Reacting to "Control System" by Ab Soul
Added 2023-02-10 23:29:14 +0000 UTCDirect Play Link: https://iframe.mediadelivery.net/play/27377/106e5fdb-33a3-42c5-a57d-8c9873dd8314
It took me a couple tracks to settle in and warm up to the album, so be ready for that. I hope you all have a great weekend. Enjoy!
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I just like Ab on features. I think you shouldve reacted to a Schoolboy Q album instead
james moore
2023-02-17 18:53:55 +0000 UTCWhen Weezy came up and Bob said, "I think that's an artist," I was laughing, with the thought of "I mean, that's true, BUT..." Because to me, Lil Wayne is not just an artist but the biggest star in popular rap for years, leading up to the Drake era.
Dareka
2023-02-15 06:47:09 +0000 UTCAround this time, Ab-Soul's fellow TDE Schoolboy Q released an album called Albums & Contradictions. I bring that up just to remark that this album could also be called that. Ab-Soul is kinda like a profane saint, someone who takes a broad view of the world and also wholeheartedly delights in (and copes with) vices. I was glad to see you reviewed this album because it's one of the most singular and reassuring rap albums I've heard, flaws and all. Some have said the production style was more common in its time, and that's true. But I think even at the time, this album sounded kinda junky and lo-fi in spots. I mean, compare the beats here to Section.80. And depending on how you feel about swag rap, you could try ASAP Rocky's music from around this period for some more lush sounds. I look forward to hearing what you say about the album later, after reflection. I could sense how it agreed with some of your deepest thoughts on society and life, even though it so obviously has clunkers in the track list. Part of the issue might be the instrumentation, but a lot of it probably traces back to Soulo's off-kilter style. He leaves unexpected pauses in what seems a less deliberate way than DOOM. Even though he speaks clearly and he can spit when he wants to, he can sorta drag his delivery sometimes and talk about seemingly unrelated things. He's just a different sort of artist, for better and worse. This is off topic, but I wonder if anyone's recommended Das Racist to you. Just a terribly algorithm-unfriendly name for a rap group, but Soul's humor and occasional rambling remind me of them somehow.
Dareka
2023-02-15 01:34:10 +0000 UTCSZA SOS please
shalom michael
2023-02-14 23:38:53 +0000 UTCILLuminate (and this whole album) making me wanna fire up GTA and cruise the Pacific highway
Scott Watrous
2023-02-14 06:19:51 +0000 UTCThis is a first time listen for me too.
Sean Darrow
2023-02-12 08:43:18 +0000 UTCwow i need to learn to proof read... lmao hope u can decipher that
Cozy Terry
2023-02-12 05:13:48 +0000 UTCokay another thing! hearing you talk a little bit about political things i think youll really appreciate immortal technique. whether you react on your channel or not i think youll really enjoy how deep he goes. the way you criticize both sides for being at fault and creating problematic things at this moment he feels the same. in his latest interviews hes calling about sides and trying to wake people up to the evil of both sides. he hasnt dropped an album since the martyr in 2011 before that he had the revolutionary acts volumes 1 and 2 and the middle passage. he was in the us army but since he has always spoken against thee government and been about the people. he built an orphanage in Afghanistan amongst other things. havnt seen him mentioned so hope you check him out!
Cozy Terry
2023-02-12 03:26:36 +0000 UTChey bob great reaction! really surprised ab soul made it but soooo glad you did. i remember hearing terrorist threats for the first time and was blown away. loved ab soul ever since. in hiphop its rare for music videos actually enhance a song but the pineal gland video is really good. hope you check it out!
Cozy Terry
2023-02-11 22:01:20 +0000 UTCi was into TDE when this album came out and SOPA was ass then too
Captain
2023-02-11 18:10:37 +0000 UTCoxymoron and cilvia demo is insanely good. also id like to see 90059 with jay rock.. underrated
Didric
2023-02-11 17:35:58 +0000 UTCThis album takes a while to get into. First time I listened to it, it was allright. After a couple listens some of the songs became some of my favorite tracks. Today a couple of years later it's a little too much of a "stoner" album in some parts for me personally. Since I don't smoke anymore it doesn't connect the same way it did back when I was a smoker. But the alori joh song always brings me to tears and terrorist threats and ILLuminate are timeless rap songs. Thanks for giving Ab a shot! It would be a huge honor to see you listen and give your feedback on Schoolboy Q's album "Oxymoron". Also the Jay Rock album "90059" is such a amazing album. Both TDE guys that were featured here and there thru Kendricks and Ab's stuff. Peace and love man thanks for a good video =)
Didric
2023-02-11 15:38:45 +0000 UTCThat’s because he hasn’t herd this masterpiece by Drake
nahshon holmes
2023-02-11 14:21:07 +0000 UTCI think it’s fairly clear at this point that Bob does NOT like Drake, please don’t waste a week with this album
Aiden Cleary
2023-02-11 13:57:09 +0000 UTCNah views is one of the best playlist albums
nahshon holmes
2023-02-11 13:03:20 +0000 UTCDo you think you’ll ever do more Run the Jewels?
Tyler Johnson
2023-02-11 12:07:24 +0000 UTComggggg is this real life xdd bob reacting to my favorite rapper of all time besides kendrick and cole. lovely saturday morning!
Didric
2023-02-11 09:57:12 +0000 UTCPlease, no. What we need is Life After Death by Biggie
Erik H
2023-02-11 07:51:25 +0000 UTCTriple entendre on illuminate by soul “I want in, so take ur top 5 list and put me after em” 1.He wants in ur top rappers list 2. He wants to be after eminem “em” on top 5 list 3. He wants “N” so put him after “M” the letter n comes after m in the alphabet sheeesh
Joey
2023-02-11 03:52:56 +0000 UTCLoved the reaction. I dont know if you have ever heard of him but Andrew Callaghan did a documentary on HBO max called "This place rules". Its a really cool documentary of everything that led up to January 6th. The guy like befriends alex jones and has all these conversations with these radical americans and tries to understand the diviseness and stuff. He has a really great youtube channel called Channel 5 too. It just reminded me of it when you were discussing politics during terrorist threats.
Isaac Robichau
2023-02-11 02:34:43 +0000 UTCboth top tier
Zack
2023-02-11 01:51:58 +0000 UTCIdk bro cilvia demo is peak
Bobby porter
2023-02-11 01:48:27 +0000 UTCBob, idk how much you read and I'm not sure if you're already familiar but you should look into the work of Albert Camus. His book the Myth of Sisyphus is quite literally exactly what you talk about in the intro about suicide. In fact I feel like when you say that Allan Watts referenced monks who stated that the most important question in life is why not to commit suicide, that you're remembering it incorrectly, because Albert Camus famously starts off the Myth of Sisyphus with exactly that statement, so I feel like that may be the real origin, but who knows maybe they both said it. That book has been absolutely critical in how I view the world and my life, and I know you'd get a lot out of it.
Yarden
2023-02-11 01:08:09 +0000 UTCBohemian Grove has one of my favorite beats ever. It doesn’t show up on Genius but if you listen close right before Alori Joh’s bridge, you can hear Absoul start to come in with the hook again then he goes “Oh my bad” and stops. That part always cracks me up.
VeganMilk
2023-02-11 00:21:39 +0000 UTCIt's crazy they didn't have the annotation for why he calls himself "Soul Brother #2". So Pete Rock & CL Smooth have an album called "Mecca & the Soul Brother" and on that album they have a song called "Soul Brother #1". Considering his name is Ab-SOUL and he is a Pete Rock fan he has always called himself "Soul Brother #2" out of respect.
YetiCoolBrother
2023-02-11 00:07:31 +0000 UTCLol Control System is jarring as shit at first so i get you not feeling it at first but once you sink in its wild. The more you listen the more you dig out and itll grow for sure
Ryan Naylor
2023-02-10 23:52:04 +0000 UTCcan’t wait for u to react to schoolboy q.. second best TDE artist
Zack
2023-02-10 23:44:37 +0000 UTCGotta do “views” by drake it’s one his best pieces of work
nahshon holmes
2023-02-10 23:42:07 +0000 UTCcant wait for u to react to do what thou wilt by ab soul too. don’t know when that will ever come but that album is deep with ideas that i think u would find interesting and the beats and glows sound much better to me
jakob
2023-02-10 23:32:22 +0000 UTCgotta do Schoolboy Q - Oxymoron another TDE classic
Litty Again
2023-02-10 23:30:49 +0000 UTC
