The way his last bar over Tupac's Hit Em Up included the words 'hit em up' then then next bar when Who Shot Ya dropped he said 'Im bigger than Christopher' was pure magic.
Soul is getting his mojo back...the fresh look, fresh content, the God flow...giving us what we loved about conscious rap in the early 2010s. He lowkey saving rap again...pay attention new fans 🖤🌙🧿🙏🏾 "When I say I'm the nicest 😄, I really mean it 😡" Forever a wordplay wordsmith!
I ain't gonna lie, Kendrick is def one of the greatest rappers ever but I think Ab-Soul truly the best out of TDE (I know unpopular opinion).. his bars and lyrics are on a different planet
" You end a prayer with Amen that's also our beginning" ... bro that's deep af... you gotta understand the true story of mankind to understand that line..
This might be one of the best freestyles I’ve heard in some years, if not ever. I’m not even joking - anyone who knows Soul knows this is slight work for him. HERBERT about to go crazy.
I barely know any of his music but im glad i saw this comment because im a writer myself and i could tell he was off the top with it. Thats whatblows my mind rn.
that whole “overqualified/wallet size/ostrich sized/ostracized” rhyme scheme is insane, just wanted to give praise for the construction on that level, obviously amazing wordplay aside. this man is a veteran in all aspects of hip hop and he’s back in peak fighting form this far into his career…i cannot wait for this next album
just can ignore the "BIGGER" picture "one" lazy eye knigga to taking a shot at another lazy eye knigga "wallace-size" over the infamous hit em up track.....if WE doing that, thats huge injustice to abSoul to what he's doing. and we kinda want him to keep doing this right?
@@ahmedalfalahi9954 the rest of it didnt go over my head, i just like that part and didnt see anyone talking about it, that’s all. no need to be condescending friend.
Ab Soul is the best Lyricist alive. 75% of what he says goes over the smartest people’s head. Soul has been my favorite rapper since 2011, my junior year of highschool. THE KING IS BACK ❤
One of my favorite things that Black Hippy always did was flip each others lines or directly quote each other. On this one Soul, flipped Kendrick's line from Growing Apart: "We all seem to stumble, planning our own demise Forgetting the big picture and making it wallet size"
@@CamEron-nj5qy it’s a slang term, a street term for drugs, a bough is a certain amount of drugs, Robin Hood done sold his bow or bough for a Draco 🤦🏾♂️
@@HEagle72 nah. He always showed potential to be there. But he wasn’t consistently on a Rakim, Nas, G Rap, Andre, Black Thought, Hov, Lupe level. But with this? Hell, if he shows this through the whole album, he’d be one of them ones. No question
Bro is such a throwback straight from the lineage of Rakim, Nas, Andre, and Lupe... Flow is unmatched, wordplay crazy, delivery cold... No hype or gimmicks, just stoic beastin'
@Duhsak not unless your boss is Top dawg so nah you wrong... "The wordplay is top tier (Top dawg tear) like my boss cried " It's a simple yet clever wordplay ...
@@popeyeschicken3535 No, 🤣😂Lupe has his own bars that are light years in the future compared to Ab but you'd probably need to hear Ab soul say that before you believe it don't be a fanatic dude, do some research🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂
Nah man, this is definitely pre-written, at least for the most part. That doesn't take away from its quality, though - the best freestyle I've heard in a while
I’d argue the best. Not most impactful although the argument can be made but pound for pound, bad for bad, their staff is insane. No one in modern day can hang with them. Dreamville is a close second but they aren’t on that level
he's always been more lyrical than Kendrick Lamar. any moderately intelligent person can understand that. But Kendrick Lamar is a better artist and makes better music.
"My niggaz said the system' set
Why fight it, we're in the net"
Best wifi bar I've ever heard
Listen to World Wide Web by him
He said why "wifi" it ....
Damn never caught that one I’ve watch this tonsss of times
@@outworldwide He said why fight it, a homophone of WiFied it. Play on words
Im getting vexed
Ab Soul is literally the best lyricist of all time
For me he's 1a and Black Thought is 1b
“My wordplay is top tier like my boss just cried” 😮😮😂 lmao bro slid this whole freestyle
can you explain that bar to me??
@@Kingsmart14top tier
Top tear
Top = top dawg
Wordplay on tier / tear.
Top tear = top dawg crying
He came with that heat like always
@@Kingsmart14 top tier lyrics
@@ItsGiovanie thats not clever though.
"Whipping work in hells kitchen blindfolded like the Daredevil, Marvel at my madness my methods fantastic" What a bar😩
Bruh
Nasty work bro lmao
The way his last bar over Tupac's Hit Em Up included the words 'hit em up' then then next bar when Who Shot Ya dropped he said 'Im bigger than Christopher' was pure magic.
AS BIG AS*
The fact this man WAS STILL HUMBLE TO THE OG’S WHILE GOIN CRAZY WAS 🔥
Well he gets to pick the beats soo yea
@@BigShotKev you got some insider information?
1:40
I had to stroll to see if anyone else spoke on it first
That was fire and came together like he planned
Bro the sniffle adlibs when he started the covid bars were so fuckin fire
Crazy!!
Also I feel like it’s a method man nod
He ain't no rapper. He's a lyricist!! 🔥🔥
A poet
Nah, he the Messiah
🦁👏
Na na na 😂 he's souloho3 #theBlackLipPastorTheProphetTheGad
Wicked Carson like egar Ellen Poe
Soul is getting his mojo back...the fresh look, fresh content, the God flow...giving us what we loved about conscious rap in the early 2010s.
He lowkey saving rap again...pay attention new fans 🖤🌙🧿🙏🏾
"When I say I'm the nicest 😄, I really mean it 😡"
Forever a wordplay wordsmith!
very slick
I’ll be on a track with Soulo check my fire music
Black Lip Pastor 😎⛪️💪🏾🔥
On god
cant get back what you never lost..
The "Who Shot Ya" beat automatically turned him into a monster
I ain't gonna lie, Kendrick is def one of the greatest rappers ever but I think Ab-Soul truly the best out of TDE (I know unpopular opinion).. his bars and lyrics are on a different planet
Kendrick has said the only one rapping better than him is soul
@@lakryth8741 Big facts
Your opinion isn't unpopular most hip hop head will agree with you. Cause you're right Ab is the Best in TDE
When they asked everybody from TDE who was the best Jay Roc Schoolboy and Kendrick all said Soul 😎
It’s not a unpopular opinion it’s been that way for the last 13 years. Solo been THAT ONE.
The way he ended the Robinhood line perfectly on that last snare was like a final boss flex for a emcee 🔥🔥🔥
caught that!!
@@Dangizzle It’s the subtle things like that alot of ppl don’t catch & appreciate
Robinhood sold his bow for a draco!!!! Bro i cant even imagine lyrics like this & he does it at ease.
That and the sniffles when mentioning he’s covid-20
He flexed on that line The Rich getting richer the & the poor getting slicker even Robin Hood sold his bow for a Dracco ni99a! Bang!
The transition to who shot ya while simultaneously name dropping BIG 🔥 elite lyricist at work
That transition was perfect
Very impressive
That’s was insane
I peeped that, it was cold. "I do it big like christopher" as SOON as the beat came on
@@queenieqt2033 Crazzzy🔥🔥🔥
Amen bar went over a lot of people’s head
aye man
“its still RAW backwards (war) on all of yall rappers actually you’d be more competitive speechless…” 🔥🔥🔥🎤
Ab-Soul been criminally underrated for years
I’m on my way up
1:12 hahaha Sole shot ya!
@@snakethegemini see you at the top bro
It’s So Criminal
A whole decade and some change bro. He better get his shine this time around.
The replay value on this will be crazy!! That man word play is out of this world. No way you can catch them all on a couple listens 😩🔥🔥
😎🔂💪🏾⛪️
On god
Lol him and daylyt should do a track
@@DadBot-_- have you heard their battle?
@@saltyrice11 they had a battle ?
The difference between a rapper and a lyricist is AbSoul 🔥
"Don't forget the Dash"
You forgot the dash
@@armandoguerrero9715 😂😂
@@tiisoagyei9630 he might leave ya with a gash
@@Mobious1 We also don't want him to feel bleek like Jay's apprentice 😉
The Wordplay here is insane, Soul underrated
" You end a prayer with Amen that's also our beginning" ... bro that's deep af... you gotta understand the true story of mankind to understand that line..
Thought he said "that's how I begin it, for instance" no?
@@Steve-kl3ylhe did in fact say what u quoted
This might be one of the best freestyles I’ve heard in some years, if not ever. I’m not even joking - anyone who knows Soul knows this is slight work for him. HERBERT about to go crazy.
As a staunch fan of souloho3 you couldn't have said it better. I salute this one big ⌚
Ever heard of daylyt?
Wait till I’m on there
All facts
Idk. You might want to look into black thought freestyles, and definitely Daylyt's freestyle on Flex.
This man was the first and only one of two rappers who actually made me cry listening to a song. Book of soul. This man is more than a rapper 💯
YES, I refuse to listen to that it just hits way different.
🥺
“Even if you forget me and everything you left behind, I never lied, I loved you in a place where there’s no space and time”
That line always gets me.
100% the only hip hop song to make me cry ever, man go that SOUL
I’m actually really glad you got to experience that. Try these songs
Sacrifice - Dreamville (Coles Verse)
I’m sorry - Joyner Lucas
Understand - Cantrell
Today - Q
Man I'd give anything for this type of hip hop to return....Soul 🔥🔥
HERBERT his new album out this friday be sure to give it a listen
It’s here
Been here all this time, you just ain’t digging deep
Check out my music if you’re really hungry
It’s been here, you’re just not getting your hands dirty enough…
.. "when I say I'm the NICEST I MEAN it.." 😭🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙌🏾🔥
2:18 He said y’all end a prayer with amen that’s how I begin it for instance .. a.. men.. microphone checker! 🔥 🔥
If you REALLY know soul as a lyricist you know majority of this was LEGIT FREESTYLE, give this man his damn flowers now.
💯🔥
Yezzir this the last lyricist
He started off with Hit him up then when the beat switched he went straight to a Biggie bar.. it's different
I barely know any of his music but im glad i saw this comment because im a writer myself and i could tell he was off the top with it. Thats whatblows my mind rn.
@@jema125 it was off the top but I’m sure he had those bars locked in his mind.. dude is hella talented
that whole “overqualified/wallet size/ostrich sized/ostracized” rhyme scheme is insane, just wanted to give praise for the construction on that level, obviously amazing wordplay aside.
this man is a veteran in all aspects of hip hop and he’s back in peak fighting form this far into his career…i cannot wait for this next album
just can ignore the "BIGGER" picture "one" lazy eye knigga to taking a shot at another lazy eye knigga "wallace-size" over the infamous hit em up track.....if WE doing that, thats huge injustice to abSoul to what he's doing. and we kinda want him to keep doing this right?
if thats your highlight then relisten. there’s way way more that went over your head
@@ahmedalfalahi9954 the rest of it didnt go over my head, i just like that part and didnt see anyone talking about it, that’s all. no need to be condescending friend.
did y'all catch how he said "run and hide(like an ostrich does) or be ostracized"?!?
Ab Soul is the best Lyricist alive. 75% of what he says goes over the smartest people’s head. Soul has been my favorite rapper since 2011, my junior year of highschool. THE KING IS BACK ❤
Suggest me some good songs
The whole “Control System” album is a whole fucking experience. Download that, plug in and get ready to float. 🔥
Listen to his “the real hip hop” freestyle 🔥
Love Ab Soul! He went to my high school 🤟🏻 Carson represent
Listen to Daylyt
“Actually y’all would be more competitive speechless”
“Y’all can keep sleeping on me I’m embedded” 🛌 my god FACTS & BARS
ab-soul has been one of the dope ones since back then. can't wait to hear the new gems. much love and respect!
I feel like it's 2012 again and I'm trynna convince my friends ab soul is the best rapper alive. That final line was perfection.
bro!! Fr. Time has shown we don't even have to speak for the man no more.
I have managed to convince 5 friends of Mine and now They are so Addicted to His Art
Just wrote my thoughts out lol
Me right now!!! Got on late
just saw him live last night and im convinced he wears that crown
One of my favorite things that Black Hippy always did was flip each others lines or directly quote each other. On this one Soul, flipped Kendrick's line from Growing Apart:
"We all seem to stumble, planning our own demise
Forgetting the big picture and making it wallet size"
“I’m the best MC breathing. When I say I’m the nicest, I really MEAN it.”
Yeah. That line went over my head the first time. Hes ill.
@@tos5536 one of the illest no doubt.
Ab-Soul is an AAALLIIIIEEEENNN
2:40: that bar about DD and Hell's Kitchen was fire 🔥🔥🔥
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
bro the "do it big as christopher" right as the beat switched is crazy
Gave me chills fam😮
I've always considered Ab-Soul as the most lyrically gifted outta Black Hippie / TDE.. So underrated. Betta not sleep on Soul!
They sleep on him but he’s embedded. Soul’s wordplay’s crazy 😮
@@elcakkouri flow delivery always on point as well
hahaha Sole shot ya!
love ab soul
@@J-Mello people have no idea what they're missing on cuz everything Ab-soul says goes over their heads
I havent been so excited and extremely impressed with a freestyle in a minute. Absouletly the greatest
I’m up next
4:06 double entendre is lyrical genius like this whole thing was as perfect as it gets! So much details and thought provoking metaphors geez!!
"My worldplay is top tier like my boss just cried"
The owner of TDE is Top,Tier/tear..🔥💯
So many bars went over my head the first few listens
Did you catch the last one tho? Robin Hood done sold his bow for a Draco Nigga bow=bough 🥶
@@detroitboxingtv9875 huh?
@@CamEron-nj5qy yea it went over your head fs
@@detroitboxingtv9875 It’s still going over my head 😂. What do you mean bow=bough?
@@CamEron-nj5qy it’s a slang term, a street term for drugs, a bough is a certain amount of drugs, Robin Hood done sold his bow or bough for a Draco 🤦🏾♂️
Some bars flew over my head so for that I’ll keep coming back to this freestyle cause this was insane🔥
I Agree. Check out my Ab Soul Review before the album drops on my page and let me know what you think bro 💯
I still catch strays from DWTW 6 years later and wonder how did I miss this for this long lol
That being said & coupled w/fact he’s the one legally blind
Seeing the “Bigger” picture
“Wallace” sized
Over the Hit Em Up beat 1:19
“Just don’t remember to forget,
There’ll never be another,
Soul” -Ab Soul
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Want this brother to never stop winning. The album is incredible. 🤲🏾
I hope people see what Ab did. The bars/transition from “Hit ‘em up” to
“Who shot ya” is beyond crazy. SOUL!!!
“ Red and blue made green we made that make sense(cents)” too fucking fire
I love seeing Soul get this much love after such a hiatus. Can’t wait for the album
Damn. Extremely impressive. He’s officially reaching Godbody level. Very few rest there.
Reachin? He done lapped Godbody level at least a few dozen times by now. 😜
@@HEagle72 nah. He always showed potential to be there. But he wasn’t consistently on a Rakim, Nas, G Rap, Andre, Black Thought, Hov, Lupe level. But with this? Hell, if he shows this through the whole album, he’d be one of them ones. No question
This just regular soul man
I love this, def Godbody
I Agree. Check out my Ab Soul Review before the album drops on my page and let me know what you think bro 💯
Love how keeps going after the music stops. The God of rap jus gotta rap 😎
I keep coming back to this, he's really the best rapper alive, you can have the album sales but nobody raps like this.
You're right. Pure lyricism and poetry at its finest. Can't really think of anyone that can rap like this, especially under 40
"yall can keep sleeping on me but I'm embedded" Soulo🔥
The last 8 bars without the beat is real freestyle. He killed it
Def wasn’t a freestyle 😂 but was 🔥🔥
He had to have known both beats were comin cus he started both beats with references to the beat immediately
@@DueceBandit any one who can freestyle hella good can make a bar referencing the best
“off the top” and “freestyle” are not the same thing!
@@michaeld3546I think it was, a lot of those bars pretty simple, and there were a lot of pauses.
If this how soul freestyling we getting major heat on Friday
But he been like this
You gotta listen to this 25 times to catch every sneak its beautiful
Bro is such a throwback straight from the lineage of Rakim, Nas, Andre, and Lupe... Flow is unmatched, wordplay crazy, delivery cold... No hype or gimmicks, just stoic beastin'
Good to see Ab Soul return I know this album will be a classic
Facts 🔥🔥🔥
don’t forget the dash tho
Excited for it to think we all are 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
THIS MAN IS AB-SOUL-UTELY ON FIRE🔥🔥🔥
Its always a good day when you hear a fire freestyle 🔥
He fucked it, hes shite!
Been rooting for this man for years. Really wanna see him win
I really wish the world could give him his Flowers mane, he is Really The Best Rapper out ❤❤
I swear his name needs to come up in all the best current lyricists convos....Ab is sick!!!!
Always speechless
That WI-FI bar... 🤯🤯🤯 the word play is unreal.... every other bar is going over everyone's head. Guaranteed.
I missed it 😮
@giulioboobzilla 4:08 "why fight it" = Wi'Fied it We in the net = internet.
@@theycallmedub I rewind@ after writin my comment. Great wordplay!!
That top tier bar is still gonna fly over people's heads 💯
explain it to us fam
Top is boss top dawg
Top tier (tear)
@@donmachadu 😱
No hate but that particular wordplay been used by battle rappers
@Duhsak not unless your boss is Top dawg so nah you wrong... "The wordplay is top tier (Top dawg tear) like my boss cried "
It's a simple yet clever wordplay ...
This the HARDEST AB SOUL HAS EVER WENT ON A FREESTYLE. GOT DAMN!!! STRAIGHT HEAT!
He said "my bars top tier like my boss cried"
Ab Soul is da man cuz! Respect and GOD bless.
Soulo is one of the most underrated lyricist I swear! 🔥💯
“Dodging Cap in my Dodger Cap”
“Just don’t remember to forget there’ll never be another...SOUL” 🙌🏾
Freestyle of the year.
The entendres this guy spit were 🔥
imagine having a friend with this level of energy in the studio, this is what made kenrick who he is fr
“He may or may not fade to black but can’t crack” (black don’t crack) Soul too cold
Such a great feeling to finally see Soul get the recognition he deserves! It's been a very long time coming.
Idk why this freestyle got me ready to cry tears of joy 🔥🔥🔥🔥
The fact that he's never been on LA Leakers till now is crazy! gotta give him his props man Legend!
There will never be another SOUL!!
SOUL. Man. This joint had me smiling. Super dope.
AB is one of those god tier lyricists that we only get every once in a while. This is why he's always been my favorite on of TDE.
People kept saying Kendrick was better I just laughed like keep sleeping on solo Ho
Wordplay top tier, like my boss just cried. Nah chill Soul 😂 🔥
"They don't see the bigger picture, cuz it didn't come in wallet size" 💸 #herbert 🗣️🗣️🗣️
616 in LA at the Pop Out hits different after hearing the bars at 1:35
1:03 low key a call back to Cyhi when he explained that listen silent bar
No one can touch this man on his worst day 🔥🔥🔥🙆♂️
I agree he is the best Mc breathing
Bro!!!
His fav rapper is Lupe Fiasco don't get it twisted like a pretzel there's levels.
@@Soursop7810 Lupe does not have this dudes bars bro 😂
@@popeyeschicken3535 No, 🤣😂Lupe has his own bars that are light years in the future compared to Ab but you'd probably need to hear Ab soul say that before you believe it don't be a fanatic dude, do some research🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂
"Just don't remember to forget that there will never be another.......Soul...." 💯
🔥🔥
“When I say I’m the nicest, I really “mean” it” 🔥
slick
MOTHERF- i didn’t even catch that
@@kbrown3787 i hate that too. it always be the most benign & elementary, hidden in plain sight that slip right under ya nose
i love when he pauses to point out and be in awe of what he said lol
We'll be watching this for years. This is going to show up in mixtapes.
Ab soul is just from another dimension...always been the secret diamond of TDE.
A lyrical masterpiece!
Exactly top notch!
"pulling cash out my sacks like terrace martin or kenny g
im overthinking i shoulda listened to kenny beats" 🔥🔥
That’s a real “off the top” freestyle! No writtens you can tell . Crazy 🔥🔥
Nah man, this is definitely pre-written, at least for the most part. That doesn't take away from its quality, though - the best freestyle I've heard in a while
@@russellk.4896I promise this isn't written lol
damn these shits where u can rly see how an artist is in the moment (and theyre cool asf) are so COOOLL
"the flow top tier like my boss just cried"🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
My guy has bounced back since the book of soul days. I felt his pain in that song. Dude's evolved but stayed true to himself
Nothing but greatness, the best lyricist of his generation.
THATS FOOD FOR THOUGHT BECAUSE I THOUGHT WE COULD FEED EACHOTHER. THATS COLD
How fucking perfect it is that he said "I do it big as christopher" right when it changed to Who Shot Ya
Ab-Soul is a legend, many don't know his name but they are missing out. All time great
This is one of those freestyles you wish was longer. Like at least 15min long it was so good. Shout out to Ab Soul. 🙏🏾🔥
He said more in 6 than most do with 15 tbf 😅
Never heard a man on EARTH freestyle like this, never, I swear
Ab actually just as lyrical as Kendrick TDE really hands down one of the best Groups that really never formed
I’d argue the best. Not most impactful although the argument can be made but pound for pound, bad for bad, their staff is insane. No one in modern day can hang with them. Dreamville is a close second but they aren’t on that level
Bar for bar*
@@TravisScott-mt5yg soulo can go bar to bar with kdot
@@kineticwayss I agree
he's always been more lyrical than Kendrick Lamar. any moderately intelligent person can understand that. But Kendrick Lamar is a better artist and makes better music.
Long time Ab Soul fan. The freestyle is ridiculously ill af. One of the best MC's alive.