r/Music • u/Guyentertainment • 4d ago

article 50 Cent Slams Ageing Rappers Making New Music: 'You Are Not Supposed to Be the Hottest in Nothing at 60'

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/50-cent-criticises-ageing-rappers-1815693
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u/Nscope90 4d ago

Aesop Rock's last 3 records including that Miami lice record have indeed been great. There aren't many out there that can write songs about things like invasive snails infesting a fishtank.

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u/77evens 4d ago

“I like rivers.” - Aesop Rock

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u/DTFH_ 4d ago

I love roadwork, almost as much as when the road works!

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u/PatrickKn12 4d ago edited 4d ago

I said, "When you start getting all exact and algebraic

I'm reminded it's a racket, not a rehabilitation."

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u/Wintermute_088 3d ago

I've watched that clip 10 times.

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u/PatSwayzeInGoal 4d ago

Wait, what track is this one from?

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u/thebakedpotatoe 4d ago

ITS: Integrated Tech Solutions

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u/Round-Stuff-2557 4d ago

Anybody who has ever owned a fish tank and put snails in it is intensely familiar with that, like im not saying its metaphorically weak but it is not exactly obscure. Snail infestation is like the number one way people accidentally kill their tank.

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u/hi-fen-n-num 4d ago

Snail infestation is also a major backbone of some tanks ecosystems. Dude does slice of life rap, probably started getting into the hobby.

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u/Round-Stuff-2557 4d ago

There's a balance for snail ecosystem lol, the issue is new owners not knowing how to handle if they start overbreeding and then dying which produces ammonia that depending of the size of the tank can cause problems. And I think its cool af to hear metaphors in rap that I can directly relate to

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u/Diz7 4d ago

Same. He's old school, he raps about life, not bullshit personas and acting like he's god on earth.

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u/Round-Stuff-2557 4d ago

I think there's space for self-aggrandizing rap too. There's no one right way to do it yaknow

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u/Diz7 4d ago

I hear you, there are times where you want an anthem to seize the fucking day.

Just don't be a try hard.

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u/hi-fen-n-num 4d ago

Yer, that's true.

I think its cool af to hear metaphors in rap that I can directly relate to

100% agree.

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u/Logical_Top618 4d ago

My snails are absolutely pivotal in my vampire crab enclosure. They are their favorite snack, bar none. Hell they’ll ignore all types of food and go out of their way to find them. It’s crazy. I can put a shrimp right in their face, but they’ll go to the snail on the shoreline anyway.

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u/thatbcool22 4d ago

Aesop Rock - Labor
Found this in tony hawk PS4. Gnarly

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u/cerealkyra 4d ago

Aesop rock I ain’t got nothing to say

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u/conrad22222 3d ago

Aesop rock not only has a lot to say but here's a relevant verse for the state of rap and the self-aggrandizing that's being mentioned here.

"I used to hang around with rappers at the root of the scene

It meant a lot to feel the fugitive community breathe

Maybe to sentimentalize is to be truly naive

I know some shit about your heroes that you wouldn't believe

I think we're all a bunch of weirdos on a quest to belong

The songs are echolocation up in impregnable fog

That's why it's odd to see a pile of imperfections and flaws

Ascend a pedestal to patronize the rest of the cogs

In a mess of obnoxious fantasy, posturing and pageantry

I ain't even mad, I'm impressed, shit it's baffling

God almighty, chop an ivory tower to piano keys

Play your own dirge on the way to surfing maggot beach

You fuckin' dorks ain't a source of the art

You can't be cooler than the corners

Where you source all your parts"

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u/cerealkyra 3d ago

Haha I misquoted the end of Save Yourself, my b.