Aesop Rock discography
| Aesop Rock discography | |
|---|---|
 Aesop Rock performing in 2006 | |
| Studio albums | 9 |
| Music videos | 17 |
| EPs | 4 |
| Singles | 17 |
| Guest appearances | 43 |
| Production credits | 13 |
| Appearances on compilations | 14 |
| Collaborations | 4 |
Aesop Rock is an American hip hop artist currently signed to Rhymesayers Entertainment. His discography consists of nine studio albums, three extended plays, ten singles, four collaborations, one compilation, nine music videos, and many appearances on other artists' tracks and on compilations.
Aesop initially recorded and released two self-financed records: Music for Earthworms in 1997 and the Appleseed EP in 1999. After being signed to the Mush label, Aesop Rock released his first major album, Float, in 2000. Shortly thereafter, Aesop Rock signed to Manhattan-based hip hop label Definitive Jux, where he released Labor Days in 2001, Bazooka Tooth in 2003, and None Shall Pass in 2007. His 2012 album Skelethon and 2016 album The Impossible Kid were released by Rhymesayers Entertainment.
Albums[]
Studio albums[]
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [1] |
US R&B /HH [2] |
US Rap [3] |
US Ind. [4] |
UK [5] | |||
| Music for Earthworms | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Float | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Labor Days |
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— | — | — | — | — | |
| Bazooka Tooth |
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112 | 44 | — | 7 | — | |
| None Shall Pass |
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50 | 35 | — | — | — | |
| Skelethon |
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21 | 5 | 2 | 1 | — | |
| The Impossible Kid |
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30 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 189 | |
| Spirit World Field Guide |
|
54 | 26 | 24 | 9 | — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | |||||||
Soundtrack albums[]
| Title | Album Details |
|---|---|
| Bushwick |
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Downloadable mixes[]
| Title | Album details | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| All Day: Nike+ Original Run[6] |
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| The Blob |
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Extended plays[]
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [1] |
US R&B /HH [2] |
US Heat. [8] |
US Ind. [4] | ||
| Appleseed |
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— | — | — | — |
| Daylight |
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— | — | — | 15 |
| Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives |
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190 | 100 | 9 | 21 |
| Cat Food[9] |
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— | — | — | — |
| Freedom Finger (Music from the Game) |
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— | — | — | – |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | |||||
Singles[]
| Title | Year | Album |
|---|---|---|
| "Coma" | 2001 | Labor Days |
| "Boombox" | ||
| "Daylight" | 2002 | Labor Days & Daylight |
| "Limelighters" | 2003 | Bazooka Tooth |
| "Freeze" | ||
| "Easy" | ||
| "All in All" | 2004 | Def Jux Presents 3 |
| "Fishtales" | 2006 | Non-album single |
| "None Shall Pass" | 2007 | None Shall Pass |
| "Coffee" | ||
| "Zero Dark Thirty" | 2012 | Skelethon |
| "ZZZ Top" | ||
| "Rings" | 2016 | The Impossible Kid |
| "Blood Sandwich" | ||
| "My Belly" | Non-album singles | |
| "Hot Dogs" | 2017 | |
| "Klutz" | 2018 | |
| "Rogue Wave" | 2020 | |
| "The Gates" | Spirit World Field Guide | |
| "Pizza Alley" | ||
| "Long Legged Larry" | 2021 | Non-album single |
Music videos[]
| Year | Title | Producer |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | "Abandon All Hope"[10] | Ian Bavitz |
| 2003 | "Freeze" | Michael Kuhn |
| "No Jumper Cables" | Joey Garfield | |
| 2005 | "Fast Cars" | Asif Mian |
| 2007 | "None Shall Pass" | Michael Kuhn |
| "Coffee" | Ace Norton | |
| 2012 | "Zero Dark Thirty" | Brooke Kennedy |
| "ZZZ Top" | Lizzie Rose | |
| "Cycles to Gehenna" | Ben Fee & Pete Lee | |
| "Homemade Mummy" | N/A | |
| 2016 | "Rings" | Robert A. D'Esposito |
| "Blood Sandwich" | Robert A. D'Esposito | |
| "Lazy Eye: Live from the Peculiarium" | Robert A. D'Esposito | |
| "Dorks" | Robert A. D'Esposito | |
| "Kirby" | N/A | |
| "Shrunk" | Robert A. D'Esposito | |
| "Lotta Years: Live from the Hill" | Robert A. D'Esposito | |
| 2017 | "Get Out of the Car" | Rob Shaw |
| "Hot Dogs" | N/A | |
| 2018 | "Klutz" | Rob Shaw |
| 2020 | "The Gates" | Robert A. D'Esposito |
| "Pizza Alley" | Robert A. D'Esposito |
Guest appearances[]
| Year | Song | Artist(s) | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | "Put Your Quarter Up" | Molemen with Slug and MF DOOM | Ritual of The... Revisited and Remastered |
| "Water" | Atoms Family | Euphony | |
| "Coma (Remix)" | |||
| "Sinister" | Atoms Family with Yeshua Dapoed | ||
| "Blacklist" | Prefuse 73, with MF DOOM | Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives | |
| 2002 | "Take me to the Basement" | The Opus | First Contact 001 |
| "Killing Time" | Illogic | Got Lyrics? | |
| "Dry Bones (remix)" | Oddjobs with Vast Aire, Kimani | "Dry Bones" 12" | |
| "Flesh (remix)" | Atmosphere | "Godlovesugly" 12" | |
| "Success" | Mr. Lif | I Phantom | |
| "Delorean" | El-P | Fantastic Damage | |
| 2003 | "Obsolete" | Blueprint with Slug, Eyedea, and Illogic | The Weightroom |
| "Secret Agents" | Chase Phoenix | Cut to the Chase | |
| "Kill 'em All (remix)" | RJD2 | Loose Ends | |
| "Final Frontier (remix)" | RJD2 with Blueprint, Murs, Vast Aire | The Horror | |
| "Happy Pillz" | Murs | The End of the Beginning | |
| "Love to Fuck" | S.A. Smash | Smashy Trashy | |
| "Shut Down" | Push Button Objects | Ghetto Blaster | |
| 2004 | "Encounter" | Blueprint | |
| "Hold Mine" | Blueprint with Slug, Illogic, and Eyedea | Printmatic: Vitamins and Minerals EP | |
| "Apocalypse Zone" | Cryptic One | The Anti-Mobius Theory | |
| "Time Capsule" | Illogic with Vast Aire | Celestial Clockwork | |
| "Crooked" | Evil Nine | You Can Be Special Too | |
| "Jet Son" | Blockhead with Camu Tao | Sunday Seance | |
| "Kill Switch" | DJ Krush | Jaku | |
| "Posse Slash" | Vast Aire with Karniege, Breez Evahflowin, Poison Pen | Look Mom ... No Hands | |
| 2005 | "Worlds Collide" | Rasco | The Dick Swanson Theory |
| "Lo-Fi Funk" | Blueprint | 1988 | |
| "Sabbatical with Options" | Prefuse 73 | Surrounded by Silence | |
| "Poems 4 Post Modern Decay" | Zion I | True & Livin' | |
| "Voltronic Instructional Espionage" | Grayskul | Deadlivers | |
| "Try to Remember" | Hangar 18 | The Donkey Show Volume 1 | |
| "Helium" | Vordul Mega | Yung World | |
| "Akinesia" | Tame One & The Dusted Dons | Slow Suicide Stimulus | |
| "Nuclear Five" | The Presence with Karniege, and Masai Bey | Common Man's Anthems | |
| "Left it to Us" | Cage with El-P, Tame One, and Yak Ballz | Hell's Winter | |
| 2006 | "Take, Hold, Fire" | Mr. Lif with El-P | Mo' Mega |
| "Side Two" | DJ Ese with Babbletron | Side Two | |
| 2007 | "Run the Numbers" | El-P | I'll Sleep When You're Dead |
| "The Office" | Grayskul with Slug | Bloody Radio | |
| "Smoke if You Got'um" | Rob Sonic | Sabotage Gigante | |
| "Catch 22" | Grimace Federation | Tasted by Chemists | |
| "Borrowedtime" | Luckyiam with Slug | Most Likely to Succeed | |
| "The Dirt and the Filth" | Percee P | Perseverance | |
| 2008 | "Dirt" | Tobacco | Fucked Up Friends |
| "Alchemy" | Blueprint | Iron & Niacin | |
| "Lovecraft in Brooklyn" remix | The Mountain Goats | Heretic Pride | |
| "Side Two (CCP Remix)" | Cool Calm Pete | Loosies - Remixes and Other Oddities | |
| "The Explanation" | The Gigantics | Die Already | |
| 2009 | "Diabolical Fun (Remix)" | Illogic | Diabolical Fun |
| "Low Tide" | DJ Signify | Of Cities | |
| "Sink Or Swim" | |||
| "Molly" | Tame One | Acid Tab Vocab | |
| "Stand Up" | Awol One | Owl Hours | |
| Wood-Chip Grinder | Mac Lethal | Love Potion Collection Vol. 5 | |
| "Give It Up" | Felt | Felt 3: A Tribute to Rosie Perez | |
| 2010 | "Primor" | Dark Time Sunshine | Vessel |
| 2011 | "Miama Advice" "Zero or a Zillion" "The Library" "Walk Like Thunder" "Captain Lou" |
Kimya Dawson | Thunder Thighs |
| "Shout It In" | Dirty Ghosts | Shout It In (Aesop Rock Remix) 7" | |
| 2012 | "Superhands Mantra (Fuck Us All)" | Busdriver | Superhands Mantra (Fuck Us All |
| "Take My Hand" | Dark Time Sunshine | ANX | |
| 2013 | "Tumbleweed" | Billy Woods | Dour Candy |
| "Not Going Anywhere" | Grayskul | Zenith | |
| 2014 | "Ego Death" | Busdriver | Perfect Hair |
| "Castles" | CunninLynguists | Strange Journey Volume 3 | |
| "Air Pegasus (Le Cadeau)" | & Blockhead | Air Pegasus (Le Cadeau) | |
| "Kill Joy" | Rob Sonic | Alice in Thunderdome | |
| 2015 | "Jailbreak" | B. Dolan | Kill the Wolf |
| 2016 | "I Went Outside Today" | Open Mike Eagle & Paul White | Hella Personal Film Festival |
| 2016 | "Speak Truth" | Homeboy Sandman with Kurious and Breeze Brewin' | Kindness for Weakness |
Production credits[]
| Year | Track(s) | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | "Float" "Big Bang" "Garbage" "Fascination" "6B Panorama" "How to be a Carpenter" "Prosperity" "The Mayor and the Crook" |
Aesop Rock | Float |
| 2001 | "Kill 'em All" | various artists | Definitive Jux Presents |
| "Labor" "One Brick" "Battery" "Boombox" |
Aesop Rock | Labor Days | |
| "Wise Up" | various artists | Tag of the Times 3 | |
| 2002 | "Bracket Basher" | Aesop Rock | Daylight |
| "Dead Pan" | various artists | Definitive Jux Presents 2 | |
| 2003 | "Bazooka Tooth" "N.Y. Electric" "Easy" "No Jumper Cables" "Limelighters" "Super Fluke" "Freeze" "The Greatest Pac-Man Victory in History" "Frijoles" "Kill the Messenger" "Mars Attacks" |
Aesop Rock | Bazooka Tooth |
| 2004 | "All in All" "You're Dead to Me" |
various artists | Definitive Jux Presents III |
| 2005 | "Zodiaccupuncture" "Rickety Rackety" "Food, Clothes, Medicine" "Facemelter" |
Aesop Rock | Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives |
| "Knowledge" | C-Rayz Walz | Year of the Beast | |
| 2007 | "All Day" | Aesop Rock | Nike + Original Run |
| "Keep off the Lawn" "Catacomb Kids" "39 Thieves" "Citronella" "Five Fingers" |
None Shall Pass | ||
| "Give Me Love" | Grayskul | Bloody Radio | |
| 2008 | "Ghosts of the Barbary Coast" | Aesop Rock | Ghosts of the Barbary Coast |
| 2009 | "Protagonists" "Felt Chewed Up" "Get Cake" "Bass For Your Truck" "Like You" "Permanent Standby" "Kevin Spacey" "Ghost Dance Deluxe" "Revisiting the Styleetron" "Whaleface" "Glory Burning" "Henrietta Longbottom" "She Sonnet" "Felt Good" "Deathmurdermayhem" "The Prize" "G.I. Josephine" "Clap" "We Have You Surrounded" "Give It Up" "Paul Reubens" |
Felt | Felt 3: A Tribute to Rosie Perez |
| "Strain" | Cage | Depart From Me | |
| 2011 | "Church Pants" "Garfield" "Grubstake" "Meter Feeder" "Smock" "Breakdance Beach" "Mailbox Baseball" "Knievel" |
Hail Mary Mallon | Are You Gonna Eat That? |
| "Varsity Blues 2" | Murs | Varsity Blues 2 | |
| 2012 | "Leisureforce" "ZZZ Top" "Cycles to Gehenna" "Zero Dark Thirty" "Fryerstarter" "Ruby '81" "Crows 1" "Crows 2" "Racing Stripes" "1,000 O'Clock" "Homemade Mummy" "Grace" "Saturn Missles" "Tetra" "Gopher Guts" |
Aesop Rock | Skelethon |
| 2013 | "Not Going Anywhere" | Grayskul | Zenith |
| 2014 | "Cat Food" "Bug Zapper" |
Blockhead
Aesop Rock |
Cat Food |
| "Jonathan" "Krill" "Used Cars" "Dollywood" "The Soup" "4AM" "Hang Ten" "Whales" "Merlin" "Picture Day" "King Cone" |
Hail Mary Mallon | Bestiary | |
| "Happyland Disco" | Rob Sonic | Alice in Thunderdome | |
| 2015 | "U-Boats" | Billy Woods | Today I Wrote Nothing |
| 2016 | "Mystery Fish" "Rings" "Lotta Years" "Dorks" "Rabies" "Supercell" "Blood Sandwich" "Get Out of the Car" "Shrunk" "Kirby" "TUFF" "Lazy Eye" "Defender" "Water Tower" "Molecules" |
Aesop Rock | The Impossible Kid |
| "Vigilante Genesis" "Not Sure Why I Came Back" "Graffiti Writer Killed" "Tears of a Drone" "Corner Store Showdown" "The Watering Hole" "Ten Paces" |
Blueprint | Vigilante Genesis |
Original contributions to compilations[]
| Year | Tracks | Album | Other contributing artists |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | "Tugboat Complex" | Inside Out: Vol. 1 | |
| 2000 | "The Active Element" | Ropeladder 12''[11] | |
| 2001 | "Kill 'em All" | Def Jux Presents | |
| "Wise Up" | Tags of the Times 3 | ||
| 2002 | "Skip Town" "Dinner with Blockhead" |
Modern Montra (DJ Spooky mix album) |
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| "Dead Pan" | Def Jux Presents 2 | ||
| "Train Buffer" | Urban Renewal | ||
| "Inner City Hustle" | Embedded Studios Presents: The Bedford Files |
with L.I.F.E. Long[12] | |
| 2003 | "Numb (To the Guns)" | Nature Sounds Presents: The Prof. In... Convexed Sampler |
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| "Dragon Coaster" | The Bastard EP 12'' | with Mojo | |
| "Miss By A Mile" | We Came From Beyond, Vol. 2 | with Slug and Eyedea | |
| 2004 | "All in All" | Def Jux Presents 3 | |
| 2005 | "Preservation" | Wu-Tang Meets the Indie Culture | with Del tha Funkee Homosapien |
| "Junkyard" | NBA 2K6: The Tracks |
Collaborations[]
Lice[]
Hail Mary Mallon[]
The Uncluded[]
The Weathermen[]
Malibu Ken[]
See also[]
References[]
General
- "Aesop Rock". Definitive Jux. Archived from the original on 2007-10-12. Retrieved 2008-01-02.
- "Aesop Rock". AllMusic. Retrieved 2008-01-02.
- "Aesop Rok – Inertia". InertiaMusic.com. Archived from the original on July 4, 2008. Retrieved 2008-01-02.
Specific
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Aesop Rock – Chart History: Billboard 200". Billboard. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Aesop Rock – Chart History: Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums". Billboard. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
- ^ "Aesop Rock – Chart History: Top Rap Albums". Billboard. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Aesop Rock – Chart History: Top Independent Albums". Billboard. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
- ^ Peaks in the UK:
- The Impossible Kid: "Chart Update". The Zobbel Website. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
- ^ "Nike+ Aesop Rock: New "Original Run" Mix This Tuesday". Podophile.com. February 11, 2007. Archived from the original on March 12, 2007. Retrieved March 21, 2007.
- ^ Billboard. June 6, 2009. p. 24. Retrieved June 2, 2011 – via Internet Archive.
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- ^ "Aesop Rock – Chart History: Top Heatseekers". Billboard. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
- ^ "Aesop Rock "Cat Food" EP Fifth Element". Fifth Element. Retrieved April 13, 2016.
- ^ SpiritStereo. "Abandon All Hope". Youtube.com. Retrieved 2010-11-24.
- ^ "MH-401 Various Artists - Ropeladder 12 Tracklist". MushRecords.com. Retrieved 2010-11-20.
- ^ "Various Artists (Embedded Music) – 'Embedded Studios Presents: The Bedford Files' Item Detail". Undergroundhiphop.com. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
External links[]
- Aesop Rock Archived 2 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine at Definitive Jux
- Aesop Rock discography at Discogs
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- Hip hop discographies
- Discographies of American artists
- Production discographies