Bazooka Tooth is the fourth full-length album by American hip hop artist Aesop Rock, released on September 23, 2003, on Definitive Jux.
For the first time, the majority of production is handled by Aesop Rock himself, although long-term collaborator Blockhead contributes three tracks and one is provided by Definitive Jux label boss El-P. Significant vocal guest appearances are made by El-P and fellow Def Jux labelmates Party Fun Action Committee and Mr. Lif as well as by 1990s Bronx hip-hop duo Camp Lo. There are also brief vocal cameos (credited on the sleeve as "Additional Trash Talking and Malarchy" [sic]) by Cannibal Ox, S.A. Smash, and Murs. Scratching is handled by DJ Cip One of Cannibal Ox and DJ Pawl of Hangar 18. Much of the instrumentals for the introduction track, "Bazooka Tooth," were done by Jer of Party Fun Action Committee using standard pots and pans. The cover is by Israeli artist Tomer Hanuka.
Track Listing:
- Bazooka Tooth
- N.Y. Electric/Hunter Interlude
- Easy
- No Jumper Cables
- Limelighters (feat. Camp Lo)
- Super Fluke
- Cook It UP (feat. P.F.A.C)
- Freeze/Honeycomb Interlude
- We're Famous (feat. EL-P)
- Babies With Guns
- The Greatest Pac-Man Victory In History
- Frijoles
- 11:35 (feat. Mr. Lif/Ketamine U.S.A Interlude)
- Kill The Messenger
- Mars Attacks
Stream-of-consciousness lyrics, stuttering beats, and troglodyte bass lines are the bedrock to Aesop Rock's BAZOOKA TOOTH, a collection of almost freeform rapping that boasts some fashion-forward sampling in a grinding collision of words and found sounds. Rock's third collection of underground rap continues the Brooklyn-based rapper's original course of combining a fusillade of words--some rhyming, some not--with a thick, grainy production (this time courtesy of Def Jux label honcho El-P) that complements his leaps of rhyme and logic perfectly.
The title track is characteristic of the whole collection, with its elastic bass track underpinning an eccentric sound collage that's an effective counterpoint to Rock's half-heard lyrics. If you're used to some of the more rhythmically straight-laced sounds and the guns-drugs-hoes subject matter coming from East and West Coasts, not to mention the Dirty South, then BAZOOKA TOOTH may come as a shock to the system-which is precisely the intention.
- Format: Vinyl
- Genre: Rap & Hip-Hop
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