City, and with To Pimp A Butterfly, he was crowned ‘King”. We got introduced to the new young jack on The Kendrick Lamar EP, a rising impressive talent on Overly Dedicated, a prodigious songwriter and emcee on Section.80, a new west coast savior on good kid, M.A.A.D. The introspection and depth on this album is as human as anything you could possibly hear on wax. This Grammy Award-winning monument changed the entire landscape of Hip Hop in 2015. With an album that stands as one of the single best TDE projects to this day, we knew there was something very human about this young emcee, and it bled all over this exceptional album.ĭo I even need to continue? What else can I say that hasn’t already been said about this timeless piece of music? The most important Hip Hop album of our generation, and certainly the most impactful in over a decade, is the new standard of greatness in Hip Hop, and we have Kendrick to thank for it.
To make the loss even more heartfelt, we hear her angelic voice on the tracks “Empathy” and “A Rebellion”. Truthfully, we haven’t heard a more depressing, yet beautiful, dedication to a lost loved one in many a year, over one of the most melancholy melodies ever heard. Incredibly poignant and at times heartbreakingly personal, Ab-Soul makes us confrontational with “Terrorist Threats”, made us think and read with “Pineal Gland”, and made us cry with his deeply somber and painful eulogy to his late girlfriend, and TDE artist Alori Joh, “The Book Of Soul”. Experimenting with different flows and showing versatility, he quickly became considered every bit of a star as Kendrick.Īs good as Longterm Mentality was, and how nicely we got fully introduced to this thinking stoner, it was this magnificent album that really let us know just there’s a lot more to this Carson native than drugs and getting high.Ĭontrol System shows us a conscious young cat who was in tune with the corruption of the world, as well as other areas such as love, loss, and his own personal health.
While we were still in awe of Ab-Soul’s Longterm Mentality album, he dropped his next album, Control System.
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