West Coast hip hop albums (Music Guide)

Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 31. Chapters: 1 Step Ahead of Yall, Ahmad (album), Allfrumtha I (album), All Frames of the Game, Back B4 You're Lonely, Blacc Balled, Chilldrin of da Ghetto (album), Control System, Dead Sexy, DenGee Livin', Fac Not Fiction, Gumbo Roots, Have Heart Have Money, It Ain't 4 Play, Jesus Piece, Longterm Mentality, Mash Confusion, Negotiations (album), Numbers (Mellowhype album), Nu Niggaz on tha Blokkk, On tha Cool, Real Brothas, San Andreas: The Original Mixtape, Savage Dreams, Six Figures, Snoop Dogg Presents: Dubb Union, Somethin' 'Bout Kreay, South Central Los Skanless, State of the Art (Presto album), Testing the Waters, Tha Smokin' Nephew, The Minister of Defense, The Promise (album), Total Control (Yo-Yo album), To Hell and Black, Velvetism, Vicious Rumors (Timex Social Club album), Watergate (album), XXXtra Manish, Young Soldierz (album). Excerpt: Control System is the second independent studio album of American hip hop recording artist Ab-Soul, released May 11, 2012, via Top Dawg Entertainment. The album features guest appearances from Jhené Aiko, Danny Brown, Schoolboy Q, Jay Rock, BJ the Chicago Kid, Kendrick Lamar, JaVonte, Punch, Ashtrobot and vocals from the late Alori Joh. The album's production was handled by Sounwave, Tae Beast, King Blue, Willie B, Nez & Rio, Skhye Hutch, Curtiss King, Aahyasis and Tommy Black. The album is Ab-Soul's fourth full-length project in four years. The album was preceded by numerous promotional singles, the first being "Black Lip Bastard" on January 17, 2012. The song was produced by Willie B. On February 28, 2012, Ab-Soul, along with Schoolboy Q, appeared on Sway Calloway's #SwayInTheMorning radio show, where Ab-Soul called "Black Lip Bastard": "pretty much one of the title tracks", the song, however, failed to make the album's final track listing. The first song that appears on the album, to be released was "Showin' Love", also produced by Willie B. On April 6, 2012, Ab-Soul released "Terrorist Threats". The song features frequent collaborator Jhené Aiko and Danny Brown, who proclaimed on Twitter that "Black Hippy the new Beatles and I'm Harry Nilsson". On April 17, 2012, Ab-Soul revealed the album's title to be Control System and unveiled the release date to be May 11, 2012. That same day he also released a music video for "Pineal Gland", a song inspired by the psychedelic drug DMT and of course the pineal gland, a small endocrine gland in the vertebrate brain. On April 24, 2012, another single, by the title of "SOPA" was released. The song, produced by Nez & Rio, references Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a United States bill introduced by U.S. Representative Lamar S. Smith, that would've allowed the U.S. government to control the internet. On May 1, 2012, Ab-Soul released another music video, for a new song titled "Empathy", the song features vocals from JaVonte and hi