Aesop Rock announces forthcoming album ‘Black Hole Superette’

Today, legendary independent producer-emcee Aesop Rock announced the release of his forthcoming album, ‘Black Hole Superette’. The seasoned rapper unleashed the second official music video for ‘Checkers’ today, directed by Justin CORO Kaufman. About the song, Aesop Rock shares, “This is about the neighbourhood outside your home being the great leveler. You can’t show up feeling one way because the world will show you otherwise.”

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The press release describes the album as such, “‘Black Hole Superette’ is about the pull of the invisible (or all-too-visible) forces around us and the way they shape our psyches. From the fluorescent-colored energy drinks at the corner store to the patchwork blocks one must traverse to get there, the way your personality morphs throughout the day to the day or—in stale airport terminals—feels frozen in amber, this is an album about the small factors that comprise the immensity of life. Each piece of advertising is a little lie designed to make you feel good; when enough of those little lies are assembled in one place, they form their own gravity. “The algorithm enormous,” he raps at one point. “And growing.” 

The convenience store from the title isn’t just a stand-in for the experience of being a consumer. Black Hole Superette also evokes the way those late-night runs for paper towels, or ice cream or cigarettes seem to lead you into a liminal space: not quite awake, not quite asleep, real and unreal at once. And so the album—already the fourth in a remarkably productive 2020s for Aes—frequently plays like something half-remembered from a dream. At once dense and kinetic, instinctive but labyrinthine, it’s an album that could only be crafted by one man’s hand.”

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Aesop Rock extends his prolific streak with an eighteen-track album featuring the likes of Elucid of Armand Hammer, Billy Woods, Lupe Fiasco, Homeboy Sandman, Open Mike Eagle, and Hanni El Khatib. It comes out May 30 on Rhymesayers Entertainment.

‘Black Hole Superette’ Tracklist

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1 Secret Knock
2 Checkers
3 Movie Night
4 EWR – Terminal A, Gate 20
5 1010Wins (featuring Armand Hammer)
6 So Be It (featuring Open Mike Eagle)
7 Send Help
8 John Something
9 Ice Sold Here
10 Costco
11 Bird School
12 Snail Zero
13 Charlie Horse (featuring Lupe Fiasco & Homeboy Sandman)
14 Steel Wool
15 Black Plums
16 The Red Phone
17 Himalayan Tak Chew
18 Unbelievable Shenanigans (featuring Hanni El Khatib)