Mixing bud smoker's anthems with socially conscious numbers, rapper
ScHoolboy Q spent three years in the mixtape underground before launching his career properly in 2011. The first mixtape, the autobiographical
Schoolboy Turned Hustla, landed in 2008 and quickly caught the attention of
Kendrick Lamar and Top Dawg Entertainment.
Lamar would form the Black Hippy collective with
ScHoolboy, along with
Jay Rock and
Ab-Soul, while Top Dawg would sign the artist to their label. His
Gangster & Soul mixtape landed in 2009, and Top Dawg released his official debut, Setbacks, in 2011. ~ David Jeffries, Rovi
