With Oxymoron, he says he wanted to make 'a gangster rap L.A. As a part of Top Dawg Entertainment, the company that gave rise to critical phenom Kendrick Lamar, ScHoolboy Q has played the role of the hard-boiled cut up. ScHoolboy Q has released two mixtapes and, just this week, his major label debut - but he says he's got two more albums all planned out. All this s- happened before I was even 21.' And then he started rapping. And out of all that s- I done did, I had a job - worked a job for two years. I done been a kid that was kind of living on the fortunate side when my mama was starting to do good, and I was hustling just to hustle because, dude, my homies was doing it, you get what I'm saying? But then I ended up actually really needing to hustle. 'I done been an athlete, a gang member, drug dealer. The Los Angeles rapper has lived a lot of life in his 27 years.
ScHoolboy Q onstage at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City two days before his major label debut dropped.