“None Shall Pass” by Aesop Rock

"None Shall Pass" is the title track of Aesop Rock's fifth album, which Definitive Jux released in August 2007, and it rides a beat by Blockhead, with DJ Big Wiz on the turntables and Joey Raia behind the mixing desk. The words are all Aesop's, and so is the voice spitting them.

The album around it marked a change of course. He leaned harder on live playing than he ever had, bringing in guitar, bass and drums, and he went in wanting to tell stories instead of rapping about himself: scenes from his skateboarding days, from junior high and from being a kid, painted as pictures with the narrator nudged out of the frame.

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