Ab-Soul Discusses How Kendrick Lamars Departure From TDE Affects Him and His Career
Kendrick Lamar leaving the TDE label draws a response from Ab-Soul.
Ab-Soul sat down for a fresh interview with XXL Magazine as he continued the promotion for his comeback album “HERBERT.” The rapper was questioned about a variety of topics, including the time Kendrick Lamar stated that his album “Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers” would be his last on the TDE label.
“Well, you know, I always romanticized the idea of us staying together forever,” he said on how Kendrick Lamar leaving the label impacted his course. “And I say this as Kendrick obviously being my brother, you know? I like how he put it. There’s beauty in completion. And you know, I feel like he reached his space where he felt like he needed to embark on something else. I support him in whatever. He’s incredible. He’s an incredible artist and I support him. I’m behind it 100 percent.”
“Did you guys have a conversation about him leaving or can you share any aspect of how that might’ve gone?” he was asked. I feel like that kind of thing, it just kind of went unsaid just for the sake of making sure we remember the brotherhood first. That we’re brothers first and, you know? He’s still somebody that I can call on and vice versa. And that’s the most important thing versus us tryna get to the bottom of why he would start his own label or whatever you have. our brotherhood is more important to me personally.”
The LA rapper also addressed the issue of whether poetry is a lost art.
“A lost art? I won’t say that. Lost isn’t the word,” he said. “It’s still a lot of us getting down, getting busy in terms of lyricism in that respect. I’m just here to restore the feeling. To keep that, the hip-hop spirit. The essence of it. The root of it. I feel like that’s mine, one of my purposes, for sure. To remember how it started. Hip-hop is amongst the youngest of genres. I feel an obligation to keep paying homage to the pioneers before me and keeping that vein of hip-hop.”
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