These Days...
Ab-Soul's latest, long-delayed album calls back to the glory days of the Black Hippy collective's impressive 2012 run, with the sprawling runtime, resonant repeated catchphrases, and grey-toned mood to prove it. The more human Ab-Soul dares to be on record, the stronger he becomes.
Ab-Soul’s third album is never able to escape its Top Dawg DNA. The fingerprints of his labelmates, especially the other members of the Black Hippy collective, are all over the album: From a literal appearance of Schoolboy Q’s “Collard Greens,” to “Kendrick Lamar’s Interlude”—in which Ab says, “If I ain’t better than…
There was a strange amount of secrecy revolving around Ab-Soul’s new album These Days..., to the extent that the Los…