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'None Shall Pass' by Aesop Rock: Definitive Jux.

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From: Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT)
Date: 20070906
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Sep. 6--The question now expected with every new Def Jux release is how far into the jungles of dense, wordy hip-hop listeners will be willing to travel. The label's reputation for uncompromising inscrutability isn't undeserved.

Long Island MC Aesop Rock's last full-length, 2003's "Bazooka Tooth," was more memorable for its determined opacity than its murky beats and rhymes. But last March, Def Jux founder El-P released "I'll Sleep When You're Dead," one of 2007's finest albums thus far -- a meet-them-partway collage greater than the sum of its sometimes-oblique imagery. It ...

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