I’ma go back, and I’ma figure out when I’ma put this f*cking album out, because ya’ll are going to get this album. He previously hinted that his album would be out in 2019 and explained why he didn’t release it last year like he planned, saying, “You know I drop albums every two years, right? But listen, with my n**** gone right now, I just don’t feel right putting out an album.

Schoolboy Q ended the performance by saying, “New album coming very very very very very very soon.” A week ago, he dropped a new song, “ Numb Numb Juice,” and last night, he performed the song on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, but with an added surprise: The performance was actually a medley of that song and a new, previously-unheard one called “Chopstix.” After a couple minutes of “Numb Numb Juice,” “Chopstix” began, and the track featured some Travis Scott vocals, although he wasn’t there to perform them live. Q is comfortable across CrasH Talk regardless, declaring himself so on “Attention,” where after rattling off the names of rap heroes who have given him props-along with friends and family who’ve had an influence on him-he declares, “I can easily tell my story now and climb from this moment.Finally, there’s been news about Schoolboy Q and his next album. Q’s flow is naturally aggressive, and it can be hard for him to sand down that edge, even when daydreaming about building a future with a significant other on “Drunk.” Moments like “Numb Numb Juice” and “5200,” where the MC is at his most ornery, sound almost cathartic in comparison. The Los Angeles MC uses his gruff and impassioned delivery to paint pictures of the street life he grew up in (“Tales”), his purview as a Black man in America (“Black Folk”), and his adventures in courtship (“CHopstix,” “Lies”), while doubling down on the G’d-up superhero persona he’s embodied since the very beginning (“Gang Gang,” “Die Wit Em”).

Rather than chasing the dragon of another club-burning smash, however, CrasH Talk is Q embracing his abilities as a storyteller. ScHoolboy Q allowed three years to pass between the release of Blank Face LP and his fifth LP, CrasH Talk-and if it didn’t feel quite that long to fans, he has the enduring power of “THat Part” to thank for it.

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