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He brags about his street bona fides but tracks like Numb Numb Juice and Tales are tempered by grim lamentations about the dark side of the game.
That apparently happy and carefree aspect of Q is less evident on CrasH Talk.Īt its best, the record reminds us that Q can be a master of nuance. We’ve seen glimpses of his upgraded lifestyle of cars and big houses befitting a rapper with multiple platinum hits and we’ve also seen him on the golf course engaging his favourite new pastime, shirt tucked into his pants, fully embracing the wealthy, thirty-year-old dad energy. His persona on the ‘gram is that of a jokester and doting father who is quick to playfully roast his daughter and close friends. In the three years since the release of his psychedelic street rap project, Blank Face LP, we’ve kept up with Q through social media. But he has to perform the difficult balancing act of showing personal growth while grounding his lyrics in his formative gangbanging experiences and maintaining his street credibility. Unlike his gangsta rap OGs, music is still ScHoolboy Q’s bread and butter. And with CrasH Talk, his fifth studio album, he’s at a crossroads. Raised in South Central Los Angeles, ScHoolboy Q is the millennial successor these West Coast icons. As they’ve got closer to the centre of the mainstream consciousness, they’ve moved further away from making the kind of music that earned them fame in the first place, evolving into multifaceted – and decidedly innocuous – entertainment brands.
Dre and Snoop Dogg become commercially viable but much less threatening figures in pop culture. Thirty years after gangsta rap exploded with the success of N.W.A, we’ve seen once menacing stars like Ice Cube, Dr.