SCHOOLBOY Q

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'