Way back in 2008, idiosyncratic indie-rap legend Aesop Rock teamed up with far-out synth-gloop producer Tobacco, one half of former Aesop Rock tourmates Black Moth Super Rainbow, on a song called "Dirt." Now, more than a decade later, the two have teamed up to release a full collaborative album called Malibu Ken. And it's great.

Earlier this summer, the rapper Busdriver got a lot of people excited with his single “Ego Death,” on which he stood tall alongside guests like Danny Brown and Aesop Rock. Now Busdriver has released a new song, titled “Cop,” in response to the ongoing tragedy in Ferguson. No word whether this will appear o...

A few months ago, a designer, coder, and data analyst named Matt Daniels took on an interesting project: Ranking a number of rappers based on the vocabulary they’ve shown on records. He took the first 35,000 words of each rapper’s discography, and then figured out how many unique words were in each of those data-sets, [...]

A couple of weeks ago, the motormouthed L.A. rap expressionist Busdriver lined up fellow underground rap originals Aesop Rock and Danny Brown for a dense, wordy throwdown called “Ego Death.” In making the song’s video, director Strangeloop has congured a dystopic computer-animated vision in which a robot wanders aba...

Busdriver, Aesop Rock, and Danny Brown all come from vastly different corners of the map, both geographically and figuratively, but all three are among underground rap’s most distinctive vocal stylists. Busdriver, the L.A. speed-rap expressionist, lined up verses from both Aes and Danny for “Ego Death,” a track from...