I swear I still ain’t looked at your obituary” Track 16, The Book of Soulģ. “Your picture still on my mind and it’s so scary. “I run the town like Roc Nation, no exaggerationīet I rise like Lazarus, use your imagination” Track 2, Track TwoĢ. So what better way to do that than list my top 10 favorite verses from Control System.ġ. This isn’t a review though this is me paying my respects to my favorite member of TDE. It’s crazy to think that despite multiple features and other projects under his belt after this, Control System is the album most people will tell you to listen to when you’re about to check out Ab-Soul. He’s grown as an artist but still pays his respect to the album that made most people stop and really start paying attention to this lyrical genius. That album even references Control System. This is undeniable Ab-Soul’s greatest body of work with DWTW close behind. What I like best about this album isn’t just how deep it is but the fact that I can still bang it in the whip (do people still say that?) 5 years later. Tracks like Double Standards and Terrorist Threats. Soulo’s sophomore effort is timeless and just as relevant as it was when it was released. That brings us to 2017 5 years after I discovered Ab-Soul and 5 years after his finest work and arguably one of TDE’s best projects, “Control System” was released. This was my kind of hip hop and honestly still is. His raps were intelligent, riddled in double entendres and required you to do a bit of research just to understand what he was saying half the time. Since my brother has a pretty great musical opinion I decided to check out Ab-soul (mainly to lie and say I knew who he was the whole time) and instantly fell in love with his music. I sent my brother a random picture of myself and he claimed I looked like this rapper who he knew I never heard of. I remember when I first discovered Ab-Soul my sophomore year of college.

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