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CD REVIEW: Aesop Rock's 'None Shall Pass' a vocabulary lesson

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From: University Wire
Date: 20070828
Author:Ann Colwell

Ann Colwell
University Wire
08-28-2007
(The Daily Iowan) (U-WIRE) IOWA CITY, Iowa -- "Flash that buttery gold, jittery zeitgeist/ Wither by the watering hole, water patrol."

As long as you carry a dictionary with your iPod, Aesop Rock's new album "None Shall Pass" (released today on Definitive Jux Records) might just blow your English professor's vocabulary out of the water.

Aesop has managed to set himself apart from much of the hip-hop industry's biggest names. Shifting the attention away from himself, "None Shall Pass" references common human experiences and relationships through his ...

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