As ScHoolboy Q gears up for the February 25 release his full-length debut album Oxymoron, Q named his 25 favorite albums of all time in a Complex list with Oxymoron being one of them.
“Oxymoron is way different from my previous projects,” Q says in the article. “It’s crazy. If you’ve heard ‘Break The Bank,’ it’s kinda similar to that. It’s an album that needed to be put out, to be heard, so I took my time with it, got all the right rappers. I didn’t go get a million features on my shit, just a few, and made this shit happen. This shit was hard. I’d call it a classic. I know what I like, and I know that shit is hard as fuck. That’s my life and it ain’t got no history. A little Crip history, a little everything in there. It’s just an album that needed to be heard.”
Ab-Soul’s Control System was also a part of Q’s list. “Ab-Soul killed [Control System]. That’s one of his best works. He’s on some shit. I like ‘Track Two,’ ‘Terrorist Threats,’ and ‘Pineal Gland.‘” Q also named good kid, m.A.A.d. city his third favorite project. “Classic album,” Q said. “It’s 2014 and niggas act like that came out a couple months ago. Good music gone always live.”
Q’s Habits & Contradictions and Setbacks were named as well as Jay Rock’s Follow Me Home, N.E.R.D.’s Seeing Sounds, 50 Cent’s Get Rich or Die Tryin’, Nas’ Stillmatic and Ghostface Killah’s Supreme Clientele.
“Ghostface killed it,” Q said of Supreme Clientele. It’s one of my favorite albums from a Wu-Tang member. He was spazzing on there. ‘God damn right, I fuck fans,’ that nigga too hard for that. That line set the whole album off. Wu-Tang never gave a fuck. Nigga was saying his shit, he didn’t give a fuck and you believed it. You’d be like, ‘Nigga I understand what you saying.’ Sometimes you’d be lost, but you’d be like, ‘Yeah, I feel that.’ or ‘I fuck with that.'”
Q recently previewed Oxymoron selections during a Los Angeles listening session held at SONOS Studios February 17. To view the “6 Things We Learned From ScHoolboy Q’s Oxymoron Listening Session,” click here. At the event, Q discussed a Percocet addiction as well. To read about Q’s discussion regarding this addiction, click here.
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This dude things that hes 3 albums are better than every hip hop classic? Kill this nigga!
the mans listing his personal favorites, relax yo
And you don’t know what a “personal favorite” is. Recovery and MMLP2 are some of my personal favorite albums but I’d never claim they are classics or some of the best rap albums ever from an unbiased standpoint.
i doubt he really thinks that but you gotta be confident in your work and hes kind of promoting himself before the albums comes out
the list is chronological you complete tard. nothing says his albums are better than the classics.
WHERES GAME, HOMIE FROM THE WEST COAST COMPLETELY SNUBBED JAYCEON TAYLOR BUT PUT 50 ON HIS LIST??
its his list you can make your own
It’s in chronological order, DX. Get your shit together.
Oh shit you’re right! and seeing how Oxymoron isn’t out yet it got the number 1 spot. LOL
They’ve done that before too.
No love for Ross or Wale?
nope its greatest of all time man they dont deserve that title never will
LOL yah bro im sure he “Loves” them
“I took my time with it, got all the right rappers. I didn’t go get a million features on my shit, just a few, ”
All the right rappers? I would agree if he just took that 2 Chainz feature off…
You hear the song yet bro???? nah i didnt think so so shut the fuck up and wait till it drops
GFK = GOAT
word.
he’s top 5 for sure.
GFK trippin when he lay his verses like ‘Peanut butter soft jelly rap rifles’ n shit that song Mighty Healthy is the most confusing shit ever haha big up tho
to this day, he loses me at 8 ravioli bags.
actually, come to think of it, I’m thinking of One. an equally confusing song.
when i heard ghost on… i think its 7th chamber off of liquid swords, woooo Ghost went Ape Shit on that, “Sippin rum outta Stanley Cups, Unflammable” That shit made me go BACK and relisten to all his other verses.
LOL 8 RAVIOLI BAGS
great list.
ab-soul’s control system is one of my favorite albums from the last ten years.
soooooo where the fuck is the rest of the list hiphopdx????
check the link. they say where it’s from.
click on the orange link that says Complex in the first paragraph
what the fuck 2 chainz collab but no asap rocky and 50 cent come on men
You can only consider an album classic if you know the order of the tracks to point that when you hear one single, you already picture in you head what skit or song is coming next or you know what came before. Like everybody knows the sequence of tracks on illmatic, 36 chambers, the chronic, RTD, GRODT, RD, OB4CL for example you brace yourself to go wild after hearing NY state of mind because you expect Life’s a bitch to come on next. Anything less than that it’s just your favorite.
most of those albums were certified classics apart from the TDE albums but he gotta rep his crew, GKMC is a future classic IMHO
If the music doesn’t get stuck in it’s era then in about 10 years you can call GKMC a classic. I still fucks with 90’s music for that reason, the same reason you’re probably wearing 90’s J’s and Reeboks right now, the shits are dope.