In a June 2012 interview with HipHopDX, Ab-Soul publicly spoke on Joh's death and how it impacted him and the album: "I was actually pretty much done with the project before that happened. On February 7, 2012, it was reported a young woman committed suicide by leaping from a radio tower the woman was later identified as Loriana Johnson, also known as Alori Joh. He had recorded the songs "Empathy" and "A Rebellion" with Alori Joh. Throughout 20, Ab-Soul was working on his second album. The album, as written on the back cover, is "Dedicated to the beautiful soul of Loriana Angel Johnson aka Alori Joh" Recording and production The day before the album's release Ab-Soul revealed the track listing and released snippets from the album. The music video would be released on January 15, 2013. On May 8, 2012, his collaboration with Kendrick Lamar, titled "Illuminate" was released. On May 4, 2012, it was revealed "Black Lip Bastard" was remixed and will feature his Black Hippy cohorts, Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar and Schoolboy Q. On May 1, 2012, Ab-Soul released another music video for a song titled "Empathy" the song features vocals from JaVonte and his late friend and girlfriend Alori Joh, who committed suicide in February 2012. Smith, that would've allowed the US government controversial control over the internet. The song, produced by Nez & Rio, references Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a United States bill introduced by US Representative Lamar S. On April 24, 2012, another single, by the title of "SOPA" was released. That same day he also released a music video for "Pineal Gland". 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. 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 6, 2012, Ab-Soul released the track, titled "Terrorist Threats". The first song that appears on the album, to be released was "Showin' Love", also 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 album is Ab-Soul's fourth full-length project, which was preceded by numerous promotional singles, the first being "Black Lip Bastard" on January 17, 2012.
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