ScHoolboy Q

Mixing bud smokers’ anthems with socially conscious figures, rapper ScHoolboy Q spent 3 years in the mixtape underground before starting his job properly in 2011. The 1st mixtape, the autobiographical Schoolboy Changed Hustla, got in 2008 and quickly captured the interest of Kendrick Lamar and Best Dawg Entertainment. Lamar would type the Dark Hippy collective with ScHoolboy along with Jay Rock and roll and Ab-Soul, and the very best Dawg label would indication the designer. His Gangster & Spirit mixtape landed in ’09 2009, and Best Dawg released his established debut, Setbacks, in 2011. In 2012, Best Dawg announced that they had authorized a jv cope with Interscope and Aftermath, which noticed Lamar’s debut record get a complete release. Afterwards that calendar year, ScHoolboy Q announced he was documenting his third record and will be the second person in Dark Hippy to take advantage of the offer. After some inexplicable tweets in 2013, Q announced that the discharge would be known as Oxymoron, but almost a year transferred prior to the dark and abstract record — which highlighted a whole web host of guest companies and vocalists — premiered in Feb 2014. Even so, it debuted at number 1 over the Billboard 200 and pressed the one “Studio room” in to the Best 40. An internationally tour used the majority of 2015, and 2016 noticed the “That Component” one drop being a preview of this year’s record, Blank Encounter LP, which debuted at number 2.