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Me and Joey and the, we’ve shared similar losses, if you can understand that, and those are really my little brothers. Troy made a comment about Capital Steez that I did not like. What inspired you to go to war with those MCs off the bat? You mention Jay Electronica and Troy Ave. Speaking of bars, the album starts with “Raw Backwards,” where you call rappers out by name. Go in there and be a pretty young lady.” That’s what I tried to capture from and she definitely executed. Just go in there and give them something from the spirit. Rapsody and 9th Wonder actually just fell into the studio right on cue.

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That’s why it was important for me to have Mac Miller sing along with me. I wanted to do a tribute to the woman, not the black woman, but the woman. That’s a classic Angie Stone sample, and it was a tribute to the black man, a remarkable record. I’m playing the role of Hadit and I’m having a conversation with Nuit.

“The Law” is an actual conversation between Hadit and Nuit. What was the concept that you wanted to convey with those cuts, and why were Mac and Rap perfect for it?

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The album’s full of songs that are connected, like “God’s a Woman?” and “The Law,” the latter featuring Mac Miller and Rapsody. So that definitely supported me while I was coming up with. So I felt the time of The Divine Feminine. She’s a kid and kids are doing things like that.

My girl’s daughter voted for her in school. Are we ready to have a female president? I think the world was ready to see that. It’s just being aware of its lack thereof or not. Maybe it’s not because of a lack thereof. Was that to shed light on something you felt was lacking? I’m a mechanic, so I take all of these things into consideration, and that’s what this album is. You also have the ISIS terrorist group, so you have kids who are gonna miss out on learning about Isis, the original mother of the holy trinity, but they’re gonna be immediately subjected to this terrorist group. Today, the most common Holy Trinity are the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, with the woman removed. That stuck out to me, him having to manifest her first, I thought that was interesting.Īlso in my studies, I found out what I mention in “Threatening Nature,” that the genealogy of Isis - the mother of the original Egyptian Holy Trinity - is Genesis abbreviated. To me, the depictions of her represent the firmament.

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I cracked open The Book of Law and the first chapter is dedicated to the manifestation of Nuit, an Egyptian goddess. What motivated that and what do you hope listeners take from it? You get into that appreciation on “Threatening Nature,” and women are a central theme throughout. This album is also a love story and it’s also a woman-appreciation album as well.Īb-Soul Responds to Top Dawg Asking for New Album Another quote from the book that caught my interest was, “The righteous will remain righteous and the filthy will remain filthy.” With him obviously pushing the envelope to be the wickedest, most evil, most filthy, why not try to be the most righteous? With that comes so many themes. So you’ve got this guy that’s usually associated with cultists, satanists, and these types of things, but then you have this guy who idolizes Jesus as well. My theme “there’s nothing wrong with a righteous man.” I like to carry the cross, if you will.

Doing research on Crowley, just being a scholar, I see his influence in music, culture, history, journalism runs deep. Well, the album is based on Crowley’s The Book of the Law. What started it and what inspired it along the way? Take me through this project from the idea to execution. The latest testimony is Do What Thou Wilt. I have all of these different templates, but I get to tell my testimony. You notice that they all have common themes and you see the poetry used, but they have their own distinctions and are telling their own tales. Later on, you find Eminem, and you do your research and find Ras Kass and then all the real MCs come to play. When I picked up the pen to MC, Canibus was like the god at that time, a lyrical architect. It started from writing essays in school, incorporating metaphors and similes. When did your love for that style of writing start, and how do you cultivate that now? You’re an intricate writer, heavy on similes, metaphors and multiple meanings. Somehow, he does this all while staying true to the album’s overarching theme of love. He also opened up about why he’s calling rappers out by name, and why young MCs need to respect hip-hop history. On the eve of DWTW’s release, Soulo spoke with Billboard about its literary and true-life inspirations.

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