Ab-Soul has teased a JAY-Z function on his upcoming Herbert album forward of its launch in December.
The Los Angeles rapper took to Instagram on Wednesday (November 30) to share a photograph of him sitting subsequent to Hov at a desk on the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York City. “SOUL DID,” he wrote within the caption, referencing Jay’s “GOD DID” collaboration with DJ Khaled.
Soulo’s label, Top Dawg Entertainment, shared the identical picture on social media together with a caption hinting at a JAY-Z look on his upcoming undertaking. “Hov x Soulo #Herbert Dec.16th!” it learn.
TDE founder, Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith, added in his personal Instagram publish: “@souloho3 asked me to connect him with Hov ….. aye soul did u do ur part ? I guess we will find out when the album drop. Y’all think he got it ? #TDE.”
Dreamville’s J.I.D additionally reacted to the information of a doable Ab-Soul and JAY-Z collaboration on his Instagram Stories, writing: “Nah this shit got me gassed !!!!!! let’s go @souloho3.”
Ab-Soul is ready to launch his new album Herbert on December 16. It will function the follow-up to 2016’s Do What Thou Wilt and his fifth studio effort total.
The Carson-bred rapper has dropped numerous singles in 2022 together with “Hollandaise,” “Moonshooter,” “Do Better” that includes Zacari and “Gang’Nem” that includes Fre$H, though it’s unclear if any of the songs will seem on his subsequent undertaking.
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In 2012, Ab-Soul famously rapped: “I used to wanna rap like JAY-Z / Now I feel I could run laps ’round JAY-Z,” on the Kendrick Lamar-assisted “ILLuminate” from his Control System album. Some interpreted the road as a diss at Hov, however as Soulo defined, the entire state of affairs was taken out of hand.
“Everybody is talking about my JAY-Z line off ‘Illuminate’ but, the majority of the song was inspired by JAY-Z,” he advised Complex on the time. “If you’re a giant fan of JAY-Z you’ll be able to hear it. That’s what it was about. And I hope Jay will get an opportunity to listen to it.
“If he is who I think he is, then he should understand exactly what I intended to do with that. I was paying homage but letting him know, we coming. You got some new young cats on your heels now. That’s all.”
He added: “My favorite rapper of all time is JAY-Z, hands down. I probably have been the most inspired by him lyrically. It doesn’t feel like it’s jocking or biting [when I quote JAY-Z in my rhymes]. It’s not. Being a fan of Hip Hop, just what I’ve seen done time and time again.”
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