I'm a nerdy English major so I tend to focus mainly on lyrical

Lyrically, nothing will ever top None Shall Pass, although a lot of the beats on The Impossible Kid are fire

earl sweatshirt, even his early stuff if you're more of a style-over-substance kind of guy. What I mean by that is that his Odd Future work is topically immature af, but still has a lot of the same heavy assonance and internal rhyming as his later stuff.
outside of rap, i guess Bob Dylan did just win a nobel prize for lit, bruce springsteen for storytelling more than poetry, and 'Why?' is great,

David Sylvian is my favorite lyricist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gHjjisKxzs

MF Doom
Danny Brown
Outkast

>>68618327
Good shit. Thank you

>>68618203
>that's quite a bit of gusto he muster up
>to make a dark horse rush like "enough's enough"
>it must've struck a nerve so they huff and puff
>'til all the king's men fluster and clusterfuck

so good

Busdriver has somilar flow, lyrically he's a bit more cartoonish and "cheesy" some might say butbhe has just as much substance as Aes does.

heyyy kirby
whatcha doin kirby
why'd u eat that leaf?

maybe?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9grV1fm1l7I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q87e6zNRJ3s

>>68618805
>a 6'4" New Yorker named his cat after a Nintendo character

Aes is so moe

MF DOOM
>Catch a throatful from the fire vocaled
Ash and molten glass like Eyjafjallajökull
The volcano out of Iceland
He'll conquer and destroy the rap world like the white men
https://youtu.be/WW-9TcDTKa8

call me a memer but mc ride's lyrics get pretty wild

>>68618169
>of the century thus far
kek'd

>english major
>aesop

Bait.

>>68619636
You don't think an English major would like Aes??

>>68619027
JUST-ing at your life, desu

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People hate on Aes for using big words and call him some pseudo-enlightened backpack thesaurus rapper but that's so fucking exaggerated it's stupid. He raps about just whatever, I mean he has a fucking song that's a tale about a pirate looking for a mermaid and another that's basically about going to a donut shop late at night. And the words arent particularly obscure or "big" unless you're a fuckin sub-highschool student. Dude just has a good vocabulary and a good flow. I don't know why I'm ranting, just kinda drunk but fuck, he gets so much unnecessary hate.

>>68619755
I was afraid my post would come across like that. I apologize.

I meant:

>stupid enough to get a shitty meme degree
>such shit taste that one would listen to aesop

>>68621594
agreed... he does get a lot of unnecessary hate, he just has a big vocab and tends to rap about whatever obscure thought comes into his head, whether it be something deep or just a song about his cat.

>>68621594
One of the reasons I started listening to aesop was because of his huge vocabulary, it caught my attention. I would look up lyrics to his songs and go verse by verse looking up words in the dictionary and looking up his references in the Internet. He is such a phenomenal lyrical artist.

>i'm a nerd

Josh Martinez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MMXNZ8BZXc

Qwel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMopg6jkwYw

Jay ElecHannukah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWc4DG1s53g

Heiruspecs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i24lYJBzLu0

Blueprint & illogic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JlEXDj8RVw

Canibus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuXrT03lyGo

>>68622127
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuXrT03lyGo
that song is fucking amazing. his best song on his best album imo.

>>68618169
Milo
MF Doom
Deca
GDP
Death Grips
Busdriver

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>>68618169
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6Fp0va3N-s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEVVyfYQ5YE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhklYNS5LeY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-bW2VESHY4

Del the funky homosapien

>>68622174
Personally I think C of Tranqulity doesn't get enough love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4s72kEe-k0

>Interrupt commiserating phantoms on your picket fence
>How quickly they will lift their heads
>And breathe an ultimatum like the dead don't argue
>Said, "you're living by the bayonet, but how alive are you?"
>Shit, A is all juice and bad etiquette
>Elbows on the table, lobster-bibbing on the ready set
>He said, "but how alive?"
>"I don't know homie, you decide."
>"No, you decide."
>"Fine. How alive? Too alive."
>HOW ALIVE?
>TOO ALIVE
>HOW ALIVE?
>TOO ALIVE

Every album Darnielle did before The Sunset Tree. Lyrics are packed full of literary subjects, mythology, love stories, repeated subjects of plum trees, history lessons, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lVSlhtVubo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E7QToL3zyw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWQe15lzDEg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qBX_OMdjKo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHbsdxqWYQs

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>>68618824
came here to post eyedea desu. my favorite mc next to doseone and aesop. he has that simplicity in his lyrics that makes you think it was really easy to write it (well, for him, it probably was), but what he doesn't have in lyrical density (by which I mean using a lot of fucking over the top words and being really super obscure when talking about things), he makes up for with pure poetic beauty and rhymes and flow.
by the throat is one of the best albums hip hop has ever seen

>>68621631
>English major
>Shit degree
Kill yourself, dirty technocrat
Humanitarians are essential to the Western civilization. Without them we would be a bunch of gooks or japs. Lifeless and robotic.

>>68623304
Liberal arts are acceptable if you're already independently wealthy.

>>68623394
Well, maybe he is, you don't know him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JX4c8nXPsA

no regrets is one of the most genius rap songs in existence imo

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At a cursory glance, Aesop appears to be a meme-"2smart4u" artist like gwatsky. Then you actually listen to his stuff and realize it's just fundamentally really solid. The Impossible Kid was great.

>>68621594
word

he even rapped about donuts once
like the whole song is about donuts
and I didn't even know lmao

>>68625520
watsky makes me sick. can we get a watsky hate thread?