![]() " Double Standards" addresses how society views each gender's sexual exploits. Since then, Ab has audibly shifted to more earnest, abstract and philosophical subject matter. Reports say that she took her own life jumping off a radio tower in Compton. In February 2012, Ab lost his long-term partner and regular collaborator Alori Joh. It ain't easy, but it shouldn't be."Īb-Soul's creative path over the past 18 months has been marked by tragedy. You're not just gonna read one book and find the answer, let alone at the click of a button. "I think we're living in a time where people are asking a lot more questions. There's a control system out there, designed to keep you preoccupied with lesser matters. ![]() ![]() "Tell my momma I'm a shaman rhymin'" is the way Ab starts his verse directed at "the new generation of lost souls," transformed into "blind drones" through "student loans, iPhones, reality TV shows." He calls it "Post Babylonia," a state in which you're considering what fruit to grow when the dollar crashes, while doing drugs and eating fast food. But if I put it in a tight song then they'll listen." " was a way for me to talk about political, economical and social issues with my friends, who wouldn't normally care about these kinds of conversations. ![]() The boy with the dark shades found the light. Control System provides the next step to the "regular nigga" image he had been purposefully crafting over his previous releases. Preaching from a deeply personal place, Ab-Soul builds on the gift he had already grasped on his previous mixtapes Long Term and Long Term Vol. The lens he provides extends from deconstructing hip hop's problematic gender inequalities, to penning revolutionary manifestos, giving nods to ancient knowledge, and questioning the status quo of religion and spirituality. That’s what I wanted to provide with Control System." I don't think a lot of us have been looking at life though the helicopter lens. "Just about every song on the record was designed to talk about certain subjects that I wouldn't be able to have a regular conversation with my friends about. ![]() And while he never took a turn for the self-consciously serious (Q was serious from the beginning), he’s grown mellower and more self-assured with time, an avid golfer and proud dad who still knows how to turn up.Speaking on Control System, Ab-Soul lays open his game plan – which, even now, is still in the process of unfolding. Though the feel was thoroughly West Coast, the influences skewed East: 50 Cent, Biggie, Nas. But that doesn’t mean he can’t live.īorn Quincy Matthew Hanley in 1986, on a military base in Wiesbaden, Germany, Q grew up in South Central LA, connecting with Top Dawg and forming the Black Hippy collective with Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, and Ab-Soul in the late 2000s. “You know what I’m saying? That’s why I try to stay away from sad music at this point in my life. “Many nights I cry,” he told Apple Music in 2019. But like Snoop Dogg before him, the underlying note in Q’s music is a kind of hard-won fun, the resilience of someone who knows darkness but keeps swaggering toward the light. A descendent of gangsta tradition, he can be rough (“Break the Bank”), he can be funny (“There He Go”), and he can be bracingly introspective (“Blessed”). Alongside Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, and the rest of the Top Dawg Entertainment crew, ScHoolboy Q has become one of the definitive voices of 2010s rap. ![]()
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