Micheal "Eyedea" Larsen Interview at Soundset 2008 (Part 1 of 3)

[@RyanGiggsOBE]

he looks just like an average guy and seem really down to earth. Yet he was one of the most inspirational and intellectual people i have ever come across

[@doublearon2k4]

Winter takes the warm away. Spring takes the cold away. Summer takes the rain away. And Fall took away my friend.

[@heyopc]

Aesop rock in the background too hahaha

[@IzzyLovesRock]

It's weird seeing him in an interview. Artists tend to be so glorified and even worshipped that its hard to remember they were actual people. He was just a normal guy, smoked cigarettes and talked about stuff. Just like me and my buddies.

[@Poet_LaureateInfinity]

Haha i love how this dude was always ripped to shreds! He must have been on mad acid writing all those deep songs! RIP

[@Jesterian]

Actually when he wrote First Born he was basically straight edge.

[@Squirrel-Master]

Wonderful. Warms my heart. I love how Brother Ali is just chillin in the background.

[@alexhathaway2473]

Aesop rock preforming no regrets in the background

[@aaaaaaaaa3426]

Brilliant and Insightful

[@PR0guy22]

every time i see eyedea i just remember this was the kid who made Monster Inside. crazy ass fuckin song for the age he was

[@mattelvv]

Can't get any better IMO....

[@wanaa66]

brother ali standing in the background too

[@PagerNinerTwelve]

Any lyricist except for all of the ones who have done it before and all of the ones who will do it again. By the way, it's not a grammatical error, it's simply nonconforming to a specific literary device, however a criticism of not upholding grammatical correctness in a fucking hiphop song is the most contrived argument I've heard in a pretty long time regardless. Also, just because you personally don't like something doesn't make it wrong, it just makes it something YOU don't like.

[@hiphopanonymous24]

There's no wrong way to eat a reeses bro. Metaphorically speaking in this case.

[@can2ej6]

lol is that dark heart news?

[@genjusphinx4069]

aha Aesop Rock in the background music .

[@Rage_Dance]

With Brother Ali standing in the background haha

[@erickusiak]

[@Squirrel-Master]

Not to mention Brother Ali just chillin right behind him.

[@PagerNinerTwelve]

You're operating under the impression that you need to follow the precepts taught to you in your tenth grade English class - incorrectly, I might add. Breaking conforms and straying from a set pattern can add emphasis to a certain point in a piece of work. There can be beauty in dissonance, not everything needs to follow the rules set by predecessors. If everyone followed suit, there'd never be any progress. Innovation, baby. Get some vision.

[@alexfarnham1974]

I’d almost argue that if done correctly, breaking the rules works better. It can have an effect of being stunning because it’s out there. It has to be done tastefully though, it has to work and flow correctly.

[@shrek3747]

Dross the rapper

[@abrahamharris310]

is this trolling? How does someone butcher a comment?

[@timmeh231]

The first 3 lines are the ___ away, then the fourth line breaks the tense pattern randomly and switched to 'took away my', it sounds awkward and stupid

[@Jrue61]

timmeh231 .. wow you're fucking stupid.

[@Vibekilla]

you saying this proves to me you know nothing about hiphop or rhyme schemes

[@Vibekilla]

you remind me of the kind of guy that rhymes knowledge with college lol

[@alexfarnham1974]

@@Vibekilla ok so that’s funny but there’s an eyedea freestyle where he rhymes those two words

[@Vibekilla]

@@alexfarnham1974 the difference is he does it with gusto.

[@timmeh231]

no offense but you completely butchered that... what happened to parallel structure smh

[@timmeh231]

It has absolutely nothing to do with what I learned in high school, it is about delivering lyrics in a smooth-flowing fashion, as opposed to a jumbled and awkward one. You are not being rebellious by breaking simple universal grammatical laws. Any lyricist would tell you that a random last second change of sentence tense/structure for the SOLE purpose of bringing attention to a line is a terrible idea. Progress is made by trying something new, not by trying something wrong.

[@TheElswer]