Philip K. Dick fanboy and dropper of scifi El-P pulls into the El Rey tomorrow night, the 22nd, with a veritable cornucopia of alt-hip-hoppers: DJ Mr. Dibbs & The Mighty Quinn, Dizzee Rascal with DJ Aaron LaCrate, and my personal fave, Busdriver. Goldenvoice gave us a few pairs of tickets to give out, so if you’d rather save your money for obscure Company Flow vinyl, leave a note in the comments telling me your favorite line from an El-P, Dizzee Rascal or Busdriver track, and why you like it: allitaration? Assonance? Literary references? Social commentary? Puns? Just think it’s cool? Whatever reason, we want your favorite line. We’ll then randomly pick a few winners. Woo!
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El-P:
I get my swerve on like a narcoleptic race car driver on the Autobahn in monsoon season.
Lord of the fly shit design of Tesla and Einstien reason.
Dance with the land sharks clutchin’ heat, ugly
monks hung halo teach
Hung by the math where the cable reach
A hundred and sixty-six channels lit
The train that animal shit
Where the mind’s eye redefines
Where’s God? Buy car, Kick tires
The cadence is sick, it sounds amazing over his dirty, dense beats.
Blithering sideway twang, the youth and brain management troupe
The man is like BOOOP
You can’t touch the Krush Groove
I live by the lunch table
Touched fables
Ducked labels
Lookout for the one he’d abide with the terrible stables
Signed to Rawkus
I’d rather be mouth fucked by Nazis unconscious
The beats on this track are so rough, and his rhyming goes so well them. Not to mention the last 2 lines about Rawkus, which are my favorite lines of any El-P track, post Company Flow…
Oh yeah, I forgot… the last post was from an EL-P song.
That’s why I always get respect from true soldiers
While half of the critics claim it every year: “Hip hop’s over.”
FUCK YOU, hip hop just started
It’s funny how the most nostalgic cats are the ones who were never part of it
But true veterans’ll give dap to those who started it
Then humbly move the fuck on and come with that new retarded shit
El-P on an Aesop Rock song. It’s so true. The one’s hating on hip hop generally don’t know shit. And the dopest emcees always seem to progress the artform.
Busdriver:
“I’ve got a point system that determines my happiness
It’s unit of measurement is you interest in my crappy shit
“Cause I’m not dope, I’m not fresh
My songs are over shot and under sung
What a dumb verse that is
I’m definitely not number one”
I like this verse because just about any creative person has felt this way.
El-P:
“I found love on a prison ship”
I just think it is an evocative image.
“there’s a place for me and a place for you under the sun showers” – busdriver
busdriver is local. go see him.
don’t know if you’ve already given the tix away, but my email is vivek AT depthstyles DOT com.