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.
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