Aesop Rock: A Compendium of Influence - Part 2 (Collabs, Features, and Other Rarities)
A (mostly) complete guide to every reference made in Aesop Rock's lyrics—all movies, TV shows, video games, songs, books and more. Part 2 of 3, Collabs, Singles, Features, and Other Rarities
Part 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
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
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
Hail Mary Mallon got too much posse
Public Enemy- Too Much Posse
Meter Feeder
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Used coats, usurped thrones
FUBAR crews out New York homes
Location
Dollywood
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
Aes stay gold like Ponyo
Hard headed, war-vetted, four-legged mongrel
Ponyo
4AM
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
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
Alligator sailboat, dollar sign eyes
Fill a warehouse full of Van Goghs twice
Get money
Vincent Van Gogh
Merlin
No references
Picture Day
No references
Kiln
Guts pecked out pigs snout gross beard
A B C fingers stuck in both ears
Prometheus
King Cone
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
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
Marginal charisma lived over brownies
Location
My DJ is Wiz, when he plays he wins, he go
DJ Big Wiz
Horse Flakes
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
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
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
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
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
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
No references
Organs
No references
Superheroes
No references
Jambi Cafe
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
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
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
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
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
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
No references
WYHUOM
No references
Boomerang
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
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
No references
That Cat Has Worms (Blockhead Remix)
No references
Lice
Lice
Released 2015, Listen/Purchase
Vertigo
Ashes to ashes, catch the odd sonnet
What more can I say, Top Ramen
Audio Two- Top Bilin' [60]
Katz
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
Listen | Lyrics unavailable
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
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
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
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
Listen | Lyrics unavailable
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
Listen | Lyrics unavailable
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
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
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
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
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)
Listen | Lyrics unavailable
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
No references
Black List
Also feat. MF DOOM, from Prefuse 73- Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives, Released 2001, Listen/Purchase
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
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
No references
Castles
Also feat. Sadistik, from CunninLynguists- Strange Journey Volume 3, Released 2014, Listen/Purchase
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Listen | Lyrics unavailable
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
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
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
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
Listen | Lyrics unavailable
No references
Ego Death
Also feat. Danny Brown, from Busdriver- Perfect Hair, Released 2014, Listen | Purchase
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
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
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
Listen | Lyrics unavailable
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
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
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
No references
Hall of Game
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
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
Listen | Lyrics unavailable
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
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
No references
Hologram
Also feat. The Grouch, from Felt- Felt 4 U, Released 2020, Listen/Purchase
No references
Home Again
From The Controls- One Hundred, Released 1999, Listen
No references
Hot Dogs
Released 2017, Purchase
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
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
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
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
Listen | Lyrics unavailable
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
No references
Junkyard
From Various Artists- NBA 2K6: The Tracks, Released 2005, Listen/Purchase
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
No references
Keep It Live
From Greenhouse Effect- Electric Purgatory: Part Two, Released 2010, Listen/Purchase
Listen | Lyrics unavailable
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
Listen | Lyrics
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
No references
Left it to Us
Also feat. El-P, Tame One, and Yak Ballz, from Cage- Hell's Winter, Released 2005, Listen/Purchase
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
No references
Miss By A Mile
Also feat. Slug, and Eyedea, from Various Artists- We Came From Beyond, Vol. 2, Released, Listen (incomplete)
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
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
No references
Moving at the Speed of Life
Also feat. Slug, from Living Legends- Legendary Music Vol. 1, Released 2006, Listen
No references
My Belly
Released 2016, Listen/Purchase
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
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
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
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
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
No references
Off Broadway
From Rob Sonic- Latrinalia, Released 2021, Listen | Purchase
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
No references
Off the Top
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)
No references
Poems 4 Post Modern Decay
From Zion I- True & Livin', Released 2005, Listen/Purchase
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
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
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
I feel they Frankensteined us all together for a purpose
To openly square up against the frenzy's greatest circlers
Frankenstein
Puff Tuff
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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)
No references
Shut Down
From Push Button Objects- Ghetto Blaster, Released 2003, Listen
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
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
No references
Sink Or Swim
From DJ Signify- Of Cities, Released 2009, Listen/Purchase
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
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
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Pass the dutchie on the left hand side
Musical Youth- Pass the Dutchie
Sniff Glue
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
No references
Stand Up
Also feat. Myka 9, from Awol One & Factor Chandelier- Owl Hours, Released 2009, Listen/Purchase
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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
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
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No references
Success
From Mr. Lif- I Phantom, Released 2002, Listen/Purchase
No references
Superhands Mantra (Fuck Us All)
From Busdriver- Beaus$Eros, Released 2012, Listen/Purchase
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
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
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
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
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
Oh my low-tech bolt neck, go time, no myth
I'm a slow death goldmine
Frankenstein
Thorns (feat. Eyedea & Slug)
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Which Way Is Up?
From Atmosphere- Rhymesayers Vinyl Picture Disc, Released 2011, Listen
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
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
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
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
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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
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