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CD REVIEW: Aesop lets past, future loose in 'Fast Cars'

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From: University Wire
Date: 20050311
Author:Zach Lee

Zach Lee
University Wire
03-11-2005
(The Daily Cougar) (U-WIRE) HOUSTON -- Elitist hip-hop-heads rejoice. Aesop Rock, the deep-voiced master of dense metaphors and intellectual hip-hop, is back with a new EP, "Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives," and he's still spitting the same layered rhymes that have kept him out of reach for the casual fan for the entirety of his career.

His consciousness of his place in hip-hop is hilarious. What he hinted at in "Bazooka Tooth," he makes obvious in "Fast Cars." He knows he holds a place of honor in the heads of most underground fans, and he makes a joke ...

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