paradoxymoron

in honor of schoolboy being back and seemingly off the oxy/lean/xans again here is my best attempt at salvaging the let down that is oxymoron. after habits & contradictions dropped i believed quincy 2 be the best rapper in TDE and i don't think i was wrong. 18 year old me was crushed to have the oft overhyped but still cohesive good kid maad city followed up by such a bloated, repetitive project. i didn't just buy the cd, i bought the deluxe edition. hook line and sinker bay-by. somehow it sounds even worse than i remember it, and while it seemed like way too long of an album to ever warrant BONUS tracks, now that it is on the chopping block i am happy to have more to choose from.

i almost feel guilty for only keeping 4 of the original tracks but then i remember how badly i never want to listen to an obese rapper knocked out on opiates drooling over thundercat's bass playing for 6 and a half minutes ever again. that or a "gangster" pandering to "college kids who be loving q" whilst getting bodied by kendrick in two languages in a futile attempt at a hit single. i tear up a little thinking about how much money someone spent on a 2 chainz verse about nothing over one of the most generic mike will phoned-it in beats i have heard to this day.

i think they tried to make Q his own gkmc and instead gave the world another wale album minus the lady gaga features

PARADOXYMORON:
1. Gangsta [prod. Nez & Rio]
2. Gravy [prod. Clams Casino]
3. Break the Bank [prod. The Alchemist]
4. Californication (feat. A$AP Rocky) [prod. Nez & Rio] (shortened by yours truly because who wants 2 hear a 6 minute a$ap rocky song lol)
5. Flight Confirmation (Alchemist featuring Danny Brown & ScHoolboy Q)
6. Yay Yay [prod. Boi-1da & The Maven Boys]
7. Grooveline, Pt. 2 (feat. Suga Free) [prod. Tae Beast & Frank Dukes]
8. Pusha Man [prod. Tae Beast]
9. Blind Threats (feat. Raekwon) [prod. LordQuest]
10. Fuck LA [prod. Nez & Rio]

honestly don't think any album should have more than 10 songs unless all of the songs are good. on top of that they should have gone more for more of a Pusha man vibe (1:43) instead of that of  Prescription / Oxymoron (7:10). i don't know if Q in his prime could have carried a 7 minute song, and in the throws of addiction i feel safe asserting he could not.


no druggy wit hoes part 3 added insult to injury, and if i remember right it was was supposed to feature danny brown too. would have been nice to get one last good ab-soul/ schoolboy collaboration out before soul did too much DMT and started believing he was jesus. how the mighty have fallen. in 2012 black hippy seemed like it wasn't like like "those other rap groups," but also i was in high school. maybe i was just dumb, breaux. idealism is 4 the naive.

i would have included "man of the year" if it hadn't been overplayed to the point where i can never listen to it again. it also serves as a constant reminder of the "spacey" vocal sample / trap drums / singular phrase repeated into oblivion formula that informed the second half of the original tracklist of this album.

hopefully this new scHoolboy Q will take up where H&C left off and we can all forget the bad dream of oxymoron, i'm not sure he even remembers making it.