Aesop Rock
“Life's not a bitch, life is a beautiful woman / You only call her a bitch 'cause she won't let you get that pussy.”
Empirically measured by data scientist Matt Daniels as possessing the largest unique word vocabulary in hip-hop (surpassing Shakespeare and Melville's Moby-Dick), Aesop Rock turns hyper-detailed observations of everyday alienation into baritone word-puzzles.
RHYME DENSITY
99
MULTIES
98
STORYTELLING
97
PUNCHLINES
93
FLOW POCKET
95
VERIFIED FREESTYLES & CLASSIC 16s (1)
Classic 16 • None Shall Pass (Definitive Jux) (2007)
'None Shall Pass' — Baritone Surrealist Wordplay Clinic
“Flash that buttery gold, jittery zeitgeist / Wither by the watering hole, what a patrol.”