Aesop Rock discography

Aesop Rock discography
Aesop Rock performing in 2006
Studio albums	10
EPs	4
Singles	17
Music videos	17
Guest appearances	43
Production credits	13
Appearances on compilations	14
Collaborations	4

Aesop Rock is an American hip hop rapper who is 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 1998 and the Appleseed EP in 1999. After being signed to the Mush label, Aesop Rock released his first studio album, Float, in 2000. Shortly thereafter, Aesop Rock signed to the 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 albums since then – Skelethon (2012), The Impossible Kid (2016), Spirit World Field Guide (2020), Garbology (2021), and Integrated Tech Solutions (2023) – have been released by Rhymesayers Entertainment.

Albums

Studio albums

List of studio albums, with selected chart positions and sales figures

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
		US [1]	US R&B /HH [2]	US Rap [3]	US Ind. [4]	UK [5]
Float	Released: September 5, 2000 Label: Mush Format: CD, LP, cassette	—	—	—	—	—
Labor Days	Released: September 18, 2001 Label: Definitive Jux Format: CD, LP, digital download	—	—	—	—	—
Bazooka Tooth	Released: September 23, 2003 Label: Definitive Jux Format: CD, LP, digital download	112	44	—	7	—
None Shall Pass	Released: August 28, 2007 Label: Definitive Jux Format: CD, LP, digital download	50	35	—	—	—
Skelethon	Released: July 10, 2012 Label: Rhymesayers Entertainment Format: CD, LP, digital download	21	5	2	1	—
The Impossible Kid	Released: April 29, 2016 Label: Rhymesayers Entertainment Format: CD, LP, digital download	30	3	2	2	189
Spirit World Field Guide	Released: November 13, 2020 Label: Rhymesayers Entertainment Format: CD, LP, digital download	54	26	24	9	—
Garbology (with Blockhead)	Released: November 12, 2021 Label: Rhymesayers Entertainment Format: CD, LP, digital download	—	—	—	—	—
Integrated Tech Solutions	Released: November 10, 2023[6] Label: Rhymesayers Entertainment Format: CD, LP, digital download	169	—	—	27	—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Mixtapes

Title	Album details
Music for Earthworms	Released: 1998[7] Label: Self-released Format: CD-R, cassette

Soundtrack albums

Title	Album details
Bushwick	Released: August 11, 2017 Label: Lakeshore Format: CD, LP, digital download

Downloadable mixes

List of downloadable mixes, with selected chart positions and sales figures

Title	Album details	Sales
All Day: Nike+ Original Run[8]	Released: February 2007 Format: MD, Digital Download Label: Nike Sports Music	US: 20,000[9]
The Blob	Released: April 2014 Format: MD, Digital Download Label: Rhymesayers Entertainment

Extended plays

List of extended plays, with selected chart positions and sales figures

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
		US [1]	US R&B /HH [2]	US Heat. [10]	US Ind. [4]
Appleseed	Released: 1999 Format: CD-R, Cassette Label: self-released	—	—	—	—
Daylight	Released: February 5, 2002 Format: CD, LP, Digital Download Label: Definitive Jux	—	—	—	15
Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives	Released: February 22, 2005 Format: CD, LP, Digital Download Label: Definitive Jux	190	100	9	21
Cat Food[11]	Released: January 5, 2015 Format: LP, Digital Download Label: Rhymesayers	—	—	—	—
Freedom Finger (Music from the Game)	Release date: April 7, 2020 Format: LP, Digital Download Label: Rhymesayers	—	—	—	—
The Recycling Bin[12]	Release date: January 28, 2022 Format: LP, Digital Download Label: Rhymesayers	—	—	—	—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Singles

List of singles as lead artist, showing year released and album name

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
"The One That Got Away"	2006	The Next Best Thing
"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
"Mindful Solutionism"	2023	Integrated Tech Solutions
"By the River"
"Infinity Fill Goose Down"

Music videos

As lead artist

Year	Album	Title	Director	Other featured artist
1997	Music for Earthworms	"Abandon All Hope"[13]	Ian Bavitz
2003	Bazooka Tooth	"Freeze"	Michael Kuhn
		"No Jumper Cables"	Joey Garfield
2005	Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives	"Fast Cars"	Asif Mian
2007	None Shall Pass	"None Shall Pass"	Michael Kuhn
		"Coffee"	Ace Norton	John Darnielle
2012	Skelethon	"Zero Dark Thirty"	Isaac Ravishankara
		"ZZZ Top"	Pete Lee
		"Cycles to Gehenna"	Ben Fee & Pete Lee
		"Homemade Mummy"	—	Rob Sonic
2016	The Impossible Kid	"Rings"	Rob Shaw
		"Blood Sandwich"
		"Lazy Eye: Live from the Peculiarium"
		"Dorks"
		"Kirby"	Toben Seymour
		"Shrunk"	Rob Shaw
		"Lotta Years: Live from the Hill"
2017		"Get Out of the Car"
	—	"Hot Dogs"	Kurt Hayashi
2018	—	"Klutz"	Rob Shaw
	Malibu Ken	"Acid King"		Tobacco
		"Corn Maze"
2019		"Tuesday"
2020	—	"Rogue Wave"
	Spirit World Field Guide	"The Gates"
		"Pizza Alley"
		"Coveralls"	Rob Shaw
	Freedom Finger (soundtrack)	"Drums on the Wheel"
2021	—	"Long Legged Larry"
	Garbology	"Jumping Coffin"		Blockhead
		"Jazz Hands"
		"Flamingo Pink"
2022		"All the Smartest People"	Aesop Rock
2023	Integrated Tech Solutions	"Mindful Solutionism"	Justin "Coro" Kaufman
		"By the River"	Aesop Rock
		"Kyanite Toothpick"	Kalil Justin	Hanni El Khatib
		"All City Nerve Map"	Aesop Rock
2024		"Pigeonometry"

As featured artist

Year	Artist	Title	Director	Other featured artist
2011	Hail Mary Mallon	"Garfield"	Alexander Tarrant and Justin Metros
		"Meter Feeder"
		"Grubstake"
		"Breakdance Beach"
2013	Dark Time Sunshine	"Take My Hand"	X:144	Swamburger
	The Uncluded	"Earthquake"	/
		"Alligator"
		"Delicate Cycle"	Pete Lee & Ben Fee
		"The Aquarium"	Rob Shaw
		"Organs"
2014	Hail Mary Mallon	"Jonathan"
		"Kiln"	Galen McKamy
		"Whales"	Toben Seymour
2015		"4AM"	Gerald Anekwe
	B. Nolan	"Jailbreak"	Jay Bartleby
2021	Atmosphere	"Barcade"	Rob Shaw	MF Doom

Guest appearances

Year	Song	Artist(s)	Album
2001	"Put Your Quarter Up"	Molemen with Slug + MF DOOM	Ritual of The... Revisited and Remastered
	"Water"	Atoms Family	Euphony
	"Coma" (Remix)
	"Sinister"	Atoms Family with Yeshua DaPOeD + Vast Air
	"Blacklist"	Prefuse 73 + 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	data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; " class="table-na" | —
	"Flesh (Remix)"	Atmosphere
	"Delorean"	El-P	Fantastic Damage
	"Success"	Mr. Lif	I Phantom
	"Skip Town"	DJ Spooky	Modern Mantra
2003	"Obsolete"	Blueprint, Slug, Eyedea and Illogic	The Weightroom
	"Secret Agents"	Chase Phoenix	Cut to the Chase
	"Happy Pillz"	Murs	The End of the Beginning
	"Final Frontier (Remix)"	RJD2, Blueprint, Murs and Vast Aire	The Horror
	"Love to Fuck"	S.A. Smash	Smashy Trashy
	"Shut Down"	Push Button Objects	Ghetto Blaster
2004	"Encounter"	Blueprint	Chamber Music
	"Hold Mine"	Blueprint, Slug, Illogic and Eyedea	Printmatic: Vitamins and Minerals EP
	"Apocalypse Zone"	Cryptic One	The Anti-Mobius Theory
	"Time Capsule"	Illogic + Vast Aire	Celestial Clockwork
	"Crooked"	Evil Nine	You Can Be Special Too
	"Jet Son"	Blockhead + Camu Tao	Sunday Seance
	"Kill Switch"	DJ Krush	Jaku
	"Posse Slash"	Vast Aire, Karniege, Breez Evahflowin and 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
	"Side Two"	DJ Ese + Babbletron	—
	"Nuclear Five"	The Presence, Karniege and Masai Bey	Common Man's Anthems
	"Left It to Us"	Cage, El-P, Tame One and Yak Ballz	Hell's Winter
2006	"Take, Hold, Fire"	Mr. Lif + El-P	Mo' Mega
2007	"Run the Numbers"	El-P	I'll Sleep When You're Dead
	"The Office"	Grayskul + Slug	Bloody Radio
	"Smoke If You Got'um"	Rob Sonic	Sabotage Gigante
	"Catch 22"	Grimace Federation	Tasted by Chemists
	"Borrowedtime"	Luckyiam + 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
	"The Explanation"	The Gigantics	Die Already
2009	"Diabolical Fun (Remix)"	Illogic	—
	"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
	"Know That to Know This"	Themselves	The Free Houdini Deluxe
	"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	—
2012	"Superhands Mantra (Fuck Us All)"	Busdriver	—
	"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)"	MarQ Spekt & Blockhead	—
	"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
	"Prometheus"	DanOne	'N Funk
	"Speak Truth"	Homeboy Sandman, Kurious & Breeze Brewin	Kindness for Weakness
2017	"Wonderful"	billy woods, Blockhead, Homeboy Sandman	Known Unknowns
2019	"Kiss the Cook" (Televangelist Remix)	Blockhead, billy woods	Free Sweatpants
2020	"hologram"	Felt, Mr. Grouch	Felt 4 U
2021	"Off Broadway"	Rob Sonic	Latrinalia
	"Field of Dreams"	Your Old Droog & Elzhi	Time
	"Barcade"	Atmosphere & MF DOOM	WORD?
2022	"CD Only Bonus Track"	Open Mike Eagle & Diamond D	Component System with the Auto Reverse
2023	"Waiting Around"	Billy Woods and Kenny Segal	Maps
	"Mississippi"	Blockhead	The Aux
	"Ponzu Sauce"	Blockhead & Breeze Brewin
	"Many Headed"	A7PHA	—
2024	"The Return"	Blockhead	Chamber Music 2

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"		Definitive Jux Presents
	"Labor" "One Brick" "Battery" "Boombox"		Labor Days
	"Wise Up"		Tags of the Times 3
2002	"Bracket Basher"		Daylight
	"Dead Pan"		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"		Bazooka Tooth
2004	"All in All" "You're Dead to Me"	Aesop Rock/Murs	Definitive Jux Presents III
	Dylsexia (Aesop Rock Mix)	Rob	—
2005	"Zodiaccupuncture" "Rickety Rackety" "Food, Clothes, Medicine" "Facemelter"	Aesop Rock	Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives
	"Knowledge"	C-Rayz Walz	Year of the Beast
	"Junkyard"	Aesop Rock	@2K6
2007	"All Day"		Nike + Original Run
	"Keep off the Lawn" "Catacomb Kids" "39 Thieves" "Citronella" "Five Fingers"		None Shall Pass
	"Give Me Love"	Grayskul	Bloody Radio
2008	"Dirt Empire"	Yak Ballz	Scifentology
	"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
	"Reports of a Possible Kidnapping" {co-produced by El-P} "Worm in Her Vein" "D Up"	The Weathermen Cage Hail Mary Mallon	Def Jux 4
	"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	"Bar Breaker"	Prof	Liability
	"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
2017	"Cheap Shoes"; "Bush League"	billy Woods	Known Unknowns
2019	"West Coast"	Homeboy Sandman	—

Original contributions to compilations

Year	Tracks	Album	Other contributing artists
2000	"Tugboat Complex"	Inside OutVol. 1 - A Full Blown Compilation
	"The Active Element"	Ropeladder 12''[14]
2001	"Kill 'em All"	Def Jux Presents
	"Wise Up"	Tags of the Times 3
2002	"Dead Pan"	Def Jux Presents 2
	"Train Buffer"	Urban Renewal
	"Inner City Hustle"	Embedded Studios Presents: The Bedford Files	L.I.F.E. Long[15]
2003	"Numb (To the Guns)"	Nature Sounds Presents: The Prof. In... Convexed Sampler
	"Dragon Coaster"	Atlantis Sessions & The Deadly Art of All Day Brainstorming	Mojo
	"Miss By a Mile"	We Came From Beyond, Vol. 2	Slug and Eyedea
2004	"All in All"	Def Jux Presents 3
2005	"Preservation"	Wu-Tang Meets the Indie Culture	Del tha Funkee Homosapien
	"Junkyard"	NBA 2K6: The Tracks

Collaborations

Lice

• Lice (2015)
• Still Buggin' (2016)
• Triple Fat Lice (2017)

Hail Mary Mallon

Main article: Hail Mary Mallon § Discography

• Are You Gonna Eat That? (2011)
• Bestiary (2014)

The Uncluded

Main article: The Uncluded § Discography

• Hokey Fright (2013)

The Weathermen

Main article: The Weathermen (hip hop group) § History

• The Conspiracy (2003)

Malibu Ken

Main article: Malibu Ken § Discography

• Malibu Ken (2019)

See also

• Definitive Jux discography

References

General

• "Aesop Rock". Definitive Jux. Archived from the original on October 12, 2007. Retrieved January 2, 2008.
• "Aesop Rock". AllMusic. Retrieved January 2, 2008.
• "Aesop Rok – Inertia". InertiaMusic.com. Archived from the original on July 4, 2008. Retrieved January 2, 2008.

Specific

1. "Aesop Rock – Chart History: Billboard 200". Billboard. Retrieved November 21, 2023.
2. "Aesop Rock – Chart History: Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums". Billboard. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
3. "Aesop Rock – Chart History: Top Rap Albums". Billboard. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
4. "Aesop Rock – Chart History: Top Independent Albums". Billboard. Retrieved November 21, 2023.
5. Peaks in the UK:
   • The Impossible Kid: "Chart Update". The Zobbel Website. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
6. Strauss, Matthew (September 14, 2023). "Aesop Rock Announces Album, Shares Video for New Song: Watch". Pitchfork. Retrieved September 15, 2023.
7. "The 15 Best Aesop Rock Songs". Complex.
8. "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.
9. Billboard. Nielsen Business Media. June 6, 2009. p. 24. Retrieved June 2, 2011 – via Internet Archive. aesop rock - all day soundscan.
10. "Aesop Rock – Chart History: Top Heatseekers". Billboard. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
11. "Aesop Rock "Cat Food" EP Fifth Element". Fifth Element. Retrieved April 13, 2016.
12. "Aesop Rock - The Recycling Bin - EP". Apple Music. Retrieved January 28, 2022.
13. SpiritStereo. "Abandon All Hope". Youtube.com. Archived from the original on December 12, 2021. Retrieved November 24, 2010.
14. "MH-401 Various Artists - Ropeladder 12 Tracklist". MushRecords.com. Retrieved November 20, 2010.
15. "Various Artists (Embedded Music) – 'Embedded Studios Presents: The Bedford Files' Item Detail". Undergroundhiphop.com. Archived from the original on February 21, 2009. Retrieved January 8, 2008.

External links

• Aesop Rock Archived December 2, 2008, at the Wayback Machine at Definitive Jux
• Aesop Rock discography at Discogs