Schoolboy Q

Schoolboy Q (2012)

Schoolboy Q (born October 26, 1986 in Wiesbaden , Germany ; real name: Quincy Matthew Hanley ) is an American rapper .

Live and act

Schoolboy Q was born on a military base in Wiesbaden . His father worked in the US Army . After his parents separated, his mother first went to Texas with him . She chose her son's last name at random. Schoolboy Q later grew up in South Los Angeles . He attended Crenshaw High School . There he successfully played football . At first, his school performance was good, which is why his nickname or stage name Schoolboy came about (the second part Q is an abbreviation for Quincy). At the age of twelve he became a member of the gang52 Hoover Crips. He lost interest in schooling and dealt with oxycodone, among other things . In 2007 he was jailed for six months, serving half the sentence under house arrest .

In 2008 Schoolboy Q released his first mixtape ScHoolboy Turned Hustla , which contains autobiographical texts. He was then discovered as a rapper by Anthony Tiffith, head of the independent label Top Dawg Entertainment, to which Kendrick Lamar , Ab-Soul and Jay Rock are also under contract. They worked together in the following years and founded the hip-hop group Black Hippy in 2009 . In the same year, a second mixtape by Schoolboy Q appeared on Top Dawg. With his download albums Setbacks (2011) and Habits & Contradictions (2012) he was able to place on the Billboard 200 . His participation in the hit single White Walls from the debut album The Heist (2012) by hip-hop duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis brought him international attention and chart success . While Macklemore sang the intro and first verse, Schoolboy Q contributed the second verse. In 2014 his most successful album to date, Oxymoron, was released as a joint venture between Top Dawg and the major label Interscope Records . It reached number 1 on the Billboard charts.

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2011	Setbacks	-	-	-	-	US100 (1 week) US	First published: January 11, 2011
2012	Habits & contradictions	-	-	-	-	US111 (1 week) US	First published: January 14, 2012
2014	oxymoron	DE59 (1 week) DE	-	CH24 (2 weeks) CH	UK23 (2 weeks) UK	US1 platinum (50 weeks)US	First published: February 25, 2014
2016	Blank Face LP	DE73 (1 week) DE	-	CH14 (3 weeks) CH	UK36 (2 weeks) UK	US2 gold (19 weeks)US	First published: July 8, 2016
2019	Crash talk	DE47 (1 week) DE	AT29 (1 week) AT	CH17 (2 weeks) CH	UK27 (2 weeks) UK	US3 (14 weeks) US	First published: April 26, 2019

Mix tapes

year	title	Remarks
2008	Schoolboy Turned Hustla	First published: July 29, 2008
2009	Gangsta & Soul	First published: May 14, 2009
2013	Schoolboy Q	First published: July 9, 2013
2015	Schoolboy Q 2	First published: April 6, 2015

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2013	Collard Greens Oxymoron	-	-	-	UK- silver UK	US92 × 2 Double platinum (8 weeks)US	First published: June 11, 2013 feat. Kendrick Lamar
	Man of the Year Oxymoron	-	-	-	-	US62 × 2 Double platinum (13 weeks)US	First published: November 23, 2013
2014	Studio Oxymoron	-	-	-	-	US38 × 2 Double platinum (20 weeks)US	First published: April 22nd, 2014 feat. BJ the Chicago Kid
2016	That Part Blank Face LP	-	-	-	-	US40 × 2 Double platinum (20 weeks)US	First published: May 13, 2016 feat. Kanye West
2018	X Black Panther: The Album	-	-	CH77 (1 week) CH	UK45 (4 weeks) UK	US49 platinum (5 weeks)US	First published: February 9, 2018 with 2 Chainz & Saudi
2019	Numb Numb Juice Crash Talk	-	-	-	-	US55 gold (1 week)US	First published: March 13, 2019
	Chopstix Crash Talk	-	-	-	-	US85 (1 week) US	First published: April 8, 2019 feat. Travis Scott
	Floating crash talk	-	-	-	-	US67 gold (1 week)US	First published: April 26, 2019 feat. 21 Savage

More singles

• 2012: Hands On The Wheel (US:gold)

As a guest musician

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2013	White Walls The Heist	DE17 (20 weeks) DE	AT8 (18 weeks) AT	CH32 (10 weeks) CH	UK26 (6 weeks) UK	US15th × 2 Double platinum (22 weeks)US	First published: October 8, 2013 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Schoolboy Q & Hollis
2014	2 On Aquarius	-	-	-	UK- silver UK	US24 platinum (24 weeks)US	First published: January 21, 2014 Tinashe feat. Schoolboy Q
2015	Bitches N Marijuana Fan of a Fan: The Album	DE50 (5 weeks) DE	-	-	UK60 silver (2 weeks)UK	-	First release: February 7th, 2015 Chris Brown & Tyga feat. Schoolboy Q
	Electric Body At.Long.Last.A $ AP	-	-	-	-	US80 gold (2 weeks)US	First published: May 26, 2015 A $ AP Rocky feat. Schoolboy Q

Further guest contributions

• 2013: Work (Remix) ( ASAP Ferg feat. French Montana , Trinidad James, Schoolboy Q & ASAP Rocky) (US:× 2Double platinum )
• 2013: PMW (All I Really Need) ( ASAP Rocky feat. Schoolboy Q & ASAP Rocky) (US:gold)

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1. ↑ ScHoolboy Q: Six appearances in Germany rap.de, accessed on March 9, 2014.
2. ↑ laut.de-biography Schoolboy Q laut.de , accessed on March 9, 2014.
3. ↑ Rebecca Haithcoat: Schoolboy Q's Questions and Answers. In: LA Weekly February 2, 2012, accessed March 9, 2014.
4. ↑ Schoolboy Q Heading for No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart billboard.com, accessed March 9, 2014.
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Music Sales Awards: UK US

Web links

Commons : Schoolboy Q  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Schoolboy Q at laut.de
• Schoolboy Q at Allmusic (English)
• Schoolboy Q at Discogs (English)