Balanced Masterpiece: ScHoolboy Q- "Blue Lips" analysis & review

[@zents1989]

Q himself needs to see this. This the reason he made album like that. He would be super pleased knowing someone spend so much energy and time to digest Blue Lips greatness

[@chimchu3232]

I was just thinking this. I could see him being stoked to see/hear this feedback. It would be cool to see him react to it

[@iamjayyyg7397]

If you revisit Schoolboy in the future, Blank Face LP should be at the top of your list. Very unique sound for a gangsta rap album.

[@Jimmy1982Playlists]

🎯💯

[@sainovacane4982]

came here just to say this, slept on album truly

[@malikdillahunt4524]

Thank you for the shout out Prof Skye, glad you were able to find some insight from my comment. Maybe I’ll actually start that channel haha, you would be a great colleague to have. #AVAA prof

[@FlumpVump]

AVAA, I don't know if I share your degree of enthusiasm for this album as an instant masterpiece, but I'm very interested to see how it ages. I agree that this is rap album of the year so far by a pretty significant margin, though. As always, thanks for giving us a deep dive into this project and for sharing your enthusiasm for amazing music like this!

[@ryebails1687]

AVAA Prof, always excited to see you try out quality west coast music! ScHoolboy is channeling the spirit of Quik on this one

[@kenya7510]

The Prouducer is a young kid by the name of LOW THE GREAT 🎉

[@VanguardNiche]

Foux is the 4th duet by Q and Soulo. Listen to the prior ones for layered appreciation. Faux like “Four”. This feels like the last real rap album for some reason. Love your work also

[@avaDD]

This album was ist he biggest surprise in a minute. He kept the oldschool Schoolboy sounds and instrumentals but merged them with such innovativ and new ideas. I really liked Oxymoron but had a problem with Blank face and Crashtalk, I felt that the overall sound is a bit out of date. Here he found the perfect balance. Its jazzy, trappy, groovy, hard hiting, introspective, it really is a masterpiece of an album. Love it.

[@shrimpscampin]

How the fuck did you not like Blank Face 😭😭

[@schmuck.on.wheels]

That's interesting, I definitely find Blank Face to be his most innovative and out there album (although the new one kinda challenges it), Oxymoron feels far more dated to me

[@chirkotelhin1806]

blank face out of date??? it still sounds fresh to this day

[@dinkydoodle8325]

nah that part timeless

[@vasilzhiliev6057]

Blankface fits your description better than bluelips haha

[@peterwoodaman5936]

Right around my third listen it all came together for me.. I enjoyed it the first few spins but it’s consumed my weekend now to the point where I’m hyped to go for a drive just to spin it again. this album is un fucking believable. I wait to rank his albums until they are out for like a year or more however I can already tell this is gonna be in rotation for years

[@YomiAderin]

Definitely listen to Blank Face. It's basically an auditory novel.

[@Jimmy1982Playlists]

Fr, fr! My favorite HipHop album of the 2010s... pure gold, Skye!

[@joetwinz]

AVAA. The answer to your question 23:16 is Lupe Fiasco. There's a KZbin video called 'How Lupe blew my mind saying nothing'

[@swanronsonn]

Detective Crashmore reference? You are a gem sir. Also, regarding Foux/Ab-Soul... I believe the song as meant as a continuation of their "Druggys with Hoes" song series (foux as in four). Whenever you do get around to Ab-Soul, "Book of Soul" is one of the most heartfelt rap songs I've heard and a good way to get introduced to him and a lot of the underlying emotional weight of his music that gets overshadowed by the fact that he is just a great fucking rapper. AVAA Prof!

[@Ben-mr6rt]

Really loved this album too! Also, ScHoolboy Q had a great song on the Gorillaz Song Machine project from 2020 - you would’ve heard him back then

[@seanjjpaul]

Incredible album. Hip hop needed this!!

[@bennyjames7806]

AVAA Loved this review a lot, thanks for taking the time to just sit, think and speak; so simple! Also hearing a Schrödinger’s cat reference only a week after watching the movie Coherence for the first time kind of blew my mind 😂

[@TheBatosai]

"I'm his hype man." Got me around the 15 min mark. It was a great laugh 😂 and I feel the same lmao

[@CypressSaint]

Black Face is really good Prof, no "cap" 😂

[@ComptonFunk]

I absolutely love the album and still singing blue slides when I watch the sun setting🌊 “deeper than the ocean”🌊

[@Jottaboy727]

You’ve got great content bro. Been tuned in since the Kendrick stuff and had to double back to this after hearing you mention it multiple times. I think a part of what made this album so great is he looked at it as a redemption after crash talk, where he tried to be more commercial. Other than that every single one of his projects are solid. A true rappers rapper and probably the most unique gangsta rapper of all time 💯

[@rechung]

AVAA just digging into your reviews. Really enjoy. Thank you

[@finnodonovan]

Time Crisis was the game you were thinking of I think. Had arcade games with light guns. And I thought the part about you being grandfathered in before simps was hilarious. Also I understand that submersing yourself in "young people" culture and music will naturally rub off on you, but I hope you don't feel compelled to use new slang to appear cool. The value of your reviews is the novel perspective only you are providing. Be it with your different musical upbringing, your academic background which gives you a rich vocabulary to describe the music, your knowledge on the prehistory of Rap, basically you're entertaining and distinctively educational on a platform where most other people in this area will have the same things to say. But yeah loved the review, thanks for doing this.

[@shrimpscampin]

Time Crisis, not a second to lose I'm the motherfuckin Bible, that's forever the truth

[@1_f1N_1]

AVAA. Glad you enjoyed this I’ve always thought schoolboy was underrated. Also, I hope you listen/ do a review on the new Yard Act album. I think it’d be right up your alley

[@zents1989]

your reference comparing Q to Mike Milligan and Fargo is my favorite of all time. because i love both. And the actors u was referring to name is Bokeem Woodbine!

[@OG__SPANKY]

The tv show reference is exactly what I am experiencing lol I am just now getting into the thick of it with Game of Thrones. I do this with music sometimes but I keep an ear out for interesting artists and albums that look appealing

[@TheUnluckyConqueror3699]

AVAA. I finally got around to listening to this one and I'm kicking myself that I didn't get to it sooner. Also the game you're thinking about is Timesplitters. Time Killers is an arcade fighting game.

[@shrimpscampin]

The more i listen to this album the deeper i enjoy it, its insanely fun, it makes me cry and turn up back to back but its not disjointed. If you wanna understand more watch the interview with Nadeska. The album cover alone is genius

[@Sunny-jw8mr]

A review of Blank Face would be amazing, it's a cooler version of The Stranger from Camus

[@tobyrothenborg6164]

Great review as always. As far as your 23:00 question. You got to check out Royce Da 5’9. Book of Ryan and The Allergory are amazing albums. Since your policy is to only review current albums, maybe you can review his LA Leakers episode 100 freestyle. It’s legendary, amongst the best freestyle of all time. Here’s snippet and the answer to your question . Cops crooked wearing SWAT stickers/swaztikas attending nazi meeting. Here’s another bar from the freestyle, just because it goes so hard. The Cain (cocaine/ stick-cane) made me able (Abel) to drop the deacon and go off the deep end. Y’all so weak (week) I forgot the Weekend (The Weekends name is Abel)

[@sugarhair7349]

I flew across states to see him all by myself in a club, I can’t tell you how out of character that was for me. One of the best decisions of my life. ScHoolboy Q is good at everything and he’s actual swag personified effortlessly.

[@stet8826]

DOPE album. Blank Face was previously my favourite but Blue Lips is his best album. This and the new Masta Ace LP Richmond Hill are 5mics.

[@Jimmy1982Playlists]

Skye, I am *SO GLAD* that you've finally discovered ScHoolboy Q! One of my favorite artists ever, and definitely my favorite West Coast artist since the glory days of Death Row 😁 Annoyed that the algo went over a week before letting me know you reviewed this amazing album; that's what I get for not checking in lol There isn't another HipHop artist like Q. Yes, you MUST listen to my favorite HipHop album of the 2010s, the _Blank Face LP..._ followed by _Oxymoron, Habits & Contradictions_ and the rest! "Love Birds" really grew on me, too, til I loved it as much as the rest 😁 All of Q's catalogue is incredibly dope - _CrasH Talk_ is not as consistent as the rest but even that grew on me heavily.

[@Jimmy1982Playlists]

PS. You gotta get into the rest of Black Hippy now that you know Kendrick and are getting into Q... Ab-Soul and Jay Rock are next! ✊🏼

[@Jimmy1982Playlists]

P.P.S. So glad you mentioned H Rap Brown, The Last Poets, Watts Prophets and, then, DJ Muggs... all huge influences since early childhood. I recommend all those to _everybody!_

[@breanaarabia538]

AVAA Im so excited for this 😭😭😭❤️

[@misterfelder]

For the love of all that is holy, listen to Victory Lap by Nipsey so that the Vultures verse isn't your only impression of him!!! LMAO. AVAA

[@jasonwright6839]

also, i would get familiar with TDE because pretty much all of them are supposed to drop albums this year.

[@SikeMikeT31]

Im glad that you've finally seen the light. AVAA

[@taylorsmith8885]

Marathon continues has to be your next album

[@jamesrichardson8140]

you had it right the first time - its Chipworth Enterprises

[@elison6188]

Schoolboy q couldn’t have stole “YAK YAK YAK” from Kendrick because he’s the one who does that ad lib on maad city AAVA

[@daviddevora8105]

Blank Face is so good

[@TheTriangleOffense47]

Please check out Blank Face and Oxymoron next

[@elruffin0904]

First Mr. Robot was a crazy show definitely worth the watch. But I love this album not sure on how it compares to Blankface yet but it's way better than Crash Talk. No skips crazy beat switches this was great

[@elik031]

also was the first time i've listened to a schoolboy q album! I was so surprised to like every single song, I was waiting for the bloat since it was 18 songs but nope it was amazing start to finish. Just listened to again second time ALL THE WAY THRU. That's big for me as I usually never finish albums (especially rap ones) start to finish as it's hard for me to stay intrigued with it. in fact, I stopped listening to we don't trust you right before like that🤣. Really enjoyed the album

[@taylorsmith8885]

#AVAA marathon continues has to be your next album

[@Q-Ball.]

We’re all just here to listen to Skye talk about hoes and bags and tricks

[@bootcutbandit]

My favorite thing about this channel is that you never give albums a numerical rating or "score". Just wanted to say thank you for that. AAVA

[@danielwhitingjr2854]

To get into Nipsey check out Victory lap. The last verse of that Kanye sing was YG. He collaborated with Nipsey. I think you like. Last album he made in life.

[@kiralypayne3106]

NEVER LISTENED TO Q? Wow you are in for a ride. Habits & contradictions, oxymoron and blank face are all classics. blank face is the best

[@Michael-it6ej]

Habits and Contradictions and Oxymoron are Qs best alongside Blue Lips. A lot of folks love Blank Face but not foundational like Habits and Oxy.

[@DeVlaamseStripjunkie]

You have a lot to learn and discover about the prime years of Black Hippy and TDE... lucky you! AVAA!

[@dani__crocs]

My guy has a french Smurfs book this shit is hardddddd

[@jordantruxton]

8:56 what is pgLang for $600

[@josh-qj2zu]

I swear this dude’s looks like a fucking British professor teaching philosophy I was not expecting the American accent

[@billwang3720]

This is my favorite album

[@1Hogitta]

Az chike like bike ch-ike but you got music knowledge imma have to break down especially that dj pooh album.

[@AuxCableCheck]

the game you're talking about is Chronotrigger

[@Lord_S.Tehuti]

"Oh I am incontinent" 🤣😭😂

[@trip2belize]

listen to herbert by absoul while ur at it. then get into isaiah rashad's music. doing great professor.

[@tdsnuggs]

I really tried liking this album, I gave it another shot. Just feels like there was no direction and replay value. Nonetheless I hope there is a Black Hippy album one day

[@Ben-xj2rf]

12:28 saying that right after talking about him being a crip lmao

[@billwang3720]

My kids playing soccer ain't shit in the way. My favorite line of all time. Just imagine owning field as long as you can see beautiful.

[@BoyGeorge76]

Schoolboy Q is born in Germany. AVAA

[@kylananstett1797]

:( no grammy nominations tho

[@DiceB]

Blueslides is the best

[@shaythecowboy]

AVAA you should listen to CMAT, great Irish artist thats making waves right now

[@EmpyrealEndemic]

Bruh this is pretty good❤😂

[@RenNeuhoff]

AVAA! Been listening to the new Yard Act album and loving it. Would love to see your thoughts on it :)

[@ComptonFunk]

#AVAA Please listen to Dissect and let me know what you know and think of him!🥺

[@TheGrimy16th]

I still think this is album of the year

[@khxnbeats]

avaa | you should deffo listen to blank face, one of the best lps of 2016

[@Thimasehren]

AVAA. Prof, Check out the artist Rex Laurent for a thunder ground Thursday. She’s a white female rapper from LA with only 2,000 listeners on Spotify. To me the sound is if Post Malone had a child with 070 shake and Lauren Auder, but with like a suburban white girl surrogate. Really interesting stuff. Think you would dig it.

[@robertpark5992]

blankface is great too. some way out there beats, great storyteling

[@kenya7510]

Movie 🎦 # 7 goooooo🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@jasonwright6839]

best schoolboy q feat is on pac man by the gorillaz. could not recommend listening to that more.

[@Jottaboy727]

AVAA would love to figure out how I can send you my music

[@harrisondykhoff]

Kendrick’s new brand is PGLang

[@billwang3720]

Hold on did dude just diss his own sponsor......if he did I officially love this guy! Also f😮ck gambling

[@teddy-fl6hm]

Avaa, please review the new faye webster album!

[@garethandhismanyfriends]

why not maHsterpiece

[@EsperLeon730]

seems racist

[@professorskye]

Was the original title, but changed it for reason above

[@garethandhismanyfriends]

@@professorskye I don't get it but should i remove the comment? Edit: I am not American but looked up again and maybe get it now... can remove if I should?

[@vulpedavid]

Yo Unc, do u know why he capitalizes the H?

[@kbnathan1]

Is it cause he’s a hoover crip?

[@vulpedavid]

@@kbnathan1 well yeah, but was asking if he knows that. Cause it’s kinda weird seeing avg white guys doing it, if they know that.

[@professorskye]

I heard a few different reasons and I know that one of them is gang related. I was just sort of having fun with the thumbnail and title. But, I'm gonna change it. Point taken on it being weird.

[@shrimpscampin]

​@@vulpedavid oh my god dude can you not lmfao He's not some white kid capitalizing every h in the title, he literally just did the h in ScHoolboy, like you're supposed to

[@shrimpscampin]

​@@vulpedavid you're white and checking him on this shit but you calling him Unc lmfao you're appropriating black culture too so calm down 😂😂

[@prod.primetim9]

Pls pls pls review rx papi therapy session

[@mixedzetsu4722]

I am absolutely begging you to listen to the new Bruiser Wolf album "My Stories Got Stories." He is a 40+ year old rapper out of Detroit you may remember from the Danny Brown album. He most definitely has an argument for AOTY in my opinion.

[@elison6188]

Unfortunately he doesn’t

[@cosminsoroceanu]

AVAA 🔥

[@Bballallday32]

Kendrick: Pg Lang

[@Yoyoambassador]

AVAA haha made it into a video

[@greenwood89958]

Wow you never listen to his recent albums 😅 I thought u where going to premiere with blue lips lol

[@JalenZachhM]

AVAA!!!

[@vibesbywatertv]

It's Blank Face. Honestly.

[@TigKnight]

its pronounced Lance Skywalker my boy. 👍

[@Fanrose2475]

PG Lang foo AVAA

[@dominiceubanks6586]

The thumbnail is not a good look bro might want to change it

[@Lord_S.Tehuti]

#AVAA

[@ethanlammar5554]

Day 271 of Asking you to Review Achilles Come Down by Gang of Youth

[@27remdog27]

It shouldn’t be called migos bloat it should be called drake bloat

[@junestevens5123]

I didn't care for this album well if you did

[@sclark1237]

Listen again or come back to it next season, if it dont work for you then I don't know what type of music you looking for

[@loclapm]

AVAA

[@BallinlikaG]

I think you and the Charismatic Voice would get along very well. I think this albums a little loose and could be tighter or more structured in places (the get bucc part could be an amazing refrain but it just falls off beat?, too much pussy hoe pointless refrains) but other than that I really enjoy a long needed comeback for ScHoolboy

[@livingcolorinc]

Brother…this is a masterpiece and the new MGMT isn’t?? C’mon now. I’ve been listening to Schoolboy Q since literally 2011, saw him live in Vermont in spring 2012 for his best album, Habits and Contradictions with about 50 people. Is this a good album? Yeah, it is. Is it a masterpiece? Far from it. Are any of the features on this album good besides Ab Soul? Literally, all of these features bring nothing, zilch, to the table and add absolutely nothing to this album. Way too many unnecessary beat switches. Do you think this album makes good use of 18 songs, 58 minutes? Enough substance for that run time?? As for MGMT, that’s my favorite band since ‘08. This album isn’t immediate but after a few listens that “stinker” opinion is going to change. This album is a complete culmination of all their works and is a complete progression of everything up to this point in their life Hard to compare, but if we were too, that MGMT album kicks the dog piss out of this Schoolboy Q album and it ain’t even close.

[@chirkotelhin1806]

cool story but nobody is reading all that 🙂

[@livingcolorinc]

@@chirkotelhin1806 Says those with a media literacy level likely of an 8th grader. Probably in Kindergarten in 2012 too, now saying you love Schoolboy Q. Don't yap ya small trap

[@hunterdelaghetto]

Listens to first School Boy album in 24… calls it a masterpiece in 48 hrs… we gotta do better people.

[@kevin64oz90]

You can proclaim any album as a masterpiece without knowledge of any other work by the artist. Sometimes art speaks so profoundly, it needs no time to leave a remarkable impression.

[@hunterdelaghetto]

​@@kevin64oz90 yes of course on a personal tip, but generally when reviewing music as a Music Reviewer, having very little knowledge of the of this artists work or moreso the Hip Hop the reviewer seems to lighty partake in... i dunno, its makes the reviews sound a type a way. Like saying capital H for Hoover its some gang related ish and light brushing over it in the comments above... when always its gang related ish pertaining Groovy to and it does matter. Regardless if the music reflective or promo at this point in his life. Like he the first Crip to wax about growing outta the gang into regular rapper life.... over some jazzy production. c'mon Dog, Album Coo, soo was Jazzamatazz 2. Masterpiece nah. its coo tho..... honestly that Freddie Gibbs verse thing cancels it out for masterpiece offf rip.

[@infrared6973]

Ive seen a ton of people online say they listened once and wouldnt listen again citing various reasons. Looks like its getting a ton of mixed reviews. They drop twice a decade so I can totally understand the harsh criticism.

[@jlgrave2010]

Oxymoron > blackface

[@zachroth1280]

avaa. FYI, Tyler's Golf Wang line has a funny backstory. Instead of saying Wolf Gang, Golf Wang came out and it stuck for the merch ever since.

[@ondelazulu4510]

#AVAA