Hail Mary Mallon April 20, 2011, it was announced that Rhymesayers Entertainment would release Hail Mary Mallon's debut album "Are You Gonna Eat That?". A music video for the album's first single, "Smock", was also announced that same day. "Are You Gonna Eat That?" was released digitally on May 3, 2011, and on CD and double vinyl on June 7, 2011 by Rhymesayers. On May 13, 2014, Aesop Rock announced via his Facebook page that Hail Mary Mallon had finished mixing a new album with an undisclosed release date. On September 9, 2014, the first single, "Jonathan", was released on the Rhymesayers website,
Hail Mary to Mary, originally written in Koine Greek. The opening word of greeting, , "chaíre", here translated "Hail", literally has the meaning "rejoice" or "be glad". This was the normal greeting in the language in which Saint Luke's Gospel is written and continues to be used in the same sense in Modern Greek. Accordingly, both "Hail" and "Rejoice" are valid English translations of the word ("Hail" reflecting the Latin translation, and "Rejoice" reflecting the original Greek). The word , ("kecharitōménē"), here translated as "full of grace", admits of various translations. Grammatically, the word is the feminine perfect passive participle of the