Tattoos tell his life story: his rap name inside a Jesus fish, on his arm below it, the most recent addition, an eye with the words “Don’t Understand Me” written below “Carson,” the middle-class L.A. He slumps deeper into the couch, folding his arms across an Ab-Soul T-shirt.
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“I do get a lot of comfort from weed,” he admits, when asked about his preferred methods of coping with the rigors of rap life. A fourth syrup bottle looms before Ab-Soul, next to a box of Backwoods Cigars.
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Also known as “lean,” the drug, a sedative, was blamed for the deaths of Southern rap legends Pimp C and DJ Screw Lil Wayne and Mac Miller have also reportedly struggled with it. Other palliatives are in plain sight: Three jugs of promethazine cough syrup are neatly arrayed in his closet next to a box of Chips Ahoy. “You need to put that in the story,” he says, laughing and immediately sparking a leftover blunt idling in his ashtray. But after two minutes, his publicist rouses him. It’s hard to tell - between his opaque sunglasses and general torpor, it initially seems like he’s cautiously deliberating a response.
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“When you feed a sick dog, you have to mix the medicine in with the food that it likes already.”Īsked about the “medicine” on “These Days,” Ab-Soul dozes off. “I heard this from Danny Brown one time and never forgot it,” says Ab-Soul, explaining his ideas about artistic balance. According to the rapper, real name Herbert Stevens IV, 27, he has been under surveillance since publicly indicting the handling of the manhunt of LAPD cop-turned-killer Christopher Dorner in 2013. He mentions several other residencies, but refuses to name locations, citing his inclusion on a government watch list. This gated community home in the hills above Compton, Calif., belongs to the mother of one of his two children.
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His aesthetic is something like if Bone Thugs-N-Harmony had played the first Woodstock - or as he brands himself: “Lupe Fiasco on drugs.” Fans continued to inquire about the whereabouts of other TDE members so it was inevitable that Kendrick's name could pop up.His tufts of hair are unruly and his eyes shrouded by trademark black sunglasses, worn due to an ocular sensitivity to light that will likely require a corneal transplant one day. "Yea the album is on the way, but you knew that," he wrote. He didn't offer a timeline on when we could expect it, though he did continue to drop other bits of information for his fans. Dot is on the way but the v olatility of the pandemic hasn't allowed a proper schedule to be locked in for anyone's release.Īb-Soul came through with a tidbit of information over the weekend c onfirming that he has a new project that will be released at some point this year. TDE arguably has two of the most demanded projects of the year - SZA and Kendrick Lamar's next project. Few are confirmed but Top Dawg Entertainment appears to already have a stacked schedule. There's a long list of albums that are anticipated to be released this year.
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Ab-Soul offers a brief but promising update on the release of Kendrick Lamar's next project.