{"product_id":"aesop-rock-appleseed-clear-black-smoke","title":"Aesop Rock - Appleseed [Clear \u0026 Black Smoke]","description":"\u003cp\u003eAesop Rock's Appleseed captures one of underground rap's most distinctive voices before the wider world caught on, pressed here on clear and black smoke vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst released in 1999 as a homemade CD-R, the EP was sold hand to hand around New York, including from a backpack at an MF DOOM show, while Blockhead handled mail orders from the early internet. Rhymesayers gave it an official reissue in 2021, finally making a cult artefact easy to find.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAesop handles most of the production himself, with Omega One and Blockhead each stepping in, and the beats are laid-back, dusty and uncomplicated, leaving plenty of room for his tumbling, image-packed verses and off-kilter wordplay. \"Dryspell\" and \"Same Space (The Tugboat Complex, Part 2)\" show a writer already allergic to cliché, \"1,000 Deaths\" rides a moody Blockhead beat, and \"Odessa\" closes things out with a guest turn from Doseone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt barely hints at the polished leap of Labor Days two years later, and that's the charm: this is a time capsule of late-1990s backpacker rap, hungry, introspective and fiercely independent, made for headphones and long subway rides.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor anyone tracing Aesop's story back to its roots, this is where the vocabulary first started piling up and the legend quietly began.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67761142432034,"sku":"826257032614","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1020\/2080\/8994\/files\/Aesop_Rock-Appleseed_Clear_Black_Smoke.jpg?v=1794305916","url":"https:\/\/soulfulvinyl.com\/products\/aesop-rock-appleseed-clear-black-smoke","provider":"Soulful Vinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}