ScHoolboy Q has shared why he doesn’t drop music as often as his rap friends, arguing that he “by no means checked out this business as a sport”.
The rapper and golfer has stepped away from the limelight ever since his fifth studio album, 2019’s ‘CrasH Speak’. Q (actual identify Quincy Hanley) is usually identified for being a poignant rap star and part of the hip-hop supergroup Black Hippy alongside Ab-Soul, Jay Rock and Kendrick Lamar. All had been signed to Prime Dawg Leisure (TDE) till Lamar’s latest departure final 12 months after dropping ‘Mr. Morale & The Huge Steppers’.
Whereas streaming the most recent episode of BackOnFigg, the LA resident advised hosts Smac and Trell why he’s “reduce from the identical fabric” as Tyler, the Creator, Danny Brown, Kendrick Lamar and late pal Mac Miller.
“These guys,” he defined, “We by no means checked out this business as a sport.” This led to him divulging as to why he can’t churn out new materials as quick as as we speak’s largest pop-rap stars.
Schoolboy Q explains harrowing purpose he doesn’t drop albums yearly
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“That is our life; me speaking about our conditions, y’know, the shit we achieved been by, homies we achieved misplaced to the system or to the streets,” he stated. “It’s not a sport, me talkin’ about my mama[‘s] trauma from her personal brothers is… You’ll be able to’t examine that to any person that received a[n] NBA championship.”
He concluded: “With regards to music, I don’t have a look at it as like, ‘Oh, it’s a must to drop yearly.’ I’m like, no, your favorite rapper has to drop yearly as a result of he wants chilli. I do what I would like as a result of I transfer off peace, I transfer off my experiences.”
Q reminisced on the time he and A$AP Rocky made cult rap classics ‘Model New Man’ (from Rocky’s treasured debut mixtape ‘Stay. Love. ASAP’) and ‘Palms On The Wheel’ (from ScHoolboy Q’s second album ‘Habits & Contradictions’). “I don’t care [when I drop] as a result of once I was within the studio with Rocky once we had no followers, ain’t no person care once we dropped,” he stated. One of many hosts interjected, saying that was when “the standard shit” was made.
“That is the one style the place followers really feel entitled to one thing, or that I’ve to stay as much as one thing,” the 36-year-old stated. “As a[n] artist, if I convey nothing to the desk that comes from my life, I don’t really feel I ought to put it out.”
The Germany-born rapper additionally commented on his final physique of labor, saying he felt that “‘CrasH Speak’ is [his] least introspective album.”
“It carried out so nicely, although,” he reasoned, “but it surely left me so empty as a result of it simply wasn’t… I used to be in an area of transitioning; I used to be tremendous drug-free, I used to be tremendous daddy, however I didn’t know how one can eliminate the gangster picture.”
In different information, ScHoolboy Q’s Grammy-nominated tune ‘Studio’ was featured on the soundtrack for the satirical comedy-horror Swarm, which was co-created by Infantile Gambino.
Final 12 months, Hanley talked about how golf modified his outlook on life, saying that “It modified [his] psychological well being” and “fastened” his perspective and “a number of issues” in his life. “Life is a golf sport – some good pictures, some dangerous pictures,” he defined, “however most significantly, preserve going you by no means know. Don’t hand over since you’re within the sand in your fourth shot, you would possibly chip it in.”
In 2020 and 2021 respectively, the South Central star labored with the Gorillaz on ‘Pac-Man’, an ode to the enduring arcade sport on its fortieth anniversary, and with Freddie Gibbs on the thought-provoking ‘Gang Indicators’.
