Oxymoron By Schoolboy Q

The album Oxymoron by Schoolboy Q is a true modern age rap album all about doing drugs and other gangster shit. The style of the music is west coast rap so the beats are simple, have a have a heavy bass, and have lots of snare. This album is great for when you want to act like a trouble maker. You might not do any of the things he raps about, but listening to Oxymoron allows you to feel like you are right there next to him doing drive-bys and selling drugs on the corner. This album opens a side of the country that most people never see. As a suburban white boy, I have never seen a drive by or just hanging out smoking Backwoods and blunts on their front steps. Oxymoron is a druggy rap album and a stoners paradise. The hardcore gangster lyrics mixed with the rhythms and beats that want to make you move create a euphoric sound that will entice your average person who listens to rap, along with a person you like to dance around to a good beat.

1.      Gangsta

This song is true Schoolboy Q, telling where he is from and who he is. Talking about robbing a house when is 9 so he has enough money to buy drugs. He talks about putting his bitches on the corner to sell dope.

“With that yola it came with yo bitch

And see now yo bitch, she gon’ work on that corner

I don’t care if that hoe got pneumonia”

 This song goes so hard and I always find my bobing my head. This song can make any goody two shoes feel like a trouble making hoodrat. The best part of this whole song is when he is talking about how he is always strapped and willing to shoot anyone that causes problems.

2.      Los Awesome

Welcome to a strange beat, with lyrics that hit you straight in the face. This song is all about him being in the crips and doing drive-bys. Along with the weird beat there are some strange lyrics that have you guess how he even came up with it.

“Onion in my pocket like a booty on a midget”

He calls fake gangstas, telling them to come to Compton and he will show them the real side of the city. This is a song that only true fans of druggy gangsta rap will really like.

3.      Collard Greens

If you have ever heard a Schoolboy Q song it was probably this track. This was his most popular on the album and very popular with rap radio stations. The crazy dance beat wants you to get up and sing along. The lyrics however, are a little more intense than most would think. Schoolboy Q uses “Collard Greens” as a way to reference weed without saying it and is very creative.

“Kush be my freagrance,we love marijuana

Function on fire, burn this roof off this motha”

He even calls out us college students saying that everyone smoking and drinking all love Schoolboy Q. This is possibly one of the better songs on the album.

4.      What they Want

OOOOOHH MY GOD. This is the best song for a person like me, wishing I was all big and bad causing all sorts of trouble. This song is all about smoking weed, sipping on codeine and doing bad ass stuff. He talks about how he does what he wants and no one can tell him what to do. It is extremely vulgar to the point where its so good. He talks about having sex until his drug shipments come in.

“word round town that I'm selling hard
hard and I'm talking bout the yayo”

That line truly describes Schoolboy Q, getting some until he gets to mess around with more drugs.

5.      Hoover Street

This song is alll right I guess. I was not a huge fan. Its beat is oddly generic and the lyircs seem to go over the top with trying to prove who he is unlike his other songs. This is a song that gets over looked and for a good reason.

6.      Studio

This is Schoolboy Q's slow song, that every rap artist has on each of their albums. Nevertheless, it stays true to Schoolboy Q and who he is. He raps about smoking in the studio trying to finish up his music so he can get home to his girl. He talks about how his weed is making him think, and he is talking about all the good things he girl is good at.

“She can twist my weed and hit the yac

I can hit your type without the hat”

Only Schoolboy Q, the biggest Dope Head would find a way to make a song about getting really high and getting lost in his own world thinking about his woman.

7.      Prescription/Oxymoron

Drug song to the max. The opening sounds to the song is a pill bottle rumbling around. In this song, however he sounds that he almost regrets doing all the drugs. He talks about his daughter trying to wake him while he is a drug coma. This sounds sad and I would not play it because it seems like a buzzkill with talking worrying about her dad in the background.

“Percocets, Adderall

Xanny bars, get codeine involved

Stuck in this body high, can’t shake it off”

I would pass this if I was trying to get pumped up.

8.      The Purge

Continuing the drug songs filled violence and sex this song opens with Tyler the Creator.  He talks about be busting in to houses shooting people and taking their drugs and listening to the sirens when the people are dying. The beat is really cool, it has the west coast beat, with Tyler the Creators fringe sort of sound with siren in the back ground. This is the most dynamic song on the whole album.

“My Glock, yeah, fuckbuddy, make money, take money

Earn Crack money, drug money, take money”

  

9.      Blind Threats

This is another song that I would skip. It tries to be deep, but it goes over the top and misses the point. NEXT.

10.   Hell of a Night

LET’S GET UP AND DANCE. This song goes so hard and the beat is so good that you want to just get up and move. It might not be about shooting people up and taking their drugs, but it still somehow fits Schoolboy Q and who he is. It’s all about having fun, spending money, traveling, and meeting new people. Damn. Everyone should have this song on their phone and use it to turn up.

“Get up out yo seat, you can have my drink, let me see you dance

Get up off your feet, you can be my freak, let me see you jam”

Schoolboy Q’s true talent comes out in this album. If you were to get anything from this track by track it is to realize you don’t have to be a gang banger or a pot head to listen to and love some druggy music.


                                                                  Check out one of his music videos:  HELL OF A NIGHT