Racing Stripes Lyrics

Cut it up, cut it up
Cut it up, cut it up
Cut it up, cut it up
Cut it up, cut it

[Hook: Aesop Rock]
Start with a text book bowl cut (Bowl cut!)
One you can mow down slow as you grow up
Learn a couple great new curse words (Pussy!)
Buzz a cool rat tail, take 2, your turn

[Interlude]
“Haircuts! Get your five dollar haircut here! I can do mohawks, fauxhauks, afros, halfros, racing stripes, fringes, high top fades, mullets, reverse mullets, crew cuts and much much more!"

"No, I just needed a little off the top"

"Mirror? No, you can’t look in a mirror, trust me, you look awesome!"

"I just want to take a look"

"Give me another buck and I'll trim [?]"


[Verse 2: Aesop Rock]
I knew this kid Camu who in the lion's mouth
Made up a fail safe way to get his life corralled

Let's say he short on the rent
His land lord is upset
He disappears with shears yelling "I'm going George Jeff"
Bathroom door sound like a part—mech barbershop quartet
Forced into war with itself

What emerge next in a shaft of light is bald up top
Long on the back and sides
Maybe the blade oil came with a ax to grind
But granddaddy half-smile, all mastermind
He asked, "How do I look?"
I said, "You look insane"
He said the haircut come with a theory, I'll explain
Please do

First: no hats allowed
Faux nat' male pattern when he out the house
And wouldn't crop it up until his monopoly prop pass go
‘til then walk this town like an asshole
Bzzzt! Motherfucking bzzzt bzzzt!
Last week we were stoney
This week he program beats all Monday, sold two Wednesday
Pay rent, fabricate a whole new hedge maze
Back on his smooth shit Friday at noon bitch
Wow, just like that

A method I encourage you to share and apply and adapt
As one day his didn't grow back

So, if yours does, get that zig zig zag
Cut it up, cut it up
Cut it up, cut it up
Cut it up, cut it up
Cut it up, cut it

[Hook: Aesop Rock]
Start with a text book bowl cut (Afro!)
One you can mow down slow as you grow up
Learn a couple great new curse words (Fuckface!)
Maybe try a pony hawk, take 2, your turn

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“Racing Stripes” is track #9 from Aesop Rock’s Skelethon album, released July 2012 via Rhymesayers Entertainment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBY7f1VRRfc
The song is produced by Aesop Rock himself.

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Release Date
July 10, 2012
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