
Control System is a Hip-Hop album by Ab-Soul, originally released in 2012.
Sound DNA
- Hip-Hop
- Alternative Hip-Hop
- dense
- anxious
- cerebral
About
Take a cue from biting tracks like "Pineal Gland" and "SOPA"—rapper Ab-Soul is as clever as he is crass, as sharp as he is straight-forward. Indeed, <i>Control System</i> is the high-concept dramedy to the unflinching drama of fellow Black Hippy member Kendrick Lamar's <i>good kid, m.A.A.d city</i>. (The refrain from "Mixed Emotions," for example, is "Who got a Sprite?") Ab's rhymes can be unapologetically out-there at times, such as when he's rapping about Sumerians or nodding to <i>Seinfeld</i> on "Nothing's Something," a song about, well, nothing. But a heart beats resoundingly at the center of <i>Control System</i>. You hear it most affectingly on "The Book of Soul," on which Ab mourns the suicide of ex-girlfriend Alori Joh; she guests on multiple tracks here.
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Tracklist
- 1Soulo Ho3 (feat. Jhene Aiko)3:57
- 2Track Two4:02
- 3Bohemian Grove4:23
- 4Terrorist Threats (feat. Danny Brown & Jhene Aiko)4:24
- 5Pineal Gland3:52
- 6Double Standards (feat. Anna Wise)4:21
- 7Mixed Emotions4:07
- 8Sopa (feat. Schoolboy Q)4:08
- 9Lust Demons (feat. Jay Rock & Bj the Chicago Kid)3:40
- 10Illuminate (feat. Kendrick Lamar)5:06
- 11A Rebellion (feat. Alori Joh)3:48
- 12Showin' Love4:57
- 13Empathy (feat. Alori Joh & Ja Vonte')3:01
- 14Nothing's Something2:30
- 15Beautiful Death (feat. Punch & Ashtrobot)4:29
- 16The Book of Soul5:10
- 17Black Lip Bastard (Remix) [feat. Black Hippy]5:48
