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  No Trivia's Rap Songs of the Week: Action Bronson Is About to Get His Axl Rose On

  May 8, 2013 – Ab-Soul - "Back Then"In which Ab-Soul, one of XXL's 2013 Freshman (even though he's been flirting with the mainstream going on two years now, and is bros with everybody's big-time rap hero Kendrick Lamar), bleats over a skittering, half-evil Harry Fraud beat that nods to both exploitation movie synth-trash, and throbbing strip-club bangers. …
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  Action Bronson, Ab-Soul, Travi$ Scott Highlight '2013 XXL Freshmen Mixtape'

  May 2, 2013 – XXL revealed its 2013 Freshmen Class — its pick of the (sort of) new rappers set to blow up this year — back in March, but yesterday it dropped a mixtape featuring new songs from many of the rappers on the cover. …
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  See Chance the Rapper and Ab-Soul 'Smoke Again' (and Again) in Trippy Video

  April 30, 2013 – Ever since SPIN dropped our own Hottest MCs in the Game list, Chance the Rapper has been going out of his way to prove us right about his placement therein. …
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  Ab-Soul and Kendrick Lamar Brave Post-SOPA Apocalypse in 'ILLuminate' Video

  January 16, 2013 – The overreaching ambition of the video concept for Ab-Soul's "ILLuminate" reflects the overreaching ambition of the boasts in the song, off of the Los Angeles rapper's 2012 Control System mixtape. …
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  No Trivia's Friday Five, Thanksgiving Edition: Let French Montana Be Great!

  November 21, 2012 – Switching it up this week (with three extra songs since I missed last week's Friday Five) due to Thanksgiving on Thursday. Of course, Friday is still Friday if you work any kind of service job where your day will be filled with dread as everyone still stuffed with turkey pigs out on purchasing drastically marked-down Blu-Rays and widescreen TVs. …
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  No Trivia's Friday Five: Black Hippy Deconstructs Drake

  August 18, 2012 – I think I wandered into a rap blogger version of a Beckett play the other night. I drove all around southern New Jersey on a Thursday evening, pulling into every supermarket and pharmacy with a Redbox trying to rent month-old Wiz Khalifa and Snopp Dogg straight-to-DVD-vehicle Mac & Devin Go To High School, only to discover that it is either sold out or not carried in that specific RedBox. …
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  Ab-Soul: Black Hippy's Heady Energy Force Leads by Listening

  July 5, 2012 – Who: Born Herbert Anthony Stevens IV, Ab-Soul, 25, has spent the last few years as the secret weapon of Los Angeles rap collective Black Hippy. But his most recent outing, the sinewy, studied, yet still fun-as-hell Control System, feels like a serious unveiling. …
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  No Trivia's Friday Five: Ab-Soul, Killer Mike, More

  May 18, 2012 – One of my favorite songs by the late Chuck Brown is 1988's "That'll Work (2001)," a go-go version of Richard Strauss' "Also Sprach Zarathustra." The credits on the 12-inch read like this: Written by Richard Strauss, arrangement by Deodato, additional arrangement by Chuck Brown. So specifically, "That’ll Work" references Eumir Deodato’s take on "Also Sprach Zarathustra" from 1972’s Prelude. …
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• Ab-Soul, 'Control System' (Self-released)

  May 16, 2012 – Secret best Black Hippy skips ScHoolBoy's machismo, matches Kendrick's bug-out charm, channels P.K. Dick dread. …
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  Kendrick Lamar, Black Hippy Predictably Sign to Interscope

  March 9, 2012 – Top Dawg Entertainment, the independent home of Kendrick Lamar and Black Hippy (a.k.a. ScHoolboy Q, Ab-Soul, and Jay Rock), has told the Fader that the quartet are nearing a joint venture deal with Aftermath Music and Interscope Records. Lamar has a joint deal with Top Dawg and the two labels — Aftermath is the home of Dr. …
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