Kendrick Lamar then comes in with an interlude that resembles, stylistically, Ab-Soul’s outro on Section.80. It’s weak lyrically and the instrumental is too simple and uninteresting.Īfter that, Ab-Soul’s good feel track “Just Have Fun,” hits hard with the smoothness and cleanliness of the mixing, instrumental and the hook. The album begins to pick up after “Twact.” “Twact” is a track that serves no purpose except being one of the most commercial sounding tracks off this album. “Dub Sac” is a track that has two parts like “Tree of Life.” The track is all over the place like “Bohemian Grove” off Control System, where Ab-Soul goes all over the place with political allusions and talking about money and fucking women, while the beat stays with it’s repetitive sounds and no switches. “Hunnid Stax” has lackluster bars and the flows match each other that I tend to care for Schoolboy Q’s verse over Ab-Soul. The next two tracks are so mundane that I don’t bother with them much. His second album Control System was one of the greatest albums of 2012 and this just went downhill. One thing I’ve always liked about Ab-Soul was that he was abstract and an asshole, lyrically. “With a dollar and a dream, why you think money is green? Color of vegetation, the most important thing, trees.” This is the stand out line from the track The witty wordplay is there but it just loses momentum flow wise In comparison to the other album it’s meh.

His verse loses momentum and lyrical prowess it’s very generic, until the end where his last verse is possibly one of the better verses on the album. The album has a good start and the next track lowers the bar slightly. The hook, by TDE member SZA, is one of the better hooks on the album too. The verse perfectly meshes religious metaphors as well with his overt usage of drug references. Ab-Soul delivers a track where he mixes braggadocios bars with relevant bars about his past and come-up. It’s sad to say that now his anticipated album is lackluster in comparison to his other work.Īb-Soul opens the album with a similar style to Control System’s. His first two albums, 2011’s Follow Me Home and 2015’s 90059, each rank among the grittiest, most acclaimed street rap albums of the century so far. Though he’s had some mediocre and also slightly better features on Blue Chips 2 and Watching Movies with the Sound Off. He would appear on features here and there with a lot of lackluster verses Acid Rap’s track Smoke Again is a prime example. Ab-Soul, the drugged out conscious of Top Dawg Entertainment, has been in absent for two years since his last release, Control System.

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