Video: Aesop Rock: "None Shall Pass"
José González must seem like a mellow guy or something, because all the sudden he's not the only wordsmith with a video featuring a pig-man. Recent San Francisco transplant Aesop Rock dons a pig hat himself in this clip for "None Shall Pass", the title track of the rapper's latest album. Made with San Francisco illustrator Jeremy Fish and local design team Ordinary Kids, the video is full of animated people in animal hats walking around in a collage city as a heart with wings flies overhead. "All the animals have to travel through the city to arrive at the human heart to be judged," Aesop told the folks over at MTV's Subterranean blog in an interview. The characters receive either flowers or stones depending on the final verdict. On the track, Aesop raps over a rotating synth loop as spoken-word samples interrupt, "I'm trying to help."
[from None Shall Pass; due 08/28/07 on Def Jux]