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Are You Gonna Eat That?
Hail Mary Mallon
2011
Are You Gonna Eat That? is about Mary Mallon, aka Typhoid Mary, who is the subject of this concept album for Aesop Rock’s side project with Rob Sonic and DJ Big Wiz. Mary Mallon (also known as Typhoid Mary), is said to be the first person (on record) in the US to be identified as a healthy carrier of the typhoid virus.
What’s more, Mary Mallon was a cook by vocation, and depending upon who tells the story, you’ll hear any number of casualties/infections which resulted from Ms. Mallon’s unfortunate dedication to her profession.
So no, they aren’t spreading a deadly disease, but they are, with futuristic sounds and postmodern word play, spreading an infectious alternative to the degenerating world of what we call “hip-hop.”
Stand-Out Tracks
Church Pants
Grubstake
Table Talk
