{"id":78518,"date":"2025-11-04T15:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sodwee.com\/blog\/?p=78518"},"modified":"2025-11-04T12:30:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T11:30:24","slug":"aesop-rock-i-heard-its-a-mess-there-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sodwee.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/aesop-rock-i-heard-its-a-mess-there-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Aesop Rock &#8211; I Heard It&#8217;s a Mess There Too"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Aesop Rock declares: \u201cI Heard It\u2019s a Mess There Too\u201d, and he\u2019s already built the emergency exit.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When Aesop Rock drops an album out of nowhere: bam, 12 tracks, you don\u2019t grab popcorn; you grab a notebook.&nbsp;I Heard It\u2019s a Mess There Too&nbsp;isn\u2019t a fireworks show, it\u2019s a quiet translation of \u201ceverything\u2019s falling apart\u201d into \u201cI\u2019m just calmly observing the wreckage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arriving barely five months after&nbsp;Integrated Tech Solutions \u2014 dense, layered, borderline baroque \u2014 this one plays like a sonic detox. Aesop calls it a&nbsp;reset: cleaner beats, more space, fewer distractions. The title itself sounds like a shrug shared between friends across time zones. Half joke, half truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1939574181\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=de270f\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=1014309301\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=\"https:\/\/aesoprock.bandcamp.com\/album\/i-heard-its-a-mess-there-too\">I Heard It&#39;s A Mess There Too by Aesop Rock<\/a><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1939574181\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=de270f\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=269901268\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=\"https:\/\/aesoprock.bandcamp.com\/album\/i-heard-its-a-mess-there-too\">I Heard It&#39;s A Mess There Too by Aesop Rock<\/a><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Gone are the heavy stacks of samples. The production breathes: dry drums, low hums, textures that whisper instead of shout. When he raps, \u201cIt\u2019s chaos everywhere, even over there,\u201d he lets silence fill the blanks. And that silence does the talking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s observational but never cold. Each bar feels like someone cleaning their glasses before describing the end of the world. Sparse, confident and weirdly intimate. The kind of record that plays perfectly in a half-empty caf\u00e9 as the lights flicker and the coffee goes cold.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-dominant-color=\"3b5030\" data-has-transparency=\"true\" style=\"--dominant-color: #3b5030;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"453\" height=\"424\" data-attachment-id=\"78535\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sodwee.com\/blog\/machines-aesop-rock\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sodwee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Machines-AESOP-ROCK.png?fit=453%2C424&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"453,424\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Aesop Rock &amp;#8211; I Heard It&amp;#8217;s a Mess Too &amp;#8211; Sodwee.com\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Aesop Rock &amp;#8211; I Heard It&amp;#8217;s a Mess Too &amp;#8211; Sodwee.com&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sodwee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Machines-AESOP-ROCK.png?fit=453%2C424&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sodwee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Machines-AESOP-ROCK.png?resize=453%2C424&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Aesop Rock - I Heard It's a Mess Too - Sodwee.com\" class=\"wp-image-78535 has-transparency\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sodwee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Machines-AESOP-ROCK.png?w=453&amp;ssl=1 453w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sodwee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Machines-AESOP-ROCK.png?resize=300%2C281&amp;ssl=1 300w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Where&nbsp;Integrated Tech Solutions&nbsp;filled every inch of the mix,&nbsp;Mess There Too&nbsp;gives you room to think. It\u2019s funny too, the humor of someone petting a cat while watching civilization melt. \u201cYeah, it\u2019s a mess everywhere,\u201d Aesop seems to say, \u201cI checked. Let me tell you what I found under the rug.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Forget early-2000s dictionary-rap Aesop. This is a wiser version, still razor-sharp, but now curating chaos instead of cataloguing it. Less a punch in the gut, more a deep breath in a dusty room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You walk into a mess. Aesop\u2019s already there. He has swept the floor, lit some incense, and says,&nbsp;\u201cSee? Feels better already.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PpTPK_-0tXQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-center has-very-light-gray-to-cyan-bluish-gray-gradient-background has-background\"><figure 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class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lyrics_ Poly Cotton Blend<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">[Intro: Sample]<br>I don't know, I don't know<br>I don't know, know, I don't know<br><br>[Verse 1]<br>Pop a can of snakes, older olive branches break<br>Breaking through the amber popping frozen cotton candy grapes<br>Rate the modus operandi, one to proper fancy<br>It\u2019s mostly a melodrama 'til it summon Thomas Clancy<br>And bam, final fantasies rampant with fire damage<br>Hide the jerrycan, scramble with the clandestine every man<br>I\u2019m everywhere, nanny cam teddy bear<br>Neighborhood manhunt champion, scan the shrubs, \u201cHello there.\u201d<br>Cello playing several hous\u0435s over<br>From the vaults of Vivaldi to the s\/t of my sojourn<br>It g\u0435t him walking like his freedom is covert<br>I make a gun with my fingers, and take a knee behind the sepia Corolla<br>I been sneaking up the shoulder, easy peaking \u2018round these corners<br>If the freaks are out this evening, is it even paranoia?<br>Partly, still I hit a hundred Mississippi<br>As a hunter out to cut up any other color pinny in the mix<br><br>[Chorus]<br>Oh yea, go mega<br>In the trench where it get so extra<br>I\u2019m on it, go AWOL<br>Get yourself out from behind the eight ball<br>OK, go stupid, take a piece, take another<br>No bullshit, get busy, go dum dum<br>Always hit the ground running with the bumrush<br><br>[Verse 2]<br>XL, elephant man<br>I yell and shout and let the mountain feel the edge of my hand<br>I know you getting claustrophobic when those checkers advance<br>To separate you from your checkered vans, scepter in hand<br>Put your hands together for the ever damned and revamped<br>His heart a head in the sand, his head a Edison lamp<br>Might camp out in the front yard, frozen under golden stars<br>Wake up with the sun, grab my stuff out the canopic jar<br>And go, I'm half math over graph paper<br>The other half bat around Pascal\u2019s Wager<br>In a sea of class clowns and mad cow behavior<br>Don\u2019t back down every time the path out taper<br>I ain\u2019t even breaking at the bottleneck<br>I\u2019m Mach One, holding up Medusa disembodied head<br>This is kamikaze over common sense<br>Rocket fuel stains polka dot the poly-cotton blend, ey<br><br>[Chorus]<br>Oh yea, go mega<br>In the trench where it get so extra<br>I\u2019m on it, go AWOL<br>Get yourself out from behind the eight ball<br>OK, go stupid, take a piece, take another<br>No bullshit, get busy, go dum dum<br>Always hit the ground running with the bumrush<br><br>[Verse 3]<br>Sitting in the middle of my web<br>Waiting for the very next six legs to misstep<br>Pick a sticky thread, visit the vivisection infinite<br>Dip a toe into the tizzy, get your pivot reconsidered<br>We consider every kill to be a chicken neck and gizzard<br>Even if it isn't, it is, rock paper scissors<br>Cold slang move around the room in odd geometry<br>Catch it, throw it back, it\u2019s a volley to spot the novelty<br>...act, too true too livin'<br>Nothing left to prove and still maneuver the minutiae different<br>Through the futurism, out the prism postmodern<br>Harlem Globetrotter tickets, no ghostwriters<br>My superpower is divining open diners<br>No matter the current local time or broken social climate<br>There\u2019s one, bacon so fragile<br>When you touch it with a fork it should break up into shrapnel, like crack<br><br>[Chorus]<br>Oh yea, go mega<br>In the trench where it get so extra<br>I\u2019m on it, go AWOL<br>Get yourself out from behind the eight ball<br>OK, go stupid, take a piece, take another<br>No bullshit, get busy, go dum dum<br>Always hit the ground running with the bumrush<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-default\">Passport_<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column 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class=\"wp-block-heading\">Follow_<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Aesop Rock<\/strong> : <a href=\"https:\/\/aesoprock.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Website<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@aesoprockwins\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Youtube<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/aesoprock.bandcamp.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bandcamp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/2fSaE6BXtQy0x7R7v9IOmZ?si=EdBVXDjaR_Ws-PMjZhFpRA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/aesoprockwins\/\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns cnvs-block-core-columns-1770163844099 is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column has-border-color has-e-9-ecef-border-color 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