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Music for Earthworms is American

United States

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Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...

artist Aesop Rock

Aesop Rock

Ian Matthias Bavitz , better known by his stage name Aesop Rock, is an American hip hop artist and producer. He was at the forefront of the new wave of underground and alternative hip hop acts that emerged during the late 1990s and early 2000s. He was signed to El-P's Definitive Jux label until it...

's debut album. It is available only on CD-R

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..

Aesop Rock references the album, and its rarity, in his 2002 EP Daylight

Daylight (Aesop Rock album)

Daylight is an EP by American hip hop artist Aesop Rock, released on 5 February 2002 on Definitive Jux. It is also the title of a single from his second major album, Labor Days...

, track 4, "Alchemy", when Blueprint

Blueprint (rapper)

Blueprint is an American rapper and hip hop producer from Columbus, Ohio. He is the founder and owner of Weightless Recordings and is also signed to Rhymesayers Entertainment...

asks:

"So why they blaming you for the cats that sleep while the earth turns?"

Aesop Rock responds:

"Yeah I had em' up all night praying I'd re-release Music For Earthworms."

Track listing

"Abandon All Hope" − 5:12
"Wake Up Call" − 3:19
- Featuring Percee P
  Percee P
  Percee P is a hip hop artist from the Patterson Projects in The Bronx, New York City, United States. Percee P has been writing and performing since 1979, yet his debut album Perseverance was not released until September 18, 2007, produced entirely by Madlib.He was known in the underground for...
"The Substance" − 5:59
"Merit" − 4:51
"89.9FM Night Train Promo" − 2:09
- Contains a sample from "No Quarter" performed by Led Zeppelin
  Led Zeppelin
  Led Zeppelin were an English rock band, active in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Formed in 1968, they consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham...
"Live on 89.9FM Night Train" − 5:58
"Coward of the Year" − 4:12
- Featuring Percee P
  Percee P
  Percee P is a hip hop artist from the Patterson Projects in The Bronx, New York City, United States. Percee P has been writing and performing since 1979, yet his debut album Perseverance was not released until September 18, 2007, produced entirely by Madlib.He was known in the underground for...
"Shere Khan" − 6:35
"Antisocial" − 4:10
"Coordinates" − 3:22
"Plastic Soldiers" − 5:18
- Contains a sample from "Heavyweights/*Tolerate" performed by Freestyle Fellowship
  Freestyle Fellowship
  Freestyle Fellowship are a rap group from Los Angeles consisting of rappers Aceyalone, Myka 9, P.E.A.C.E., Self Jupiter and producer J Sumbi...
"Troubled Waters" − 4:50

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