Schoolboy Q's Oxymoron track listing reworked

[Ohene]

Tell me what you guys think. I did a full listen to the album actively thinking of how it could flow better and man, Kendrick really messed up the ordering. He coulda really gave this album more cohesiveness and a better theme or even a concept. Here's my listing...the bonus tracks are [*] and can be rearranged however.

I’m reaching with the story but tell me it doesn’t flow amazingly

1. Gangsta acts as an intro. Q is telling you who he is and is about to tell you how he got there

2. Los Awesome Builds off track 1. His or Her Friend Interlude leads into the next track.

3. Collard Greens – Q is talking about his current status and life, typical track about the shyt he likes, activities he partakes in etc as a result of his prowess as a thug/dealer

4. Studio - He started off as a smooth dude, one might even say a simp though. Dude was getting accustomed to that dopeboy lifestyle…the money, the cars and of course the bytches. It’s all coming easy to him. He in a spot and sees a nice lil thing and schemes to get her with these vile thoughts in his mind but he aint dumb enough to say em out loud...finally he steps to her

5. Pusha man / Grooveline – Schoolboy on that smooth pimp shyt and hollas at the chick. It works…not only is he pushin drugs but the p*ssy as well while ascribing to the lessons of an OG in Suga Free.

6. What they want? A summary of who he is – a cross between Super fly (Priest) and Dolemite pretty much. We want dope music, the fiends want that dope, and tricks want that p*ssy. Schoolboy Q got them all for the low

7. Hoover Street – Back to gangsta shyt and away from that little side story from tracks 3-6. Schoolboy discusses his upbringing and some of the events that led him to be where he is now.

8. The Purge – A peek at the life of Schoolboy Q as a gangsta…builds off track 7. A purge is a removal of something and in this case its rival gang members/other dealers

9. Prescription – The stresses are starting to take its toll on Schoolboy Q leading him to start doing drugs his own self. Notice in the purge it says, “bust my gun all by myself, rock cocaine all by myself, pour propane all on myself, go so hard might haul myself.” Dude has turned into a one man army, can’t trust nobody. “If you aint selling drugs… I don’t hear a thing.” nikka you supposed to be dealing drugs. Oxymoron – Dude was a dealer but has “just stopped selling crack today” and is now a fiend or as he calls it a “doctor”. That's the oxymoron. But his daughter has inspired him to turn things around I presume. He's gonna drop the dealing and pursue a rapa career.

10. Hell of a Night – Q is gone off them drugs and having a wild night (let this serve as a little break in the story and perhaps the beginning of the complete diversion away from both the crack game and fiending. This song signals an imminent switch in his perspective.)

11. Blind Threats – Q got out the crack game and is trying to sling music now. But the game still haunts him. He’s gonna do anything he can within his means (gun) and by any means necessary (ie. Malcom X ...dont ask me how.)

12. Break the Bank – It worked and that brings us to the present day. Dude has made the switch and is on his rap grind. To those not familiar, Schoolboy Q is gonna get you up to speed on how he came up going from a thug to a drug abuser. Q is telling you that it was all worth it because it made him who he is and without it wouldn’t have the story or inspiration to turn things around. Either way, he’s gonna get this money as he’s so accustomed to doing.

13. Man of the Year

14. fukk LA

Bonuses - In my order
Californication
Yay Yay
Gravy

I've never been one to revise a listing but brehs
@g-ice
@Buckeye Fever
@Hood Critic
@Don Dada F Poppa
@Napoleon
@Method Man
@unstoppable589
@dora_da_destroyer
@KritNC
@Piff Perkins
@wire28
@Animal House
@SubLyminalz

Tell me this isnt

 

[Ohene]

Using that tracklisting...I swear this shyt is 10/10. I SWEAR

 

[Hood Critic]

Tell me what you guys think. I did a full listen to the album actively thinking of how it could flow better and man, Q really messed up the ordering. He coulda really gave this album more cohesiveness and a better theme or even a concept. Here's my listing...the bonus tracks are [*] and can be rearranged however.

I’m reaching with the story but tell me it doesn’t flow amazingly

I've never been one to revise a listing but brehs
@g-ice
@Buckeye Fever
@Hood Critic
@Don Dada F Poppa
@Napoleon
@Method Man
@unstoppable589
@dora_da_destroyer
@KritNC
@Piff Perkins
@wire28
@Animal House
@SubLyminalz

Tell me this isnt

I could dig it.

I was thinking earlier that even though it's kind of cliche to open your album with the title track but Prescription/Oxymoron to open right into Gangsta would have started the album off right as well.

 

[unstoppable589]

Tell me what you guys think. I did a full listen to the album actively thinking of how it could flow better and man, Q really messed up the ordering. He coulda really gave this album more cohesiveness and a better theme or even a concept. Here's my listing...the bonus tracks are [*] and can be rearranged however.

I’m reaching with the story but tell me it doesn’t flow amazingly

I've never been one to revise a listing but brehs
@g-ice
@Buckeye Fever
@Hood Critic
@Don Dada F Poppa
@Napoleon
@Method Man
@unstoppable589
@dora_da_destroyer
@KritNC
@Piff Perkins
@wire28
@Animal House
@SubLyminalz

Tell me this isnt

might have to adjust my tracklisting, im digging how that flows

 

[Ohene]

I could dig it.

I was thinking earlier that even though it's kind of cliche to open your album with the title track but Prescription/Oxymoron to open right into Gangsta would have started the album off right as well.

I feel you. I used it in the middle cause I feel like he put it there to signify a switch in the tone of the album. I dunno...I'm listening to this shyt and it makes me wonder why he didnt do the track listing like this himself

now i understand why ppl on the coli adjust tracklists. SMH @ me doing this instead of studying for my Auditing midterm

 

[g-ice]

Tell me what you guys think. I did a full listen to the album actively thinking of how it could flow better and man, Q really messed up the ordering. He coulda really gave this album more cohesiveness and a better theme or even a concept. Here's my listing...the bonus tracks are [*] and can be rearranged however.

I’m reaching with the story but tell me it doesn’t flow amazingly

I've never been one to revise a listing but brehs
@g-ice
@Buckeye Fever
@Hood Critic
@Don Dada F Poppa
@Napoleon
@Method Man
@unstoppable589
@dora_da_destroyer
@KritNC
@Piff Perkins
@wire28
@Animal House
@SubLyminalz

Tell me this isnt

Not bad...not bad at all

 

[NotaPAWG]

Windows media player tho?

 

[Ohene]

Windows media player tho?

You use I-Tunes/Winamp?

I use it cause it's easy to edit the tags (except for Datpiff zips )

My dude, you are a critic on the album though. Listen to it in my order and gimme your thoughts!

 

[Ohene]

Anybody telling me Schoolboy aint lyrical is just skimming . That Hoover Street brehs.

 

[Flay Mayweather]

Blame Kendrick for the order, not Q

 

[Lil Bape the PostGod]

my nikka are you using a zune?

 

[Don Dada F Poppa]

This tracklist makes sense, since the original tracklist seemed like it wasn't sequenced right. Imma have to give this playlist a spin and see how it flows though

 

[Ohene]

my nikka are you using a zune?

I use my nexus 4. Drag and drop nikka fukk an ipod and fukk apple

Blame Kendrick for the order, not Q

oh yea I forgot about that fukk was kenny thinking

 

[45123]

This one better in my opinion:

1. Gangsta
2. What They Want
3. Studio
4. Collard Greens
5. His & Her Fiend
6. Grooveline Pt. 2
7. Pusha Man
8. Gravy
9. Blind Threats
10. Break the Bank
11. Hell of a Night
12. Man of the Year
13. Hoover Street
14. Prescription/Oxymoron
15. Yay Yay
16. fukk LA
Bonus: The Purge, Los Awesome, and Californication

Put the 3 worst songs as bonuses, automatically get rid of the "filler"

What They Want and Studio both have a modern, trap or r'n'b approach, so separate it from the rest of the album. Plus, the second and 3rd track always gotta be a lil different from the rest.

Studio is also the only song that can segue into Collard Greens on the album, besides His & Her Fiend which has a better place on the album after Collard Greens, right before Grooveline Pt. 2, Pusha Man, and Gravy, 4 songs which all have slow, rock to it lean to it pacing.

Then Blind Threats and Break the Bank, the two most "hip-hop" songs on the album in my opinion back to back, which goes into Hell of a Night, a welcome change that sets off Man of the Year. The two songs are sonically very similar, and then Hoover Street starts the last part of the album, which follows Prescription/Oxymoron, a logical transition story wise. Yay Yay would be the obligatory celebratory second to last song before fukk LA, the epilogue.

 

[L&HH]

my nikka are you using a zune?