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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
I'd like to see someone with the structural/musical talent of Eminem but with the lyrical talent and cultural sensitivities of Langston Hughes. If hip-hop is to be saved from the gangstas, this is the kind of artist that will do it.
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Aesop Rock; not only is his sound unique, but his raps are moral fables told through complicated free-verse style rhymes. Aesop Rock has been rapping since the late 90s, but because he dosen't feed to the mainstream topics and sounds he has yet to reach stardom. His music is poetry about human nature rather than attacks on current events; it seems like now every rapper raps about bullshit party shit on one track and wonders where the game is going in the next, and it's this hipocrisy that has made rap both sell and slit its own throat. Last week I went to Best Buy with my friends to convince them to buy Aesop Rock's CDs, but out of 6 records only one was under his name. There is great rap out there, but you're more likely to find it surfing the web or walking through a cypher.