Schoolboy Q - Oxymoron (Deluxe Edition) '2014

Tracks list

Tracklist:

[3:52] 01. Schoolboy Q - Gangsta (Explicit)
[4:13] 02. Schoolboy Q - Los Awesome (Explicit)
[5:00] 03. Schoolboy Q - Collard Greens (feat. Kendrick Lamar) (Explicit)
[4:28] 04. Schoolboy Q - What They Want (Explicit)
[6:37] 05. Schoolboy Q - Hoover Street (Explicit)
[4:39] 06. Schoolboy Q - Studio
[7:10] 07. Schoolboy Q - Prescription/Oxymoron (Explicit)
[4:55] 08. Schoolboy Q - The Purge (Explicit)
[4:30] 09. Schoolboy Q - Blind Threats (Explicit)
[4:33] 10. Schoolboy Q - Hell Of A Night (Explicit)
[5:55] 11. Schoolboy Q - Break The Bank (Explicit)
[3:37] 12. Schoolboy Q - Man Of The Year
[2:56] 13. Schoolboy Q - His & Her Fiend (Explicit)
[4:19] 14. Schoolboy Q - Grooveline Pt. 2 (Explicit)
[3:21] 15. Schoolboy Q - Fuck LA (Explicit)

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ABOUT THE ALBUM

1 disc(s) - 15 track(s)
Total length: 01:09:48
Main artist: Schoolboy Q
Composer: Various Composers
Label: Schoolboy Q
Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo
© 2014 Interscope Records
â„— 2014 Interscope Records

While his labelmate and friend Kendrick Lamar was jumping on Imagine Dragons
remixes and counting up his Grammy nominations, rapper Schoolboy Q remained the
Top Dawg Entertainment labels strongest link to the left-field hip-hop. His
highly anticipated 2014 effort Oxymoron was even previewed by the brilliant
single Collard Greens, a track where luxury and soul food clashed over a
shuffling house music beat courtesy of the aptly named production crew THC, but
thats about as easy as it gets on this grim and gutsy full-length. Think of
Styles P, Young Buck, or maybe even Mobb Deep attacking abstract art the ski
mask way and the brain-melting, coke game commentary called The Purge --
produced by Odd Futures Tyler, The Creator -- becomes a horrorshow highlight,
with lyrics like my glock is your f**k buddy coming off just as dire as they
need to be. Prescription/Oxymoron addresses Qs pain pill addiction and recovery
with lurching electro and vivid, disgraced lyrics that are in the throes of
depression (My daughter calls, I press Ignore) while other highlights are more a
sum of their parts, as producer Pharrell Williams returns to gangsta music with
the hard beats he lays under Los Awesome, then the organic and ominous Hoover
Street bubbles like a lava lamp and the not-so-awful sub-genre of psychedelic
hip-hop is born. The wonders never cease on this adventurous and street-tough
effort, but they never sort themselves well, either, and with accessible
highlights like Blind Threats, Break the Bank, and Man of the Year all bundled
toward the end, this LP requires a surprising amount of patience, especially for
an album with featuring 2 Chainz on its track list. Check one of this maverick
thugs more approachable efforts then come back here for something coarse and
complicated.
© David Jeffries /TiVo


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