When was skool boy born

For a while, Q looked to be on his way to a similar path as he played football, baseball, basketball and even joined the swimming team in high school. Unable to resist the lure of his surroundings, he soon found himself drowning in a abyss of slanging crack, shootouts and jail time. Noting The Notorious B. His ability to mesh the two allows a delivery that makes him standout on every track he hops on.

I always listened to a lot of East Coast rappers. I used to get in arguments all the time about who was better, Dogg Pound or Mobb Deep. Q got his first chance to start arguments over his music with his debut mixtape, ScHoolboy Turned Hustla introduced to audiences on the West Coast. While his raps illustrated the life of a man who had one foot in the street and the other in the studio, that lifestyle almost closed the door on his rap career before it even got off the ground.

That talk saved my life. By this time I had some verses that people remembered from other songs. It was the perfect way to let the world know where I was coming from. Some songs I talk about clothes, bitches and weed, but other ones I hit you with the real. The first mixtape, the autobiographical Schoolboy Turned Hustla, landed in and quickly caught the attention of Kendrick Lamar and Top Dawg Entertainment.

In , Top Dawg announced they had signed a joint venture deal with Interscope and Aftermath, which saw Lamar 's debut album get a full release.

Later that year, ScHoolboy Q announced he was recording his third album and would be the second member of Black Hippy to benefit from the deal. After a series of mysterious tweets in , Q announced that the release would be called Oxymoron , but nearly a year passed before the dark and abstract album -- which featured a whole host of guest producers and vocalists -- was released in February Nevertheless, it debuted at number one on the Billboard and pushed the single "Studio" into the Top A worldwide tour took up most of , and saw the "That Part" single drop as a preview of that year's album, Blank Face LP , which debuted at number two.

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