Absolute treat here at 24. Nickel Plated Pockets was released on Aesop’s Daylight EP in 2002. Every song on the EP is fantastic and a few of them will make the list in the future. This song features some vocals from Vast Aire who is half of Cannibal Ox, a hip-hop duo out of Harlem.

Let’s get right to it though. The song starts with some ambient noise over a couple bass beats. Vast Aire needs a quarter apparently. Aes drops some of the best lines of the song right away:

Walk into the store with a pocket full of nickels, in a city full of horns, jackhammers, and rape whistles. The alley cats manipulate the blocks with gutter magic, today my heart beats solely out of habit.

Just an absolutely fantastic way to start a song. The listener is immediately engulfed in imagery of a broke Aesop walking into a store in a loud city on a sad day.

After multiple lines of things I’m not sure of...