"Ab-Soul: Control System"-OFFICIAL ALBUM THREAD

yeah i rap so don't · May 2012

silverfoxx wrote: »

yeah i rap so don't wrote: »

Dharmic X wrote: »

I've enjoyed the album so far, but haven't gotten a chance to listen all the way. I might even like some of the songs more than Section 80. But definitely for me it's Kendrick, Soul, Jay Rock, and then Q.

Apparently Ab-Soul used to sing and wanted to get on as a singer... Old CDs are possibly available to vouch for that from what I've heard.

He was a singer? Got a mixtape of his from 05, well I think it was one of the 200 cd's I lost when I moved. He was rapping on that, and it was not that good as a project. When I met him he was a rapper. We got along because we each thought the other one was dope.We went to different middle schools so in high school it must have been a shock that there was a dude who people thought was nicer than him. I could tell he was always the guy who people thought was nice and I look hella like a nerd and when people saw the battles we had they were shocked actually. We were like the only two guys who listened to Canibus too, which was different.

silverfoxx wrote: »

Big ups to the big homie @yeah I rap so dont ask

He hung out with one of the crews that Im a huge fan of. Would be such dope shut and a honor to actually know and kick it with dope artists and producers. Great album tho. Black Hippy on a whole nother level and they really making the rap game looking behind with how advanced TDE is. And them having Jhene is icing on the cake lol. Love when indepedent labels are successful. Forever underground here man.

silverfoxx wrote: »

Big ups to the big homie @yeah I rap so dont ask

He hung out with one of the crews that Im a huge fan of. Would be such dope shut and a honor to actually know and kick it with dope artists and producers. Great album tho. Black Hippy on a whole nother level and they really making the rap game looking behind with how advanced TDE is. And them having Jhene is icing on the cake lol. Love when indepedent labels are successful. Forever underground here man.

Man, I only know Soul, Punch, Moosa, and met Dude Dawg. Back when Jay Rock was on Warner Brothers and Kendrick on Def Jam before Ab was on Top Dawg we rolled to the studio, but they were not there. Ab wanted them to meet me. He said they must have been at their other studio in Hollywood working on Kendrick's album. We were on AIM that day and he told me I would never sell records because I needed to dumb down and people would not understand. I would rap and he would ask me what my lyrics meant and told me to write poetry. This was 06. Before I left LA I spoke to Punch and we were suppose to hang out. I think he wanted to take me to their studio too. Those never happened oddly enough.This was 2011.

I fucked this one hood rat who hung out in the Nickerson Garden projects and told me she fucked Jay Rock and Kendrick after I fucked. Then she told me her cousin fucked Roscoe Umali. Those hoes were nasty, but she had some big titties.This was 2007. She seemed to be a flip for hood dudes because the homie from 30's knew her and told me his brother tosses that around too and I found out the homie from high school was running in that a couple years after I did. Her brother is a professional MMA fighter so I'm not going to post anything else up about her.

Aye u lived my dude, that's some dope shit to rap and know dope artists. U stay posting goat stories too. Tbh, I just wanna meet Jhene lol. Kame might get mad, but I been a fan of hers. But yea u proving the case that Cali winning, that why I'm trying to get out there now.

Yeah, in seventh grade Dude Dawg asked me to rap in his studio and I got so nervous and scared because of what Moosa told me his dad would be like. People know people and it is what you do with it. SoCal is big, but people do know people and you run into people. Some people that people on this site like are cornballs in real life, I just think it is funny tbh.

silverfoxx · May 2012

Lol. Will hopefully shit will change for me sonner. I need to get out where I'm currently at, it's nothin out for me in the city of New Orleans.

buttuh_b · May 2012

It's nice but by no means is it better than Section 80.

Dharmic X · May 2012

yeah i rap so don't wrote: »

He was a singer? Got a mixtape of his from 05, well I think it was one of the 200 cd's I lost when I moved. He was rapping on that, and it was not that good as a project. When I met him he was a rapper. We got along because we each thought the other one was dope.We went to different middle schools so in high school it must have been a shock that there was a dude who people thought was nicer than him. I could tell he was always the guy who people thought was nice and I look hella like a nerd and when people saw the battles we had they were shocked actually. We were like the only two guys who listened to Canibus too, which was different.

He used to send CDs of him singing to blogs in those days (early 2000s). A kid who's currently rapping/running a site that I'm cool with told me about this; his dad ran one of the sites/has this CD.

You seem like a cool dude man. A lot of stories.. This game as a whole is a small one, and within the same city everyone knows each other.

andre_1024 · May 2012

Black Jerry Maguire wrote: »

Is Follow Me Home any good?

very solid album..production is great on it and Jay Rock did his thing on there..only a song or two I don't really care for..

yeah i rap so don't · May 2012

Dharmic X wrote: »

yeah i rap so don't wrote: »

He was a singer? Got a mixtape of his from 05, well I think it was one of the 200 cd's I lost when I moved. He was rapping on that, and it was not that good as a project. When I met him he was a rapper. We got along because we each thought the other one was dope.We went to different middle schools so in high school it must have been a shock that there was a dude who people thought was nicer than him. I could tell he was always the guy who people thought was nice and I look hella like a nerd and when people saw the battles we had they were shocked actually. We were like the only two guys who listened to Canibus too, which was different.

He used to send CDs of him singing to blogs in those days (early 2000s). A kid who's currently rapping/running a site that I'm cool with told me about this; his dad ran one of the sites/has this CD.

You seem like a cool dude man. A lot of stories.. This game as a whole is a small one, and within the same city everyone knows each other.

You telling me he was singing when we were in high school? That's crazy. I do not know everybody at all. I know or ran into people before they had a name. One of TDE's in-house producers Willie B worked at my old job right after I quit.

Trillaaaaaa · May 2012

double

Trillaaaaaa · May 2012

someone hack into my account and reposted that shit 3 times?

Or I'm trippin

MosIncredible.com · May 2012

I heard ILLuminate and had to make the purchase on Amazon and it was definitely worth it. This is music people. Support the movement...

Dharmic X · May 2012

yeah i rap so don't wrote: »

You telling me he was singing when we were in high school? That's crazy. I do not know everybody at all. I know or ran into people before they had a name. One of TDE's in-house producers Willie B worked at my old job right after I quit.

Yeah apparently... That's what I've heard. But knowing everybody might be a NYC thing more than anything. What are you up to now?

yeah i rap so don't · May 2012

Dharmic X wrote: »

yeah i rap so don't wrote: »

You telling me he was singing when we were in high school? That's crazy. I do not know everybody at all. I know or ran into people before they had a name. One of TDE's in-house producers Willie B worked at my old job right after I quit.

Yeah apparently... That's what I've heard. But knowing everybody might be a NYC thing more than anything. What are you up to now?

I've never been to NYC in my life bro. I am in school and I rap. My name on this site came from an encounter with Nipsey Hussle bro.

Dharmic X · May 2012

Ah good stuff... What happened between you and Nipsey?

yeah i rap so don't · May 2012

I use to work at the Ralphs on Crenshaw and Slauson. While I was collecting the grocery baskets in the parking lot he was posting flyers in the shopping center by where I was collecting baskets. It was right by a VIP Music and Subway. The flyer was about a performance he was doing. I asked him if he rapped and he said "Yeah I Rap" I told him I did too and he told me to keep pushing what I was doing and that is what was up. It fit me because I do not look like a rapper and the reaction to me telling someone I rap is met with a comment similar to "you rap?" Nipsey didn't make a joke out of it. Chordz (a producer from LA) also did not laugh when I told him and he took me serious from the jump.

buttuh_b · May 2012

How don't you "look like you rap"? Haa.

yeah i rap so don't · May 2012

buttuh_b wrote: »

How don't you "look like you rap"? Haa.

I look like a nerd and a weenie. Same reason people tried to bully me and I had to beat up other people my whole life. I got the look of a softie bro.

Dharmic X · May 2012

Haha you're honest about it. That's a good thing.

andre_1024 · May 2012

HiphopDX gave it a 4.5/5

http://www.hiphopdx.com/m/index.php?s=album-reviews&id=1893

blackdemo · May 2012

Breh this is one of the best albums ive heard in a long time. Im a huge fan of J.cole but this shits on CWTSS. Damn, TDE got the belt

Dharmic X · May 2012

andre_1024 wrote: »

HiphopDX gave it a 4.5/5

http://www.hiphopdx.com/m/index.php?s=album-reviews&id=1893

In comparison to some of the other albums judged in the last couple of months (Apollo Brown & OC, Mayday), idk... I liked those two more than I liked Control System.

Ben E · May 2012

lol some mobster is going around wacking every post in this thread... the album is sick tho.. im gonna cop this and the new killer mike as soon as I remember my itunes password... wack, huh?

andre_1024 · May 2012

XXL Mag gave it a XL...

http://www.xxlmag.com/reviews/2012/05/ab-soul-control-system/

DNB1 · May 2012

This album nice, Kendrick snapped on that Illuminate track

R.D. · May 2012

sound like AB soul coming for that #2 spot in Black Hippy behind Q based on yall reviews

goint have to check this out

JDSTAYWITIT. · May 2012

This album is very dope ...i gotta give credit to Ab ...he has plenty of talent ..but listening to his previous projects it just dint seem to all come together just quite right .... i think on this one he definitely found his zone and hit it out the park ...

Best Tracks

Track Two
Bohemian Grove
Terrorist Threats
Sopa
Empathy
The Book of Soul
Black Lip Bastard (Remix)

ROZAYTABERNACLE · May 2012

R.D. wrote: »

sound like AB soul coming for that #2 spot in Black Hippy behind Q based on yall reviews

goint have to check this out

behind Q? are you saying Q is #1?

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