SCHOOLBOY Q

"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