{"id":173097,"date":"2022-11-21T10:50:29","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T09:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/?p=173097"},"modified":"2022-11-21T10:50:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T09:50:29","slug":"video-ab-soul-gangnem-feat-freh-and-new-album-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/video-ab-soul-gangnem-feat-freh-and-new-album-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Ab-Soul &#8211; Gang&#8217;Nem Feat. Fre$H And New Album Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/605sWoD5qxU\" width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles by way of Carson, CA\u00a0artist <strong>Herbert Anthony Stevens IV<\/strong>, aka\u00a0<strong>Ab-Soul<\/strong>, has announced a new album,\u00a0<em>Herbert\u00a0<\/em><span class=\"il\">out<\/span>\u00a0December 16th via <strong>Top Dawg Entertainment.<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Herbert\u00a0<\/em>is a deliberately intimate portrait of the man behind <strong>Ab-Soul<\/strong> going back to his foundation, as noted by the name of the record, leaving the conspiracy theories he\u2019s known for behind while emphasizing his musicality. After suffering through a series of unspeakable tragedies, <strong>Stevens<\/strong> completed the album as a changed man with a new sense of purpose. That was outlined with the first single,\u00a0\u201c<em>Do Better<\/em>,\u201d\u00a0where Stevens addressed the changes through an incredibly moving video based on real events. Today you can hear the next single, \u201c<em>Gang\u2018Nem<\/em>\u201d produced by <strong>Sounwave<\/strong>. On the track and in the video, he pays homage to his roots in Carson, CA, detailing where he&#8217;s from and the lifestyle he grew up around. Accompanied by a feature from <strong>Fre$h<\/strong>, <strong>Soul<\/strong> details the realities of Los Angeles street culture.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"173099\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/video-ab-soul-gangnem-feat-freh-and-new-album-announcement\/absoul-4\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ABSOul.jpg?fit=1200%2C960&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,960\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ABSOul\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ABSOul.jpg?fit=640%2C512&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-173099\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ABSOul.jpg?fit=640%2C432&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ABSOul.jpg?resize=540%2C432&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ABSOul.jpg?resize=1024%2C819&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ABSOul.jpg?resize=768%2C614&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ABSOul.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff Los Angeles by way of Carson, CA\u00a0artist Herbert Anthony Stevens IV, aka\u00a0Ab-Soul, has announced&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-J1T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}