| Riding Around South Central With ScHoolboy Q | March 7, 2024 |
In celebration of ScHoolboy Q's latest album BLUE LIPS, this is Jeff Weiss' republished 2014 profile of the TDE rapper, surrounding his major-label debut Oxymoron.
| Soundcheck: ScHoolboy Q Breaks the Listening Slump | October 13, 2023 |
For the latest edition of Soundcheck, Donna-Claire dives into how a revisit of ScHoolboy Q's catalog dug her out of a recent listening slump, highlighted by pensive reflections on the street life to pair with his raw delivery.
Schoolboy Q is back with The Blank Face LP, a very solid album that fans have been expecting for a long time.
| Groove Is in the Heart: The Return of Schoolboy Q | April 11, 2016 |
After two years off, the TDE bucket hat standard bearer returns with new single, "Groovy Tony."
| Strawberry Season: The Anderson .Paak Wave Continues | November 11, 2015 |
A look at the latest loosies from "Compton" breakout star, Anderson .Paak
| The End of Days: Ab-Soul’s New Album | July 8, 2014 |
Max Bell carried the cross so you could play Candy Crush 2012’s Control System was an inspired and unforeseen coup. Ab-Soul brought inquisition and introspection, paranoia and conspiracy theories by the oz. There were hits of DMT, witty wordplay, and pineal gland prodding. It was the Carson native’s claim to the title of ‘Best Behind […]
| Origin Stories: From Quincey to Q | May 23, 2014 |
Brad Beatson breaks the bank via Penny Arcade Next to “Prescription,” I found “Hoover Street” to be the most unsettling track on Oxymoron. The video reminds me of always wanting to be older when I was young, looking up to whomever and wishing I could trade places just for a day. We see Q’s inspiration for […]
| Toy Light’s “Yay Yay” | May 6, 2014 |
Max Bell is in the back sipping on yak. For the past two years L.A. based producer/DJ/singer/multi-instrumentalist (and not the other way around) Toy Light has operated at the intersection of indie rock and beat scene electronic, somewhere between Thom Yorke and Flying Lotus. If you haven’t seen his name around these parts, then you might’ve […]
| Heaven or Hell: Does Schoolboy Q’s “Oxymoron” Live Up to the Hype? | February 25, 2014 |
Doc Zeus knows the woopty-woop. Creative burnout is the most common pitfall facing young rappers transitioning from blog fame to the unyielding lights of major label stardom. The combination of dwindling-to-non-existent resources for artist development, a democratization of DYI self-recording processes and the Internet’s revolutionary free distribution model spawned a glut of thirsty, talented, unsigned […]
| Video: Schoolboy Q – “Break the Bank” | February 21, 2014 |
In which Schoolboy Q plays a piano in an abandoned house while a little girl (presumably his daughter) does pirouettes in a ballerina outfit. There are kangols and prosts, cops in vans and golden balloons. There are facial tattoos and 40s and a whole lot of high socks. Raiders shirts and Monte Carlo’s and big […]
