Control System by Ab-Soul

Control System

Ab-Soul

2012

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

  1. 1Soulo Ho3 (feat. Jhene Aiko)3:57
  2. 2Track Two4:02
  3. 3Bohemian Grove4:23
  4. 4Terrorist Threats (feat. Danny Brown & Jhene Aiko)4:24
  5. 5Pineal Gland3:52
  6. 6Double Standards (feat. Anna Wise)4:21
  7. 7Mixed Emotions4:07
  8. 8Sopa (feat. Schoolboy Q)4:08
  9. 9Lust Demons (feat. Jay Rock & Bj the Chicago Kid)3:40
  10. 10Illuminate (feat. Kendrick Lamar)5:06
  11. 11A Rebellion (feat. Alori Joh)3:48
  12. 12Showin' Love4:57
  13. 13Empathy (feat. Alori Joh & Ja Vonte')3:01
  14. 14Nothing's Something2:30
  15. 15Beautiful Death (feat. Punch & Ashtrobot)4:29
  16. 16The Book of Soul5:10
  17. 17Black Lip Bastard (Remix) [feat. Black Hippy]5:48