The way the text is written also links into the emotion of the text itself. “Oftentimes the body spits the spirit out and carries on/To engineer some semblance of a normal life, yours and mine/Then of course it’s normalcy where paranormal’s normalized.” Other must-listen tracks include the three-song run “Legerdemain,” “Difficult,” and “All the Smartest People. The typography used for the title of the album My Everything is written in a very feminine and delicate font. Aesop threw himself into the project following the death of a close friend, Kurt Hayashi, and the track reveals the grief and pain the artist felt. The closing track, “Abandoned Malls,” best sums up the somber feeling from which Garbology was born. Khalid is no stranger to changes.After the artist released the new album The End Of A Life in 2014, the singer changed his look.The singer, who was known for his colorful clothing, started wearing his signature yellow sunglasses, white shirt and gray jacket.The new album cover was a nod to the change in style. Blockhead’s beats complement the verses so adeptly, it’s as if the rapper had produced the album himself. And what an album it is! Aesop’s spur-of-the-moment, hard-hitting lyricism is reminiscent of his late underground rapper peer MF Doom. Nearly a decade later, the two have reunited for a collaborative album, Garbology.
Blockhead ultimately decided to pursue production over rapping, and the two formed a business relationship, with Blockhead producing most of Aesop’s earliest work.
Ian Bavitz (CFA’98), known professionally as Aesop Rock, met friend and fellow artist Blockhead during his college days in Boston.
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