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Ian Matthias Bavitz better known by his stage name

Stage name

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Aesop Rock, is an American

United States

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hip hop

Hip hop music

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artist and producer. He was at the forefront of the new wave of underground

Underground hip hop

Underground hip hop is an umbrella term for hip hop music outside the general commercial canon. It is typically associated with independent artists, signed toindependent labels or no label at all....

and alternative hip hop

Alternative hip hop

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acts that emerged during the late 1990s and early 2000s. He was signed to El-P's Definitive Jux

Definitive Jux

Definitive Jux is an independent record label based in New York City, United States. It was co-founded in 1999 by Jaime Meline and Amaechi Uzoigwe. The label was initially known simply as Def Jux, but in 2001, popular hip hop label Def Jam Recordings sued Def Jux over the name similarity...

label until it went on hiatus in 2010. He is a member of the groups The Weathermen

The Weathermen (hip hop group)

The Weathermen, is a New York City-based, underground hip-hop supergroup consisting of Aesop Rock, Tame One, Cage, Yak Ballz, El-P, and Breeze Brewin. The group took its name from the revolutionary organization Weatherman, and sometimes refers to itself as the "New Left"...

, Hail Mary Mallon

Hail Mary Mallon

Hail Mary Mallon, is a hip-hop group consisting of Aesop Rock, Rob Sonic, and DJ Big Wiz. The group's name is a reference to Typhoid Mary. Their first release was the song D-Up, featured on the compilation album Definitive Jux Presents 4....

(with Rob Sonic

Rob Sonic

Rob Sonic is a hip hop artist from The Bronx, born in Washington DC. As a child growing up, he devoted himself to many styles of music and was a follower of artists such as The Beatles, Run DMC, Kraftwerk, Talking Heads, Led Zeppelin, Public Enemy, Muddy Waters, Ultramagnetic MC's, The Clash among...

& DJ Big Wiz), and Two Of Every Animal (with Cage). Regarding his name, he said: "I acquired the name Aesop from a movie I had acted in with some friends.