| Immortal Technique – The Cause of Death Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Glad I wasn't the only one rocking aes and tech at damn near the same time. Stumbled onto weerd science, and The Martyr just dropped, so I've got more music rolling :) | |
| Immortal Technique – The 4th Branch Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| That's what hip hop should be. The truth. Rap is just the style it's presented in. | |
| Aesop Rock – Pigs Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Well spotted. I would throw in something about it being anti-captialist as well, but that could be a projection :) Pigs and 39 thieves though, definitely share a theme that speaks to my soul. |
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| Aesop Rock – Pigs Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I've kind of seen it as him poking fun at the actual animal, and it's references in pop culture. Pig tails being slightly more obvious, "that's all, folks!" being the slightly less obvious quote from the most famous cartoon pig, Porky. Knowing Aes, it could have deeper meaning, but I haven't pinned it either. |
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| Aesop Rock – Bring Back Pluto Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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@teejies - It's definitely about bullying. Using the removal of Pluto as a metaphor for the establishment suppression and control of it's people, in astrology, Pluto represents change and evolution (among other things), both psychologically, and spiritually, through death and rebirth. True knowledge of these things are withheld from us, buy our "leaders" in order to keep us in the dark about what we truly are. Other aspects of that control are described, laced throughout the lines in the song. "Jet setting on spec, with a dead yeti on a roof rack." The rich flying around, living the good life, whilst holding the missing link, a metaphor for the explanation of the origin of our existence, dead (deleted) and unknown to us. "the malformed oddities among sovereigntyʼs normal, shall abuse every vice you can imagine right before you" The voice of officialdom decreeing (untruthfully) that the effects of divided sovereign society are normal, whilst taking advantages of all the issues, and divisions it causes in the people. "babylon goggles, gawk for the galvatron coppers" Like beer goggles, tainting the vision of those who want to see babylon rise again, looking forward in awe to a day when they can police us with robots (high technology in general), so we can't rise up anymore, and eliminate us when we're no longer needed. "iʼll be shepherd when the whirlybirds deny the lepers doctors" Maybe Aes saying he'll help lead the strays when the police state (helicopters) deny the sick care, probably implying plague. "terrible metal hacking seeds upʼs as American as ski up off a plastic d-cup." The terrible metal is Aluminum, which is being sprayed in the air via chem trails, and reportedly inhibiting natural seed growth. It's reference to be as American as cocaine off (a stripper's) fake tits, because it's Capitalism at it's finest, with Monsonto creating GMO seeds that resist aluminum, then spraying aluminum in the air to corner the market, and create scarcity. "all the town sickly know the coke machine as home, where they sit and hope the ovaltine that nobles drink is strong." All the malnourished in a manufactured Malthusian catastrophe, left with nothing to drink but high fructose corn syrup packed soda, hoping that if they ever do get to any of the good food from the elites, it's strong enough to restore their strength and health. It could just be my recent study of the world, and ontology biasing my perspective, but it lines up very well. There are other lines in there that I feel I understand the meanings of as well, but just my thoughts. |
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| Immortal Technique – Dominant Species Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Tar is thick. La Brea is a tar pit (open air lake of tar) in California. | |
| Aesop Rock – 39 Thieves Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Immense truth, and a such is my favorite verse in the album. Though, a couple changes make more sense to me, this is how I hear it... "Dude, we're animals, we just go where the most food is." using a slang pronoun, to accentuate the simplicity of the perspective. "Truth is, you're equally expendable as spoon fed." since "equally" is comparing expendable to spoon fed. To me, the whole song is very anti-money/anti-monetary system. |
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| Immortal Technique – Dominant Species Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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agree with khaleo. The average human life span being 80 or so, in conjunction with the high probability of the revolutions that could occur of half of what he spits is true, leaves it not likely that there will be many 100 year old's in 2110. |
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| Immortal Technique – Dominant Species Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I'm thinkin' it's in series with the "black hole" lyricist reference. I don't think anything on earth can put down that kind of pressure. The gravity of a black hole however, is pretty much unparalleled. | |
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