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As Ab-Soul preps for his new album These Days..., the rapper sat with BET to talk about the theme behind it and share how his friends helped him create the album.
Since his 2012 mixtape Control System, the rapper has worked hard on his album citing Nas and Mac Miller as key people who helped develop the album.
"We got some great special guests on it," he said. "I recorded most of it at Mac Miller's house for one. Got all the homies on there; it's definitely a Top Dawg Party.
He also mentions how Nas' "The Cross" inspired the single "Stigmata" featuring Action Bronson and Assad.
"I just performed with Nas at Soundset and I got to chop it up with him," he said. "There's big reference to one of his songs on there too [on the hook] so that was tight, being able to discuss that with him briefly. "
The T.D.E. rapper mentions that his album explains the past two years in his life since the release of Control System.
"With this coming after Control System which was a very conceptual piece that talked about spiritual and political issues and things like that, this one I kind of wanted it to be kind of a time capsule of these days and what feel like. So you're going to hear a lot of references from today and today's time.
Source: themaskedgorilla.com
