Grubstake Lyrics

[Aesop Rock and Rob Sonic alternating back and forth]:

Clown cold popped junk outside Grubstake
Grubstake
Grubstake

Nutcase
Fuckface

Smacked him in the glasses till the Polk Street bus came
Bus came
Bus came
Dumb late
'Sup, Aes?

Fifth row, two o'clock, tattooed, pigtails
Pigtails?
Pigtails
Thick tail?
Shit's real

I think I seen her hooking at the Burger King Lyndale
Lyndale?
Lyndale
Big deal
Kid, chill
Kicking it to girls while he hurls in the front seat
Front seat?
Front seat
Lunch meat?
Disgusting

[Hook]

Miss Mary Mallon, mallet in the kitchen
(Brrr!) Kitchen
(Ha ha ha!) Kitchen


Cyborg city showing typhoid symptoms
(Brrr!) Sickness
(Ha ha ha!) Bitches


[Hook]

Cooling on a sidewalk, outside crêpe truck
Crate truck
Crêpe truck
Baked up?
Straight up

Traded the jalopy for a nickel bag of fake bud
Wait, what?
Fake bud
Wait--fuck!
Wake up

9:30, back home, no chick, sober
Sober?
Sober
No shirt?
Stouffer's

Came in like a lion but you went out like a gopher
Closure
So hurt
Over?
No, sir

[Hook]

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A song focused mostly on the fun of the back-and-forth delivery, featuring observations from a trip Aes and Rob made to San Francisco.

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What did Hail Mary Mallon say about "Grubstake"?
Genius Answer

In an interview with Spectrum Culture, Aesop described the origin for the song.

That song “Grubstake” is just because we always eat at this place the Grubstake when these guys are in town. I don’t know, we’ve all been touring together for a long time so there are probably a lot of inside jokes in there somehow. We’ll understand it among each other but not consider that no one else might understand what the fuck we’re talking about (laughs).

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Release Date
June 7, 2011
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