Ab-Soul sat down with 'Billboard' ahead of 'Soul Burger' to talk about his project, his viral Drake tweet and Kendrick Lamar's Pop Out concert.
Ab-Soul attends a basketball game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Dallas Mavericks at Crypto.com Arena on January 12, 2023 in Los Angeles.close friend, collaborator and yin to his yang Armon “Doe Burger” Stringer passed away in 2021, and Soulo’s carrying the tastemaker’s spirit with him to this day. The 37-year-old dedicated his sixth studio album to Stringer asIt’s nearly 2:00 pm in the afternoon on the West Coast, and Ab-Soul hasn’t been to sleep yet when he hops on a phone call with.
Long live Doe Burger. I wanted to get into some tracks starting with the opener “9 Mile.” I felt like I was walking into the opening scene of. That’s actually what I been practicing as of late. Just not trying to think about it so much and go with the feeling. Just try to complement the music more than focus so much on what I’m saying. I’m a poet by nature. I wrote a million rhymes a million times. I been challenging myself to really catch a vibe.
You made your Billboard Hot 100 debut with J. Cole’s “Pi” earlier this year. I know the whole backstory with that how you didn’t know Cole would end up getting the record for . Have you had any conversations with him since about how you guys gotta go bar-for-bar soon and get your lick back? Not only is that one of my favorite records from him, period. Aside from the beef, that was such a beautiful record put together. He was saying such profound things. Like my favorite line, “There’s opportunity when living with loss/ I discover myself when I fall short.” He was talking to all of us. That was more than a battle. He had me looking myself in the mirror. It was larger than that and that’s what the Pop Out ended up being. He took a battle and used it as an opportunity to unify.
I don’t know what everybody thought I was trying to do. It was obvious he got worked. All we talk about is loss. Dot was in the battle talking about his losses. Talking about his shortcomings. I thought that was beautiful. Especially me, myself as an artist, I put it on the table. I share my testimony. I share my shortcomings. If Drake is an MC, then get up and rap. Let’s keep it hip-hop, keep it on wax, keep it clean. I come from that. I used to battle in the street.
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