INTERVIEW: ScHoolboy Q's New Album Coming Soon

ScHoolboy Q's New Album Coming Soon

ScHoolboy Q dropped by Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 radio show Thursday afternoon and gave an update on his new album.

“I just left the studio like 3 hours ago,” he told Lowe. “I’m halfway done with it. I never been this inspired that fast.”

Q just dropped Blank Face LP last summer, but before the year ended, he said he’s ready to drop another project this year. He even talked about what the content of the next project would revolve around.

“It’s moreso my life after I made it to the point of ScHoolboy Q. I gave you me, but I never gave you the other side of me: the father, the dude that’s actually happy, the dude that doesn’t be in the hood just hanging out. The dude that’s trying to put his homies in position now. I’m not a deadbeat father anymore.”

He also talked to Lowe about his creative process, the GRAMMYs (for which he’s nominated for two, and Q acknowledged “they don’t put rappers like me in the GRAMMYs”), the progression of his albums, the importance of street rappers, the evolution of Los Angeles rap and more.

A bonus from the interview? He said he’s got a “bunch more new records” with Anderson .Paak ready to go. We’ll take as many as he’s willing to give us.

Listen to the full interview below.

                                      

NEWS: Fatal Shooting Occurs Outside Schoolboy Q's Pre-Grammy Party

Fatal Shooting Occurs Outside Schoolboy Q's Pre-Grammy Party

A man was fatally shot just outside of Schoolboy Q's pre-grammy party in L.A. last night.

Before and after awards shows, L.A.'s club scene tends to get a little too turnt. Last year, Suge Knight caught six bullets at Chris Brown's pre-VMA party,shots were fired outside of a post-BET Awards party, and now it looks like there was also some commotion outside of Schoolboy Q's pre-Grammy event last night. While Q hosted the party at the city's Supperclub, outside a man shot another in the head, fatally wounding him.

According to TMZ, it's unclear whether or not the two men had been inside the club that night, but both have been linked to gangs. Also inside the club at the time were DJ Paul, Wiz Khalifa and Snoop Dogg.

Stay tuned for updates, and check out a flyer for the event below.

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NEWS: AB-SOUL BELIEVES HE’S THE ‘BEST RAPPER ON EARTH’

AB-SOUL BELIEVES HE’S THE ‘BEST RAPPER ON EARTH’

VIDEOS: BJ The Chicago Kid Feat. Schoolboy Q "It's True" Video

BJ The Chicago Kid Feat. Schoolboy Q "It's True" Video

BJ The Chicago Kid links up with Schoolboy Q for the "It's True" video.

Released last month, BJ The Chicago Kid's The M.A.F.E. Project compilation is still one of the best R&B projects we've heard all year. Today, the tape's Schoolboy Q-assisted track "It's True" gets a video. He had this to say about the track:

"I was initially very nervous playing this track for Schoolboy Q," BJ told The FADER in an email. "It is a PSA. Its mission is to let people know that you do not have to be involved in gang-like activity to be affected by it, to be hurt or killed by it. This life is real and can hurt the most innocent of people."