Labor Days

Aesop Rock

2001

Labor Days is all about the struggle of working class citizens and the ups and downs their lives take. It opens with Aesop Rock struggling as a reluctant member of the proletariat class. In the first line he contends that the revolutionaries of the industrial age have failed, as automation within the workplace has continued through the 21st century.

The album is mostly a critique of labor under American capitalism. Most people are working for someone else’s dream, like the founder of a company. Essentially all you’re doing is chasing THEIR dream and not your own.