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CD REVIEW: Aesop Rock's 'None Shall Pass' infused with sick rhymes
From: University Wire
Date: 20070906
Author:Evan Leroy
Evan Leroy
University Wire
09-06-2007
(FSView & Florida Flambeau) (U-WIRE) TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- There is a problem with the most popular of modern popular rap music. It is almost substance-less. I say almost because there are a select handful of outliers who, while still bringing the sickest of beats, choose to write their rhymes about more than grills and frills.
Aesop Rock, a 10-year veteran of the underground rap game, is a prime example of the post-modern lyricist, bringing the pain with impressive rhymes and beats that fit snuggly somewhere between Mos Def and Del tha Funkee ...
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