"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.
― dr dre throwing dubstep balloons (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Friday, 10 February 2012 05:29 (twelve years ago) link
TS: Schoolboy Q vs Schoolkids OZ
― Mark G, Friday, 10 February 2012 06:58 (twelve years ago) link
Really hope we get a Black Hippy album this yearhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRY1k6aSE0g
― Number None, Friday, 10 February 2012 11:34 (twelve years ago) link
This dude is amazing! I had also slept of Kendrick Lamar before now... Damn, great discoveries.
― Clarke B., Friday, 10 February 2012 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
(slept on)
yeah, likewise
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 10 February 2012 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
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...
― Clarke B., Friday, 10 February 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
Ah, shit; I remembered--Saafir:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPDHlGP80SM
― Clarke B., Friday, 10 February 2012 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
Does any of this stuff come out on vinyl? I wanna give these dudes some $$$ somehow, preferably not via iTunes...
― Clarke B., Friday, 10 February 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
the production on section80 was kind of hokey to me in parts, v grandiose & all that
yeah, this annoyed me, the R&B gloss
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 February 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.thefader.com/2012/02/20/black-hippy-a-view-from-the-center/
― Number None, Monday, 20 February 2012 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
lol at Kendrick's sister preferring YG
― Number None, Monday, 20 February 2012 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
damn, this is grimy as fuck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGRHKwFHvNM&list=UUBY8aDToI-OBq2fe7NbwoqA&index=3&feature=plcp
― The Reverend, Monday, 20 February 2012 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
Good article - it's got me wanting to follow these guys
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 03:47 (twelve years ago) link
FUCKS YES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oYwf5y9DFg
― marissa explains it all (The Reverend), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 06:45 (twelve years ago) link
WHAAATT
― flopson, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 07:12 (twelve years ago) link
best thing i've heard from any of these dudes
― flopson, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 07:13 (twelve years ago) link
I know I wasn't that hot on Setbacks, but Habits and Contradictions is awesome.
― marissa explains it all (The Reverend), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 07:29 (twelve years ago) link
hella on board w/this
― bear, bear, bear, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 07:32 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― sleepingbag, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 07:33 (twelve years ago) link
good lookin to q on dodging xxl freshmen bullet
― bear, bear, bear, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 07:34 (twelve years ago) link
― marissa explains it all (The Reverend), Wednesday, February 29, 2012 1:29 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
u wrong for this
― D-40, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 07:45 (twelve years ago) link
The two albums strike me as both good and quite similar.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 07:50 (twelve years ago) link
xp ok you're right, the new album sux
― marissa explains it all (The Reverend), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 07:56 (twelve years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 07:59 (twelve years ago) link
i also preferred habits & contradictions slightly, setbacks took a few listens to settle while H&C was pretty immediate
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 08:00 (twelve years ago) link
thats completely backwards though. sorry for telling you you're wrong but ... H&C is a much less immediate record
― D-40, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 08:19 (twelve years ago) link
they're both good obv
― D-40, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 08:20 (twelve years ago) link
but whatever makes you feel better about sleeping on the 1st one & justifying it in retrospect
people have different responses to music
― marissa explains it all (The Reverend), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 08:26 (twelve years ago) link
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
― D-40, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 08:29 (twelve years ago) link
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
― D-40, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 08:30 (twelve years ago) link
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
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
― D-40, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 08:33 (twelve years ago) link
xp that may be my problem with them? both those sound pretty rote to me compared to what's on this album
― marissa explains it all (The Reverend), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 08:34 (twelve years ago) link
what song you know sounds like 'fantasy'?? thats a completely unique & amazing track
― D-40, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 08:35 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― marissa explains it all (The Reverend), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 08:40 (twelve years ago) link
the song w/ jhene on the new one is way better imo
― marissa explains it all (The Reverend), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 08:41 (twelve years ago) link
its way weirder & the groove is considerably less sexual &, say, IMMEDIATE
― D-40, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 08:44 (twelve years ago) link
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
― D-40, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 08:46 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― marissa explains it all (The Reverend), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 08:48 (twelve years ago) link
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
― D-40, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 08:50 (twelve years ago) link
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
― D-40, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 08:52 (twelve years ago) link
― 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
― marissa explains it all (The Reverend), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 08:52 (twelve years ago) link
xp, yeah, that's probably right
― marissa explains it all (The Reverend), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 08:53 (twelve years ago) link
"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.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 09:46 (twelve years ago) link
I immediately loved both Setbacks and Habits & Contradictions
― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
this album really isn't all that
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 29 February 2012 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
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
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 29 February 2012 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
um, album of the year?
― gospodin simmel, Saturday, 12 November 2016 17:42 (seven years ago) link
I can't believe how much better than Oxymoron this is
is it possible that oxymoron is not as bad as it seemed
― j., Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:26 (six years ago) link
I like all his last 3 albums, none of them are perfect but they are still totally ace.
― calzino, Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:32 (six years ago) link
blank face is kinda perfect to me
― gospodin simmel, Thursday, 1 March 2018 18:02 (six years ago) link
Was just blasting out JoHn Muir and thinking: another new Schoolboy Q alb badly needed.
― calzino, Thursday, 30 August 2018 21:27 (five years ago) link
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.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 30 August 2018 21:48 (five years ago) link
https://exclaim.ca/music/article/schoolboy_q_postpones_new_album_following_mac_millers_death
― j., Tuesday, 18 September 2018 07:38 (five years ago) link
that's a bit sad, can't wait for the new lp to drop tho.
― calzino, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 15:09 (five years ago) link
running from god's creationshaking these broken handsand meeting with blank faces
― j., Wednesday, 14 November 2018 02:25 (five years ago) link
new album out today--it felt like there was a weird lack of hype for this one, idk why.
― mourning joe (voodoo chili), Friday, 26 April 2019 14:52 (five years ago) link
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.
― Simon H., Friday, 26 April 2019 14:57 (five years ago) link
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.
― mourning joe (voodoo chili), Friday, 26 April 2019 14:58 (five years ago) link
I don't think he's charming enough to coast through bang average material or something. what a disappointment :(
― calzino, Friday, 26 April 2019 15:17 (five years ago) link
yeah, this is pretty listless, with a couple exceptions (5200, Numb Numb Juice, maybe the Cudi collab).
― mourning joe (voodoo chili), Friday, 26 April 2019 15:26 (five years ago) link
"Kno Ya Wrong" rules.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 14:57 (ten months ago) link
we need him back!
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 16:24 (ten months ago) link
new music!
"bluesides"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyKyI_DBIZw
"back in love" ft. devin malikhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3vuOP5iY1A
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 17:40 (four months ago) link