It’s a great book the Alchemist is also a great book. That’s something that really opened my eyes to a lot of the stuff that you hear me talk about today. One of the first books that really got me going was the autobiography of Malcolm X. I’m not like blind but my eyes aren’t that great. What books have inspired you?Īb-Soul: I actually didn’t read that much because my eyes aren’t that great. I probably have a pretty decent vocabulary-vernacular.īecause I know you said you like to read a lot. There are a lot of artists that can speak several different languages. Do you feel like you have the largest vocabulary in hip-hop?Īb-Soul: Ah, no. Yeah, that was probably around the Cassidy era, too. I think I said something like, ‘Keep trees in my boots like Timberlands.’ Like, Timberland Boots. I said something like, when I was in high school I had a freestyle that I put up on Soundclick. Do you remember what your first punch-line was?Īb-Soul: Man, that’s a good one. There ain’t too many words to describe it. There’s definitely – or a, reminiscent of the two. How did your location mold you growing up?Īb-Soul: Well, Carson is right between Compton and Long Beach. My father immediately joined the army and I was living out there for like 4 or 5 years, and then my mom and dad split and then I came right back to California. I know you didn’t really have a stereotypical “I came from the hood” – I know you were from Germany then you moved over to Cali.Īb-Soul: Yeah, actually I was born in Cali (Kaiser Harbor City, for sure). I saw the video and I saw what the words were doing. When I was like, 11 or 12, sneaking away to hear the curse words and just listen for real instead of working- that’s one of the earliest songs that touched me and I got it. We couldn’t really listen to popular hip-hop because of the profanity. So, I was introduced to hip-hop a little later, and different, we couldn’t really play- my parents didn’t really play music at the house, cause we were listening to it all day because we were selling it. I grew up in a record shop and my perception of music as a child was probably different than most people. But when did you fall in love with hip-hop?Īb-Soul: “Crossroads”, by Bone Thugs and Harmony. As the momentum continues to tip over in Soul’s favor, it appears that Top Dawg will have another All-Star earning his just due in the world of music.Īb-Soul sat down with us me discuss his new album These Days, his love for Dawson Creek, Bone Thugs and Harmony introduced him to music, his origin of his rap name, and why he would travel to Jerusalem on a date. He provided fans even more excitement when he recently released “Hunnid Stax” featuring his TDE teammate, ScHoolBoy Q. With his gift of gab serving as his selling point, he showcased his talents on his first single “Stigmata” featuring Action Bronson. After months of endless pushbacks, Soul was able to find the resolution he needed and is ready to deliver his new album, These Daysin August. His previous endeavors Longterm Mentality and Control Systemhad fans gallivanting around the web in search of more. With TDE’s Kendrick Lamar and ScHoolBoy Q bathing in the pool of mainstream success, to say that Ab-Soul – who TDE dubs as their secret weapon – won’t be the next one to take a dip and get his feet wet, is beyond unfathomable. The rap game has encountered innumerable acts that provided an array of tongue-twisting and mind-boggling lyrics in the past, yet, they haven’t seen anything like the man birthed Herbert Anthony Stevens IV. Soul’s command of the human language and immaculate ability to maneuver words in scintillating fashion, has earned him the reputation of being a top-tier lyricist in rap. Why you ask? It’s because his verbosity is unreal. Ab-Soul is your quintessential human dictionary.
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