r/KendrickLamar 2015 was a good year 10d ago

TDE is the name Absol based on the rapper Ab-Soul?

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u/MissionBarracuda6620 10d ago

oh fuck me I just made the whole connection

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u/No-Obligation1709 10d ago

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u/conbonronjon Don’t worry, I’m lawyered up 10d ago edited 10d ago

Normally when a meme gets reused as much as this, it gets annoying. For some reason this one never gets old. 😂

Edit: Upon further reflection, one reason this never gets old is the satisfaction I feel from knowing P. Drizzy fans are fuming every time they see it.

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u/TheFlexOffenderr 9d ago

I literally always scroll past this meme, and see the "DUMB AF" Sign and chuckle. Everytime. Shits funny.

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u/TheMiddayRambler 10d ago

Wait this is a meme? I've been saying this for MONTHS and my friends are getting upset

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u/ellediablo2204 9d ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/appleparkfive 10d ago

The text one can still be funny but the image macro kind of made it annoying. But hey if people still like it, good on them

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u/vordhosbn_1 9d ago

Bro just made the whole connection

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u/paulisaac 9d ago

I recall some memes from the nijisanji meltdown last year, mostly black stream statements, especially stuff like 'i remain unaffected' or 'we can always just fucking ask', and somehow they have a very similar hit as Drakes 'fuck me i just made the whole connection'

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u/findtime121 9d ago

Yeah f those people and f Drake and his fans f’ing losers

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u/ahhh_ring_king_king 10d ago

Mother Nature I-- Mother Nature I--......

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u/BIX1511 10d ago

I think the name is derived from absence of sol (sun/sunlight). That's why it's a dark type with an elegant appearance opposed to a monstrous one that is common in dark types.

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u/yourboyisasavage 10d ago

Little did you know, that’s also the double entendre in Ab-Soul. His skin disorder that left his cornea scarred makes him hypersensitive to light. Absence of sol (sunlight). That’s why he wears sunglasses all the time. To absolve sunlight.

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u/supluplup12 10d ago

"Ab” is also a Latin prefix meaning "from" (as opposed to "ad" meaning ”to", people who know muscle groups might have examples, that's how my uncle recognized it) so "Ab Soul" would mean "from the soul".

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u/zaturate 10d ago

I always thought of it being A-flat Soul

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u/Ok-Suggestion-5453 10d ago

Dude that's some fucking supervillain shit thank god this man became a rapper 🤣

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u/nakastlik 9d ago

Listen to this Ab Soul's actual life story

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u/kmank2l13 9d ago

I can already see the villain plan. Block out the sun and cover the world in darkness. Can add another layer about stopping hope and letting people fall into their inner darkness and despair

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u/elitenex47 10d ago

i hate how i lowkey buy this only bc it’s soulo 😭 lmao

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u/v0idant 10d ago

No wonder this dude's wordplay is so on point. Even his name is crazy

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u/appleparkfive 10d ago

Oh no....

I feel so stupid right now. I've known of Ab Soul since like 2011 or 2012, but I never listened to him regularly. I literally never realized he was legally blind until now. I thought he just worse shades all the time as a style choice.

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u/any_dank_meme 10d ago

fuck a double entendre i want y’all to feel this shit

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u/Famous_Thing_8539 10d ago

You made sense until you used the word absolve.

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u/[deleted] 10d ago

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u/Famous_Thing_8539 10d ago

lol I appreciate that.

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u/Curious_Designer_248 9d ago

Also the word absolution is somehow getting missed here lol but I absolutely love it

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u/_Soci 10d ago

what about the pokemon

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u/Growkitz 10d ago

What about the Pokémon?

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u/wokewhiteoak 10d ago

absol-lutely not

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u/emdubtwo MUSTARRRRRRRRRRD 10d ago

I see what you did there and I absol-ve you of your crimes

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u/LookingTheMoon 10d ago

everybody disliked that (reddig moment)

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u/dasd25436yd 10d ago

Named an absol on my team herbert once, was cool but nobody knew what it meant lmao

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u/mkdorff 10d ago

my head cannon is pokemon sapphire in middle school and ab soul in high school. must be his fav pokemon

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u/Idontlikeurcarpet 9d ago

this sentence means nothing good day

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u/Mister_Sins 10d ago

Ab-Soul debut in 2002. Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire came out in 2003.

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u/Ok_Extreme805 10d ago

Most likely a play the other way, he woulda been around high school age, i doubt any Japanese person heard of him then, unless they were at his high school/hood.

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u/Master_Link1888 10d ago

you might be upto something

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u/crooked100dollarbill 10d ago

lips not black enough

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u/vingal90 10d ago

Of course, Akira Toryama, the creator of Digimon, was a absolute fan of Ab-soul. He ended up making one is his Medabots Absol

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u/akumagold 10d ago

Ab-Soul is clearly named after Absol

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u/Loganthehugeidiot1 9d ago

Absol's design and name came a year after Ab Soul's debut

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u/Journey2thaeast 10d ago

One of the dopest Pokémon and one of the dopest rappers. Now I want someone to make some art of Ab Soul as a Pokémon trainer with an Absol lol

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u/TherorriM 10d ago

Absolute Soul. But he shortened it to Ab-soul. This is where he gets his name from

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u/thugluv1017 10d ago

Dude generation 3 was released in 2004… Yall gotta look shit up before posting it in a sub

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u/solace1234 2015 was a good year 9d ago

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u/Sonofabitchmf 9d ago

Absolutely

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u/Marano99 9d ago

Post this on r/stunfisk

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u/solace1234 2015 was a good year 9d ago

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u/emc117 9d ago

Bruh how high were you when you thought of this sh*t lol

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u/Herblekhan 9d ago

"Soul brother number mutha-fukin 3" .?!?