Ab-Soul
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How Weed Helped Kenny Beats Land His First Placement with TDE
A great story, courtesy of Kenny Beats.
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10 Times Rappers Didn’t Understand Basic Female Anatomy
“I ask her if she wants a computer lodged in her vagina”
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Could’ve, Would’ve, Should’ve: 6 Rappers Who Never Reached the Mountaintop
For a select few, it’s still not too late.
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30 Best Hip-Hop and R&B Albums of the Decade (So Far), Ranked
The 30 best hip-hop and R&B LPs since January 1, 2010.
A$AP Rocky, Ab-Soul, all time best, Anderson .Paak, best of, Beyoncé, Chance The Rapper, D’Angelo, Danny Brown, Drake, Earl Sweatshirt, Editors Picks, Frank Ocean, Freddie Gibbs, Future, Isaiah Rashad, JAY-Z, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, Killer Mike, Madlib, Most Popular, Nxworries, Ranked, Rihanna, Run The Jewels, ScHoolboy Q, Solange, The Weeknd, Vince Staples, Westside Gunn, YG -
Whatever Happened to These Ab-Soul Pop Records for Radio?
In 2008, Ab said, “I got some pop records going, headed for the radio very soon.” So what happened?
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Family Business: Why TDE Is the Best Label to Become an Artist
The studio that Top Dawg built found success by being an artist development school for gifted youngsters.
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Ab-Soul on ‘Control System’: “I’m Scared to Listen to That”
Pain can create great art, but it’s not easy to relive.
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The Book of Soul: An Ode to Ab-Soul’s ‘Control System’ 5 Years Later
A half-decade later, ‘Control System’ remains the high-water mark in Soul’s catalog.
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Does Hip-Hop Have a “Narrow Subject Matter” Problem? Ab-Soul’s Concerned
Ab-Soul is tired of hearing the same thing over and over again. We can’t blame him.
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5 Worthy Candidates for Hip-Hop Attorney General
Jeff Sessions’ continued slippage has us looking to hip-hop for a more suitable A.G.
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Revisiting J. Cole’s Rap Savior Predictions 4 Years Later
The day before ‘Born Sinner’ was released, J. Cole sent out a tweet that named 5 rappers who were keeping hip-hop alive.
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Ab-Soul Joins Women’s Rights Conversation But Gets It Very Wrong
What exactly are women fighting for, Ab? To be treated with respect and dignity as a human being, not a piece of meat.