SCHOOLBOY Q

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