What is up everyone! Happy
Saturday! Today I’m gonna serve yall up a review for the album “Oxymoron” by
West Coast rapper Schoolboy Q. The first time I heard Schoolboy Q was on Kendrick Lamars release tour promoting Good Kid M.A.A.D City and I always found him pretty interesting so I figured I'd give him a review. This is
a pretty intense album so lets dive right in.
Straight
off the bat I can tell you that this definitely was a huge release just by
looking at some of the names on there like: Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar, Tyler The
Creator, Raekwon, and more. The thing
that I truly find interesting about this release is that Schoolboy Q (unlike
most other rappers) lets the guest performers on the track take more control of
the song than he does; with respect to the fact that this IS his album, most of
the time youll hear the guest verse before you hear his, especially on songs
like Collard Greens and The Purge. You
also cant get past the fact that Schoolboy Q takes this album very casually, it
doesn’t just continuously pound you with heavy songs and beats. There are some very calm beats and verses on
the album that don’t make you feel overwhelmed while you listen.
On the
opposite side of the spectrum there was a fair amount that I didn’t like about
this album. For example, I feel like
some of the songs were very all over the place and some were more structured. Schoolboy definitely took this more artfully
but some of it does sound a bit fake and borderline generic. Not all of it, but
enough of it that I noticed it. I also don’t
feel like there was enough of a variation in the way the songs were approached,
when I listen to the songs I can almost tell how the song will go from the
beginning and end before even hearing it.
I also find a good bit of it repetitive but I wont hold that against
him.
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