SCHOOLBOY Q

FIGG GET THE MONEY YEA

fukkin love this dude

Right?

pretty sure i'm in the minority on ilm in preferring kendrick

pretty sure you're not!

I'm with you full force, tpp.

I wish he'd do a mixtape where he just rhymes stuff with "Figg"

just spent most of the evening listening to schoolboy q

I need to hear more Kendrick so I can weigh in

the only person on ILM who I've actually seen say "I like Schoolboy Q more than Kendrick Lamar" is D-40

i like setbacks better than section 80, does that count?

seem to remember a fair few ppl expressing pandemic's opinion. i won't really contest it since section 80 does kinda drag. kendrick's best verses just blow me away though.

I like SchoolboyQ better, though the more I listen to section 80 the more I like it. It's def a grower.

i prefer q to kendrick too, yeah

POLL

i like some of his songs, still think it's weird/disheartening when a rapper uses the word "fags" and no one seems to think it's a problem, not really interested in a big discussion about it because i know it's been talked to death but i'm just tired of it. sorry.

ok i know this is a schoolboy q thread but i LOVE that bit in the A.D.H.D video in the empty office building when the cute girl in typing on a non-existant type-writer and kendrick is pretending to pass her some invisible papers

HIGH TOLERANCE WHEN YOUR AGE DON'T EXIST LIKE WOAAAAAAAAAH

"I like Schoolboy Q more than Kendrick Lamar" is D-40

I didn't like Section 80 at all but am curious about this dude

What did you not like about it?

granted I only listened to it twice but I really did not dig the production

'blessed' off the new schoolboy q is really nice effort from both of these guys actually

They all use the same in-house producers for the most part, fwiw.

There should be an annual award for best mockery pf Jay-Z's BP3 aaaauh adlib

Yea you know what I'm rocking on today's drive home

I haven't heard the new Schoolboy Q album, but the production on Setbacks seems pretty slight compared to Section.80 to me. And Kendrick is a lot more charismatic and a better songwriter imo.

the production on the new schoolboy is pretty cool and even tho i wouldn't agree i'd hear an argument that from that standpoint it trumps section.80, but in any other facet i think it's kendrick by a pretty large margin

kendrick is just a much better songwriter... q hits on some good stuff on a few songs on the album but it's still pretty amateurish in a lot of places to me

and not amateurish in a way that i guess i'm attracted to... just sorta skating by on 'vibe' and all that

how was the production 'slight,' like what do you mean by that?

the production on section80 was kind of hokey to me in parts, v grandiose & all that

yeah i agree with that

yeah kendrick made some real corny choices on section.80 but i don't think it's a huge deal

cosign n/a's post. otoh most of the music I listen to is dudes talking about who they're going to kill & with what gas-powered garden tool so glass houses I guess

haha

"And Kendrick is a lot more charismatic"

This is basically what it boils down to for me. His voice is v engaging/unique.

Having said this, SQ's new album is probably my favorite release so far this year.

TS: Schoolboy Q vs Schoolkids OZ

Really hope we get a Black Hippy album this year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRY1k6aSE0g

This dude is amazing! I had also slept of Kendrick Lamar before now... Damn, great discoveries.

(slept on)

yeah, likewise

He reminds me SO MUCH (especially in the grain of his voice but even his flow) of a mid-'90s MC I used to listen to a lot that I cannot recall... I only had his stuff on some now long-lost mixtapes my buddy made me...

Ah, shit; I remembered--Saafir:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPDHlGP80SM

Does any of this stuff come out on vinyl? I wanna give these dudes some $$$ somehow, preferably not via iTunes...

the production on section80 was kind of hokey to me in parts, v grandiose & all that

yeah, this annoyed me, the R&B gloss

http://www.thefader.com/2012/02/20/black-hippy-a-view-from-the-center/

lol at Kendrick's sister preferring YG

damn, this is grimy as fuck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGRHKwFHvNM&list=UUBY8aDToI-OBq2fe7NbwoqA&index=3&feature=plcp

Good article - it's got me wanting to follow these guys

FUCKS YES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oYwf5y9DFg

WHAAATT

best thing i've heard from any of these dudes

I know I wasn't that hot on Setbacks, but Habits and Contradictions is awesome.

hella on board w/this

Yeah, love this album too. Really dig how expressive Q is, even most of his adlibs feel like the pitch and aesthetic has been just so carefully considered. And the production is sick pretty much top to bottom.

good lookin to q on dodging xxl freshmen bullet

I know I wasn't that hot on Setbacks, but Habits and Contradictions is awesome.

― marissa explains it all (The Reverend), Wednesday, February 29, 2012 1:29 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

u wrong for this

The two albums strike me as both good and quite similar.

xp ok you're right, the new album sux

god it feels like every rap thread i go in contains deej telling someone they're rong or their opinion is weird for enjoying rapper x or preferring album y

i also preferred habits & contradictions slightly, setbacks took a few listens to settle while H&C was pretty immediate

thats completely backwards though. sorry for telling you you're wrong but ... H&C is a much less immediate record

they're both good obv

but whatever makes you feel better about sleeping on the 1st one & justifying it in retrospect

people have different responses to music

sorry to blow your mind but

dog cmon. lex accusing me of this is clearly some kind of practical joke -- his entire argumentative style is 'i'm right you're wrong' so i just went w/ it here

but if you want to discuss the contents of the record, joints like 'kamikaze' and 'fantasy' have much more traditional pop sounds to them than pretty much anything on this record, which goes in a much more oblique / abstract direction, IMHO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjOkdZVj98A

there's def more of a traditional, IMMEDIATE banger feel to these joints than the trippy kinetic weirdness of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oYwf5y9DFg

thats not saying one is better than the other inherently, i just happened to prefer the former approach personally, although I like both records. I do have trouble understanding how you can hear the weirder approach of this record as being a step towards 'immediacy' though, or i'm at least going to need you guys to explain more clearly what you mean by that term b/c i think its kind of self-evident how the two records split along these lines

xp that may be my problem with them? both those sound pretty rote to me compared to what's on this album

what song you know sounds like 'fantasy'?? thats a completely unique & amazing track

i dunno what in particular, but it definitely has that "non-mainstream rapper makes begrudging and half-assed attempt at mainstream song" vibe that always has put me off, even if the particulars might be a bit different, and the hook falls stupid flat.

the song w/ jhene on the new one is way better imo

its way weirder & the groove is considerably less sexual &, say, IMMEDIATE

what is 'half assed' about it?

i mean you're only talking abt my favorite song of last year, is it any wonder i'm like "wtf u wrong" when dudes start a thread about the artist on his 2nd record after the Pfork bnm & intense media hype & suddenly everyone's coming up w/ excuses why this is the better record

I listened to his record and was unimpressed with it last year, dog. Didn't even know he was BNMed either. You don't have to second-guess everything.

ok so on our original point, 'immediate' means, 'i liked it more right away', but isnt an intrinsic quality of the actual music, but i'm saying that it was more immediate in the pop sense, and that's something i value while you tend to value perhaps a more abstract approach from this partic. artist

blah reword

for you,
immediate simply meant, 'i liked it more right away'

i meant 'immediate' as an actual characteristic of music that was aiming for a more pop immediacy,

for me, this is something valued, while you might place more of a value on abstraction in this particular artist,

and now we have both agreed 2 disagree

what is 'half assed' about it?

― D-40, Wednesday, February 29, 2012 12:44 AM Bookmark

schoolboy q just kind of drones, jhene sounds uninvested, and it's really small-sounding, fades into the background easily

xp, yeah, that's probably right

"Kamikaze" and (especially) "Fantasy" are def. my favourite tracks on Setbacks.

"Fantasy" is pretty much perfect, esp. that bit where the beat gets all muted and fuzzy like you're listening from inside the womb.

I immediately loved both Setbacks and Habits & Contradictions

this album really isn't all that

mostly i don't get why everyone is falling all over themselves to talk about how good the production is... i think some of the beats are really corny

if not corny than at least just kinda off-putting... sorta like the danny brown record except without the implicit acknowledgement that some of the beats are supposed to piss you off

(idk beats on the danny brown are great)

like H&C much more than setbacks, probably because of the production...

i feel like the production is more ear-catching on H&C and schoolboy q stretches himself vocally a lot more too - the songs have a lot more unexpected twists and tangents that keep you interested and the beats are pretty incredible.

did u know? H&C is a prequel to Setbacks. Makes you think eh?

i feel like the production is more ear-catching on H&C and schoolboy q stretches himself vocally a lot more too - the songs have a lot more unexpected twists and tangents that keep you interested and the beats are pretty incredible.

― lex pretend, Wednesday, February 29, 2012 1:38 PM Bookmark

otm

I was half-wrong about "Kamikaze" btw, the beat is kinda whatever, but Q's performance is great

there are some awesome flutes on H&C too

nice portishead sample as well

there are some awesome flutes on H&C too

REAL OGS, etc.

i agree w/rev vis-à-vis the two jhené songs though i'm sadly coming to the conclusion that i'm just not that into jhené at all so her presence is kinda negligible to me

ha yeah i totally thought of that thread a few times xp

she's a good songwriter when she has more room to stretch out and she has really good phrasing imo.

I think she'd do pretty well just doing floaty inconsequential rap chorus hooks forever.

SCHOOLBOY THERE HE GO

Love all the ad libs too

Most Enthusiastic Crowd

Minneapolis. I was literally expecting 150 people there because nobody showed up to the meet-and-greet. I was thinking, "This is about to be a disaster." But that shit was packed out. It was a little overwhelming for me. It was crazy, all white people. There were like three black people in there.

people who wanna perfect their "the album you lames didn't rep for was better" game really need to get into metal, you'll love it

this album really isn't all that

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, February 29, 2012 11:05 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark

lol this guy

http://pitchfork.com/features/guest-lists/8790-schoolboy-q/

what an excellent interview

people who wanna perfect their "the album you lames didn't rep for was better" game really need to get into metal, you'll love it

― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, March 12, 2012 6:56 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its not like i wasnt on here telling ppl to check it out tho

I think you're overestimating your Schoolboy Q cheerleading a little bit deej. Not that it really matters

funky house septics (D-40) wrote this on thread rolling gun sounds thread on board I Love Music on Aug 24, 2011

the schoolboy q you linked me to awhile back was way more up my alley but i dont think that track is rlly too far outside of what we talk about

that said its not striking me particularly

i can't tell if you're talking about the schoolboy album there w/ that second line

anyway to settle this once and for all it appears as if you posted about schoolboy q once in the r&b thread in 2011 and then not until you posted your year end list this jan (except for when we were talking about asap rocky)

but i didn't go thru all the ilx mentions of the word "schoolboy"

yo nobody gets down with the "the early demos were better" stance than me, I can dig in, c'mon over to the metal side there's a bunch of us haters telling people not to dig what they dig

Deej taking over the metal thread would be so awesome

jesus christ dudes hunting my post history? i included it in the top ten of my favorite albums of the year, which i posted on this board

I think you're overestimating your Schoolboy Q cheerleading a little bit deej. Not that it really matters

― Number None, Monday, March 12, 2012 8:23 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

pretty sure i called 'fantasy' one of my fav songs of the year at SOME point. if i didn't post it i certainly told ilxors on IM just as often. like, anyone who regularly talks w/ me about rap here knows i was telling ppl i liked it

but my only pt was that this wasn't some "the older shit was better" monday morning QB ish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaANt8_mIlU

i dunno how i feel about that really. not too excited on first listen; i tend to like ab soul more when he doesn't play up to the 'philosopher of the group' tag he's been given.

"enjoy your mind trip but don't trip on your mind" is awful

enjoying the ab-soul album a lot

i think it might be as good as section.80 ??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_71q5lVEjc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12Y3e4OPUbM

i hadn't looked at the tracklist when i first listened to the album and danny brown coming out of nowhere put a big grin on my face

Album IS very good. Got it last week off iTunes, just getting into it.

We are living in an age of genius. I love this song. My ten year old boy with autism loves this song and we let him listen to it despite the industrial cussing. My wife loves this song despite normally hating all things rap. This song is the first one that has united my household! It is The Shit.

I am talking bout There He Go

motherfuckers are still sleeping on the ab-soul record :(

it's alright

motherfuckers are still sleeping on the ab-soul record :(

It hasn't really hit me yet has that one. Gonna listen to it some more.

I am talking bout There He Go

― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Thursday, June 21, 2012 7:01 PM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark

oh man, that's like one of my least favorite songs of the year.

Really? I am on the opposite end of the spectrum. I fucking love it.

Do you guys have any links to really good writing about anyone in black hippy? yes i've read noz in the fader

there was a twitter discussion tonite about the lack of quality writing about it & i've felt that way about it for awhile; that people seem happy that someone 'raps good' & 'has political ideaas' & it actually makes the music sound WORSE sometimes than it is, imo. like, writers are falling over themselves to make this stuff sound as woefully respectable & firm-handshake (c. ilx via rtc) as possible when the music is actually frequently pretty exciting, if a bit more mediated by kendrick's vaunted 'technique'

i can't stand KL's rhyming/delivery and find SQ deeply unlikable, which i'd be happy to write about at length is someone was paying me

which is not really what you're looking for but i see what you mean, people that hold their particular appeal inspire some pretty surface-level praise

i like both of them but find the praise overheated & morality-dependent

tbh i'm not even sure how i'd go about writing about these guys without falling into the trap you describe (which is why i haven't tried or pitched). that might indicate a flaw in what they do, everything - the beats, the rapping - is fine and often a lot more, particularly in the moment of listening, but it's some way off ~blowing my mind~. it's all, like, the #25 album on your EOY list in a mediocre year

but i do like them

i mean i just listened to the new kendrick single for the first time, and i listened three times and i enjoyed those all the way through? but i don't *care* about it?

Like I was saying on twitter, I think a most of Black Hippy's best material is the emotional stuff (with Q as the exception, his best stuff is weird techno sex raps), and I think most rap writers are more comfortable writing about the more technical or political aspects of their records. So when that kind of emotional catharsis comes wrapped up in displays of technique or a rebellious political stance, it's the latter things that end up being written about. It's like... the Ab-Soul album is my favorite rap album this year, but the best parts are the songs where he's getting all emo about his dead girlfriend, the rappity-rap shit is just a bonus.

for sure - "Blessed", "His Pain", and "The Book of Soul" are all pretty fantastic imo

Kendrick's tour is gonna be called 'music matters'

with Q as the exception, his best stuff is weird techno sex raps

wish there was more of these, I love them.

tHe commitment tHis guy Has to capitalizing every single letter H in tHousands upon tHousands of tweets is so fucking corny

I cannot understand why more people don't get excited about Q. He is an extraordinary talent and has produced one of the best albums of the year.

I really fucking love Habits And Contradictions. My 10 year old son loves it and so does my wife, it's so rare have an album that is loved by my whole family. When I am old and dying that will mean something to me.

idk turns out I really like Hands on the wHeel a lot

tHe commitment tHis guy Has to capitalizing every single letter H in tHousands upon tHousands of tweets is so fucking corny

― Citizen Ship (some dude), Friday, November 9, 2012 6:22 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

apparently He does tHat in texts too b/c He's a Hoover crip

so it's corny gangsta shit

sHit

can you program your pHone to auto-cap the letter H every time

there's an app for that

"collard greens" is amazing

http://soundcloud.com/topdawgent/schoolboy-q-collard-greens/s-T4uQa

hope they don't push the album back any further
https://soundcloud.com/topofnewyork2104/schoolboy-q-break-the-bank

and it's out there

under a minute into "los awesome" and i'm so hyped up

um these lyrics on "what they want" tho -_-

where is "banger (moshpit)" or was that never meant for the album?

thx for the heads up #0. This album has an impressively long wiki for something that's not out yet.

a non-suga free leak of an album with suga free on it is kinda worthless

my version has the suga free track?

good album all in all, stop being gross about women tho

Did your version have 'gravy' the supposed clams casino one on it? I'm going by wiki here so who knows.

But the version I grabbed had 16 tracks.

Feeling the majority of beats on here.

no, i got something purporting to be the deluxe edition but it's the 15-track standard edition as per wiki. already have "yay yay" off the deluxe obv so it's just "gravy" i don't have

the beats are really superb, yeah. "los awesome" is ridiculous

Come the end of the day I can tell what could have been 5 or 6 plays of this record will actually only be 2 or 3 cos I'll keep replaying track 2 'Los Awesome' instead of getting on with hearing the rest.

lol xp

i'm a sucker for the strings on this

that 'Los Awesome' beat is hilarious, makes sense that Pharrell made it.

Swore that was Fred Durst singing on "Break the Bank" :(

I keep hearing some annoying ad that uses the Menomena tune Q samples on There He Go, still got mad love for that despite it doing everyone elses damn head in. I like this new one, a lot less filler than on Setbacks... and the production is superb.

as much as i hated Habits & Contradictions, "Man of the Year" and "Collard Greens" jammed so i'm somewhat looking forward to this

I have had two listens now + really loving it, it is a different beast than Habits.. a lot darker and more of a crafted, well sequenced album experience.

ox y a moron is not a good chorus

I liked HnC and thought the singles from this have been really disappointing :/

This doesn't have draggy stretches like HnC, but the highs are a lot lower

yea the sugar free track is terrible too

few good songs here but idk i dont really get this guy

suga not sugar thx autocorrect for making me look herby

There aint no Hands on The Wheel on it but I still think it is a better album than HnC. Glad to see other people liked HnC, I always thought it was mostly reviled on here.

i didn't really like the song w/him and raekwon which seems like a massively bad sign

"collard greens" is a really underrated single imo, really fun song

It was really underrated! Pretty flawless imo, love everything about it

Yeah I still crank that one every time

A few great tracks, mostly near the beginning, but he should never ever ever attempt sex raps/content ever. Mostly I don't find him interesting enough a character to spend most of an hour+ with.

collard greens >>>>> hands on the wheel

this album is ehhalright

really don't agree with some of you people.

Listening again, but I really can`t imagine how anyone could enjoy "Studio" or "Hell of a Night." There are some half-dece tracks marred by either Q himself ("What They Want," "Oxymoron") or the guest (Tyler on "The Purge").

Hoover Street is Q's most poignant work yet, some of the imagery in there seems very personal. Kinda love it as well, the beats are alltime dark.

"Studio" is my favorite song....

this album is ehhalright

― rap steve gadd (D-40),

yeah I skip around a lot

i really can't get into this for some reason

...yeah, most of this album bores me to tears.

Haven't stopped listening to this record.

good beavis YEAHs

RED DOT, CHICKENPOX TYPE SYMPTOMS

I wasn't that into "Collard Greens" until I heard it out the other night and now I love it

It's kinda like every other SQ album in that the highs are crazy high but everything else is just ok

Hover Street
Los Awesome
Gangster

A few others but honestly I need to listen more

i like the songs i have heard on the radio from this, gotta listen to it soon

Hell of a Night is perfect in it's own goofball way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZphGmJa3q0&feature=youtu.be

this is sounding good.

yea i waay underrated this initially on the weakness of a few awful trax but this has several undeniable jamz

"Man of the Year" is one my singles of the year, "Studio" more problematic.

i think also i was prejeducialist to q bcuz i never thought someone rocking so many bucket hats could possibly be good

How dare you sir

EPMD looking at you like

http://www.mtv.com/bands/h/hip_hop_week/2007/groups/images/epmd.jpg

http://images1.mtv.com/uri/mgid:file:docroot:mtv.com:/content/ontv/vma/2009/photo/flipbook/me-and-my-moonman-retro/1991-ll-cool-j-50706032.jpg?enlarge=false&matte=true&matteColor=black&quality=0.85

tbf there were basically 20 years between EPMD and Schoolboy Q where the only rapper famous for wearing bucket hats was Tony Yayo

http://images.complex.com/complex/image/upload/t_article_image/vsg49cpwwjm5bg956iuy.jpg

some dude - i'm not interesting in being fair

bucket hats are basically becoming the new trucker hat in the post-odd future/yung lean era though

http://images.complex.com/complex/image/upload/t_article_image/lbmqzpozeo6hd2evgfwx.jpg

Is whiney rocking one?

T/F: The best song on Oxymoron is 'Collard Greens'

(t btw; followed by Hell of a Night, Break the Bank, Los Awesome, Hoover Street, The Purge, Blind Threats, Man of the Year more or less in that order)

T/F: The best song on Oxymoron is 'Collard Greens'

― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu),

True.

Second after "Los Awesome"

One of the things I think is really cool about this album is that when it reaches for an "old school west coast" sound, its model seems to be DJ Muggs rather than Dr. Dre

Second after "Los Awesome"

^^^ agreed

though am I the only one who digs "Prescription/Oxymoron" now?

Never liked that one

"Studio" still horrific, how was "Los Awesome" not a single instead

"Studio" somehow feels longer and slower every time I hear it. Relieved that it's finally fading from radio rotation.

"Studio" is a funny song, like few rappers have ever sounded more "the label needs a single, this'll work" half-assed rapping on an R&B track, his verses all end with awkward trainwrecks, but it's still kind of hot. and went #1 a few months after he practically disowned everything radio-friendly on his album and whined that he wished he never signed with a major.

I don't think Q sounds good on it, but I don't think he's the problem, either. Every cover or mixtape freestyle I've heard of the song has been a slog, too. Something about the beat/pacing just sucks the life out of whoever is rapping over it.

I fux with "Studio". It sounds good on the radio.

Q's always done r&b tracks tho

it cracked me up how both of the OMG INDIE SAMPLEZ songs from Habits & Contradictions were on Pitchfork's decade-so-far lists (but not the album or anything else by Q)

although "Man of the Year" has an indie sample too, surprised they didn't make it a hat trick

"Los Awesome" has super-tacky synths, surprised cuz I thought Pharrell was a more tasteful synth connoisseur even if he has put out some garbage in recent years

xxp True, I don't really understand the love for "Hands On the Wheel," not that it's bad but there are so many other "Habits" tracks that I'd rather hear.

genesis sample is where it's at

Both those P4k-bait tracks are zzzzz

And come on it's the Neptunes, tacky synths are the point

my favorite Neps tracks are decidedly untacky, whether in Clipse, N.E.R.D or smooth-80s forms

actually it's not a word I associate with their good or bad tracks really. I guess pre-'02 maybe but that period isn't 'em at their best imo

http://www.creativeswiki.net/images/9/91/Multifrogout.gif

is 'nova' short for 'novalidopinions'

WHEN YOU THINK OF HARVEY
THINK OF A HARLEY

lol. Not that there's no earliest-era Neps beats I dig but IMO a bunch of it's just rudimentary/not as melodically-developed as their later stuff, + the drums don't knock as hard as their later minimal stuff. It makes sense to me that they had their commercial peak in 2002

they had, like, a dozen indisputable classics before '02 though

Like I said I don't think it's all bad (ODB/Jay singles, some Kelis songs come to mind) I just don't feel their sound in general then the way others do, i'm sry

I don't think Q sounds good on it, but I don't think he's the problem, either. Every cover or mixtape freestyle I've heard of the song has been a slog, too. Something about the beat/pacing just sucks the life out of whoever is rapping over it.

― Evan R, Friday, August 22, 2014 4:43 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is nuts, beat and hook are awesome/perfect, could have been a hit for literally anyone though

yeah "Studio" makes a strong case that a year or two from now BJ The Chicago Kid will probably still be making radio hits and Q probably will not

What This Thread Makes Plain: ILE/ILX desperately needs a general thread for bucket hat photos.

Also I need to revisit Q's album, give it another chance.

("There He Go" is probably my favorite Q song ever, or close.)

idg dude's style. Purposely sloppy? In any case I don't really feel it

it's really depressing to me that Rick Ross's Mastermind is the one "event" rap album this year I've dug, Schoolboy Q I wasn't a fan of but Future let nova down

Afaik his style is dirtbag

d40 otm re beat/hook. I really like BJ the chi kid. Q's verses on that are no good tho.

Not saying the Neptunes didn't have a good career but honestly think their first big song (Superthug) is still the best thing they did

the best thing Pharrell ever wrote was Teddy Riley's verse on "Rump Shaker"

always thought "studio" was one of the songs that really propped that album up

it definitely did. i shudder to imagine an 'uncompromised' album

q is not a very compelling presence on basically the whole album sadly :\ like it is an okay listen overall but the radio-friendly beats on the singles are somehow more interesting than how he comes across in most of his verses

Not saying the Neptunes didn't have a good career but honestly think their first big song (Superthug) is still the best thing they did

― ruffalo soldier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 25 August 2014 11:28 (2 days ago) Permalink

maaan disagree so much lol

I know some of their smoother shit borders on easy-listening but there's so much of that style I'd take over the chintzier sound/more rough-around-the-edges drums of their beats back then. + they got way better at straight-ahead hip-hop tracks

I always feel weird when "Superthug" is such a touchstone for people cause it wasn't a hit where I live and I never heard it til like the mid-2000s. First big Neptunes joint here was the Mase track and then like "Got Your Money" or something.

yeah "Got Your Money" was def. the go-to early Neptunes hit in my world

or "Shake Ya Ass"

take a few laps around the english channel and hit the showers boys

85$ for a concert ticket is infuriating. I really wanted to see him live.

when he played here on his spring tour tickets were $25. but there's a whole shady cottage industry of nightclubs who book a midlevel rapper to perform for 20 minutes and charge an arm and a leg.

It's part of the local festival. All good if it helps the local festival alive, give a chant to emergent artists to perform and whatnot, but there is so little hip-hop going in this city (montreal) it ends up being very frustrating.

https://soundcloud.com/topdawgent/that-part-black-hippy-remix-1

Ab-Soul used to be an actual good rapper, I have no idea what happened. The rest of the dudes acquit themselves pretty well.

Also, Blank Face is out today.

I have just been listening to Blank Face, not feeling a lot of it - maybe I'm just not in the mood for it. I keep waiting for habits and contradictions 2 tbh.

"Man of the Year" is still song of the year

^might be right

im liking this though, not sure i heard a standout killer jam but all m/l was pleasing

I had a bit of a stoned epiphany listening to Blank Face last night and have decided it is pretty dope after all.

It hasn't got anything to match some of the bangers off oxymoron, but it is still a fine album.

I'm in love with "Groovy Tony/Eddie Kane."

the tha dogg pound track bangs p good

record is good. been pretty hit and miss artist for me but this is consistent

This is amazing. Agreed that Groovy Tony/Eddie Kane is something else. Love the Vince Staples and E-40 tracks too.

Even despite the inconsistency of previous albums I still loved 'em, but this one hasn't got a dud track on it and is probably his best album yet. But still my fave ever Q tracks are on habits.. and oxymoron.

I don't know those albums at all - this is my introduction. I'll definitely revisit older stuff on the strength of this though.

Oxymoron is at least half an alltime classic album, plenty on it to love.

John Muir is another cut off Blank Face i keep repeating.

yep

JoHn Muir is indeed a highlight, classic rider anthem with crisp live drums

You gotta admire the man's dedication to the capital "H" meme

i don't know what i think yet, it did sound aimless as i've seen said, but strong, likely a grower

I felt like that at first, it is deffo a grower and has a lot of strength in depth.

good album imo

this sounds great on first listen to me

can't tell if there's anything as good as 'man of the year' or 'collard greens' but there was a huge gap between those 2 and the next best track on oxymoron, this is way more consistent

Yeah this was my feeling as well

Well I'd put "studio" up there but more for bj the Chicago kid

"John Muir" is a serious standout for me

new vid for that btw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcV3jIqKznc

I can't believe how much better than Oxymoron this is, replace THat Part with the Black Hippy remix and drop the (sadly ignorable) Miguel collab and it's even better

amazing video

Amazing track as well, it sits easily amongst his finest work

i'm in

i'm still a sucker for a jadakiss guest verse

great album

the (sadly ignorable) Miguel collab

oh that's why that guy seemed so familiar

um, album of the year?

I can't believe how much better than Oxymoron this is

is it possible that oxymoron is not as bad as it seemed

I like all his last 3 albums, none of them are perfect but they are still totally ace.

blank face is kinda perfect to me

Was just blasting out JoHn Muir and thinking: another new Schoolboy Q alb badly needed.

How popular is he? I really like him but I feel like he ain't talked about as much as A$AP Rocky or anyone from the mumble crew.

https://exclaim.ca/music/article/schoolboy_q_postpones_new_album_following_mac_millers_death

that's a bit sad, can't wait for the new lp to drop tho.

running from god's creation
shaking these broken hands
and meeting with blank faces

new album out today--it felt like there was a weird lack of hype for this one, idk why.

gave it a full listen this morning. feels low-stakes and fragmented compared to Blank Face. some good moments and cool production but weirdly unambitious. some grating hooks, too.

yeah, i figured from the pre-released tracks that it wouldn't be as ambitious or eclectic as blank face, but whatever, every artist reserves the right to make minor works every once in a while.

I don't think he's charming enough to coast through bang average material or something. what a disappointment :(

yeah, this is pretty listless, with a couple exceptions (5200, Numb Numb Juice, maybe the Cudi collab).

"Kno Ya Wrong" rules.

we need him back!

new music!

"bluesides"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyKyI_DBIZw

"back in love" ft. devin malik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3vuOP5iY1A