(Top Dawg)
!! CAUTION !!
Beware of anyone who brags this much about being part of the "underground." Schoolboy Q's gifted, no doubt, and there are moments here like the ominously moody opener "Sacrilegeous" and the thrillingly smooth Lex Luger creation "Grooveline Pt. 1," on which he reins himself in and produces better-than-competent material that doesn't fall too far down either the weed rap or "consciousness" rabbit holes. When it does, though, it's tiresome -- "Raymond 1969" is a catalog of obnoxious schlock, and after the third or fourth time he announces he's "craaaaaaaaaaazy" on "There He Go," well, enough already. Our hero's certainly in good company, sporting excellent guest spots from A$AP Rocky, Curren$y, and especially Kendrick Lamar (his verse is the highlight of the record, on "Blessed"). It just feels like the record goes in too many directions and can't gain much traction with any of them, but Schoolboy himself will probably come back strong if he can cut the juvenilia and the hokey "dark" murder shit. Not to sound like an old man or anything; gonna go have my coffee and get back to the office now.
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