Hail Mary Mallon - Are You Gonna Eat That?


If you're just joining us, we're listening to the 16 albums i got from Rhymesayers during their Mystery Box sale. This is LP number 4, and it's another straight up banger.

Hail Mary Mallon is Aesop Rock, Rob Sonic, and DJ Big Wiz. Mary Mallon is more commonly known as Typhoid Mary, so the whole project has that ironic soupçon of "helping people makes things worse." Tonight we're listening to Are You Gonna Eat That?, and yes, absolutely, it's delicious.

But first, if you'd like a history refresher from Canada's foremost sweary Historian, by all means check out James Fell's authoritative post of the subject:

 https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=780277396998752&id=100050494959334&mibextid=Nif5oz

Now, where were we? Ah, yes, pursuing your own passions without regard to anyone else is a sure recipe for disaster. Aes and Rob's passions appear to be mostly drugs, porn, and reckless driving with a side of Mailbox Baseball, so that's fun. Then again, they don't actually want to be out in public. Corny as it sounds, they'd rather head down to Breakdance Beach and bother basically no one, but there everybody is, ironically demanding you work for a living while spreading your asymptomatic diseases as wide as possible. Survival of the fittest, am i right?

Realistically, this might be even more difficult and obtuse than last night's MF Doom album. Aesop Rock and Rob Sonic are not known to dumb their styles down for anyone, and every single bar is an ADHD kalaidescope of allusions and tangential sequiturs. If overstimulation had a soundtrack....

Enjoy.

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