Jan 22, 2013 Ab-Soul - Control System Full Album CDQ Shady x TDE. Unsubscribe from Shady x TDE? Cancel Unsubscribe.
Living life as a rap blogger means that nearly every hip-hop related thought that I’ve had over the past five years is only a few clicks away. While this chronicle has been the cause of some serious embarrassment – yes, I did once say that I didn’t think Chamillionaire would last – it also allows me to back up a sentence like, “I’ve been listening to for years.”; September 22, 2009 to be precise. That’s when I heard and wrote, “In an era of endlessly copied trends and sound-alike rappers it’s sadly rare to hear a truly original sound.
Well listeners, I’m here today to proudly announce that I’ve never heard something quite like Ab-Soul’s music before.” I’d be lying if I said I foresaw the heights to which Ab-Soul has risen, or appears to be rising, but I can say I’m not at all surprised to hear him deliver an album as powerful as Control System. Crack Age Of Empires 2 The Conquerors. There might literally be two people reading this review who somehow just stumbled into Ab-Soul purely as a solo artist, but for the rest of us it’s impossible not to listen to Control System outside of a TDE context. While they all have distinct personalities,, and Ab-Soul are all definitely part of a recognizable sound. All of their music is mixed by the same person (Ali), they all primarily use the same set of producers, they all use a vocal style punctuated by dramatic swings in delivery and they all share a dystopian bordering on nihilistic view of the world. So while questions like “who’s the best TDE emcee?” are best reserved for barroom debates – you know, assuming you go to bars with rap heads – it’s only natural to compare Control System to the recently released efforts of Soul’s compatriots, and. All three albums are similar enough that you could put them together into one coherent sounding triple-album, Control System sits halfway between #Section80 and Habits & Contradictions.