Ab-Soul has dropped a stunning new music video for “It Be Like That” which vividly captures his battle with depression and his desire for a peaceful escape.
The music video directed by Soulo himself opens with a car coming to a park on a desert road before switching to a shot of SiR standing on the barren land. The video then bounces between scenes of Ab-Soul sitting next to the parked car and inside an empty room where he gets his rhymes off about coming to terms with the tough cards he been dealt in life.
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“My sun don’t shine no more/ My light ain’t lime no more (Ain’t lime no more)/ My kite don’t fly no more/ My woman ain’t mine no more (Ain’t mine no more)/ My words don’t rhyme no more/ My life ain’t live no more (Live no more)/ My heights ain’t high, they low/ I ain’t got time no more,” Ab-Soul raps.
The video then switches to a scene where the TDE rapper is sitting atop a trailer while vintage clips of him performing are projected on more trailers in front of him. Ab-Soul then takes viewers to an empty beach where he watches the sunrise as he raps about things improving in his life.
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The video ends with the TDE rapper back in the studio and putting in work mixed in with clips of him meeting up with Diddy and Charlamagne Tha God, hanging out in a bodega in New York City and more.
Watch the video for “It Be Like That” featuring SiR below:
Ab-Soul has made it known throughout the press run for his new album Herbert that he’s been going through a tough battle with depression. In the video for “It Be Like That,” it appears Ab-Soul is looking for the perfect, peaceful escape with all the scenes of him being somewhere secluded.
Herbert, which was released last month, serves as his first full-length release since 2016’s Do What Thou Wilt. The LP features guest appearances from Big Sean, Russ, Joey Bada$$, Jhené Aiko, SiR, Punch, Zacari, Fre$h, Ambré, ALEMEDA, and Lance Skiiiwalker.
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Throughout the album, Ab-Soul chronicles how he’s overcome grief, depression, and tragedy. During an interview with Charlamagne Tha God last month, Ab opened up about his suicide attempt right after he completed much of the new album.
According to Soulo, he tried to take his own life by jumping off a freeway overpass in his hometown of Carson, California. Instead, he woke up with serious injuries he’s still recovering from.
“I pretty much finished the album before I did what I did,” he said. “How I’m choosing to take it is — and I’m not giving it credit — but it brought me down to a place where I needed to be as vulnerable as possible, and as soon as I said everything I needed to say, I jumped.”
He added: “I took a leap of faith, if you will. And that was the only way I was going to be able to put that vape down, bro. Ain’t nobody going to rehab for a damn vape pen — shit expensive as hell! But that was the only way I was gonna be able to put that shit down, bro. I know that for a fact… I feel as though God sat my bitch-ass down.
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“I lost my teeth. This is a flipper, I ain’t even got my implants yet. My jaw’s fucked up, I got a lot of work to do still. My foot is completely reconstructed, all the way to my pelvis. Everything but my knee. It doesn’t even make sense that my knee wasn’t affected. My femur, everything was affected except my knee.”
