“Gang shit, I invented that, huh?” asks Schoolboy Q on “Pop,” a track from Blue Lips, his first album in nearly five years. It’s clearly an overstatement. But give the former Hoover Street Crip credit: Back in the early 2010s, he fused the open-eared, genre-less sensibility of Tumblr rap with vintage L.A. gangsta flows in classic moments like “Hands on the Wheel” and “Druggys Wit Hoes Again.” Along with Vince Staples, Boogie and others, Q marked a clear break from the city’s G-funk identity, even as he...
- 3/1/2024
- by Mosi Reeves
- Rollingstone.com
03 Greedo is back home. After his return from a Texas county jail in January, the L.A. rapper released Halfway There, a 33-track odyssey replete with Greedo’s melodic flourishes. He followed it up by performing at South by Southwest in Austin and, in June, a two-night stint at the Novo in Los Angeles — a venue that marked a kind of homecoming. “The show was turnt up. Both sold out. A lot of rappers popped out for me,” Greedo explains. “The city hasn’t seen that for a while.” While in prison,...
- 7/5/2023
- by Jayson Buford
- Rollingstone.com
After recently reviewing School House Glock: Extra Credit (read the review here), I felt compelled to interview the man behind the menacing mask - Mars himself. In the following interview Mars gets up-close and personal discussing the controversy that's surrounded him for years, and some of the inspiration he finds within the darkest of genres... horror.
Matt Molgaard (Fangoria): First off, how would you describe School House Glock?
Mars: Well, it’s a horror album with straight up funk behind it. Bay area, west coast funk with some horror. What I did with this album is I took hip hop beats with a well known producer, and did horror on top of that. I made it so everybody can be a horrorcore fan. The beats and the hooks, and it’s catchy, but it still has macabre messages and stalking and murder and crazy stuff - it’s just...
Matt Molgaard (Fangoria): First off, how would you describe School House Glock?
Mars: Well, it’s a horror album with straight up funk behind it. Bay area, west coast funk with some horror. What I did with this album is I took hip hop beats with a well known producer, and did horror on top of that. I made it so everybody can be a horrorcore fan. The beats and the hooks, and it’s catchy, but it still has macabre messages and stalking and murder and crazy stuff - it’s just...
- 7/18/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Matt Molgaard)
- Fangoria
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