Few new MCs of the last five years are as potential with words as Carson, California’s Ab-Soul. #ControlSystem is as intelligent and thoughtfully-charged of an album with Longterm Mentality just as powerful. Needless to say, the Black Hippy member can still inspire that rewind factor long after labels in Hip-Hop chilled on the cassette tape. In Minneapolis this past week, Solo hit ’em with some fresh bars. In the words of Professor X, “take heed”:

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