Aesop Rock - Shrunk (Official Video)

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Featuring:
Aesop Rock
Rob Sonic
Eric Swisher
Andrew Root
Crew:
Director/Editor/8-bit Animator: Rob Shaw
Producer: Robert D'Esposito
Director of Photography: Rodrigo Melgarejo
Gaffer: Kevin Forrest
Steadicam Operator: Sam Naiman
Art Director: Emily Yurek
Animator: Neisje Morrell
Character Design: Alex Pardee
Additional Character Design: Mackenzie Peterson
Background Illustrator: Kamela Howard
DIT: Jim Birkett
Colorist: Orland Nutt
Production Assistant: Janie Faison
PA: Cypress Chvatal-Jones
PA: Alex McGregor
Special thanks to Art Santana, JohnNils Olson, Ground Kontrol Arcade and Bent Image Lab.
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  • @nicheneisj6423
    @nicheneisj64237 жыл бұрын

    Honored to have the opportunity to animate part of this. Thanks Aes!

  • @Dat_Dude_Danny1

    @Dat_Dude_Danny1

    7 жыл бұрын

    Whatever part u did came out great cause the whole video is cool!

  • @penguindog1799

    @penguindog1799

    7 жыл бұрын

    If you look in the description he is the Animator, so I assume he did all of it.

  • @eduardovillalobos353

    @eduardovillalobos353

    3 жыл бұрын

    great work!! it's amazing

  • @jasondice6332

    @jasondice6332

    3 жыл бұрын

    Great job thank you for your contribution!!!

  • @TakHavocOfficial

    @TakHavocOfficial

    3 жыл бұрын

    🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @nathanwoods8849
    @nathanwoods88497 жыл бұрын

    "She said when you start getting all expressive and symbolic it's impossible to actualize an honest diagnostic. I said when you start getting all exact and algebraic I'm reminded it's a racket and not a rehabilitation" Bars for fucking days.

  • @oVerTheToP5o

    @oVerTheToP5o

    7 жыл бұрын

    it's impressive how i like rap but i also read classics, this song is perfect, his literary skills are impressive seeing as i haven't seen anyone else rap so coherently and have such a poetic structure.

  • @sabbathjackal

    @sabbathjackal

    7 жыл бұрын

    oVerTheToP 5o you should google rappers compared to Shakespeare.

  • @MrhibyeTV

    @MrhibyeTV

    7 жыл бұрын

    Nathan Hell yeah that's my favorite part honestly

  • @dr.ligmahnutts2993

    @dr.ligmahnutts2993

    7 жыл бұрын

    go listen to his old stuff this is not his most impressive stuff lyrically

  • @Krod50

    @Krod50

    3 жыл бұрын

    Okay

  • @iangrieve9202
    @iangrieve92022 жыл бұрын

    It's not as complex as it seems, especially if you've seen more than one therapist. Verse one is struggling through the onboarding paperwork while simultaneously trying to wrap your head around what it is that you want to talk about, verse two is sitting in the waiting room, preparing yourself for the encounter and knowing that you're going to be expected to open your veins and bleed your insecurities, verse three is battling with your ego to break down your walls as you try to address your anxieties with someone who doesn't know anything about you and is trying to help you using standardized, formulaic processes that begin to feel condescending after they become so familiar. It's hard not to approach it with the cynicism Aes so acutely describes, but you always wind up going back, despite the standoffishness and discomfort because of the pressure, both internal and external, just to make it work. "Will you be needing another appointment?" "Absolutely, I'm shrunk". Side note, shrunk is a superb play on words, because of the obvious connotation of the word "shrink" to describe a psychiatrist (as derived from the Amzonian Jivaro tribe, who would literally shrink the severed heads of their enemies) but also because of the denotation of becoming small, as in trying to compress your baggage into a one hour session with a complete stranger who practically demands the kind of intimacy you might have trouble feeling with your own family.

  • @bodhidharmashmarma5179

    @bodhidharmashmarma5179

    Жыл бұрын

    Wow - great explanation.

  • @markforsey547

    @markforsey547

    Жыл бұрын

    As far as aesop rock goes this is one of his easier to understand songs, even people who have trouble understanding him can process this song with little effort. I swear you could create college level classes based on the break down and possible meanings of some songs but this song is a total break from his normal complexity.

  • @viceroy1281

    @viceroy1281

    7 ай бұрын

    Currently seeing a "shrink" for reasons I won't go on about here. I really feel this, thanks for putting into words what I probably couldn't by myself.

  • @IntertemporalTraveler

    @IntertemporalTraveler

    6 ай бұрын

    That sounds like a burnt out or maybe even bad therapist to me.

  • @michaelmartinx714

    @michaelmartinx714

    6 ай бұрын

    shrunk or shrink refers more to shrinking of our thought, fears and anxieties. Deflating of the ‘self’ or ego. I don’t know about all the shrunkin native head nonsense..

  • @calimango7926
    @calimango79263 жыл бұрын

    Aes is somehow able to encompass relatability, mystery, wit, humor, brutal honesty, lyrical mastery, and self-deprecation all in the span of three minutes and thirty two seconds in a densely wrapped lyrical gift box. For real, mad props to the absolute G.O.A.T.

  • @stinthedude

    @stinthedude

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yaaas mate! Couldn't agree more

  • @_Jake.From.Statefarm_

    @_Jake.From.Statefarm_

    2 жыл бұрын

    yeah, on every single song since 97 too... and they are all different, and they all make you feel the same way, especially if you've went through or experienced one of them. You are spot on Cali!

  • @Ty91681

    @Ty91681

    2 жыл бұрын

    He also produced the beat too. It's unreal.

  • @aburritosnake7526

    @aburritosnake7526

    9 ай бұрын

    He's the current Greatest rapper alive, but he isn't the G.O.A.T, the true G.O.A.T of Rap sadly passed away a few years ago, R.I.P MF DOOM!!!

  • @chemicaldeath9866

    @chemicaldeath9866

    8 ай бұрын

    @@aburritosnake7526 Come on bruh don't make this a fight, not only could MF DOOM NEVER rhyme this densely, but MF DOOM's discography has a vocab count of 6,169 unique words while Aesop Rock's is at 7,879.... MF DOOM is definitely #2 as he is MILES ahead of any mainstream rapper, but mathematically speaking Aesop Rock is at least 1 mile ahead of MF DOOM

  • @Coriolis11245
    @Coriolis112457 жыл бұрын

    I don't think it's physicaly, literally or philosophicaly possible for this music video to get any better.

  • @Dwight_Lee

    @Dwight_Lee

    7 жыл бұрын

    you forgot to put possible between philosophicaly and for

  • @Coriolis11245

    @Coriolis11245

    7 жыл бұрын

    Kenny Sullivan I corrected it, thank you :)

  • @Dwight_Lee

    @Dwight_Lee

    7 жыл бұрын

    no worries bud, happy trails!

  • @Coriolis11245

    @Coriolis11245

    7 жыл бұрын

    Kenny Sullivan You too man!

  • @MrElixir75

    @MrElixir75

    7 жыл бұрын

    Abso-fuckin-lutely T is for T!

  • @karabatakpoezie
    @karabatakpoezie7 жыл бұрын

    Aesop Rock for Nobel Prize Literature 2017. I'm serious.

  • @JamesGuitarStuff

    @JamesGuitarStuff

    7 жыл бұрын

    fr tho he does

  • @aliecat1999

    @aliecat1999

    7 жыл бұрын

    Kid Koon bob dylan doesnt have merit?

  • @dertsegway1238

    @dertsegway1238

    6 жыл бұрын

    Agreed

  • @No2moking89

    @No2moking89

    6 жыл бұрын

    He actually does have the biggest vocabulary in rap

  • @notswush

    @notswush

    5 жыл бұрын

    there're so many i feel like deserve that tbh. aesop is definitely on the list. So's kendrick, Will Toledo, and maybe even Earl Sweatshirt

  • @dinnerbucket9
    @dinnerbucket97 жыл бұрын

    Dudes been shredding for 20+ years. He is so dedicated to his art. He is the next Shakespeare.

  • @nobodyspecial9097
    @nobodyspecial90977 жыл бұрын

    She says, "I'm not your enemy." I said, "That sounds like something that my enemy would say"

  • @fatkid504

    @fatkid504

    6 жыл бұрын

    shes says "you're being difficult" i said, "i'm being guarded. you're a quarter mil in debt i get more guidance from my barber."

  • @scrantonpa7408

    @scrantonpa7408

    6 жыл бұрын

    Wiid Lives so damn good

  • @keiganm1287

    @keiganm1287

    6 жыл бұрын

    Iseriouslydoubtthatscheese only part i dont understand in this song is the quarter mil in debt line.

  • @ADarkFoxx

    @ADarkFoxx

    6 жыл бұрын

    Keigan M I take it that he's alluding to the cost of his therapist's school loans.

  • @175griffin

    @175griffin

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@keiganm1287 You must be from outside the US. Here you gotta rack up an absurd amount of debt to get an education.

  • @channelgong
    @channelgong7 жыл бұрын

    I love the way that all of his Music Videos have used a different form of visual art. One of the best musicians ever right now, period.

  • @NaruTheBlackSwan

    @NaruTheBlackSwan

    7 жыл бұрын

    He is an artist. Words and visuals. He used to draw, hard to admit that he used to draw.

  • @f0gman_

    @f0gman_

    7 жыл бұрын

    He went to Boston University for Visual Arts. Glad it shows up well in his vids.

  • @TheCavedude107

    @TheCavedude107

    7 жыл бұрын

    Portraiture and the human form, doodle of a two headed unicorn.

  • @NaruTheBlackSwan

    @NaruTheBlackSwan

    7 жыл бұрын

    TheCavedude107 It was soothing.

  • @farvezafridifaizurrahman6980

    @farvezafridifaizurrahman6980

    6 жыл бұрын

    Moving his arm in a fusion of man-made tools and a muse from beyond.

  • @xXxLax4LifexXx
    @xXxLax4LifexXx7 жыл бұрын

    Patient name: thats personal Birth Date: a while back Are you in a physicians care: Dr Izzo Are you taking any medications: Probiotics and Hot wings Are you on a special diet: Probiotics and Dumplings Are you pregnant: 7 weeks with a new beat Do you have pains anywhere: My hair doesnt hurt Do you have allergies: Large crowds and internet posturing

  • @andrewf6287

    @andrewf6287

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@mykilldarcshyne1648 This is a remix of an Aesop Rock song. Here's the actual song. kzread.info/dash/bejne/d5iqppWYaavLiKg.html

  • @izloc7131

    @izloc7131

    3 жыл бұрын

    What might I ask the explanation to internet postering is? In to me your best definitive.

  • @tnmoe-

    @tnmoe-

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@izloc7131 - I would say its something to do with putting out a persona to make yourself look better than you might be. I guess some people might call it 'virtue signaling' or simply 'hey, look at my brand new shoes, I make loads of money unlike you' while they're just scraping by.

  • @WarbossRB
    @WarbossRB7 жыл бұрын

    I always wondered what the video would look like for this song. And the symbology of using the arcade as a therapist's office is amazing. Designed to throw your money at them in order to get better or level up against all odds.

  • @gredangeo

    @gredangeo

    7 жыл бұрын

    What? I didn't notice any kind of symbology. I wasn't paying attention to anything like that. lol! That's pretty neat.

  • @rahcvastenrihc5667

    @rahcvastenrihc5667

    7 жыл бұрын

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  • @travisbrown6814

    @travisbrown6814

    7 жыл бұрын

    RB Newell Stop saying symbology!!! That's not a real word!!! Damn you Dan Brown and the Da Vinci Code!!!!!!!! Use symbolism instead please... PLEASE!

  • @gywnsfirstborn5002

    @gywnsfirstborn5002

    7 жыл бұрын

    its actually amazing symbolism: You can never truly win some games (think tretris) theoretically its impossible to master or perfect. So to with the human condition and yourself. Yet the brilliance of this analogy is you do need to put in effort and money to succeed in therapy. you are the larger half of the equation of success. Its fun but still elegant.

  • @gredangeo

    @gredangeo

    7 жыл бұрын

    Travis Brown Symbology is the study of Symbolism. Makes perfect sense to me. If some playwright can make up a couple hundred words on the spot, a legitimate author can make up one.

  • @IsaacPrinTheNerd
    @IsaacPrinTheNerd5 жыл бұрын

    My last name, a thousand vowels fading down a sinkhole to a sussurus. Probably the most cryptic verse I've ever heard from Aesop Rock.

  • @mattbustos522
    @mattbustos5224 жыл бұрын

    Just a reminder Aesop schedules a follow up. He's pessimistic about meeting with therapist, but obviously he goes back. Plus they recommend he get Kirby.

  • @amostech5820

    @amostech5820

    3 жыл бұрын

    Holy shit...

  • @AsAboveISoBelow

    @AsAboveISoBelow

    3 жыл бұрын

    What'cha doin' there, Kirby?

  • @schrome1019

    @schrome1019

    2 жыл бұрын

    Get out the car , then he gets out the car and is Shrunk. The doc says to get Kirby. It’s a trilogy and it’s perfect .

  • @damonedwards1544

    @damonedwards1544

    2 жыл бұрын

    I don't know, maybe get a kitten.

  • @ZachGatesHere

    @ZachGatesHere

    4 ай бұрын

    And what's honestly understated is how the doctor doesn't get dazzled by his verbosity. She sees through him and cuts him down to size (hence the title).

  • @Benry1
    @Benry17 жыл бұрын

    i've been going through an Aesop Rock phase since 2002

  • @tyrannicalthesaurus4672

    @tyrannicalthesaurus4672

    4 жыл бұрын

    Its not really a phase if it lasted 15 years now, is it.

  • @arex82

    @arex82

    4 жыл бұрын

    Tyranical Thesaurus stop being so exact and algebraic

  • @tyrannicalthesaurus4672

    @tyrannicalthesaurus4672

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@arex82 ah shit, you got me.

  • @arex82

    @arex82

    4 жыл бұрын

    Tyranical Thesaurus 😉

  • @waynepowers7213

    @waynepowers7213

    4 жыл бұрын

    None shall pass hooked me, and I've never found anyone better

  • @MarcAlcatraz
    @MarcAlcatraz7 жыл бұрын

    Aes's flow would be his highest stat

  • @MarcAlcatraz

    @MarcAlcatraz

    7 жыл бұрын

    ***** lol i knew someone was gonna reply to this. I'm just talking about out of all the stats presented, theres no creativity or imagery stat

  • @MarcAlcatraz

    @MarcAlcatraz

    7 жыл бұрын

    ***** lol yeah cause its always active

  • @upsidedownh3art

    @upsidedownh3art

    7 жыл бұрын

    Next to his vocabulary.

  • @imwavey6905

    @imwavey6905

    7 жыл бұрын

    BlueBerryJamOutlaw aes has a rly dope flow just listened to rings

  • @dubbiedowner

    @dubbiedowner

    7 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this.

  • @Rusty._
    @Rusty._6 жыл бұрын

    Each quarter you put into the machine is a metaphor for each session with your therapist. Damn, Aes.

  • @jamtime4978

    @jamtime4978

    6 жыл бұрын

    The Superforge no shit

  • @grahamentwistle2081

    @grahamentwistle2081

    6 жыл бұрын

    @JamTime - Using your comment as an accidental Aes reference: kzread.info/dash/bejne/qJ98r9BxoZmwnMo.htmlm2s

  • @thomaspaine9284

    @thomaspaine9284

    5 жыл бұрын

    Not really. My guess it was written over a period of several appointments; first the primary visit, where he fills out the standard paperwork in an unusual manner. I see it as him in the office, making a mundane task more self enjoyable by pulling his identity from various, but fitting, often sarcastic, references, viz, a combination of his immediate surroundings and thoughts. Almost like Verbal Kint and his barber shop quartet in Skokie Illinois, Aesop’s “bullentin board” is the generic waiting room reading material found in healthcare facilities across America. waiting meshed with his own sarcasm and wit. Second verse is still in the waiting room, but , personally feel it’s a separate visit.This time, no paperwork to occupy and amuse himself, boredom gives way to some anxiety, anticipation, eventually triggering a “pull urself” together and accept the evisceration response . Them last verse is the only dialogue between him and his healthcare professional. He absolutely murdered it. Honestly, for me, this album was an epiphany, I’ve been rocking Aesop for close to twenty years, but it was actually the first time I read his lyrics. His vocabulary is amazing and most likely, at some point, most everyone will need a dictionary, But it’s his the but the true genius of ry “get it.” His vernacular hato references to esoteric proper nouns across a spectrum of niche type areas is and but not to approcryptic abstraction how to had trouble had wawhole album was I have been rocking Aesop to Aeso dialogue

  • @shroomologist

    @shroomologist

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@thomaspaine9284 The quarter metaphor is definitely valid (as is your analysis tbh). Arcade games are generally very hard and require a certain level of commitment if you wish to get anywhere with them. There is pretty much no chance of you reaching the end in a single session, you will inevitably have to keep coming back and pouring more and more money into them if you want a realistic chance of doing so. With all this in mind the parallels with psychotherapy are pretty obvious. Once you have invested a certain amount of time and money into familiarising yourself with a game you will find it more and more difficult to keep yourself away from it as you feel that you are close to that end goal, similar to how people can become emotionally dependent on psychotherapy. Even when you think that you have finally reached that end point you may find that the machine might still try to give you reasons to keep coming back, be it being put back on the first level at a higher difficulty or simply trying to beat a high score, given that it is primarily a business rather than a service. It's actually really clever when you think about it.

  • @ThouArtEverywhereAndNowhere

    @ThouArtEverywhereAndNowhere

    3 жыл бұрын

    dude its one of his most literal songs cmon now

  • @iheartjimothy
    @iheartjimothy7 жыл бұрын

    She said, "You're being difficult." I said, "I'm being guarded; you're a quarter mil in debt I get more guidance from my barber Look, I'm not good at this, I grew up in a noogie-fest You built your walls up high Or say goodbye to all your Cookie Puss Here's one: every time my telephone buzzes I see images of hooded riders setting fire to hundreds." She said, "When you start getting all expressive and symbolic It's impossible to actualize an honest diagnostic." I said, "When you start getting all exact and algebraic I'm reminded it's a racket, not a rehabilitation."

  • @TommyGFPV

    @TommyGFPV

    4 жыл бұрын

    Agree to disagree as grown-ups from opposing clans Honoring the push and pull I should have called the Scholomance Oh well. Preservation is a doozy Will you be needing another appointment?" "Absolutely" I'm shrunk

  • @nobodyschannel

    @nobodyschannel

    4 жыл бұрын

    Realest lyrics ever spit.

  • @grishmar

    @grishmar

    3 жыл бұрын

    Aes summed up my thoughts on therapy perfectly with this line. Genius

  • @ollicron7397

    @ollicron7397

    2 жыл бұрын

    Never trust a female therapist.

  • @ShapezPuller64

    @ShapezPuller64

    2 жыл бұрын

    Dude. Who hurt you.

  • @seon3403
    @seon34034 жыл бұрын

    She said, "When you start getting all expressive and symbollic, its impossible to actualize an honest diagnostic" I said "When you start getting all exact and algebraic, I'm reminded it's a racket not a rehabilitation" JINKIES, ZOINKS, & WOWZERS!

  • @lorib360

    @lorib360

    3 жыл бұрын

    😂

  • @Garblegox
    @Garblegox7 жыл бұрын

    PATIENT NAME - Thats personal BIRTH DATE - A while back ARE YOU IN A PHYSICIANS CARE? - Dr Izzo ARE YOU TAKING ANY MEDICATIONS? - Probiotics and hot wings ARE YOU ON A SPECIAL DIET? - probiotics and dumplings ARE YOU PREGNANT? - 7 weeks with a new beat DO YOU HAVE ANY PAINS ANYWHERE? - My hair doesn't hurt. DO YOU HAVE ANY ALLERGIES? - Large crowds and internet posturing. Aes is fucking cool, man.

  • @TuRaTic
    @TuRaTic3 жыл бұрын

    Wow this video, the lyrics, its like suddenly i realize im not alone anymore. this is the most profound piece of art iv found in the last few years

  • @FSquid
    @FSquid7 жыл бұрын

    Hell yeah! This was my fav off Impossible Kid. The beat is vicious and the first verse is amazing.

  • @seanwattsmoore8507

    @seanwattsmoore8507

    7 жыл бұрын

    So it's not a new song

  • @Terminado907

    @Terminado907

    7 жыл бұрын

    FSquid the last verse is absolutely my favorite, but every one of them kills.

  • @calebmauer1751

    @calebmauer1751

    7 жыл бұрын

    "My first name is a random set of numbers and letters and other alphanumerics that changes hourly forever". I love this whole song.

  • @dubbiedowner

    @dubbiedowner

    7 жыл бұрын

    I love the way that all of his Music Videos have used a different form of visual art. One of the best musicians ever right now, period.

  • @voidking9597

    @voidking9597

    7 жыл бұрын

    oh the cat. got it.

  • @Grayscape.
    @Grayscape.7 жыл бұрын

    things that get better with age. Aesop Rock

  • @arex82
    @arex824 жыл бұрын

    I might sound like a complete fan-boy here - I’m both a fan and student of music in general.. I listen to MANY different genres. But when it comes to hip hop, I dont think there’s been a more dense and complex wordsmith than Aesop Rock - EVER. I’m not just talking about making words rhyme - but the complexity of his metaphors, the way he structures his ideas and words, vocabulary usage, I’ve never heard anyone tell stories the way he does. He doesn’t seem to care if it makes sense to you, either. He says it the way he sees it - many can’t decipher it on first listen. Too complex. Too deep. That’s why I respect him so much. IMO, probably the best to ever touch a mic. Period.

  • @kainpendlebury7007

    @kainpendlebury7007

    3 жыл бұрын

    I know this comment is old, and that you're probably not going to see this, but I just wanted to give my thought on why a lot of people can't get the meaning of what he's trying to say. I don't think it's because it's too complex or deep, I think it's because he doesn't give context for the things he's talking about. Now don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of Aesop, and I'm not trying to say this is a bad thing, just that it might be the reason other people can't pull meaning from it.

  • @Cvo-581

    @Cvo-581

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@kainpendlebury7007 agreed

  • @stepshutch1974

    @stepshutch1974

    3 жыл бұрын

    Maybe mf doom??? A-f-r-o could be in with a shout eventually imo.

  • @SkateFallen1424

    @SkateFallen1424

    3 жыл бұрын

    100% the most complex and dense, definitely one of if not the most intelligent lyricists, but I'm not sure about greatest ever. I think he's too niche to call him that. Dope as fuck nonetheless

  • @Ty91681

    @Ty91681

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@SkateFallen1424 piss off with niche. Idk what that even has to do with the conversation other than it's your own subjective opinion.

  • @timmteller871
    @timmteller8717 жыл бұрын

    Hes easily the best rapper that ever existed in this world so far. Praise him and Blockhead.

  • @2FadeMusic
    @2FadeMusic4 жыл бұрын

    The very first lyric on this song is definitely in contention for my favorite lyric of all time. "My first name is a random set of numbers and letters and other alphanumerics that changes hourly forever. My last name a thousand vowels fading down a sinkhole to a susurrus, couldn't just be John Doe or Bingo." That shit gets me every fucking time. Insanely remarkable how he writes this stuff.

  • @Distant_View
    @Distant_View7 жыл бұрын

    I can't believe how quality this is... that last verse was crushing

  • @randomjunk3987
    @randomjunk3987Ай бұрын

    Very rare to have an artist make me pause the music after a particular verse, take off my headset, and just think for a few moments.

  • @GeekCreek

    @GeekCreek

    21 күн бұрын

    He's the lyrical equivalent to the novelist Cormac McCarthy.

  • @fathersun6413
    @fathersun64136 жыл бұрын

    Aesop has always been on another level. The whole impossible kid album was amazing

  • @DmitriyPoot
    @DmitriyPoot7 жыл бұрын

    1:23 rob SONIC

  • @MarcAlcatraz

    @MarcAlcatraz

    7 жыл бұрын

    dammit you beat me to it

  • @EJKusH420
    @EJKusH4207 жыл бұрын

    when a rapper can flow something vicious for 3 and a half minutes and it's so complex you can't comprehend anything he's trying to say, but you know it's on another level. I love it lmfao

  • @Punjabispitta

    @Punjabispitta

    7 жыл бұрын

    1st verse: Aes is filling out an application in a physciatrist's office, 2nd verse: In a waiting room describing what he sees, 3rd verse: Conversation with the physciatrist that only lands him another appointment Also a shrienk is another word for a female physciatrist, and he's shrunk by being there. It's insane how he told this story with paranoid and deranged thoughts (the reason he's there in the first place lol)

  • @Punjabispitta

    @Punjabispitta

    7 жыл бұрын

    ^taken from rapgenius, they did a great job breaking this song down with the rest of the album

  • @jmontis2
    @jmontis27 жыл бұрын

    this is the best hip hop album i've heard in 10 years, keep holdin the torch aesop

  • @CrochetedCoyoteCreations
    @CrochetedCoyoteCreations3 жыл бұрын

    SHOUT OT TO PORTLAND, OREGON! Ground Kontrol is an AWESOME barcade

  • @alexjoseph4665
    @alexjoseph46657 жыл бұрын

    Are you pregnant? -7 weeks with a new beat, hahahah

  • @kareemshams4541

    @kareemshams4541

    6 жыл бұрын

    "Do you have pains anywhere? My hair doesn't hurt" 0:42

  • @THEJPIndustry
    @THEJPIndustry2 жыл бұрын

    This line kinda goes over the top of many people (i had to look up the lyrics) but can we talk about how genius "You built your walls up high or said goodbye to all your Cooky-Puss" is? It just shows how small childhood interactions, like the fight for snacks have lasting effects on your behavior throughout your live as a middlechild myself, i feel that, if you arent on your guard, your belongings (mostly food) are taken away from you

  • @Spencercf614
    @Spencercf614 Жыл бұрын

    Going to therapy for the first time in seven years today. I've needed it. Thanks for the music, Aes.

  • @Ashtarte3D
    @Ashtarte3D5 жыл бұрын

    It took me at least four or five viewings of this video to get the message it's supposed to be conveying about therapy; that you put more and more money in and just hope you reach the next level much like an arcade game. Fucking hell, even Aesop's videos are deep.

  • @Ty91681

    @Ty91681

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes!

  • @gmork1090

    @gmork1090

    Жыл бұрын

    Beats getting medicated and hoping for the best.

  • @BridgetDeLaCruzda1dlcbadnaz
    @BridgetDeLaCruzda1dlcbadnaz7 жыл бұрын

    WHAT A PERFECT SONG. I CAN AND DO RELATE

  • @JeffyPop247
    @JeffyPop2477 жыл бұрын

    ever since I heard Rings....I find myself addicted to his lyrics and flow. even tho it's hard to understand him sometimes.

  • @hyperbolicrecords
    @hyperbolicrecords7 ай бұрын

    That first verse was ridiculous, he's simply filling out a form...and he made a fucken renaissance painting out of it. The second verse, he's in the waiting room, figuring out how much its going to cost him and observing the other people in the room. The third verse, he's finally speaking to the therapist... If Aesop was born 100 years ago and he would be Bach or Wolfgang.

  • @thelorebooger
    @thelorebooger3 жыл бұрын

    man, he is the most lyrically talented rapper to ever exist.

  • @darrengee936
    @darrengee9367 жыл бұрын

    I hope he just does a video for every fucking song on this masterpiece

  • @zachmiller5831
    @zachmiller58317 жыл бұрын

    couldn't imagine a better video for this track. this is definitely one of my favorite songs from the album and this video is the perfect companion. as a gamer I appreciate the shit out of this

  • @wrarmatei
    @wrarmatei6 жыл бұрын

    This song is such a great description of how the psychology/cognitive therapy game works for most people. Easily my fav album because it's about struggles that people generally have to face alone. I still listen to it a few times per month.

  • @WorldLaughsWithYou
    @WorldLaughsWithYou3 жыл бұрын

    This is the best fucking way of saying "therapy is working" I have ever heard. God damn aes is a legend

  • @dgrantvh
    @dgrantvh7 жыл бұрын

    I don't know.... maybe get a kitten?

  • @calebmauer1751

    @calebmauer1751

    7 жыл бұрын

    Ionno know know maybe get a kitten Ion Ionno know know maybe get a kitten.

  • @atjshow

    @atjshow

    7 жыл бұрын

    he did and then it died. didn't you listen to the last album Skelethon?

  • @calebmauer1751

    @calebmauer1751

    7 жыл бұрын

    No!!! Kirbyyyyyyy!

  • @redcassette

    @redcassette

    7 жыл бұрын

    but he sang about getting kirby on impossible kid which was released after skelethon....

  • @TheAlmightyFrowny

    @TheAlmightyFrowny

    7 жыл бұрын

    I don't know about all that. He does post pictures he is sent of his cat while out on tour, titles it "pictures from home"

  • @poughkeepsieblue
    @poughkeepsieblue3 жыл бұрын

    This song is genius. The vid, is pure art set to words. I can't watch this without seems ng something new, and smiling big everytime.

  • @jossephcruces4130
    @jossephcruces41306 жыл бұрын

    So much to unpack in the song AND the video

  • @douggreg9852
    @douggreg98523 жыл бұрын

    The first verse is the best first verse in a song ever.

  • @IndirectCogs
    @IndirectCogs5 жыл бұрын

    That framing device of an arcade is GENIUS. As anyone who's tried to find good therapy knows: INSERT COIN TO CONTINUE.

  • @808Deathmetal
    @808Deathmetal7 жыл бұрын

    Portland!!!!

  • @RandomDealer

    @RandomDealer

    7 жыл бұрын

    Braden Munafo is that where that Ground Kontrol is at?

  • @JulyCausesCancer

    @JulyCausesCancer

    7 жыл бұрын

    that place is dope. spent many a dollar at that fine establishment

  • @RandomDealer

    @RandomDealer

    7 жыл бұрын

    JulyCausesCancer sooo...Oregon has legal herb and a dope arcade?!

  • @JulyCausesCancer

    @JulyCausesCancer

    7 жыл бұрын

    the arcade serves alcohol too.

  • @808Deathmetal

    @808Deathmetal

    7 жыл бұрын

    Yep. Other then that we just got assholes and homeless people.

  • @GamingDistortion
    @GamingDistortion7 жыл бұрын

    Everything this guy touches is gold.

  • @ArizonaGunGuy
    @ArizonaGunGuy7 жыл бұрын

    Yes. Just yes. Thank you. Your sybolism and metaphors in your lyrical content and the people you worked with on this video made it all come together.

  • @melo4087
    @melo40877 жыл бұрын

    One of the best of all time! Top 5 in my book!

  • @NicDoesDumbThings
    @NicDoesDumbThings7 жыл бұрын

    Bobby Freedom looks like the perfect change man, holy shit

  • @AlexM-fq5nb

    @AlexM-fq5nb

    7 жыл бұрын

    NicDoesDumbThings he also makes a great sonic the hedgehog apparently

  • @maverickREAL
    @maverickREAL2 жыл бұрын

    I can't believe he came up with "people who open doors for the people who open doors" himself, that sounds like something from one of Duckman's rants

  • @chelsea6671
    @chelsea66717 жыл бұрын

    of course his flow would be maxed out. Love this video and track. Ive been wanting a video for this since the album released.

  • @aiwbraids

    @aiwbraids

    7 жыл бұрын

    chelsea6671 same here

  • @jiakidiego
    @jiakidiego2 жыл бұрын

    Timeless and on point

  • @jamesleveroni1260
    @jamesleveroni12603 жыл бұрын

    This song is brilliant! So much inspiration from this artist

  • @Alexxgone
    @Alexxgone7 жыл бұрын

    thats insane dude ull never get older

  • @Hedra718
    @Hedra7183 жыл бұрын

    Love this track. I've been shrunk for years.

  • @Dat_Dude_Danny1
    @Dat_Dude_Danny17 жыл бұрын

    Love the whole album, viva Aesop!! Can't wait for the next Hail Mary Mallon album!!

  • @wadewilson3957
    @wadewilson39577 жыл бұрын

    god everyone's saying he's at the top of his game...? have y'all heard his old shit?? Aesop been dope

  • @stephaniem.7210

    @stephaniem.7210

    6 жыл бұрын

    Wade Wilson is right Aesop has always been one of the best rappers ever!

  • @mikecooper7755

    @mikecooper7755

    6 жыл бұрын

    Ase has been at the top of his game since birth! Dude never stops being a boss

  • @b1gBud00bo1

    @b1gBud00bo1

    6 жыл бұрын

    Wade Wilson I dissected one line from his song Float off his debut album and I became an instant fan... that was yesterday

  • @enefiscrypt758

    @enefiscrypt758

    6 жыл бұрын

    I first started listening to him in 02' before Bazooka Tooth dropped. Fond memories of getting stoned on my lunch breaks at Wal-Mart bumping Labor Days and Float in my 93' Nissan Maxima. 02' was also the year I discovered Sage Francis (btw Nonprophets 'Hope' is my favorite hip-hop CD of all time), Atmosphere, Eyedea & Abilities, Murs, Adeem, Musab, Copywrite, Grayskul, and Micranots.

  • @ttarkus

    @ttarkus

    6 жыл бұрын

    Enefis Crypt Cage is the shit too

  • @virtualobsession7478
    @virtualobsession74787 жыл бұрын

    The sign in sheet...I can't. I'm already losing it. Thank you Rob Shaw.

  • @dvntew3020
    @dvntew30203 жыл бұрын

    Stumbled on this dude's music by randomly and HO MY......

  • @perilthinking
    @perilthinking7 жыл бұрын

    i love that arcade!!!!

  • @72721212
    @727212127 жыл бұрын

    That last verse tho.. Wow

  • @arghurghurghurgh7184
    @arghurghurghurgh71844 жыл бұрын

    Okay: There's Bubble Bobble in the background and there's an aggressive bear with glasses, there are some of the smartest Rap-Lines ever been written, there's an "007"-joke, there are those dudes who hang out at pretty much every psychiatrists waiting room I've ever been to. Could this get ANY better?

  • @poesgro9022
    @poesgro90223 жыл бұрын

    Bro! And he mentioned Arcadia which is Washington and Oregon wanting its own independence. I know he wrote impossible kid here in the Pacific northwest. Really stunk you took the time to be out here Aesop. You're mine and my little late brother Jacob's favorites. Thanks man much love

  • @danklibertarianism3109
    @danklibertarianism31097 жыл бұрын

    This guy is so widely liked he only has 28 dislikes on a video with 110,000+ views

  • @eyedeasneverdie3348
    @eyedeasneverdie33486 жыл бұрын

    Is it me, or after discovering Aesop pretty much every other rapper is just boring

  • @xSpaceSauce

    @xSpaceSauce

    5 жыл бұрын

    no. that's pretentious as fuck. find new rappers to listen to; start with lee scott or chester p :)

  • @quasihomestead

    @quasihomestead

    5 жыл бұрын

    Truth

  • @Bruno-ec8ft

    @Bruno-ec8ft

    5 жыл бұрын

    Try Lupe Fiasco.

  • @mariocastillo8334

    @mariocastillo8334

    5 жыл бұрын

    MF DOOM is still amusing AF

  • @cahlinatwell11

    @cahlinatwell11

    5 жыл бұрын

    Eyedea tho...

  • @ibroughtthebrownpants2068
    @ibroughtthebrownpants2068 Жыл бұрын

    "Feeling like a baby tooth," is the most creative way of saying you're about to fall out I've ever heard.

  • @justasran4218
    @justasran42183 жыл бұрын

    “You’re a quarter mil in debt I get more guidance from my barber” ...this man

  • @CemD85
    @CemD857 жыл бұрын

    *Toss all of my coins* please continue! :)

  • @lamarledennis3220
    @lamarledennis32205 жыл бұрын

    The spirit of Shakespeare resides in him

  • @paulsallee4889

    @paulsallee4889

    4 жыл бұрын

    Shakespeare on paper, more like beavis in person. His words.

  • @lorib360

    @lorib360

    2 жыл бұрын

    With Chaucer's sense of humour.

  • @raoulmaul
    @raoulmaul7 жыл бұрын

    the first few lines of this song always blow my mind

  • @joiemonster4922
    @joiemonster49224 жыл бұрын

    I can't count how many times I've watched, listed to, and shared this brilliant musical rant... I adore it. Here's to celebrating something that's always been Deep Love. 💕

  • @joiemonster4922

    @joiemonster4922

    4 жыл бұрын

    3 years or 13. It's worth some 🍻

  • @joiemonster4922

    @joiemonster4922

    4 жыл бұрын

    P.S. Thank you Ground Kontrol. You give me pinball nostalgia... and Bubble Bobble. 😘

  • @gywnsfirstborn5002
    @gywnsfirstborn50027 жыл бұрын

    "she said when you start getting expressive and symbolic it becomes impossible to actualize an honest diagnostic. I said when you start getting all exact and algebraic I'm reminded its a racket not rehabilitation." I'm psych major as I'm sure Aesop (having been in and around college-level thinkers/resources) knows psychoanalysis is fading fast, the methods and measures (psychometrics) arguably have been dead since behaviorism, which itself has been dead since Chomsky's paper. But besides that as someone who also likes to write similarly to him, this is so fucking sick. One the best rappers ever. Not even just by vocabulary size but creativity and fluidity. Never mind the twisting, layered, and reflexive content. I wonder how he developed his style

  • @zacharyvaughn2044

    @zacharyvaughn2044

    7 жыл бұрын

    Gywn's First Born is your name from dark souls? and yea that's my favorite part of the whole song

  • @ishmaelseneca3389

    @ishmaelseneca3389

    5 жыл бұрын

    Let's think... Been rapping professionally since he was 16.

  • @jswann3389
    @jswann33897 жыл бұрын

    Who the hell disliked this, the rodent from Blood Sandwich?

  • @RexIsOnline

    @RexIsOnline

    7 жыл бұрын

    Aes called him a homie, though!

  • @DarcOfTheShadows

    @DarcOfTheShadows

    7 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, it was probably the coach.

  • @aiwbraids

    @aiwbraids

    7 жыл бұрын

    J Swann it was the guy in the car that had the wolf mask

  • @10000_angry_bees

    @10000_angry_bees

    6 жыл бұрын

    Dr.Izzo

  • @jermainallen7176

    @jermainallen7176

    6 жыл бұрын

    Probably some dork

  • @0lionheart
    @0lionheart5 жыл бұрын

    I literally only just noticed the nod to Rob Sonic at 1:26! :D

  • @ImARichard
    @ImARichard6 жыл бұрын

    Jesus Christ. Ive watched this video dozens of times before but never realized how well it conveys the health care system we have to fuck with. Fucking love this song even more.

  • @brianban110
    @brianban1107 жыл бұрын

    the older I get the weirder my taste in music becomes; I'm okay with it 😉

  • @RisingVandal
    @RisingVandal5 жыл бұрын

    not only is the song good, it's 100% accurate down to the kids fighting with whoever's watching them buried in their phone half the time and the sessions feeling like a street fighter squash match.

  • @Famezonen
    @Famezonen10 ай бұрын

    If you save up all your winnings . Then you get to count your blessings.

  • @Ixaglet
    @Ixaglet Жыл бұрын

    "I finally crunched the budget up and punched the button". Man I just love how that sounds and how it feels to say.

  • @einlosen
    @einlosen6 жыл бұрын

    When was the last time you heard anyone, much less a rapper, say "panacea"?

  • @mn_cj1910
    @mn_cj19104 жыл бұрын

    Listen to Get out of the car first, then Shrunk, and then Kirby.

  • @maryrose811
    @maryrose8113 жыл бұрын

    You're a level of genius that has yet to be matched .. inspiring and humbling .. I'm shrunk

  • @Lonewitchexists
    @Lonewitchexists7 жыл бұрын

    I love this video,love this song and love Aesop's style.

  • @thereindeertherabbitthebat592
    @thereindeertherabbitthebat592 Жыл бұрын

    I wonder if his therapist took notes from this one... 🤔

  • @rare5274
    @rare52747 жыл бұрын

    As a gamer I truly appreciate this.

  • @SystemJuanelo

    @SystemJuanelo

    7 жыл бұрын

    RARE ラレ

  • @biglord02
    @biglord02 Жыл бұрын

    Amazing song that makes you keep coming back to see what you missed.

  • @MollieStar
    @MollieStar7 жыл бұрын

    I love Rob Shaw's videos!

  • @gayactorrichardinnass7422
    @gayactorrichardinnass74222 жыл бұрын

    Had my mom tell me I need therapy today, now I’m here, sup

  • @NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself

    @NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself

    2 жыл бұрын

    Don't need a prescription for these meds.

  • @MrMISTANOODLES
    @MrMISTANOODLES7 жыл бұрын

    She sais I'm not your enemy. I said that sounds like something that my enemy would say.

  • @dr0psy
    @dr0psy7 жыл бұрын

    the beat on the second verse is one of the raddest ever. that subtle scratch sets it off

  • @MinTiHotepnutiMaat
    @MinTiHotepnutiMaat4 жыл бұрын

    Never disappointed ✨👌🏽

  • @kyphus3725
    @kyphus37257 жыл бұрын

    I'm glad I pre ordered Impossible Kid

  • @james-en8yn

    @james-en8yn

    7 жыл бұрын

    Vik G vinyl?

  • @susubear13

    @susubear13

    7 жыл бұрын

    +Asequii what's the point of vinyl?

  • @james-en8yn

    @james-en8yn

    7 жыл бұрын

    susubear13 clearer sound, for a much better listen. also they're cool af

  • @notmynormalusername1

    @notmynormalusername1

    7 жыл бұрын

    Clearer sound is so delusional. They recorded with digital equipment and stamped it on a master, there's no way it has more clarity - it's either equal or more likely: much worse. It's just cool, that's the only sensible argument I can see.

  • @james-en8yn

    @james-en8yn

    7 жыл бұрын

    Jared Thomson I assume you've never listened to a vinyl album in person before. It blows my mind to think that you think that a vinyl recording, the purest form of an album, is equal or lower quality than a CD through a car CD player or a song through a phone/computer speaker or even regular headphones. Just try that out, and maybe you'll see what I mean. If the quality is still somehow bad to you, then you need a new fucccccking record player my dude. Nothing else that I can say there. Happy experimenting

  • @xDTHx
    @xDTHx7 жыл бұрын

    im not a rap person but may i say this has an early late 90's and very earlry 2000's vibe to it.

  • @Chris-bz3iy

    @Chris-bz3iy

    6 жыл бұрын

    Agerix Official nah it's just aes

  • @axwaimusic8398
    @axwaimusic83987 жыл бұрын

    Favorite tune from the album.Nice to see a video for it!

  • @user-zr1jp2df7v
    @user-zr1jp2df7v Жыл бұрын

    My guy holds the 'current',,period

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