooper
Burst the result of Dragon Ball Z/Speed Racer gene splicing
Dragon Ball Z, Speed Racer

I flow ridiculous, indigenous to now
Who holds the fifth golden ticket?
Tour the wicked war phantom mansion beyond the pickets
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Who the fuck is Aes Rock?
I'm not a name to keep at arms length
Adjacent to little Linus quilt makeshift
Peanuts

Well he was maverick enough, but still scraped up
Taki 183 innovation for the kids
Taki 183

The reason they decorate the font of closing credits to boost onlooker amusement after fading hard to catch more Z's than Rip Van Winkles 12 step narcolepsy seminar
Rip Van Winkle

If the revolution ain't gon' be televised
Then fuck, I'll probably miss it
Gil Scott-Heron- The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Omega 1, where you at?
Talkin' that...
Omega One

Battery

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We them cats talking noise behind that New York trash heap
Where the stench of commuter briefcase replaces a bad sleep
Location

I'm a dinosaur with Jones Beach in my hourglass
Passing the time with serial killer coloring books and bags of marbles
Location

Prodigal Son with a prodigal wish to sew that prodigal stitch
And crucify bigot voodoo doll on two popsicle sticks
Biblical- Parable of the Prodigal Son
Biblical- Crucifixion of Jesus

Idols block survival crops the cycle stops for nothing
The Bible's carp revivalist winos flock by the hundreds
The Bible

And the vehicle is grandeur and it veered over the median
The second my halo ran outta helium
Demoted to thorn crown, damn talk about numbskull
Biblical- Crown of Thorns

Thank you James Anthony for the band-aids on my ego
Y'all are family for life
I'll take that bullet to preserve you
Blockhead

Boombox Apocalypse

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Raw, I'mma give it to ya, no trivia
Raw like that Aesop rock iron-fisted bliss militia
Wu-Tang Clan- Da Mystery of Chessboxin' [14]

We could run that Orwell's '84 warp for the Room 101 detour
Until each client fidgets with his or her own worst fear specifics
1984

Spit the gimmick, sit and fidget wild
In five you'll be jumping through hoops like Coney Island freak show midgets
Location

Bent Life (ft. C-Rayz Walz)

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No references

The Yes and the Y'all

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Jiggy-jabberjaw vitamin idol and primal rages
When bible page verse tidal waves begun (Water won)
The Bible

It's like a bleeding comet bombing on your sequels
To the Riverside Park Tunnel people claim last life form standing
Location

Tear my own face off in the finale, stick around it's ill
Diabolic Prodigal Son spill grimace
Biblical- Parable of the Prodigal Son

Pete Piper picked peppers, and Run rocked rhymes
Aes Rock might've smoked one too many dimes in his time
Run-D.M.C.- Peter Piper

Struck twice in the same place by a moody Zeus fist slider
Zeus

Smackin the third clear out the park
Going gone (To infinity and beyond!)
Toy Story

I rocked for a flock of Chewbacca look-alikes in magic makers
Hermit crabs and New York city sewer alligators
Star Wars, Location

Keep your Honalee dreams out your homily
Peter, Paul and Mary- Puff, the Magic Dragon

I've seen friends bow to needles
I've seen needles bow to records
I've seen boughs break
I've seen God bow and make the clouds shake
Rock-a-bye Baby

I'm here to pull the three-prong on this prime directive wormhole of self-sacrifice
Add a hatchet slice for kicks
And so that God-awful Frankenstein scar on your style can someday be a story for my kids
Frankenstein

Life's hard, life's easy
Life's everything in between
Life's Peachy like James and the Giant
James and the Giant Peach

I'm balanced, personified phantom to the bone
Walkin like a Jabberwocky
Scalpin a pair of one-way tickets to shadowboxing
Through the Looking-Glass

You drop science like Don Herbert with liquor in him
Soundin' off like senior citizens sitting at Bingo parlor bickering
Watch Mr. Wizard

9-5'ers Anthem

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Under a dusted angel harp string Big Brother is watching
My odometer like buzzard to fallen elk, talking stealth
1984

I'll take my seat atop the Brooklyn Bridge
With a Coke and a bag of chips
To watch a thousand lemmings plummet just because
The first one slipped
Location, White Wilderness

Fumble outta bed and stumble to the kitchen
Pour myself a cup of ambition and
Yawn and stretch and my life is a mess and
If I never make it home today, God bless
Dolly Parton- 9-5

Shovel

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Beanstalk, chalking outlines before figures fly
Jack and the Beanstalk

Happy trail hitchhikers guide to spanning oblivion
Complete with a thankless 9-5 chapter
You can sign your life after the fact
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Wicked soldiers pickin with buddy system
Logistic motors like Noah's Ark ticket holders
Biblical- Noah's Ark

Sketching a glass partially empty till their hand cramps
With an iceman's chance in Dante's dreamland to stand where the fans lamp
The Divine Comedy

You make me chuckle child, it's Hell's Kitchen now, miss
Recognize your life is merely bait for bigger fish
Location

Daylight

Released 2002, Listen/Purchase

Daylight

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On Labor Days, see above.

Nightlight

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Put one up for shackle me not clean logic procreation?
I did invent the wheel, in a previous generation
Shackle Me Not

Fathom the splicing of major-league low-life
With anti-hero earthworm mentality – Godzilla!
Godzilla

American Nightmare lost in the monitor
American Nightmare

I'll hold the door open, so you can stagger through
Then send berserker-bred Jukies in after you
Definitive Jux

It's Gutter, and I spell it with the 'G' I stole from "Get the fuck up!"
Noise crutch stolen wretched refuse of my teeming dumb luck
Pharoahe Monch- Simon Says [15]

You won't be laughing when you're hosted
By the ghost of Christmas past
A Christmas Carol

Okay, link me to activism chain, activate wild-style Pluto orbit
Set a course, then push the button
Wild Style

I swallow spores born by the laws
Of a morbid glutton– Alley gospel
I can spot a duck battalion by the Charlie Chaplin waddle (gone)
Charlie Chaplin- The Tramp

Another thick installment of one night in Gotham
Like, "Houston, we have a problem: they're buffing the trains the same day the graffiti writers bomb 'em!"
Batman

Who split holiday freaks on box-cut cinema high road bellow?
Head gripped, watch red bricks turn yellow!
I'm tryin' to meet the wizard, but a tailgating tin-man holding a oil can won't let a hermit crab break in his new shell-toes
The Wizard of Oz

Life's not a bitch
life is a beyotch
Who keeps the villagers circling the marketplace
Out searching for the g-spot
Nas- Life's a Bitch

Nickel Plated Pockets (feat. Vast Aire)

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Robert Crumb ugly dumb image
Barely sprung fairly numb grimace
Robert Crumb

Walk into the store with a pocket full of nickels
And a city full of World Trade Center victim candle vigils
Location

Freak of Fantasia leak laser major. Running bases
Neighborhood watch weasels pace in ugly acres more than often
Fantasia

(It goes)
Back of the class, throwing pencils at professors
It made the Barbarellas giggle
That's when life's pleasures were simple
Now it takes a dancing bear jumping through flaming hoops
To even make em buy the god-forsaken single!
Barbarella

Thou shalt not desecrate the soothing spiral
Offered by a classic cut to vinyl
Find that in the Bible!
The Bible

Now if you gotta rock a gas mask outside of your own apartment
You could pretty safely quote Shamar Life's ill, sometimes life might kill,
sometimes prayers dwindle
Walking to the store with a pocket full of nickels
Vordul Mega (birth name Shamar Gardner)
Cannibal Ox- Iron Galaxy

Walk into the store, same pocket, same nickels
In a city where every crack in the sidewalk's a symbol
Where there's crack in the basement
where there's krakens and slave ships
Where there's crack whores and corrupt pigs killing cats trying to crack cases
Cannibal Ox- Iron Galaxy

My boombox runs on a baboon heart transplant (This is hell!)
I got a poltergeist on a leash trained by Carol Anne herself
Poltergeist

Two Thousand something...
When technology ate itself glutton
Every move I make's from a robot Geppetto pressing a red button
Pinocchio

You're the kind of cat that rolls a pimped out Caddy
Dropped with rims and limousine tints bumpin Enya
Insert laughter here
Enya

Alchemy (feat. Blueprint)

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Blueprint what's your approach?
Blueprint

For all my iron giant soldiers with a metal fist up shielding mother nature
From a fatal wrist cut, story, I respect you
The Iron Giant

Breathe even or lean squeamish, grip milestone like ring ring ring I just called to scream phoenix click dial tone
Cannibal Ox- Scream Phoenix

I dash like a jackrabbit that orbits revelation with a single pounce
To Edward Scissorhands your string of doubts and turn it out
Edward Scissorhands

This is that Mighty Casey homefield advantage to bend your blizzard
With a crocodile smile and five robot knuckles to your kisser
The Twilight Zone

Forest Crunk

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No references (instrumental)

Bracket Basher

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I got West Nile virus on my TV in the Bronx
Location

I got two hollow pockets and a sleepy hollow mosh pit
Tryin to blow the spot with wet matches and bottle rockets
While cop walkie talkies squawk outside my apartment obnoxious
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Wind blown mariner East River shark parry lunge carry funk endzone caliber
Location

Watch war face painted jukies dance blissfully around a bonfire and sacrifice live sanity
Pay a nickel for nose-bleed seats in a peanut gallery
Definitive Jux, Lord of the Flies [1] (from Abandon All Hope)

Roll into the city with one half of the cannibals (whose that?)
New joint bumpin out the whip speakers
Made the escape for a night of making tapes now it's back to the cockroaches and preachers
Cannibal Ox

My cipher demeanor left Jesus rubbin genie bottles
Til the following morning Colombo found a crown of thorns in urine puddles
You're in trouble!
Columbo, Biblical- Crown of Thorns

Are we having fun yet?
Zippy the Pinhead

Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the lord my soul to keep
And if I should die before I wake
Give my ASR to El and bury me with my mistakes
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep, El-P

Def Jux
My man Blockhead, El-Producto, Mr. Lif, Murs, RJD2
Definitive Jux, Blockhead, El-P, Mr. Lif, Murs, RJD2

...Bonus round
This is the hot tin roof stepper
Hold it down with centipede foundation
Cat On a Hot Tin Roof

Mr. Greed who burns rugged obstruction in bunches
Like little Jackie paper puffs the magic dragon in dutches
Peter, Paul and Mary- Puff, the Magic Dragon

If the slipper fits fire up Cinderella propeller and curtsy for the munchkins right before
Aesop Rock smashed the pumpkin
Cinderella, The Wizard of Oz

You're a little tea pot trying to eavesdrop on the mammoth route
Peaking out from the rosebush like (Uh-huh)
"Here is my handle (Ohh), here is my spout" (Ahh)
I'm a Little Teapot

Godzilla jukie used to be in love, now out for gigapussy
Sorry to offend but sometimes life bends in the middle (Sorry!)
Godzilla, Definitive Jux

Maintenance

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It's James and the Giant Tugboat Complex and he's annoyed
James and the Giant Peach

No one's asking you to build an ark brother
Biblical- Noah's Ark

Plus this uncontrollable laugh
When those Amber Waves of Grain finally crash
America the Beautiful

Acid for the basics,
Ph-imbalance to burn the malice martyrs faceless
Then fabricate day trips
The Beatles- Day Tripper

I keep my ghoul spirit concealed
Until The Warriors return to the Coney Isle Wonder Wheel
The Warriors, Location

My mama told me there'd be days like this, days like this, days like this
Days like this... (Yes she did)
Van Morrison- Days Like This

Sunk with a "yes sir" chained to fatigued ankle leagues beneath the angle I'mma call home 'til the Rock meets the angels
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

One of Four (Thank You)

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My name is Ian Mathias Bavitz and I was born in Long Island, New York
Seventy Six, before Graham and after Chris... OK
Location

In August of 2001 my seemingly splinter-proof brain bone scaffolding imploded
I kept it on the hush, but nearly tumbling
To the cold hard concrete on mere bodega trips
For cigarettes and soda, shook me to Casper
Casper the Friendly Ghost

JAIME, I killed the robots and I'm sorry
El-P

TONY, I know you know I'm crazy, cause you told me
Blockhead

KATHRYN, mother figure, older sister, concerned beyond limits
Kathryn Frazier [16]

RAIA, for the late night movie rentals and the company I needed
Joey Raia— Possible:
(Has worked with him on several albums but the earliest wasn't until 2011 with Hail Mary Mallon- Are You Gonna Eat That. Can neither prove nor deny an earlier connection)

Bazooka Tooth

Released 2003, Listen/Purchase

Bazooka Tooth

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Piety for the fam, embargo piggybackers
Navigate sim-city backwards
Sim City

Zephyrs less detrimental expect to tone down terrordome for starter crews
Like jousting Pompeii with a garden hose
Public Enemy- Welcome to the Terrordome

If you wake up to the sound of helicopters bumping Wagner
It's Bodycast the Pilates class
Rumble in the Bronx back alley batting cage with bottle smash
Apocalypse Now (Ride of the Valkyries), Rumble in the Bronx

Drag them prophecies
Be them Celestine or Mothman to the bumper boat monster mash
The Celestine Prophecy, The Mothman Prophecies, Monster Mash

Official Max Fischer-Blume brake cable clipper (Def)
Picket train buffer, the riverboat, and the switcher (Jux)
Rushmore, Definitive Jux

Pipe-dream of that so fresh and so clean plumage
Outkast- So Fresh, So Clean

N.Y. Electric/ Hunter Interlude

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Title: Location

Got rebel camps with siphons amped to cookie-cut the wattage
Electric ilk NY raised on b-movie sluts and gossip
Location

Paxil Rose, Axl broke and butchered
Last catapult standing in a land of coke and hookers
Axl Rose (Guns N' Roses)

King Kong potluck, no parking for rickshaw loads of sock puppets and sitcoms
Just Krylon pigs bred in a hot boxed wigwam
King Kong

Me? Oh I check the newest murals to see whose still bombing this fucker and um respect”
Find out what it means to me, New York
Aretha Franklin- Respect, Location

Walk blocks with electric ninjas who bark/bounce for trunked out whips
Like, "My company DeLorean's the shit"
Back to the Future

I ordered a hovercraft off the back page of an Archie comic
Built it in three days to float above snarky comments
Archie

My gills call the East River rock bottom home with three-eyed guppies and seahorse mutations
See, New York is ancient Rome. Basic. Basically stone. Faces
Location

My friend jumped off the Empire State Building while I hung with 10th grade head cases
Location

"Some of them will blossom famous", some of them will blossom baseheads
But they all rep rivets in the die-cast metal Voltron cadence, what?
Voltron

N, Y, Electric, Catalog, Burners, Pigs, Magnums, Crack, Bag lady, Roach bait, Pristine kicks, Thread and the iris of the needle
Location

Kill 'em all slow
I was on a serious tree bender with my hands up at a C-Rayz Walz show
C-Rayz Walz

Least common denominator raise truth like Charlie, Willy and Gramps raise roofs in a glass Wonkavator Monster Maker
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Bitter fucker, nothing is free
I'll spend my last dollar on me
Tom Waits- Filipino Box Spring Hog [17]

Put one up for the socially broke, choked and smoky New York piss hiss bleed Dolby, homey
Location

Easy

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Downside-up in crippled acres
And still the fountainhead spittles sniglets
Quicker than quidditch seekers snatch golden snitches
The Fountainhead, Rich Hall- Supermarket Sniglets, Harry Potter

Curl a worm tongue tight, bitten behind the vamp chopper foaming
Lamb choppy sock puppet fear and loathing
The Lord of the Rings and/or The Hobbit, Lamb Chop's Play Along,
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

It's a pocketful of nickels, like Cool Hand Luke decapitating and
Parking meters when the pigs blew the whistles like windmills
Cool Hand Luke, Animal Farm

You blinded by the light you might just plummet through the cosmos
Meet Apollo sandman function before the whore hit the high note
Showtime at the Apollo (Howard "Sandman" Sims) [18]

I'll wake up for a second to help the betters count their blessings
But I cannot Cratchit crutch the Ebenezer limbs much longer
A Christmas Carol and A Christmas Carol

Now it's like, sufferin' succotash, bucko, ducks in the chuckle patch
10-4 on that, stinger operation, wingman double back
Looney Tunes

Fuck it, Let him roam the home of the mange ridden emaciated
Slave pain cave children game
Not all players heal the same!
Company Flow- Simple (from Limelighters) [19]

Learn it or don't learn shit
My radio is on regardless
I tune out pardons and tune in starlets
Carbon and pre-David/Goliath live Paleolithic bias
Who walks on all fours dragging the cadaver of King Midas
Biblical- David and Goliath, King Midas

Now it's Thor dwarf war hammers, Elvin bow and arrow aimers
Documentation of the rate at which narrow tapers
Thor

Call Ripley, Skippy
Ripley's Believe it Or Not

Motorhead dope fixture on some 'Go to bed, no dinner!
Hold your head, cold winter!'
Motörhead

I stay left
Along came a spider, sprung and alert, I stay def
Itsy Bitsy Spider

He makes records with his tongue in the dirt
Suffer the dirty earth crisis with a license to flirt
Buffer the mighty tighty sequins with a price on the merch
Earth Crisis

Covert Mr. Blizzard shoulder, he always acts all pissy
Plus your friend said I was an asshole when he met me
Mario

No bad moods aloud when you're in the public eye
Kill it, you are the weakest link, goodbye
The Weakest Link

DJ Cip One, Mu Tao, Murs, El-P, Mr. Lif, Def Jux
DJ Cip One, Camu Tao, Murs, El-P, Mr. Lif, Definitive Jux

No Jumper Cables

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Burn train buffers
My fancy
Up jumps the boogie delivering eye jammies
The Sugarhill Gang- Rapper's Delight

Uprock, sidewalk cycles stuck at the bus stop
Wookie foot must not sleep
Under the invaders
Star Wars

To y'all I'm just a funny moniker with a couple of fresh records
And a bangin' hand style to put the jukies on the guest list
Definitive Jux

More to blush alizarin crimson
When the multi million
Tin men suck traditional rituals
Out the homes of starving children
The Wizard of Oz

Mars Attacks colorfulness
I piss raptors on motherships
Mars Attacks

Hazy days will stay purple
Cause Cips with a Z bargain
Like Crazy Eddie commercials
DJ Cip One, Crazy Eddie

Limo tint stretch DeLorean chrome sittin' on twenties
Back to the Future

Fucked up jeans back at the party spinning Kane meets Flight of the Valkryies in a heartbeat
Apocalypse Now (Ride of the Valkyries)

Saber tooth, catalog, city art, liturgy
Ranger Ricks endanger the clique maximum efficiency
Ranger Rick

And isn't that dope?
The line of blind winged Pygars and how they wallow planks into the Matmos
Barbarella and Barbarella

Binder bibles and a graphite prison violator
With Joshua for the war gamer systems
WarGames

Now the architects are rioting cause we built something different
I'm like how the fuck sure shot evolution not my business?
Beastie Boys- Sure Shot

My elephant television was on
Grape soda, Grape ape, Great space coaster, DnD, GI Joe, Transformer, Herculiod, ThunderCat, Voltron, Speed Racer, Space Ghost
The Great Grape Ape Show, Dungeons and Dragons, G.I. Joe, Transformers, The Herculoids, ThunderCats, Voltron, Speed Racer, Space Ghost

Kiss the flickering images with Carol Anne fingertips
C-4 to four chamber skips
Ohh shit...
Poltergeist

Started bendin' spoons and rippin' arrows outa ladyhawks
With a C3P unit tryin' to interpret the baby talk
Ladyhawke, Star Wars

Junkyard Dog. Hot tin roofs cradle kittens
with them sub par flaws
Cat On a Hot Tin Roof

Blockhead, Soulposition, El-P, Smash Brothers, Murs, Mr. Lif
Blockhead, Soulposition, El-P, S.A. Smash, Murs, Mr. Lif

Limelighters/Flunkadelic Interlude (feat. Camp Lo)

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Pain cave uno
Smokin' a broken Blue Note
Company Flow- Simple [19]

Rose radio Lazarus via linear bark screaming
"I'm back to kill the video star and I'm double parked"
Biblical- Raising of Lazarus, The Buggles- Video Killed the Radio Star

Okay, the web spread from Brooklynites to born in barn kittens
Who's gimpy half step hid behind Noah's Ark systems
Inconspicuously clustered with the boas, sharks and pigeons
Location, Biblical- Noah's Ark

Like Zoo York won't clock them rusted crutches up mopping the ship deck
Texas hold 'em pocket ace investment
Location

16 D batteries, bag it up
See the halflings flee the Shire before he tore open the packaging
Do the Right Thing, The Lord of the Rings and/or The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and/or The Hobbit

Plus, minus, in proper Panasonic alignment
Pseudo Pliskins O.D. on kick drums
Snake, escape that environment
Escape From New York

Super Fluke

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A to Don Darko, bark O beautiful piranha gossip
Cobwebs on the Kafka, choked up on Watcher logic
Donnie Darko, America the Beautiful, Franz Kafka

Prowler fist up with a Bowser twist vs. America's kooky coward clips
Mario

Drugstore cowboy, hold floors and grudges
Drugstore Cowboy

Fuck the Judy piece while Elroy burgle space cakes from the cupboard
The Jetsons and The Jetsons

For the typecast ponies grazing through the weekend
Ring alarms with bassy kicks that flip whips on the Major Deegan
Location

Yo El, leave the keys to the DeLorean with Lauren at the office
I peak the 88 streak off with a fiery disposition
And basic serotonin deficient symptoms
El-P, Back to the Future

Brick house, huff, blew the roof
Please don't feed the bazooka tooth
Evolution super fluke
The Three Little Pigs

The rowers keep rowing
Pachyderm tranq dart blowgun pressed to the nape of the neck only spent 12 seconds frozen
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Holler dirt merchant... echo out Brooklyn, where the women are beautiful and the vagrants piss crooked
Location

Now they want to mitigate the gusto, that's like asking the cast of Watership Down to fuck slow
Watership Down

Solidify. Widdle I Aes millipede uncivil. When Millie pulled the pistol that tore the Vanilla Sky across the middle
De La Soul- Millie Pulled a Pistol on Santa, Vanilla Sky

Hyena for the sci-fi, God barter "non" for hyphen
Promo charted phobia specific violence like a 50 foot Bob Barker deployed to incinerate New York, which in a way's more scary than thermonuclear war
Bob Barker, Location

Cook it Up (feat. Party Fun Action Committee)

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Cook it up spooky salute
Look 'Zook'll hook it up to
Shoop the local Winnie Cooper loopy
The Wonder Years

"Just don't get all barnacley
Or get P.T. Barnumed in 3D THX sound stereo dismissal
Sorry hun, it's just the last few have been a fistful
P.T. Barnum

Or them barbies you'll vibe for a sexy second (lovely)
Give it a month Hyde heckles Jekyl and she makes Hitler look cuddly
Strange Case of Dr Jeckyl and Mr Hyde

But Jenny in the sky with emerald eyes
You're so different so delicious so the fish
I'd be willing to walk the limb with
The Beatles- Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

Nope, aggro-pimp, sinfully, finicky nova, bag it up no-diggity soldier
Magic touch fingertip donor
Blackstreet- No Diggity

I dream of Jeannie and fucking her obscenely
But Jenny could be Jeannie so easily if you'd let me
I Dream of Jeannie

Hell, the bad tact daddy-o Merlin-- 'e' for effort
Most of these high-post Fabio world motherfucks make my head hurt
Fabio

Freeze/Honeycomb Interlude

Music Video | Lyrics

This is a never dug disco
Zoo York tycoon, memorandum bonanza banter clamp crunk out the fish bowl
4-Ever Fresh- Urban Sound Surgeon, Location

(Is it raw?) Please... does a priest need a ten-foot pole to baptize little Linus minus the lap ride and tease?
Peanuts

Dead straw to gold bar spin fiber
Lost and found in a smitten kitten's incisors
Rumpelstiltskin

They Aphrodite all over the burgle of a purple heart compartment
Marched a burgundy carpet alarmed and far to parched to bark it
Aphrodite

Lil' Abner, a real firecracker
Grows to throw 'bows with vehicular hijackers
To eavesdrop plots cops hired a wire tapper
That's a whipper snapper trapped beneath my grip on the fire ladder
Li'l Abner

Took drums over to deril' to once over the line tones punch toothy ticks
'til they find homes like three ruby clicks
The Wizard of Oz

The roof is on fire where Snoopy sits right now
You should have shot yourself in the foot when it was in your mouth
Rock Master Scott & the Dynamic Three- The Roof is On Fire, Peanuts

This is a never dug disco defamation of dog and pony grappled out chincey
Chipping Leo Da Vinci phonies pushing kill of hill bloated.
4-Ever Fresh- Urban Sound Surgeon, Leonardo da Vinci

Nobody got you
While biggest brother's watching bigger brother watching big brother watch you
1984

It's a day in the life of the carnie dog-faced boy escapist
Living large, watching Springer, smoking beedies wrapped in bacon
The Jerry Springer Show

At night his get busy disease leakage peaketh
Merk the he say/she say, BK Jesus turn peg legs to Adidas on the down stroke
Location

This is a never dug disco. Spread feelers. Tonka zonk Geppetto bred beezers
4-Ever Fresh- Urban Sound Surgeon, Pinocchio

He found the fucks indigenous to him and awfully feisty
He grew old awkward Grinch and settled into bonkers nicely
How the Grinch Stole Christmas

I alert vital spider works to cultivate grit, ship the bulk grade shit
Herbie the Love bug drugs pulsate whips
The Love Bug

Your flimsy frame marks hip-hop's second most tragic event
And will 'til Jam Master Jay's resurrection and second death
Jam Master Jay

We're Famous (feat. El-P)

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Dig it, daddy dug his own tunnel under the gutters where the numbers bleed
Hunters froze up and exposed Rapunzel weeds
Rapunzel

Welcome to Bazooka Works, halogen halo eyesore
The revolution will not be apologized for
Gil Scott-Heron- The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Fraggle rock your four figure watch
I clock ninety-nine cent wristbands
And still know the time when you record flops
Fraggle Rock

Baby, you ain't felt the collective? (Coooool)
Stop running bases with little bears under the wing of punchdrunk Buttermakers
Bad News Bears

Pockmark ninety Moses approach with a golden focal point
Come soak in it, résumé sturdy composer soldier bliss
Biblical- Moses

Welcome to mi casa, Monsters Inc, dropping bangers out the rocket ships
Your own private apocalypse
Monsters Inc.

Puff the magic komodo bitch
Rappers stuffed kimonos and shark fame at a perfect working unit
Look, I'm done
Peter, Paul and Mary- Puff, the Magic Dragon

Babies with Guns

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Harvest all Brand-X Clark Kents to worm food
Superman

Bastard polter gasps when the pigeon with Lazarus billy-goat whiskers
He roasted sea-salt in the open blisters
Biblical- Raising of Lazarus

Bazooka Tooth zoo-keep the paper route with janky funds and favors
Cradled by twelve empty Zelda heart containers
The Legend of Zelda

I walk face-first through the sex, drugs and church
With wild things that make Maurice Sendak question his early works
Where the Wild Things Are

Running from a rabid ring-wraith click basilisk
The Lord of the Rings and/or The Hobbit

Twisty, fishy, contradicty, wild animal ship fleet
Off the sliding board dock of the Mr. Turtle pool mom bought
Biblical- Noah's Ark

Yellow backbone de-mechanism brought airborne shrapnel scraps to hassle captains
By the itchy index of an umbilically garbed fraggle baby
Fragile maybe, you think?
Fraggle Rock

I used to think I'd get hit by a bus or something Dumb and Dumber
Now the bus is slugs plugged by the newest kiddie thug wonder
Dumb and Dumber

Block, if you need me (Yeah?)
I had to bounce to D.C. (Yeah?)
To bullet-proof mom's flower garden before the war cheats me (Yeah?)
If I'm not back in a week tell the crew I said peace and lay low
Strays don't vacate slow
Blockhead

Aboard the battleship
Grey sky the day I got the phone call Jam Master Jay died
So no, I'll probably never write another Daylight
Because the stingers tend to cling more than the portable hay-rides
Jam Master Jay

It adds it up when a pioneer fall
In comparison to your ninety-nine bottle of beer wall
99 Bottles of Beer

The Greatest Pac-Man Victory in History

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Title: Pac-Man

Lucy was In the Sky with Diamonds, five dollars to hold 'em
The summer Vanik beat Pac-Man, with acid behind his molars
The Beatles- Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, Vanik Hacobian, Pac-Man

Back to back like Mad Hatter magic, rabid mastiff collaborative Splatter, bachelor fabric fatter, with cabbage patch lit
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Dark days, Ben and Louie-Louie, park blazed, chemically
Richard Berry- Louie Louie— Possible

Bent-up but eager to crash for that one, two, three repeater
Fugazi- Repeater

Good Morning Vietnam! Whose couch is this? Whose house is this?
Who are you down with bitch? I'm sorry, dog, I dreamt the foulest shit
Good Morning Vietnam

Twelve hour, solid gold entertainment, utter shit to self
From mothership to stealth, ADD pace be, Space Invader
This one's for the Labor Days, work for rent and rolling papers
Space Invaders

Only the illest beats leak absurdly out the boombox
The Daytripper anthem goes: wake, drop, walk to aquarium
The Beatles- Day Tripper

Whistle while you work, like a canary lung, "All work -And no play makes Jack a dull boy", to carry drugs
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, The Shining

Late Show Dave Letterman, shitty diner lip-slide dutch
Low self-discipline leaders see dead lung self-destruct
Late Show with David Letterman

Your lizard king has spoken (all hail)
Jim Morrison of the Doors

Frijoles

Listen | Lyrics

Yeah NASA lets try this.
Uncommon NASA

Park your bets
Sharks or jets
West Side Story, West Side Story

Walk off with a thumbs up
And a stuffed Bullwinkle trinket
Pull twinkle out them awestruck baby sockets for a day
Yeah that's the ticket
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends

That's Keebler signs Pikachu
And he's poking pinocchi-beezer
Where Big Brother watching ain't
Holler back Wally Cleaver
Pokémon, Pinocchio, 1984, Leave it to Beaver

That's Lazerface, Megalasaur, Scissor-tongue, Liftedly, Money-Murs, Ramble, Printmatic, Hangar, Blockhead and Ravipops
Apathy, Vast Aire, Mr. Lif, Murs, RJD2, Blueprint, Hangar 18, Blockhead, C-Ray Walz [20]

And the fam only begins with the last two bars he dropped
Add the chrome fangs I'll rewrite Heavy Metal Parking Lot
Heavy Metal Parking Lot

I only kick these fucking doors down to make sure the crew o.k
Like, food on the plate
Thread on the back
Kicks on the palette
I rock the bells without clown shoes, fried dough, tickets or mallets
LL Cool J- Rock the Bells

There must've been something up in that Long Island tap water
Location

Grew to mute Grinch north of Who-Ville and his frisky sissy poodle pack
Oozing that hollow 'who the mac?' act Aes threw back in junior rap
How the Grinch Stole Christmas, How the Grinch Stoles Christmas

Better dress them diversions like stripping nurses
Kid the cult is thick and media's the sacrificial virgin
Purging little man behind curtain opinions
This is perfect
The Wizard of Oz

Hodge-podge mahna mahna-Muppets available in rubber stamp form
The Muppets

Built an Einstein-Rosen bridge to '88 with Lincoln Logs and bobby pins
Probably when Oz's friends slept on the poppy stems
The Wizard of Oz

With a knee-jerk response to his budgetary woes
He's hooky out the institution's huckleberry mold
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

This is 6 flags Definitive Jux baby
We like, love it or leave it out your holler box now
Definitive Jux

11:35 / Ketamine U.S.A. Interlude (feat. Mr. Lif)

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Outside the box, Lif you with me?
Alright, let's go
Mr. Lif

Now Benny was a New York City graff Graffiti kingpin
Five borough fame, guaranteed to itch pigskin
Raided near the Brooklyn Naval yard, juxed an undercover
When they asked him what he pled he said, "You're fuckin' up my colors!"
Locations

They call him Larry Luck
Blackjack, big spender
He was married once
Till he bet her ring finger
Seen leaving Las Vegas
With a pick up truck, diamond
Fourty large, and beautiful wife piece
Less than what he came with
Leaving Las Vegas

Hitched to the crib found nickels in the couch
Hitched back to the casino with in an hour
Said "I'm here to make a dollar out of fifteen cents"
And was immediately shot to his death over debts
2Pac- Keep Ya Head Up [21]

I got one Jack or Jill
Jill won't, Jack will
Jill didn't, then did it
Jack fell
Jack and Jill

I'm New York harbor
Tale of a sail, ripped sorta
Location

Kill the Messenger

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My last supper starts with a vinaigrette over pickled Muppet hearts while sheep tuck deep in the wood chipper
For the shepherd was a milk carton and scissors
Biblical- The Last Supper, The Muppets

No whammies, Stop
Your triple six game never chose me
Trickery gets hokey
Pick up sticks and ponies
You've got mail, champ: blow me
Press Your Luck, Biblical- The Number of the Beast

Just trooper with a question mark machine needy
Pointed at the heavens like a Bee Gee on some where the hell's my freebee?
The Bee Gees

For the first time in a long line of dog fights
Little Lassie will not be returning home tonight
They’re saying someone everclear spiked the punchbowl of Christ but all I saw was six pits ripping throat box out her life
Lassie

Live lizard lung out a this ain’t Kansas cause
Where the lemmings run with scissors to the closest open jaws
Pause
The Wizard of Oz, White Wilderness

Open the fucking door Hal, it’s your valid mistake
I will not bow to a god that I can’t look in the face
2001: A Space Odyssey

It go C-4 tongue and a janky ankle
He still escort an Eeyore to the seafloor, thank you
Winnie the Pooh

Mars Attacks

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Title: Mars Attacks

Mars attacks wit' electric gates
Not for sapien abduction (what's up then?!)
Mars Attacks

Billy took a laser to the mug piece; hollowed out the mandible
Channel headquarters, order the cannonballs (Mars attacksssss)
Mars Attacks

Dodge phaser, labor days are major A, sir
Cater the alien decomposer soldier platter like Caddy Shack eight
Caddy Shack

You lend a hand on board to mention magma (Blaze the place!)
Spread fire of your revival, there's wires in your Bible
The Bible

Obviously, ultra tech advanced when I point-counterpoint
Comparison of ET vs. little old freak me (She be on somethin')
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Fuck y'all, lets do this shit; My movement soothes any space invader practice
Stomped up to enemy like "Hey what now, bitch!?
Space Invaders

We on a pre-three prong ancient elephant tusk
Betamax fully, break bread
Biblical- Breaking Bread

You shruggin' it off, keep it electric, sure
But NY Electric's not about electric war
Location

In the corner of the cave reinventing the wheel and roll out funny
Sitting on them Barney Rubble twenties, subtle;
The Flintstones

And now I see that cabinets pills be old (Potent!)
Open the mirrors while I pulse with the voltage
Keeping me alive is the vibe with the Vulcan's hope!
Tangle the vine catapult (Catapult!)
Star Trek

Don't call it a sound-off, "Mars Attacks" be the malarkey downfall
Mars Attacks

Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives

Released 2005, Listen/Purchase

Fast Cars

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Who's that walking with a hole in his head?
Big bad Bazooka Tooth, I came to break bread
Biblical- Breaking Bread

Flood a little soldier blood over the ogre acres
On some holiday in Cambodia with motor-home appraisers
Dead Kennedys- Holiday in Cambodia

And my dog tags jingle by the monster island heart he built
Grew up with Jughead crown tilt and tardy slip
Archie

Hush little baby, timeout!
The black market mockingbirds can not sing a lick
But learn to peck your eyes out
Hush, Little Baby

Flush the Muppet hootenanny
Who could fancy, honor circuit when the circle's every duke is clammy?
The Muppets

Who's that walking with a hole in his head?
Bazooka Tooth, gemini, I came to break bread
Biblical- Breaking Bread

Fast cars, danger, fire and knives
I got her majesty Athena riding shotty wide-eyed
Athena

It's like never mind the bollocks
Fuck, like every other week these hipster tabloids
Jumping on and off my Sex Pistol's bullets
Sex Pistols- Never Mind the Bollocks

This is where the hunch back snake oil peddlers
Stuck under the burgundy sky of spaghetti westerns
Tend to bubble up, weathermen huddle up
Today, the son of one too many "yes sir's"
Kings his checkers, watch the double jump
The Weathermen

it's A-E-S-O-P-R-O-C-K, the peak twister
Defender of the son of Vaughn Bode's Cheech Wizard
Vaughn Bode

Who's that walking with a hole in his head?
Bazooka Tooth Krueger, I came to break bread
A Nightmare on Elm Street, Biblical- Breaking Bread

Number Nine

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Title: Black Sheep- The Choice is Yours
(Could also be Roger Miller- Engine Engine Number 9 but due to another reference on Miss By A Mile, I believe this is also referring to The Choice is Yours. Also, not including the chorus because it’s not obviously Aesop Rock’s voice.)

Deliver us from evil
Litter bugged amoeba simmer on the brimstone
Grim tone, bring him home
Biblical- The Lord's Prayer

Yellow brick Zooka birthed the piss
I trust that every litigant will be his own worst pig
Thirst big, baby
The Wizard of Oz

If fizzy lifting drinks are par for saddling your horse
You might consider sawing Sea Biscuit off at the knees before
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Few chew sacred like them sewer cougars
Patient 'til the Lugar movers daytrip with them super cookers blazing
The Beatles- Day Tripper

Drunkards of the crystal palace suck assignment
Walk the diamonds in the soles of your chukkas back to the slaves who mined 'em
Paul Simon- Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes [22]

It's Raggedy Andy clan; fancy the pretty stitches
'til he learned the skinny on the fragility's physics
Like he snag a button eye on the fly by the barbs
Super glue the parts, now his students are alarmed
Raggedy Andy

No worries, it's snow flurries compared to what the sheriff wish:
Curfew the city that must not
Location

Bust warn shots at a run-of-mill Waldo on a doctor hunt
He will make the most wonderful sarcophagus occupant
Where's Waldo

If a quota needs some filling you're a whore
Sincerely yours, engine number nine conductor
All aboard!!
Black Sheep- The Choice is Yours

New York, stand up!
Location

Zodiaccupuncture

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Nasa my horoscope is illing right now
Uncommon Nasa

Delicate freak show alert the frame
Bash all flags where the mag spin park
Corroded by the volts that jolt the cold vein
Boogie down kits to slip past the guard
Spin Magazine, Cannibal Ox- The Cold Vein

Intimate eyes loop all known alleys
Scoop the bounty like daddy hires Bazooka to murder Ralphie
A Christmas Story

One of these rebels could level the marked city
But the N.Y. uber alles governor's picky
Location

Boy meets vermin: the widescreen version
Boy Meets World

Headaches, nausea, vomiting, facial paralysis
These are a few of my favorite venomous side effects
The Sound of the Music

Spinal tap crabs to the clapper
Aesop Rock is the Cadillac of natural disaster
This Is Spinal Tap

Want a carnivore war? Bet
I'll be at the Bronx Zoo with a lock pick kit
Location

Now pardon me if part of me heart of an oddball, but damn
Kumba-fucking-ya, dog
Kumbaya

And it looks like war, quacks like war
So it's Occam's Razor and I'm swayze out the door
Ghost

Holy Smokes

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Slowly cope but swore his lowly robot vole evoke
Would one day rise in sections to interrogate the Holy Ghost
I knew it!
Biblical- Holy Spirit/Ghost

Shucks fucker, enjoy the Alcatraz shower fun
And mommy's mad I'm cliche generation X agnostic front
Agnostic Front

Call me crazy, but I bet that wasn't God's demeanor
Sodom-meter peaking
Biblical- Sodom and Gomorroah

But Long Island was Jesus every weekend
Spoon-fed to appease traditional upbringing
Of a Middle Pennsylvania shit-hole where elders movement
Stressed the stellar therapeutic Bible cycle (How?)
Location, The Bible

One church with a bait and tackle store next door and not much MORE
So the two moved to New York, made babies raised on what they'd SAW
Location

Christmas morning smelled fresher than angel pussy
But immaculate conception came second to playful goodies
Biblical- Virgin birth of Jesus

Like laser-tag was way more spiritual than blood and body wafer bags
And manger staff as long as Santa ate the cookies Well...
Biblical- Eucharist, Biblical- Nativity of Jesus

Grandma was a saint, while he'd paint with snakes and bullies
Said If only you'd memorized your prayers like you did your Kool Gs!
Kool G Rap

'94: Moved out the crib and ain't seen a steeple since
What Knievel-evel seeps in a Christian leader's pitch
Evel Knievel

I'm more science than faith, I'm more karma than bread and booze
I'm not an asshole I'm just a little confused
Biblical- Eucharist

Winners Take All

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Wake 'em with that blind military mechanism set to bludgeon
WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR MALFUNCTION!?
Full Metal Jacket

Rickety Rackety (feat El-P & Camu Tao)

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Whatup Wiz?
DJ Big Wiz

I was buried to the neck in them all-star bloopers
Periscope down, hop Boss Hog cruiser
The Dukes of Hazzard

Porcelain or pewter authority will be over ruled
the second jukie uber alles news hit the sewers
Definitive Jux

No business. Insist lured with candy
To cure citizen x with that all-fours dancing
Corporals landing
Citizen X

Food, Clothes, Medicine

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Frankie says, "Relax", 20 says he snaps, safe wager
Frankie Goes To Hollywood- Relax

Walk on glass, bang on doors
Talk all trash, hang on whores
Walk on cash, bank on wars
Like food, clothes, medicine, it's yours
It's yours, it's yours, it's yours
Nas- The World Is Yours

Pollywog, hug a spot lit with bigger lizards
In the land of hot milk and honey with stingers in it
Zinger!
Biblical- The Promised Land (Milk and Honey)

Collide your worker ants, with autobahn inertia dance
And curb them herbie love bug by the cursive final curtain clamp
Herbie the Love Bug

Facemelter

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The little short circuit with the still born vibe
Till the villagers circled and determined "it is alive"
Frankenstein

Shipped to Bellevue eyes fuzzy talking funny
Like "eagle one to grey squirrel whats your twenty dunny?"
Location [23]

They'll duck it out and I will cease all wars
So if you babysit a Carol Anne be forewarned
Poltergeist

Smarter than the average bear, barter parts and gadgets
With battery op enthusiast pardon the barking badgers
Yogi Bear

Gattaca days, Attica paper scattered
Diagonal mahogany boggled the train savage
Gattaca, Location

King of applause (yay!) beats the garbage flood for ten(?)
Porn king of New York, alley punk perv scum
Location

Un- earth it and siphoned from DeLorean doors swivel up
With aviator radar blip for most glorious titty fuck
Back to the Future

Cool green over the frame under the clothes line
Whose crew choose fuel most, mine
Holy trinity, triple six, triple x, city barrack
Glutton for punishment super size me while you at it
Biblical- The Trinity, Biblical- The Number of the Beast, Super Size Me

Robot wars, machines hit the floor
And the simians syncopated a gigantic "encore"
Robot Wars

None Shall Pass

Released 2007, Listen/Purchase

Keep Off the Lawn

Listen | Lyrics

No references

None Shall Pass

Music Video | Lyrics
Title and lines in chorus:
Monty Python and the Holy Grail— Possible:
(Fight scene with the Black Knight)

What are we to Heart Huckabee, art fuckery suddenly
Not enough young in his lung for the water wings
I Heart Huckabees

Eye for an eye, by the bog life swamps and vines
They get a rise out of frogs and flies
Biblical- Eye for an Eye, Frogs and Flies [24]

Blood turns wine when it leak for police
Like, "That's not a riot; it's a feast, let's eat!"
Biblical- Water Into Wine

And I will remember your name and face
On the day you are judged by The Funhouse cast
And I will rejoice in your fall from grace
With a cane to the sky, like, "None shall pass"
Monty Python and the Holy Grail— Possible:
(Fight scene with the Black Knight)

Like, "Wait, let it snake up out of the centerfold
Let it break the walls of Jericho, ready go"
Biblical- Fall of Jericho

Sat where the old, cardboard city folk
Swap tales with heads, like every other penny throw
Cardboard City [25]

That's quite a bit of gusto he muster up
To make a dark horse rush, like, "Enough's enough!"
It must've struck a nerve so they huff and puff
'Til all the king's men fluster and clusterfuck
The Three Little Pigs, Humpty Dumpty

And it's a beautiful thing
To my people who keep an impressive wingspan
Even when the cubicle shrink
You got to pull up the intruder by the root of the weed
N.Y. Chew through the machine
Location

Catacomb Kids

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I was a dark, dumb student, no hooky rookie
Day tripping on visions of chickens that looked like R. Crumb drew 'em
The Beatles- Day Tripper, Robert Crumb

They grew him in the royal dirt of Suffolk County's flooring
With the blood of an alcoholic clergyman in his forearms
Location

Long Island was porn stars and puppies pushing sniffles
Fit into the aforementioned or slip through the pinholes
Location

'Zook' slip through the pinholes, crispy the godsender
Who thunk over a quarter plunk to local Mortal Kom vender (What's this?)
Mortal Kombat

Broke the formal squad sensor, root down
Feelers out across the marsh before it was 'awesome cars'
Beastie Boys- Root Down

My calling card cavalry cook in a '85 Dodge Ares
Gas for Huntington and back barely
Location

The kid pilot his ring king dummies to King Kullen
Where he hollered 'fuck the world' from a parking lot in the suburbs
Ring King [26]

The lady of the lake off the answers
The mating of mistakes 'til they're de-planting cadavers
The Lady of the Lake

Damn doggy, good times, thanks
I wrote your name in wet cement by the Brooklyn Banks
Location

Like not a farmer among us had a harvest survive the winter
So dinner split a lima bean in triplets, pick a winner
Mickey and the Beanstalk [27]

I'm dumber than a Taz on a beach chair with a martini
Who's not as dumb as the tat with the same scenery
Looney Tunes

Okay show the squadrons back into their boxes
Like his Breakfast Club of hotheads show no progress to the doctors
The Breakfast Club

And I walk into the office, coughing awful ether often
Flaunt a parking meter fever, knuckle up for Love and Rockets
Love and Rockets

It was rain of the razor laser, day of the cloudy howdy
Flight of the shelter melter, you can bow without me
Ride of the Valkyries

Knock em out the box, Aes
Slick Rick- Children's Story

Bring Back Pluto

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In the beginning it was Large Marge sent me, I'm bent
Empty the rent if you can double park the garbage barge gently
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure

Close your mouth, poke your snout over the cloaked aroma
Clouds, Solar boy elope with couch ogling older Polaroids
Motor mouth, chauffeur the golden molar toy
Gophers yoke a fish out of water, he grows lungs and multiplies
Boktai 2: Solar Boy Django

Maroon the traitors expecting acres of edelweiss
Who later learn it may actually be safer to play with knives
The Sound of Music

I show up late looking project grizzly
Two bowies, a third for throwing and accomplish dickweed
Project Grizzly

Fuck it, plug him, warpy got his goddamned groove back
Jet-setting on spec with a dead yeti on the roof rack
Yeti, Harry and the Hendersons [25]

Now tell me, what the fuck am I supposed to do?
Boogie Down Productions- Love's Gonna Get’cha [28]

Stare into the glowing eye of Cerberus and crow
Authoritative laminates will not repel the quarantined alone
Cerberus

Couples only roller rink with soul to kiss your chicken noodle
Before they wiggle mittens through the pillory to ridicule
Chicken Soup for the Soul

Babylon goggles, gawk for the galvatron coppers
Tugboat salvage all fossils
Biblical- Babylon

You'd think Charlie Brown was Weathermen
How I zig-zag around these yellow backs for peanuts
Peanuts, The Weathermen

Fumes

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Hey, tequila to free the worm
Had his liver scuba suit up on the Sabbath
His personal pale rabbit
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Between tweaks, he sweeps at Home Depot and reads
Mostly biblical, but not cause he believed
But found the lexicon of Jesus-heavy literature fly
Feverishly sponged up the information high
The Bible

Drunk, put her on the business-end of his favorite couplet from Corinthians
Sunk into the comforts of a kid again
Biblical- Corinthians

Getaway Car (feat. Breeze Brewin and Cage)

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Storms on the harbor like a harbinger of gore (Right)
Gore is my harbinger, pardon The Art of War (Right)
Sun Tzu- The Art of War

39 Thieves

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Title: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Teething I'm marking a beast sheep
Like I walk in front of 39 thieves in a "v"
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Wild blue yonder, blue in the face, angel
Blew into the bugles in lieu of the euthanasia
The U.S. Air Force- Wild Blue Yonder

Dope the gonzo I've always felt choked socially
Stole the golden fleece with the culture of total nobodies
Jason and the Argonauts

Next time think
39 thieves are quicker than 40 winks...
Raise your drinks
39 thieves are quicker than 40 winks
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

With the usual undesirables and the big brother cutters
On the day your name became "This Motherfucker?"
1984

The Harbor is Yours

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Peg leg navigate him starboard to por
By the nautical starry night yelling "The harbor is yours!"
Vincent Van Gogh

Like "walk the plank" for whom the shark thank
For Whom the Bell Tolls

Crawled off the boat, collapsed in the sand
Prayers in the air, seashells in his hand
And nary a high tide so grand as the one that put
The lady of the lake on dry la-la-la-land
The Lady of the Lake

Citronella

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Meanwhile, back at sea level, it was home by home zone for zone
Bloom County's homeless riot for home ownership
I hope you put gas in the motor-home and know the roads
Bloom County

I studied with the finest combs stuck under my thumb
As opposed to the loaded nose who pray Armageddon is numb
Biblical- Armageddon

Catch the Liberty Fire's catalog
Forty torched orchids and citronella for Algernon
Flowers for Algernon

Don and Vagabond alike repent
This shit should have been Beta burns Babylon, the end
Biblical- Babylon

And when the radio stars climbed up out of the floors
To murder the medium that shot 'em thirty years before
The Buggles- Video Killed the Radio Star

Chilling, gill in the slop and a million watch Gideon scribes
But once the arc honor pussy and bribes, the animals will divide
Biblical- Gideon

The mobile infantry is so postal
Coast into the quotient provoking the local Pistol Pete
Choking his liberty and justice quotas and cloaking his folk in smithereens
Pledge of Allegiance

Sole defenders of the longest night New York had never slept
Location

And there were jumping jacks and whistlers over Christmas
Like Rockets From The Crypt spilling the festive morning beverage of your preference
Rockets From the Crypt

Artificial Einstein-Rosen out the tenement
Ease into the Xanadu, let it hammer the tension out
Xanadu

U.F.O.'s and locusts sing the same old song
While the Weathermen get retarded as the day is long
The Weathermen

Gun for the Whole Family (feat. El-P)

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It was a lazy day, it was amazing grace
It was a half-a-dozen claymores daisy-chained
Amazing Grace

It wasn't daisies and crazy
Eights, it was an ace of spades over a waiting game of slaves
And saints, and every trainee face-painted while his great
Escape grazed and ate
He'll never make it, when he aims he shakes
The Great Escape

And nada milk and honey there is only skulls and bunnies
That hop around drunk in the land of a hundred Mondays
Biblical- The Promised Land (Milk and Honey)

Five Fingers

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Thanks, bathe in a bottle of your finest
Tackleberry sift through the piss looking for diamonds
Police Academy

Slow and low, do or die calm, suicide king in the tuck of the palm
Slow and low, do or die stuck, two to five cans in the tuck of the trunk
Beastie Boys- Slow and Low

And this is certified milk by the New York Department of Skullduggery
Shoplift quicker than your shutter speed, click!
Location

Hovering where the mother feed, gutter greed king
And a crummy motherfucker breed fuck with me
It go knock knock rummy at a bruckner speed
Location [29]

Yes a pig is a cop, but gotta fill up the flock
So when I rake in the bacon I hope the kiddies'll watch
House of Pain- Jump Around

No City

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There is a hole in front of the shovel
Shovel in front of the brawn
Six billion gorillas for whom the graves yawn,
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Julius Caesar Act II Scene 2:
(The second half is in reference to Act II Scene 2 of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. “And graves have yawned and yielded up their dead.” is stated by Calphurnia, and translated means “The graves crack open and thrust out the dead”. [30])

And I was "Stop the Violence" more than I was Pontius Pilate
Cops and robbers riot by the five's obnoxious sirens
Stop the Violence Movement, Biblical- Pontius Pilate

Moms raised the babies through a very churchy 80's
Sunday mornings reinforce the waiting gates of Hades
Hades

And you observe and have the givetheth disproportionate
To the taketh away decide to maketh his day (do it)
Sudden Impact

Chinny chin-up and the city picked this
In a pent-up letter numbed the spitting stigma
The Three Little Pigs

Riders to the east, not a wild tribes
Thank you for the peace on earth and mercy miles high
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

Dark Heart News (feat. Rob Sonic)

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Sideways eye on a sinister boundary
Panel of contemporaries killing me loudly
Killing Me Softly

99 models of fear on the wall timorous
Done running into to the car on the wrong cinder blocks
99 Bottles of Beer

Coffee (feat. John Darnielle)

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And the last shall be
First to immerse in the pass out heat
Biblical- Matthew 20:16 [31]

More in a cave with a torch on the wall
Than a window arrangement of porcelain dolls
Plato's Allegory of the Cave [32]

Dude, look, all that noise
Call that flight of the water boys
Meet and greet and they all slap five
Cheek to cheek when they colonize
Ride of the Valkyries

Play to the radius far and away
Orbit wide don't park in his space
One little martyr who talk in his face
Make one little Weathermen sharpen the blades
The Weathermen

And the last shall be
First to the curb with the mad cow meat
Biblical- Matthew 20:16 [31]

Call for the monster beats and Blockhead got
Animal drums like he's doctor teeth and
It goes red light green light 1 2 3
One large coffee, fuck you, peace
Blockhead, The Muppets, The Muppets

Pigs

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Weathermen
The Weathermen

So when the piranhas honor New York
My daddy long legs dangled and mangled for sport
Location

If Noah had the benefit of hindsight on his ship
He could've snatched two unicorns and left behind the motherfucking...
Pigs!
Biblical- Noah's Ark, Shel Silverstein- The Unicorn [27]

Wide load... pigs!
Let's make a deal...
Let’s Make a Deal [27]

When all the wolves in woolly wigs
Have huffed, and puffed, and blew the bricks
The skulls of Brooklyn's cruelest pigs
Will rain on Fulton's newest kicks
The Three Little Pigs, Locations

Never that, Wilburs multiply quicker than tribbles
And hunt their truffles in fistfuls, but it was all bells and whistles
Charlotte's Web

Bougie this and Bougie that...
War pig or pussy cat...
Glitzy to the pork ribs, had to gold-leaf the booby traps
Black Sabbath- War Pigs

This little piggy went to the market with a target
And will subsequently know the armor-piercing forks of farmers
This Little Piggy

Final words for the finer birds taking notes:
I dig a chick in pig tails, "That's all Folks!"
Looney Tunes

Skelethon

Released 2012, Listen/Purchase

Leisureforce

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Postcards from the pink bath paint leisure
As a cloaked horse through a stained-glass Saint Peter
Biblical- Saint Peter

Hack faith-healer, cheat death to the very end
Cherry wooden nickels on his specs for the ferrymen
River Styx/Charon

X-O, Zodiac a pentagram expo
Pet Sematary in electric fresco
Pet Sematary

Abaddon threshold, flash forged in a galley
With undead orcs pulling oars through the algae
Biblical- Abaddon

Final answer "not to be", "not to be" is right!
Next question - to build winged shoes or autophagy
Hamlet, Who Wants to be a Millionaire? [17]

Led a purple tongue and ratty Caballeros
Up over the black rainbow into the house of mirrors
Steve Caballero, Beyond the Black Rainbow [25]

To become a thousand zeroes, echoing a twisted alchemy
Freak flags, fluttering to circadian free jazz
Sleep apnea, scratching, "bring that beat back"
I doze off, clothes on, nose in the feedbag
Public Enemy- Bring That Beat Back

Shhh... Om nom, nom, blinds drawn
Compost thrown to the spine pile, bygones
Mangy, intimately spaced pylons
On a plot of inhospitable terrain, "Hi mom!"
Hi, Mom! [33]

Grace of a misled teen who prefers his scenes with a little Wilhelm scream
Wilhelm Scream

The ambush predator edition
Skill set of Will Tell aim and speed over short distance
William Tell

Part hatter-mad, part erratic habitat
Dark matter harnessing his heart attack-ack-ack-ack-ack
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Billy Joel- Movin' Out

ZZZ Top

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Title: ZZ Top

Somebody in a cultivated moment of distress
Composed themselves enough to artfully carve "ZoSo" in his desk
Led Zeppelin- Led Zeppelin IV

Like Crocea Mors?
in a arcade drop claw
Gouging a valentine for Miss Othmar
Watch
Peanuts

Capital Zed, slowly maneuver the O
S is the most difficult to control
Finally O
Into the eye of Goliath you go
Led Zeppelin- Led Zeppelin IV, Biblical- David and Goliath

That levy crushin' percussion'll pull the monkey upright
Led Zeppelin- When the Levee Breaks

Twelve or ghetto blaster
Black or technicolor telecaster
Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin)

Somebody in a cultivated moment of distrust
Composed themselves enough to magic-marker “Zulu”
on these chucks
Universal Zulu Nation (Afrika Bambaata)

They was tryin to do the buckle font from ‘Renegades of Funk‘
In a 3d frame of exploding brick
And whiz-lines for the locally motion sick
Afrika Bambaata- Renegades of Funk

Silent agreement at hand
King of the hill for a queen of the damned
King of the Hill, Queen of the Damned

Oops
Capital “ZED” Radical “U” in the cut
Truly to beautiful “L"oser it up "U" and he done
Afrika Bambaata- Zulu Nation

Collateral damage a future alum that key to Shambhala
Planet rocking Bambaataa
Shambhala, Afrika Bambaata- Planet Rock

Somebody in a cultivated moment of resolve
Composed themselves enough to publicize "the Zeros" in this stall
The Zeros

Capital “zed”, terrible “e” in vermillion red
Gimme an “R", "O” and a slippery “s”
The Zeros

Over a web of the shittiest bands
That beat your heart out
Never bleeped your favorite parts out from a learned curve
Of bird fingers bursting out of germs burns
Urgently
The Zeros- Beat Your Heart Out, The Germs

Offered through the circuits of an earlier plot
I’ll see you at the bottom ZZZ top
ZZ Top

Cycles to Gehenna

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Title: Biblical- Gehenna

Baseheads locally approach all spark plugs
Total disregard for a dying man's shark jump
Happy Days

Post-meridiem pretty tungsten attracts any once-pale horse painted gunmetal
black face masking,
Biblical- Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

2000 out the weekly under "Cycles to Gehenna" gets him floating over 20 buses
Fireproof and festive
Biblical- Gehenna

Knows no zen in the art of maintenance
Only as the orchestrated patron saint of changing lanes baby
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

The man-ape translates glam thru the visor
Goes in water lilies
Am-scrays Giger, and man-ray
Claude Monet, H. R. Giger, Man Ray

Via mechanical Dartmoor Frankensteined poorly
And sanctioned by a New Yank Yorkee
Frankenstein, Location

It was less of an act of hubris
More a lonely hearts club at the helm of a magic bullet
The Beatles- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Zero Dark Thirty

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Unsigned hype, front line aeronauts flurry
Zero dark thirty
The Source [34]

Zero Friends minotaur-fugly stepchild
Evoke lunch jumped over plunging necklines
Up,
Zero Friends [34], Minotaur

Beside tongue-tied hungry enzymes
Devolved into mothmen munching textiles
Punisher, out past go-time
Back 10 fried worms chubbier
Brown grass both sides
Moth Man, Punisher, How to Eat Fried Worms

Boys room cherry bomb
Boy/goon very much runnin' with the devil in the mellotron
Van Halen- Runnin' With the Devil

Hello! Here’s where a tale of caution
Pounds coffin nails to bootlegs of Hawkwind
Hawkwind

Saw tooth, nevermind straw to gold
Spin hearts on sleeves into heads on poles
Rumpelstiltskin

Fryerstarter

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Late after your Cinderella pulsate and crash I was rotating casts
Cinderella

Purple heart and second chin that beseech him to squeeze the carbs into the motherboard
You can chew the Eucharist in cruller form
Biblical- Eucharist

Silent night, holy night, invite the pious out the pagan
Silent Night

Hazelnut raiders of the lost, navigate consecutive pastries like stations of the cross
Raiders of the Lost Ark

Ruby '81

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Frenzied and congested deck, part to let the others see
Biblical- Crossing the Red Sea

Crows 1 (feat. Kimya Dawson)

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4 and 20 gory pantone black crows shredding innards
The silhouettes are fencing lefty scissors
Sing a Song of Sixpence

Buy the getty image, green-cheese moon
Dead-of-winter shit, graveyard tchk! tchk! Shifter shit
Dead of Winter

Brother was a face card
Crown like a heart-shaped tunnel of woven branches leaning in over his hydro-plaining pace car chase...
Camu Tao- King of Hearts

Perhaps a little dash of karma chameleons through the entropy for good/young
Could've used a good lung
Culture Club- Karma Chameleon

Crows 2

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4 and 21 crows
None go south
For the supper when a punk goes out
Sing a Song of Sixpence

4 and 22
Cue the cut throat mouth
Chew together when a punk goes out
Sing a Song of Sixpence

Watch, if fortune is a bitch with venom and laser tits
Maybe sin‘ll make for sugar-flavored flesh
Kings taste terrible at best and rest in peace raw
The rest are recipes
Caw!
Camu Tao- King of Hearts

Racing Stripes

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Rat brain, shovel green peas offa butterknife
Racoon hat, moon boots all summer-type
Ogden Nash- I Eat My Peas with Honey [27]

Felt pressure at the center of the dog show
Better off blending, sweater—off Waldo
Where's Waldo

You! Wanna see a genome mutate?
Cut a page boy ‘til it bring home a Cube tape
Ice Cube

Read he fled a panic room pissed
And been searching for animal chin since
Panic Room, The Search for Animal Chin

Bumpin' Johnny Rad, eye on the sauce pan
Current mop: 4 months shy on the off-chance
Might just reset this whole shit
Johnny Rad & the Jordanaires (Future Primitive)

I knew this kid Camu who in the lion's mouth
Made up a fail-safe way to get his life corralled
Camu Tao

Let's say he short on the rent
His land lord is upset
He disappears with shears yelling "I'm going George Jeff"
The Jeffersons

1,000 O' Clock

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Blitzkrieg Bopper
Petitioned out of shit's creek proper
The only inaccessible blip on the streaming doppler
The Ramones- Blitzkrieg Bop

Outside tweakers are in love
Teeny Raquel Welch submarining through the blood, voyagers
Poisoned or maybe just a misfit toy or two
Depending on the beacon that your voyeurs choose
The Fantastic Voyage, Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer

All these tribes hoard breads and wines
These climates transform men to swine
The Odyssey:
(“Circe turns Odysseus' men into swine by seducing them and offering alcohol,” [35])

Vendetta-drunk leader squealing
"it's the real pig fever"
Sick people pinky swearing on concealed 6th fingers
The Princess Bride

That's idle handwork in the spirit of death dealers
Look at mommy's little Hercules
Custom Troy Hurtubise
Flourish in the blind spot of Spittle County 'Gore Police'
Or really any readily ebbing and flowing 'War and Peace'
Hercules, The Simpsons, Tokyo Gore Police, War and Peace

See my ‘Goodnight Irene' massacred flat in the key of tragedy
Whole diner like "I'll have what he's having"
Lead Belly- Goodnight, Irene, When Harry Met Sally

In '89 maybe 10 showed up at the wharf
As if guided by the trident of Poseidon to cavort
Poseidon

Homemade Mummy

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I blank NY alone
We usher in the salts that call the husk home
Location

Gadzooks, punk's dead, last good gut wrenched
Antennae Sam Cooke, black book pushed
Cat skulls stacked to the black hole sunset
Olive on a toothpick, Dagwood Bumstead
Sam Cooke, Pushead, Soundgarden- Black Hole Sun, Blondie (Comic)

Tagged-hoof hatchery, matter amass naturally
Bad wolf, dash for the last rook casting
Blue ox, red plaid bass pro flannel king
Hasbro crown, sour apple Abba-Zabba tooth
Big Bad Wolf, Paul Bunyan

Grace

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Ian why don't you say grace
"Dear God, thanks and if you loved me, vegetables would be extinct"
Now I'm looking down the barrel of a string-bean side like an exodus of biblical proportion redefined
Biblical- Book of Exodus, The Bible

Pointer finger plug a hole in the dam
Ma notice, "okay, gross, blowfish, dinner's over, go spit", pop call "bullshit"
Both of my brothers break in, like "he's on his Davie Hogan no mistakin'"
Stand By Me

Saturn Missiles

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I'm all pincer, fevery hoodie-on hoodie-off
Sweat through his E.T. sheets to the worry dolls
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

That go "click click clack" in territorial syntax
Sitting on the porch with his lids pinned back
A Clockwork Orange

Pinball whiz in a thimble of Sims
I'm a symbol of whimsy abridged
The Who- Pinball Wizard, The Sims

Kiss Me, I'm Dead
Nursing a mystery, DayQuil
Led Zep staring daggers down page mill
Led Zeppelin

Came in the door and the floor is lava
Killjoy if your core more Norman Rockwell
Norman Rockwell

One black-heart Katamari massive
Packed in a fat category-5 rat nest
Katamari

Interlude presto change-o
If it move too quick (oh whey oh)
Right brain go write train Ramo
Mustache any old Monet, (no)
Yes
The Bangles- Walk Like an Egyptian, Beat Street [24], Claude Monet

Merrily merrily merrily merrily
In a cobweb tomb on a hotbed of heresy
Row, Row, Row Your Boat

Frogmen schooled by the god Ed Emberley
Pull dog sleds and exhume Dead Kennedys
Ed Emberley, Dead Kennedys

Fold wildlife out of Wolf Pack wrapping
Full moon, bad knee, wool hat, caffeine
TNT plunger in all-caps ACME
Blast off half of the whole damn mapscreen
Looney Tunes

No sling no spear
I'm a patchwork of 86'd springs and gears
Who been stung by an unlinked pinky swear
During his what-in-the-fuck-was-I-thinking years
Biblical- combo of David and Goliath, and Elhanan [24]

Tetra

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I turn a staff to a snake and back, evade crack
Shake a 5150 in shades and a fake stache
Biblical- Moses [25]

Dirtbike made of 5 worse bikes, uphill
Tabletop frames on dutch tilt, crush kill
Crushkill Recordings [36]

Four eyes carb face, Bar-Kays iron on
Pork rinds orangeade, Jarred brains die alone
Bar-Kays

And surface from the cellar door like worms into the petrichor
Messenger, better yet a vessel for a Tetris score
Tetris

And I never lost tic tac toe to a live chicken
For the footage, I’m off cam dynamite fishin’
Location

3 wolf moon shirt, two shoes one sock
Wore the same hoodie everyday like Mumm-Ra
ThunderCats

Buh-dum-bum, follow the regenerated rebel flesh
Out of sorts, out of water, suicidal tetrafish
Doctor Who

I prefer to skip the pleasantries
Flip the diner table, dip in time for final jeopardy
Jeopardy!

Transcribe stories in patterns of pins dropping
Skinned boars and exaggerated limb-lopping
Slow Mozart, no I’ve never heard of knocking
Might’ve burst in on it, splits or skin popping
Princess Mononoke [28], Mozart

And ultimately unfulfilling, concurrently that rigid upper lip and grudge are crippling
The wonder twins of bitching
The All-New Super Friends Hour

The Ozone breakaway tux
Holds chicken wire ribs and paper mache guts
Breakin' [25]

And he don't get out much, but when he do it's Beatlemania
Do not be asleep at the feet of his feelers radius
The Beatles

Cozy in a moment of bliss
Snatch the food off your plate, snatch a goat off a bridge
No shit
Three Billy Goats Gruff

Gopher Guts

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Title: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts:
(Some users on Genius pointed out that this is a line in Caddyshack but as it was a song prior to the movie, I'm going to say that not a strong enough argument can be made it's referencing the movie in particular.)

Uh, greasy grimy gopher guts
Poolside, 0 for 1, I don't forget spoons twice
Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts

Move as a godless heathen: black gums, tooth gone, bootleg 'Yukon Cornelius'
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Got a little plot of land where authority isn't recognized
Contraband keeping the core of his Hyde Jekyll-ized
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

I have been a terrible communicator prone to isolation over sympathy for devils
The Rolling Stones- Sympathy for the Devil

Dokken Rules (feat. Rob Sonic)

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Title: Dokken

Treble hook two birds, cheap thrills, free meal
Vacate Jellystone Park with your brie wheel
Yogi Bear

In swooped jukebox Fonzie, promptly
Bolts on his neck, one tubesock wonky
Happy Days, Frankenstein

BMX (feat. Blueprint & Rob Sonic)

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You wanna know why? Because I'm
Beastie Boys- The New Style

Dead messengers buried in their Melvins shirts
Awoken as reanimated mummies from the sepulcher
Melvins

Holmes, sick to the fishbone comb
My yellow brick shtick ain't tip toe prone
The Wizard of Oz

She sells sea shells, he draws revenge
Plots on a chalkboard, watch what you walk toward
She Sells Seashells

Live free, die fat
Rock shot to a kill screen time lapse
Watch how the blitzkrieg climax
Spring clean hijack, bring me my axe
Mommie Dearest [37]

Cat Food EP

Released 2015, Listen/Purchase

Cat Food

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I've got a brand new normal at a thirty in New York, plus
Years at the fire pulling portions out of corn husks
Location

He got the rad moves, catty alpha rat-proof (wait)
Twenty-sided die at the crap-shoot (wait)
The Backyardigans- Rad Moves, The Mountain Goats- Alpha Rats-Nest [38](no link)

And when your function fails I'm on an undisclosed island
Stroking exotic animals, open up rocket science
MHz- Rocket Science [39](no link)

Unfrozen part of his new J.O
Face of divine evil, heart of Camu Tao
Camu Tao- King of Hearts

Riding down the block, scooping Bobby in a boogie-down
Tony told me tell 'em "Hello, 7:30 noodle-town"
Rob Sonic, Blockhead

Uh, suckers never play me
Public Enemy- Rebel Without a Pause

Bug Zapper

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The first step is a doozy, it’s roulette with a mood ring
The birth of an old slang, the death of a newspeak
Groundhog Day [40], 1984

A permanent post-game is littered with bridge trolls
Skirting the copay, divvy the death toll
Three Billy Goats Gruff

Resilient style kings, impossibly tantrum
Wandering wild things, opera-less phantoms
Where the Wild Things Are, The Phantom of the Opera

Meanwhile, makers of a hideous whatnot
Committed to a lowdown Sisyphus up-rock
Sisyphus

And I still row boats outta bottles without abandon
To shrink into the sunset bumping Pachelbel's Canon In D, motherfucker!
Pachelbel- Canon in D, Do the Right Thing

In moments of land war, a Lazarus species
Tattered and bruised up, the back in the cheap seats
Biblical- Raising of Lazarus

I’m good! House at the beach of expelled hubcaps
Black lawn, backyard melting into Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft

And underdogs with posters of a front-side Tony Alva
On the sticker laden walls above their uncle’s Bowie albums
Tony Alva, David Bowie

Keep rap homely:
Bear claw slippers, over-sized Billy Joel tee
Billy Joel

The Impossible Kid

Released 2016, Listen/Purchase

Mystery Fish

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One eye on the breadcrumbs
Other eye on the Drencrom
Hansel and Gretel, A Clockwork Orange

Try soft wheels, sourdough and heroin
Eat with the chimera, fly with the seraphim
Chimera, Biblical- Seraphim

Still hear an ex in his head yelling, "kiss the ring"
From a fortune to Fisher King
The Fisher King

I said hello to Marshall every morn for 6
He yelled at me every time, that's amore, bitch
Dean Martin- That's Amore

It only took one tooth to crack the bug juice and chug
Turn a bum to a Sun Tzu it's bug
Sun Tzu

A cold meal with the ghosts of friends
A whole host of meds, a deal on a Tone Loc cassette
Tone Loc

Rings

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Back in New York, five peeps and a dog
In a two-bedroom, doing menial jobs
Plus, rhymin' and stealin' and being a clod
Distractions free to maraud
Location, Beastie Boys- Rhymin & Stealin

Shapes falling out of the fringe
All heart, though we would've made cowardly kings
Camu Tao- King of Hearts

Aligning with the trials of the anti-Midas
Nap on the back lawn, look up in the sky, it's…
King Midas

Lotta Years

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He asked me what I wanted, I ordered something daft
He said he liked the tattoo Alex drew me of the bats
Thanks;
Alex Pardee

You should have seen me in the 80s
I was bumping New Edition, dragging acne into Hades
New Edition, Hades

Dorks

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I used to floss the albatross like Daddy Kane with the chain
I'm trying to jettison the ballast with the hazardous waste
Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Big Daddy Kane

The kid is comfortably numb, routine a tedious crutch
Steep in a self-imposed Stockholm and Lima in flux
Pink Floyd- Comfortably Numb

Each one separately convinced
They're sketching with Da Vinci's hands
Delusion turned the communication to prison camp
Leonardo Da Vinci

In a mess of obnoxious fantasy, posturing and pageantry
I ain't even mad, I'm impressed, shit it's baffling
Anchorman

Rabies

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Talking Master P, memory foam everything
Jettison the rest and roulette us a new trajectory
Spinal Tap 11, tapping resin out the evergreen
Designated dark horse, headless independently
Master P, This Is Spinal Tap

Sidewalks end with ponds and frog eggs
Buried bones, and his very own blurry sasquatch vids
Where the Sidewalk Ends, Sasquatch

Additionally, dog isn't even his final form
Just a period, between greenhorn and Hyperion
Borderlands:
(In one of the Borderlands games, there are nicknames for different levels of experience. One of the early titles is greenhorn, and one of the last levels of the game is in a place called Hyperion. “Dog isn’t even his final form just a period between greenhorn and Hyperion.” [77])

Borderline ethereal, Noah's Ark room tone
Add a little up high down low too slow
Biblical- Noah's Ark

Still shuffle thru a stack of old photos
Taken before the varicose verified Chronos
Chronos

Supercell

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On Dasher
Half-dead carolers deck a hall, wreck a whole advent calendar
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Deck the Halls

Maybe re-appropriate the energy
Holed up, passing the poultry to Hecate
Hecate

Search party falling forward unthwarted
Meet him at the crossroads drawn and quartered
Robert Johnson- Cross Road Blues

For a master of puppets, how sad are his cupboards
Non-dairy creamers, can of last supper
Metallica- Master of Puppets, Biblical- Last Supper

And a runneth over cup full of black tap water
Its a marvel of privacy over pack hunter
Biblical- Psalm 23:5

Blood Sandwich

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Seen MILFs like apes on a monolithic bleacher
Into advocating war and peace in lieu of sport and leisure
2001: A Space Odyssey:
(“Apes on a monolithic bleacher” is a reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which a large black monolith appears in the midst of proto-humans, referred to Arthur C. Clarke as “apes”, and guides them from being a tribal, bloodthirsty group to the beginnings of a more socially advanced, tool-using civilization. [17]), War and Peace, Motorcycle Sport and Leisure

Got a homie, little rodent, head and shoulders out his hovel
No baseball in the bubble, ruh-roh
Scooby-Doo

Man stands out by a hole
Pest pops up to patrol
Man plays live Whac-a-Mole
In a scene that would try every child as adults
Whac-a-Mole

Neubauten tee, plaid flannel-laden, adolescent art kid
Tony Hawk hair, Skinny Puppy denim
And a record player vomiting Alien Sex Fiend, Peel Sessions
In a Christian home for field testing
Einstrüzende Neubaten, Tony Hawk, Skinny Puppy, Alien Sex Fiend, John Peel

We were buried in the Village Voice, checking who was playing where
Pulled his head up out the paper, pushing out a single tear
Five words, like a beacon of light in the mist:
"Ministry live at the Ritz"
The Village Voice, Ministry, Location

It was "Christ Has Risen" to Chris, three loaves, two fish
Miracle of mechanized loops on two-inch
Biblical- Feeding the multiple

Bought a mag with an Al Jourgensen interview
Read a couple sentences, glanced at a pic or two or three
That's all—no fair trial
Simply, "You will not be going to the show, and that's final!"
Al Jourgensen of Ministry

Get Out of the Car

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Been a bit since Mu died
Been a lot more loss in the wake
Camu Tao

Oh, shazbat! Not the "ever after" he wanted
From the "Once upon a time, dot, dot, dot"
Once upon a time, he was so much more than a punchline for his own potshots, ah
Mork and Mindy

If I zoom on out, I can finally admit
It's all been a blur since Mu got sick
Camu Tao

Whole life trying to quiet 'em down
Like a suicide king with a knife in his crown
Camu Tao- King of Hearts

Knowing ain't half the battle
That's a bullshit quip written by some asshole
G.I. Joe

Shrunk

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My last name, a thousand vowels fading down a sinkhole to a susurrus
It couldn't just be "John Doe" or "Bingo"
Bingo

Telephone, uncovered by purveyors of the ouija
When checked against the CBGB women's room graffiti
Location

My medical history is a course at SUNY Buffalo
Charlatan psychiatry and troubleshooting undertow
Location

Awaiting panacea, channeling your inner Beowulf
In purgatory, just before you pay up to filet yourself and others
Beowulf

In the name of help, coal on a conveyor belt
Into ego death alone, no telephone from Gabriel
Biblical- Gabriel

I'm half a human, combin' over Home and Garden, stoned
Gold chains over turtleneck, cigars over cologne
Homes and Gardens

A thousand shitty paintings wrapped around a wounded animal
Woo him with the Schubert, he's a future human cannonball
Franz Schubert

That pretty penny turned the prickly into Benji
If you save up all your winnings, then you get to count your blessings
Benji

I finally crunched the budget up and punched the button
She called my name out and pushed me into an oven
Hansel and Gretel

Kirby

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Back at the haunt, found God in the hamper
Briefs on her head playing Walking With a Panther
LL Cool J- Walking With a Panther

Good around misery and golden era samplers
Jeopardy and Wheel at the heels of her handlers
Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune

In a steel cage match with a maze of cables
Brazen, game-face based on Azazel
Biblical- Azazel

Mouser in training, nap on the toaster
Decorate her cubicle with dogs playing poker
C. M. Coolidge

TUFF

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Dum-diggy, bump Biggie
Til the landlady holler, "Get a haircut, hippie"
Notorious B.I.G.

Purple tape, purple 'hawk, ape
A single flower through the permafrost
Pick himself and learn to walk, in furry pants
Raekwon- Only Built for Cuban Linx

Roll out ghost of Camu on the pegs
Might pedal by the police
Tuff with two F's
Camu Tao

The coke bottles tint film noir
Tripping out the milk bar
Poison horchata cup
Milf in the Zip Car
A Clockwork Orange

6 arms, 6 hand-styles like ships on scrimshaw
Part Def Jam part Dischord
Def Jam, Dischord

I read Nat Geo, craft and crack geodes
Lift party hats out of Craft Depot
National Geographic

Man, who could've guessed the future of abominable imagery
Would also share a birthday with Kenny G? None
Kenny G

The string cheese dinner kid speak Cheech wizard
For the gone like Gossamer under number 3 clippers
Vaughn Bode, Looney Tunes

I learned to rhyme in New York
I learned to breathe underwater
Location

Lazy Eye

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My spirit animal comes with a pretzel bun
Troll of the treadmill
Record on the Kessel Run (allegedly)
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

Cineplex Jesus, curse at the curly fries
Mulling over Chuck D telling me, "Diversify"
Chuck D (Public Enemy)

I'm at the Supercuts soupin' up the wardrobe
Forecast looking like Ganesh on four phones
"Hello, hello, hello, hello"
Ganesh

Putting on the yoga lady, cutting off The Cable Guy
Whistle while you're waiting for your condition to stabilize
The Cable Guy

Irons and the niacin, iron Quiet Riot mask
Unabashed privacy expanding into simulcast
O.C.- Time's Up, Quiet Riot- Metal Health

In the end, you gotta wonder if it's even worth the effort
No stairways into Heaven, you can step into the Escher
Led Zeppelin- Stairway to Heaven, M.C. Escher

On my better days they mingle and walk off into the poppy
On my worst, the work is overshadowed by the monte
The Wizard of Oz

Defender

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New Salem
Brave new voodoo
Wave a witch hammer in a haven
For the woo woo
Brave New World, Malleus Maleficarum

Loser in the sky with more diamonds
Than the carpet from The Shining
The Beatles- Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, The Shining

Fried while the pipes froze, life goes Lovecraft
Christ-pose, sitting on invisible hubcaps, up
H. P. Lovecraft

I could drive into a lake of fire Pay the piper COD
Aware the pot and kettle shop a little toxin equally at least
Pied Piper of Hamelin

Not sorry, but I never really was a leader
Found money in the speaker, bought lower Manhattan pizza
Location

Water Tower

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Denizen of black earth, gutted and uncoupled from the patchwork
Buried by a 7 year cherub in the backyard
Epitaph and all
Biblical- Cherubim

The nuances of putrefying jelly hit the levee
When those feathers are a cancer in your bestie
Camu Tao

Memitim ascending, settling any high scores
40 meters up with the heart of a high dive horse
Biblical- Destroying angel

I'm born from the guts of stars and black tar pits
Iron Maiden denim paint the devil under grawlix
Iron Maiden

Crawls out a clawed coffin to huff and puff
Somewhere in between the dust and dust
The Three Little Pigs, Biblical- Genesis 2:7

Molecules

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Spoilers, the non bon-voyage
Stock weaponry and soylents and whatever stop the voices
Soylent Green

Wrung stones unsung and alone
Known to run up in the unknown, "honey I'm home"
Shania Twain- Honey, I'm Home

I'm catatonic, fat, and outta rocket-fuel and ramen
Not a dollar, watching Rocky II in Donatello boxers
Rocky II, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

At some hot-as-hell motel in what's supposed to be his Shangri-La
More akin to angry mobs with anchor tats and mangey dogs in vacant lots
Shangri-La

New York in the rearview then peel
Out, 'til he found New York in the windshield
Location

Mend or pay his penance
You'd rather see him eat a bowl of mouse traps
Surf a thousand couches
Take a jagged little down the hatch
Chowderheads
Alanis Morissette- Jagged Little Pill

Syrup

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ASR Schroeder split the rent with ghosts and bacterial cultures
Peanuts

Fridge full of black deli meat and dead air
Still prefer it to the overbearing lens flare
And death stare Plinko and an at risk eco
The Price is Right

Bushwick (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Released 2017, Listen/Purchase

All Tracks

No references (instrumental)

Music From The Game Freedom Finger

Released 2020, Listen/Purchase

Play Dead

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It goes ooh and ah and you too late, we got a failure to communicate
In my rearview's a little planet Earth and my calendar is straight doomsday
Cool Hand Luke [41]

Warfare, I don't war fair, I like rocket fuel in my morning air
Apocalypse Now

KOWP

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From the unrelenting filigree of digital Rome
I throw a signal fit to eclipse videodrome
Videodrome

I'm a 8-bit invader who vacate the cartridge
Upgrade, now I make waves in the lawless
Space Invaders

I rid stones of the most stuck swords
"Go Back" signage over the front door
The Sword in the Stone

I'm a backstreet butcher, bullshit wizard
Even in the summer, I'm a wolf in the winter, ayy
The Wizard of Oz

Drums on the Wheel

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Do you read me? Do you read me? Do I need to reach through the TV?
Do I need to reach through the ouija? Houston, I may have gone too Houdini
Poltergeist, Harry Houdini

I been feeding back in these headphones, beating back a profound fear
Farewell to my breadcrumbs, is anybody even out there?
Hansel and Gretel

Street meat for some E.T. to come deep fry in old frites grease
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Tracks 4-10

No references (instrumental)

Spirit World Field Guide

Released 2020, Listen/Purchase

Hello from the Spirit World

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The Gates

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I might bleed green
Star Trek

I know easy prey, I seen broken oaths
I go marching in, I'm all, "Oh-ee-oh"
The Wizard of Oz

Agent of all things deep-sixed
I feel like I was put here to keep the crypt
Tales From the Cryptkeeper

Troglodyte, I might split the blinds
I'm like Vincent Van with that instant rice
Vincent Van Gogh

Drumroll, I might piss straight, loose tooth in my spit shake
Every possible Futurama come trooping out of his pill case
Futurama

And I ricochet in my steel cage, one still heart and two hill's eyes
A few meal bars, a good field knife, I feel good, no field guide
The Hills Have Eyes

A little care package out of Where's Waldo in a rare beige
No fair at all, dyed hair and all
Where's Waldo

Touché from our killjoys who know humanoids are just hit points
Ain't cop that new heat, that newspeak's all pink noise
1984

Button Masher

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Wonkavator up beyond the seraphim, terra beneath the keratin
Every bit precariously jerry-rigged
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Biblical- Seraphim

His helmet is a case of Bud, he factor in the paper cuts
Corrugated cockpit, I'm not exactly Major Tom
David Bowie

Buzzed Aldrin, I can't count backwards
Ten, one, someone get this buzzard to the Matmos
Barbarella

Ten thousand hours addressing open beaks
Exiting the atmosphere with no green to chroma key
Outliers

That's rounding Cygnus with a souvenir from Galaxy Quest
I know it sound like myth and magic, but the shrapnel commits
Galaxy Quest

There was a ghost who broke it all up into tiny numbers
And dated vector graphics and New York Times puzzles
New York Times

Who rose above the partly cloudy counting on a Galaga hack
His only carry-on's a napkin of math
Galaga

Dog at the Door

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Gauze

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Knee-deep evil to plot through a fever, maid threw his Rod of Asclepius out
Asclepius

I bump Raising Hell, I make raisin bread
Raised on wolf's milk and Eraserhead
I'm all good
Run-D.M.C., Eraserhead

Let me guess, you tout the brave few
Then make Jesus take the wheel by day two
Carrie Underwood- Jesus Take the Wheel

Pizza Alley

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Wherе shaman opt to zombify undocumented expats
High and writing Ayahuasca letters back to Melmac
A.L.F.

Talk rap albums over alpaca medallions
With metalheads who traffic magic flowers from the mountains
To the houses of the holy
Led Zeppelin- House of the Holy

The strays in the plaza look happier than my neighbors
They answer to Paddington Bear in waders
It's amazers
Paddington Bear

What ship, what shore?
I grew up writing riddles under bridges in New York
Location

Throw a couple logs on the fire
There's a chimney in San Blas where you can hear Baby Dayliner
Bouncing softly off the navy blue
Baby Dayliner

Ooh, it's a strange bouquet
Not today, Supay
Supay

Canopy going H.A.M. over camp in a feuding biome
Os Mutantes row-row-rowing the wrong way into the diode
Os Mutantes, Row, Row, Row, Your Boat

On a screen porch pimpled after dark with frogs and lizards
When high as hell, they might as well be Mothras and Godzillas
It's awesome
Mothra vs. Godzilla

We traded numbers and made off into the pond scum
Humming Muddy Waters
Motherfucker, I am on one
Muddy Waters

Earth, wind, fire, and papaya
We fly with the poison arrow
We dive with the arapaima
Earth, Wind & Fire

Crystal Sword

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Ride the wild aurora, future bright as fried Gomorrah
Present tense an SOS in tidal water, final offer, sold
Biblical- Sodom and Gomorrah

He carry his own water as nary a known other
Burn sage in the alley with various ghostbusters
Ghostbusters

Sea of disembodied bones knocking on your rods and cones
Some resort to scuba gear, some return to hobbit holes
The Lord of the Rings and/or The Hobbit

Inspire a thousand Our Fathers, people start calling their priests
"We've never seen a man so vehemently drawn to the beast"
Biblical- The Lord's Prayer

Boot Soup

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You can't eject the new soy bomb
Soy Bomb Incident

Brief announcement, I'm peeking out
If I feel surrounded, I might King Kong
King Kong

I'm east of Eden not holiday
And these feet a realized sovereign nation
East of Eden

A once and futurе goon, own the exit row
Burn the leeches off, throw the second stone
Biblical- John 8:7

Hit the road, an old misanthrope
Alone, tip me over and pour me out
I’m a Little Teapot

Spoon-gagged, amass the too trashy
Ragtag, rad to the last Boo Radley
To Kill a Mockingbird

Coveralls

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Ayy
I could give a fuck if there's mold on my daily bread
I'm a foe to the fainting goat, I'm at home on the razor's edge
Biblical- The Lord's Prayer

Over the garden wall when your Rover was playing dead
Arm-in-arm with a melancholia, roses and baby's breath
Over the Garden Wall, Melancholia

Most of my visitors request that I be tied to a chair
I wear the skin of my detractors, maybe try not to stare
Silence of the Lambs

I buy a second seat for my extraordinary piss and moan
Feet up while the fleet assemble, keep the devil in the hole
Tom Waits- Way Down in the Hole [42]

With several yelling, "Sparta" you were yelling, "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia"
Only one'll read the chapter after larva, it's a good one
300, The Brady Bunch

I know you were expecting just a Jekyll
The others are in there also, his company doesn't end well
Yo
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Jumping Coffin

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Still bullseyeing womp rats from the scenic route
Sugar in his coffee like a séance in the TV room
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

The cheek swab came back half-amazing
Half of what he make end up on his lab apron
Nas- It Ain't Hard To Tell

Ring around the revenant, let it in
Said he wasn't ready yet, he never left the Etch-a-Sketch
Ring a Ring o' Roses

Tall grass, asphalt, or salt flat
It's all jazz like an alphabet to Saul Bass
Saul Bass

Bratty to the basic anatomy of a death stare
Passing through the old Manhattan, ectoplasm everywhere
Location, Ghostbusters

I don't coexist, I don't exist
Even J.C. miss him with the loaves and fish
Biblical- Feeding the multiple

Holy Waterfall

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Flies

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Salt

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Let me clear my throat
Pocketful of rocket fuel and pyramid stones
Beastie Boys- The New Style

Free snake tats, plays on train tracks
Dorm like a door to Hell, the doorbell plays Taps
Taps

Rats as big as cattle sent to Babylon convulsing
The home sweet home that sees you as bag of hostile protein
Biblical- Babylon

Fuck the police, I'm floating out with the Camazotz
Property of nada, runs on Trompe le Monde and Otter Pops
Camazotz, Pixies- Trompe le Monde

Chainsaw shave in the house of a thousand tonics
They're magic if you need a cure for lack of sour vomit
House of 1000 Corpses

Stole an ox on occasion
I go through wands too quickly to name 'em
Biblical- Exodus 22:1

Sleeper Car

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Moving through the super-moon with goonies off a distant block
And fugitives from Dusit Zoo in pleasant moods until they're not
Goonies

Siam spy cam, try him in fire
I'm marigolds and Muay Thai into the eye of the tiger
Survivor- Eye of the Tiger (Rocky III)

I almost died on a scooter, I almost died on a boat
I figure fuck it, baby, come as you are and die as you go
Nirvana- Come as You Are

Bar band send it from John Denver to G-n-R
Midnight playing sardines to the sleeper car
John Denver, Guns N' Roses

Locals see a space garbage that fell from the interstellar
Trying to blend in with the smell of peppers, sweat and citronella - ella
Rihanna- Umbrella

Sore thumb in the hum of the helter-skelter
Rebels huffing through the temple run like Zelda's in the cellar
Temple Run, The Legend of Zelda

1 to 10

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Attaboy

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I been floating down the River Styx
Skipper cap, sipping on what's missing from your mini-fridge
River Styx/Charon

Insulated slicker dripping, winter like, "It's Britney, bitch"
Crops wither, docks splinter into popsicle sticks
Britney Spears- Gimme More

Beyond the hissy fit, he ain't but a hound dog
I'm Bamm-Bamm, pianos fall on me and bounce off
Ain't Nothing But a Hound Dog, The Flintstones

Vampirella riding pillion through the eventide
Indecency that deck the halls, an eye in each Venetian blind
Vampirella, Deck the Halls

Shabby chic, overnight a fireball from magic camp
Inspired by a banzai fly into Manhattan clam
Location

I'm saying "fuck y'all", live and direct
I make a Judas shoot a flare up from the Isle of the Dead
Biblical- Judas, Isle of the Dead

Throw a fucking crab off a mountain top
Free free falling with the shuttle parts and flowerpots
Tom Petty- Free Falling, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy:
("The “flowerpots” is most likely a reference to a scene in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, in which a ship called the Heart of Gold, powered by a fanciful “Infinite Improbability Drive” which causes unlikely things (such as faster than light space travel) to happen within its field of effect, is flying over a planet. This engine of unlikely events causes a sperm whale and a bowl of petunias to appear high above the planet’s surface:

“And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it then had to come to terms with not being a whale any more,” the book says, and details the whale’s thought process. It then continues; “Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was ‘Oh no, not again.’” [43])

Eyes closed, ear to the road salt, all I hear is Mozart
Mozart

I'm in pajama bottoms listening to Chaka Khan
Eating matcha Pocky knocking posses out the polygon
Chaka Khan

Kodokushi

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I go bah with the black sheep, rah rah, catch me a patsy
Spaz, unravel, and blaspheme
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep

Riddler to keep the gate
It's a groundhog D-Day, Jesus H
Oedipus and the Sphinx, Groundhog Day

Plus steak and frites, I take bloody as hell
If it burn black, point him at the honey and milk
Biblical- The Promised Land (Milk and Honey)

I ain't sitting while you sully the well
I turn up in a jiff, jackknife when I jump in the pit
Tartarus [44]

One hundred hands, one million eyes
Two bleeding gums, I will survive
Hecatoncheires [44], Gloria Gaynor- I Will Survive

Fixed and Dilated

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Old heresy, headed for disembodiment
As rendered by an excerpt from the Lesser Key of Solomon, um
The Lesser Key of Solomon

Pitch it down a octave, I'm a take this opportunity
To piss and vomit lava while the neck is lazy susan-ing
The Exorcist

Crossroads bogey, I broker the deal first
I bag up a soul quick, I drag it between worlds, hold up
Robert Johnson- Cross Road Blues

Only ever had a last nerve, hold up
Spirit box talking out of turn, hold up
Everyone's a player at the purge, hold up
The Purge

1, 2, undo a divine act
They don't like it when I waltz in and turn wine back, hold up
Biblical- Water Into Wine

Orchestrate impious in compliance with the harvest moon
Crosses tend to somersault, bibles fly across the room
The Bible

Side Quest

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I like skating to the store at night in autumn weather with a couple layers on
And maybe Wu playing over soft wheels on a mellow inclined plane
Wu-Tang Clan

Navigate a bit of fire and brim, nevermind whatever transpire within
I'm out the other side a golden beam of lost sunlight
Biblical- Fire and brimstone

See him off into the fog
Figure 8-ing in the moon
Never let him know the odds
It isn't part of how I move
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Marble Cake

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I'm broken, fuck a focus group, fuck your folk, and Toto too
The produce of a pencil-neck who never met a social cue
The Wizard of Oz

Polaroids around him like a visit from the Vantablack
Miniatures in Biggie shirts and minutes that he can't get back
Notorious B.I.G.

No displayed blazonry, unmistakably mutinous
The mood is disillusionment, shit, even Cindy Lou Who quit
How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Bruised at the nucleus and drooling through the bells of war
Meet the neighbors when your resume is "skeleton-with-oar"
Wu-Tang Clan- Bells of War, River Styx/Charon

Nan under the bandages, examine 'til he vanishes
I don't feel a social pull to show the wolves where grandma lives
The Invisible Man, Little Red Riding Hood

The Four Winds

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I look like a dick in my picture ID
But also the pic isn't me, huh
The Treachery of Images [45]

If he cultivate the grit that make a foal deface the brick
That make a bolt escape the fist
Zeus

He rows a big oar
He spins a grim yarn
River Styx/Charon

Garbology

Released 2021, Listen/Purchase

The Only Picture

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Jazz Hands

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I'm not here to pull scarves out
Here to pick tumblers underwater with his arms bound
Harry Houdini

From in chains to the heart of where art thou
I'm out there down to throw grapnel at a guard tower
O Brother, Where Art Thou

Stock parts knocking on Mach 1 to Camp Lo
Amped up eyes glowing unknown pantones
Camp Lo

Drive 'til it feels like a Van Gogh
Lest I cheetah me some antelope
Vincent Van Gogh

Ring around the king of pain, bring acetaminophen
You either see the vision or dinner with demolition men
Boom
Ring a Ring o' Roses, Demolition Man

Flame to the fuse to the barrel
I step into the room, split an arrow with an arrow
Robin Hood

The first trick shot is just to show them that I dabble
I will not be aiming for the apple
William Tell

Get your whole roadmap Pac Man'd
Black mask snack on whatever's in the dash cam
Pac-Man

It's not an ad, hashtag, or a tap dance
Patsy, the revolution will not have jazz hands
Gil Scott-Heron- The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Wolf Piss

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Spin doc
Sweet dreams go Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock

Swoop in and get touchéd
Tune in to my blue phase
Pablo Picasso

Red phone on sleep mode
When eating eel rolls with my friend's ghost
Kurt Hayashi

Legerdemain

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Not a cop in sight, not a watt of light in the fog
Silent night to God almighty just from lighting cigars
Silent Night

Not a creature is stirring to purging lightning from the eye on my palm
Wide as long as y'all can die and re-spawn
A Visit from St. Nicholas

Two pair of socks under reindeer mukluks
Aiming to keep ten pigs awake in the tundra
This Little Piggy

First archer to set the firestarter oxen free
Defending some forgotten block of uncommon geometry
Oxenfree:
("OxenFree is a game, and Firestarter is an achievement gained when you make everyone hate you in the game." [46])

Before they fixed the road, there used to be this bump to bump
I guess in '97, so and so did such and such
In Timbs on someone else's board
Tell the story, spread the lor
It's epic to a people who would rather push than teleport
True Mathematics [47]

Raiders of the roads and parking lots of greater Carcasonne
Canis lupis carcass on, take me to your garlic knots
Raiders of the Lost Ark

Wander Eden, not a meter predetermined
Turn a curb into an evening, that's the key to freezer burning
Biblical- Garden of Eden

Difficult

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I'm more for the sordid, got nan for the normies
Cornered, my storm got plans for the Dorothies
The Wizard of Oz

My neck chop plays like blades on a frisbee
All tally-ho, had the whole place in a tizzy
Is you widdit?
Hard Ticket to Hawaii [48]

Troubleman-ish, I'm an apple with no tree
I'm ground swell crashing every castle at Jones Beach
Location

It's beautiful as Jolene hair in the sun
Or any adversary wrapped up in an area rug, oh, Jesus
Dolly Parton- Jolene

To anybody clocking to copy his every move
Catch a birdie from the window of a rocket to the moon
A Rocket to the Moon

I'm a fever dream, I seen trouble nobody knows
Still show his home county how a nova explodes
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen, Location

All the Smartest People

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Oh Fudge

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The fan's not helping
It's probably a job for Abraham Van Helsing
Dracula

More Cycles

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It's not a drill, it's a village aping a grid beyond the silicon
Same religion as Ram, Flynn, or Tron
Tron, Tron, Tron

When every tree up in your Eden reek of dog piss
You don't need a reason to Knievel any drawbridge
Biblical- Garden of Eden, Evel Knievel

Dawn treader, green fog, Lincoln Log wrecker
Gloves all King Kong leather
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, King Kong

Plinko off a punk and jump a cycle out the ecosphere
He don't wear a cape, but if he did, no one would think it's weird
The Price is Right

I could hold a wheelie for a decade
Circle any borough like a bird around a headache
Location

Body and the spirit going separate ways
Send a message back from the other side of the end of days
All it say is, "Catch me if you can, P.S., the weather's great"
Catch Me if You Can

What the fuck is resting on the seventh day?
I'm seven days of levee-breaking rain, stay the hell away
Biblical- Genesis 2:2, Led Zeppelin- When the Levee Breaks

A second letter showed up, let's imagine we could open it together
"I will not be home forever, this is NYC untethered," yeah
Location

Flamingo Pink

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Wicked forces in the wings descending on the simple things
Like taffy at the boardwalk under ribbons of flamingo pink
Which mutates into ovеrcrowded Plinko on a laser grid
Havens turn dangеrous, friendly faces, traitorous, ayy
The Price is Right

I'm way out, the way of the walk is a different discipline
It's difficult, ten thousand hours get you to guinea pig
Outliers

My pat on the back is a little Edward Scissorshands-y
Come and send it with the cleverest to never stick the landing
Edward Scissorhands

Tomb raider, screwface under the gauze
Y'all should giddy up or get your city covered in salt, yeah
Tomb Raider

We will not be keeping calm
We will turn barbarians to Carrie at the senior prom
Meet us in the creeping fog
Carrie

Let's get your body walloped into Braque or P. Picasso
You ain't the person you let your believers think they follow
Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso

All Day Breakfast (feat. Homeboy Sandman)

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Sports and leisure
Motorcycle Sport and Leisure

I fashion me a hoodie from the head of a bushpig
Push the red button, I am back on my bullshit
Lord of the Flies

Raised on 1010 WINS, on the ones every ten mins
Big League Chew and stupid pet tricks
1010 WINS

Blow the house down easy peasy
It's the deacon of disaster pulling reefer out his beanie
The Three Little Pigs

Fizz

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Through the valley with a howl and a hiss
Every step is like a house on a witch
Biblical- Psalm 23:4, The Wizard of Oz

Any Judas into sappin' how I'm zappin' get the trowel and brick
I'm all thought-crime, cowlick and fizz
Biblical- Judas

I avoid sunlight, Chuckie, and buckets without the fuzzy dice
Money pits, and sucker shit, and run-ins with the blood of Christ
Child's Play

Plan a caper on a napkin
Trading slang into the evening
Drive a tank around Manhattan
Location

Get accustomed to the irritated easily
I can not be trusted if motherfuckers is Tweedle Dee
Through the Looking Glass

Flesh a temple of doom
The whole rest go XO, red balloon
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Strangers like "gimme 2 of, dude what are you on?"
A single dose of Woo-hah in the Yukon
Busta Rhymes- Woo-Hah!! Got You All in Check

That is Not a Wizard

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Title: The Wizard of Oz

I move reticent, never really an open book
I'm gone fishin' at thе risk of being overlooked
Gone Fishin'

Behind the curtain the Merlin is all jellyfish
I get to beckon the wrecking ball to your Lego brick
The Wizard of Oz

Cold lemonade and OG Golden Axe
I don't like to talk about the UFO Crash
Golden Axe

My margin riddled with bubble letters, and French girls
My special powers are animus and revenge-thirst
Titanic

The Sea

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My swerve circle toughies
I learn em, and return to "good for abso-smurfly nothing"
The Smurfs

Golly you're a docile bunch, I'm ushering that posse out the poppy plants
This is my Jumanji not your Zombieland
The Wizard of Oz, Jumanji, Zombieland

Everything I wear got 3 wolves
There is no Aes, only Zuul, ey
Ghostbusters

People be cool, bee smoker puffing smoke
Here to breech the honeycomb, steal the honey, fuck the drones
Stung thrice, still rub his belly in the hammock
Between trees over the Atlantic, he's gigantic
Winnie the Pooh

Unbelievers get a peak at where my twisters tend to land 'em
And adopt dogs just to tell 'em they're not in Kansas
Damn
The Wizard of Oz

I tell my cat pretend like it's just us and the aurora
She said take me to New York if we both make it to tomorrow
Location

Abandoned Malls

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Tripping through his daymare, marathoning monster flicks
Zombie in the stale air, logging his Hayashi pics
Kurt Hayashi

I bubble to the surface legendarily imperfect
Purging Slurpee from a head that turns incessantly in circles, it's concerning
The Exorcist

The same alleys we used to imagine Babylon
Feel like abandoned malls overgrown with Spanish moss
Biblical- Babylon

Commotion froze in time with no sign of your lamb of god
It's a land of the lost, scrambling for canned applause
Biblical- Lamb of God, Land of the Lost

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Mindful Solutionism

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2.5 million years ago, a friend of mine
Made a tool from a stone and defended his tribe
Run-D.M.C.- Sucker M.C.'s

Manipulate electricity, no, it cannot be done
Yes it can, ain't a dam that can cancel the flood
Biblical- Noah's Ark

True to human curiosity, at the Tree of Knowledge
Pulling genies out of bottles, stealing from Leonardos
Biblical- Garden of Eden, Leonardo da Vinci

Plain train auto hauling space age cargo
Bizzaro technology, every day is tomorrow
Bizzaro [2] (from Abandon All Hope)

Telegraph, telephone, you can flirt with Doris
In Poughkeepsie from a cozy geodesic dome in Sydney
Location

Infinity Fill Goose Down

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The brand reads, "Animal Farm"
A fugee on the lam running
With a lamb in my arms
Animal Farm

Trail of rabbits harboring
The farmer's brand of cigars
The cattle after
After that it's like a ramp to an ark
Watership Down [49], Noah's Ark

Out of radio silence
A bad miracle, panic in the paradigm
Attacking the familiar world
Evacuate
Nope

Black Phillip, free to bah what he bahs
From a growing blob of jail-broken oxen and hogs
The Witch, Baa, Baa, Black Sheep, Busy Bee- Making Cash Money

I know some pigs'll splinter off
I seen 'em mixing with the bosses
Sipping gin as if the trough is less prestigious than the office
It isn't
Animal Farm

Should you feel unsettled or some melting into madness
After entertaining more second chances than Velma's glasses
Scooby-Doo

Yeah
It was always all of a sudden
All's well 'til it's all of his palm on the button
I am always into somethin'
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth- The Basement [50]

Cut to helter-skelter in glorious technicolor
With bumper to bumper
Sending turtle shells at one another
Mario Kart

Merry "dawn of the mummy"
Heard a call in my slumber
Woke to a thousand years of sauce-of-the-month in a bunker
Yum
Dawn of the Mummy

You could be the lunker under pepper X
I feel like Professor Y
Why are all my friends depressed?
Conversations with Professor Y

Why's this party feel like when I walked back into Selmer's Pets
In precious tears like, "Why are all my tetra dead?
Yet again?"
Location

Land speed entirely contextual
Glacial pace, Grand Prix, Space Invader, camera B
Space Invaders

Living Curfew (feat. billy woods)

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Golden hours like Mom tripping
"You come down here right this instant!"
Brian Eno- Golden Hours [51]

Sits on the front step, chips and a Sunkist
Dumb for a sun-kissed brick or Pikmin
Pikmin

I don't blame y'all, the force awakens
On Flatbush Avenue forest-bathing
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens, Location

A mean Brian Eno mixtape, an ego lifeless
Adrift in the eye of the side quest
Brian Eno

Son this is whirlwind country
A world flushed from the brush pen of Kim Jung Gi swirling
Kim Jung Gi

Midnight, pushing obscene Katamari
Vs. little old me and what army? Huh...?
Katamari

Loser/weeper, in the wee hours, speaking to Mu in the ether
Camu Tao

I can bounce ideas off an angel or demon
Or any other brand of Cthulhu
I can rinse in the ambient wind
But I can't relate the intangibles to you
H. P. Lovecraft- The Call of Cthulhu

Pigeonometry

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I seen this one Da Vinci exhibit
In which they reconstructed dozens of machines he invented
Leonardo da Vinci

From diagrams in his codex, open and beautifully scanned
Marvels of engineering, broke up by Vitruvian Man
Leonardo da Vinci

I think I drew like one more on a red-eye into Queens
I ain't even make a dozen, I been eyeing other things
Location

Kyanite Toothpick (feat. Hanni El Khatib)

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Traffic beeping in the key of my penance
Even the wind in the willow ask "What's the frequency, Kenneth?"
The Wind in the Willows, R.E.M.- What's the Frequency, Kenneth?

Tune in, how's my driving?
Drivers start dialing, I drive like a man who dies trying
50 Cent- Get Rich or Die Tryin'

Drawstring eaters, no staff to memo
No cabs to flag, just you and the black echo
See if it says hello back
If it says hello first, hit 'em with the Cheshire Cat
Friedrich Nietzche [52], Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Get to the chopper, money, on your way adopt a puppy
I'm on that proper dummy, it's getting Tonka Truck-y
Predator

I'm on that Mobius, I'm on that Minor Threat
I'm on that find peace
You on that find meth
Minor Threat

You was on that glue trap, I was on that Busenitz
I was on that blueprint you was on that group think
Dennis Busenitz, Blueprint

I was on that "ooh child", I was on that noodle brick
I was on that Brooklyn bound, hooks around a nutriment
The Five Stairsteps- O-o-h Child, Location

You was on that 2-bit, I was on that Two Towers
Location

Outside of your own lackeys
You as common as a table for one in the Lonesome Valley
Lonesome Valley:
(Though this might be a stretch, there is a song Lonesome Valley that happens to be featured on the O Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack which I believe to have also been referenced elsewhere, see Black Snow with Lloyd Chandler- O Death.)

I was on that Juice Crew, I was on that "Whose House"
Juice Crew, Run-D.M.C.- Run's House

I'm on that matador, I'm on that bull fight
You on that bullshit, I'm on that dirtbike
I'm on that 12 o'clock, you on that road rash
You on that credit line, I'm on that cold cash
12 O'Clock Boys [53], Road Rash [53]

100 Feet Tall

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One time I met Mr. T in New York in the 80s
I was 7/8-ish, waiting for a table at Carnegie
With my family who did not always agree on what was wavy
But would shut up once a week because we loved our fucking A-Team
Mr. T, Locations, The A-Team

Pops seen him sitting there, beard and Mandinka hair
Whispered so that we could hear, "guys, Mr. T is here"
Mr. T is fucking real?, I mean I know he's real
It's just we only seen him on TV, he's like a superhero to us
Mr. T

I'd never seen a famous pеrson let alone Baracus
He bout to walk right by us, that's more than I could process
The A-Team

I seen enough gold to break the average neck in two
Feather hanging from the ear, gear that say don't mess with you
Stanley Turrentine- Don't Mess with Mister T

No fools, no suckas
Be good to your mother
Mr. T- Treat Your Mother Right

No dummies, no punks
I pity every last one
Mr. T

Mr. T's a hundred feet tall (He's five foot ten)
Arms like trucks, probably punch through a wall
Mr. T

Started rubbing his belly, then a quip for the pups
"It take a place like this to fill Mr. T up"
Mr. T

Get it? For those of you who don't know the establishment
They're famous in Manhattan for serving gigantic sandwiches
Location

He played it perfect to a nervous kid he met at his peak
We spent the meal like "holy Moses we just met Mr. T."
Mr. T

Close to 40 years have passed
My hair is gray, my belly's fat
Still when I hear his voice I'm 7/8-ish back on 7th Ave
Location

Then scouted by Stallone who sends the Rocky part
He bodies it, on Letterman he says he primarily still a bodyguard
Rocky III, Late Show with David Letterman

Huh, born protector, icon or community
Plus network television like a rocket to the moon of cheese
A Rocket to the Moon

Salt and Pepper Squid

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I could might investigate a exodus
Biblical- Exodus

Aes gets a gold star, sophistry gets no cigar
Homies get to chauffeur the only rapper with no car
Sorry Mike
Michael McCloud [54]

Ford Exploder motor sounding outraged
Pedal-foot a carving knife through a blind mouse tail
Three Blind Mice

I have one brain cell
All it do is hum Bad Brains and document whoever sleigh bells raise hell
Bad Brains

Yea, perfect foul energy, every degree of D-up
My Kwik-E-Mart receipt is tall enough to ride the tea cups
The Simpsons

Time Moves Differently Here

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Large milkshake, not the boys to the yard kind
More the boys to the drive-thru car line
Kelis- Milkshake

Tonight on Table Talk we go beyond the peri peri spice
Through 11 secret herbs, parsley, sage, rosemary thyme
Simon and Garfunkel- Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme [55]

Aggressive Steven

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Everything everywhere all at once, all the faucets are on
Let's draw the room so you can better picture all that befalls
Everything Everywhere All at Once

Bermuda (feat. Lealani)

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Guns and roses turn to roses and roses
Country roads is overgrown with begonias
Come press your nose to the lotus
Guns N' Roses, John Denver- Country Roads

Those aromas make a toughie throw his toast in the ocean
I'm on the beach in my floaties like I don't know any Moses, ayo
Biblical- Crossing the Red Sea

From birthstone to first snow
To posies in the pockets of your church clothes
To fertilizing where the red fern grows
Ring a Ring o' Roses, Where the Red Fern Grows

Helicoptering from canopy to forest floor and garden
Forget the aggressive warning, it's more of a "Hello darling"
Conway Twitty- Hello Darlin’

Even Ares pull over to say "ay-ayo", don't say I said it
But god damn that vegetation is, dare I say it, disarming
Ares

I love to see a horde who swore to burn the steeple at night
Get floated noses-first like Mickey Mouse to seasonal pie
Mickey Mouse

By The River

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Sitting by the Hudson river talking to a ghost
"I wish that we could rock a beat and smoke an L at Tone's
I miss the way you rhyme and how you never had a clone
Ain't a motherfucker living that could ever crack the code"
Location, Camu Tao, Blockhead

My heart is in the East River floating on a frisbee
That came in from the Long Island Sound to sojourn in the city
Locations

It's not the kinda water where you'd throw a Triple Lindy
If you get some on your skin they probably notify your siblings
Back to School

I wonder if my training from the school of TV magic
Would beget some makeshift watercraft that make off for Damascus
Biblical- Conversion of Paul the Apostle

All City Nerve Map

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First uninvited tech I hear pingin'
Ring in a cameo from the hammerstone
Bam, the fantasy brandishing a banana phone
Raffi- Bananaphone

Fan the flame of animals with access to the roof like Michelangelo
About to free a statue from a cube
Michelangelo

Aes from before the first Star Wars
I survived action park, I survived lawn darts
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

Salsa bar all stars, buzzin' and bitchin'
I got a seat at the summit for any son of perdition, wasup
Biblical- Son of Perdition

The tension is extra extra, the meth'll induce a hubris
The hubris produce a weapon for any potential Judas
Biblical- Judas

Forward Compatibility Engine (feat. Rob Sonic)

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When it woke one day in the spring
I said "Jane, stop this crazy thing"
The Jetsons

I guess around the"S" around the tentacles of Audrey
Started entertaining skeptics mighta second guess the calling
Little Shop of Horrors

I'm a student of the blooper as a part of the bit
It gets em whoopin' when I'm snoopy with a scarf in the wind
Peanuts

On Failure

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Vincent Van Gogh, particularly Landscape With Snow

I was thinking about Van Gogh recently
I was never really a huge fan of his paintings
But I wouldn't say I actively disliked them either
It's just never been my thing
I found myself thinking about a specific Van Gogh painting
Which I've since learned is called "Landscape with Snow"
I looked it up to see if it still looked as I remembered
And it pretty much did
But this time, I decided I liked it … (Oh my god)
I can't explain why (You need to leave)

This all led me to Van Gogh's Wikipedia page
I wanted to find out if history considered him
Primarily a landscapе, portrait, or still-life painter
He did thеm all
I browsed the page and didn't really find my answer
But I did come across the following sentence
"Van Gogh was unsuccessful during his lifetime
And was considered a madman and a failure. "
(Damn)

Damn. I mean, I kinda knew that much about him
Wild life, wasn't famous until after he died, etc
But even considering all that, I kept going back to that sentence
Van Gogh started painting at 27
And only worked for about 9 years before committing suicide
And while that's not that long
He did make around 900 paintings and 1000 drawings
I guess I say all that to say this
As a guy who recently decided
He somewhat likes a single painting by Vincent Van Gogh
For reasons I can't quite describe
It does make me sad to see a man with mental health issues
And a passion for art summed up as an "unsuccessful madman failure"
Even if he was in fact financially unsuccessful, and kind of a madman
A failure? I dunno
I kinda like that Landscape with Snow, and I'm glad he painted it

Solid Gold

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I pack light, prowling past Xanadu surveillance
With a can of paint, and cat who bring her daddy home cicadas
Xanadu

That's why whеther clawing through the woodlands
Or called to dеfend Brooklyn, I always be lookin'... out
Location

Runaways at home in every armpit
Since a moment after hell report a stolen Helm of Darkness
Helm of Darkness

No Auntie Em vignetted yelling hello from the heartsick
Only vendors from the belly selling necklaces of garlic
The Wizard of Oz

Barefoot, running with the butterflies and hummingbirds
First to gut a Philly on the covershot of Runner's World
Runner's World

I don't catch up at the Peach Pit
I'm at peace when the animated wheel of feet spin
90210

Vititus

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Grandma Mary prayed the rosary
Name of the father, son, and homemade pierogi
Biblical- The Trinity

Whole thing of Oleo anointed by the Holy Ghost
In the kitchen cutting up potatoes for the Koshi
Biblical- Holy Spirit/Ghost

Back bedroom had a door to the cellar
It's more a hole bore to Gehenna
Biblical- Gehenna

Cheers, 2 foot of fresh powdered sugar on the mountain
We opted out for Morton Downey Jr
Morton Downey Jr.

Black Snow (feat. Nikki Jean)

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Try to split a lentil into threes
Visualize a future with your tabby in a broth
Mickey and the Beanstalk [27] (from Catacomb Kids)

Throw a couple punches in the mirror
Punch up your approach, on some
"Are you talking to me" or a thumper out the coat?
Taxi Driver

O' death, O' death
Could ya please hold a moment, I am so in effect
In the red corner, black snow a notable threat
I'm in the blue corner, satin over solar event
Lloyd Chandler- O Death

Golden oval on the belt, granny floral on the trunks
Orange tiger on the robe, iron horseshoe in the glove
I ain't foreign to the dance, I been up against the ropes
And refs, granted never while I'm humming "Let it Snow"
Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!

And I step in the arena with a hundred one apes
Looking dead at the upheaval like it's summer at the cape
Gang Star- Step in the Arena, One Hundred and One Dalmatians

This ring is a beach house, for critical beat downs
And free snow cones between rounds
Ultramagnetic MCs- Critical Beat Down

It go, cash only, ashes ashes
Bet the farm, Aes get the dark cloud active
Ring a Ring o' Roses

For the folks in the back row
Stomping on the floor when the black snow Glass Joe
Punch-Out

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Part 2— Collabs, Singles, Features, and Other Rarities
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