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CD REVIEW: Aesop Rock absolutely unbelieveable

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From: University Wire
Date: 20010928
Author:Chas Reynolds

Chas Reynolds
University Wire
09-28-2001
(The Chronicle) (U-WIRE) DURHAM, N.C. -- "This is labor" are the first words out of Aesop Rock's mouth on his second full-length offering, Labor Days. Talk about putting in work: This guy doesn't even know what a day off is. For 70 solid minutes, he never lets up -- not with the rhymes, not with the beats and not with the dazzlingly conceptual insights he drops like pennies.

With last year's Float, this MC's MC hit the scene with a relentless intensity and utter brilliance that has elevated him to the top of more than a few short lists for world's ...

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