Video: ScHoolboy Q - Hands On The Wheel (Feat. A$AP Rocky) [Official Music Video]

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Photo Credit: Craig Shimala - craigshimala.com Tomorrow begins another Pitchfork Music Festival at Chicago's Union Park. And once again , Loud Loop Press will be on-site all weekend long bringing you the best coverage we possibly can. What can you expect? Updates throughout the day on our Twitter feed and our Facebook page . Then on 10 a.m. the day after (Saturday, Sunday and Monday), we'll have a full recap of the previous day's happenings complete [...]

Complex just announced their top 25 rappers that are 25 and under. Just as always anytime that a magazine or anyone announces a list there controversy that surrounds it. People will almost never agree on who should be on the list, and who should receive the top spots. People always have their own arrangement. Whether it is because they dislike a rapper, or it is because their criteria on rappers is different from the person that put the list together. ... �

SCHOOLBOY Q, CASSOW, EMMORAL ( Peter's Room at Roseland , 8 NW 6th) Don't get the name twisted: LA's Schoolboy Q is not some backpack-wearing conscious rapper. Though he earned the moniker from an older member of the Hoover Crip gang (with which he was once affiliated) for earning good grades and starring in multiple sports in high school, Q excels at gritty street raps with enough lyrical chops and flow switches to avoid the repetitive hole some of this stuff falls into. His second official full-length, Habits & Contradictions , was front-to-back solid, and remains one [...]

Malik "Ex-Cell" Lowery was born and raised on the south side of Chicago. "Yesterdays Remembered" was Ex-Cell's first solo mixtape, it was released in the summer of 2011. Shortly after Ex-Cell started working on his second tape "Once Upon a Rhyme". This tape was a mix of remixes to some studio beats and of course [...]

Here's a little more A$AP Rocky as underground king ScHoolboy Q hosts on "Hand On The Wheel." I don't condone any of these activities, so, I'll just say the cinematography of this video and A$AP's eloquent verse are simply undeniable.

Damn, so here was a crazy surprise to discover today. DJ/House producer Deadmau5 released a new song that he recorded with 90's hip hop group Cypress Hill sometime last year. The song has stayed under wraps since, until Deadmau5 decided to release the master track out. The production is different from what we are used to hearing from the DJ, but you hear some slight house influences in parts, but the track is bass heavy with old school flavors. This shows a new side to Deadmau5's production skills and Cypress Hill [...]

Abe Beame’s quest to transform The Passion into The Source circa 94 continues……. Download: http://www.zshare.net/download /98929592850f2780/ This will possibly be a recurring feature, but if nothing else, here is a selection of tracks curated and commented on by myself from January in this year of our Lord, 2012. Nicki Minaj- Stupid Hoe: Great stuff, mainly because Minaj pulls out a lot of the tricks she used to such great effect on her Big Sean [...]

I'd not heard of LA rapper  Schoolboy Q until today but he's one of Kendrick Lamarr 's 'crew' and has a new album out. Habits & Consequences has just bagged an 8.4 review on Pitchfork and if Hands On The Wheel is anything to go by it's looking like like being the first great hip-hop album of 2012 - Danny Brown 's been bigging [...]

It’s been said before and hopefully it will to be said: hip hop is on the rise. Last year we learned that the Internet actually does work as a means for promotion, catapulting hungry artists from nobodies to somebodies over night. By removing the tawdry veil of fake success that defined hip hop of the mid-Aughts, the Internet empowered kids who were interested in expression. Because of that exposure, the power in hip hop is gradually being transferred from out-of-touch superstars to those who care more about advancing the genre. So that puts us in 2012. If this [...]

Who said gangsta rap was dead? Introducing School Boy Q. The LA rapper off Top Dawg Entertainment is also a member of the Black Hippy group featuring Jay Rock , Kendrick Lamar, and Ab-Soul. His latest album, Habits & Contradictions , was released earlier this month. What you got to say about "Hands On The Wheel?" Uh uh fuck that...what? Recognize that sample? It comes from Lissie's cover of Cudi's "Pursuit of Happiness." Download Mp3   Schoolboy Q ft. A$AP Rocky:  "Hand On The Wheel"

• Schoolboy Q ft. A$AP Rocky - Hands On the Wheel

ScHoolboy Q 's Habits & Contradictions -housed, A$AP Rocky-collabo "Hands on the Wheel" rides on one of the fiercest sample-based productions we've heard so far this year. Taking the relatively unknown Lissie's slightly-better-than-the-origi nal live cover of Kid Cudi's "Pursuit of Happiness" and reducing it to a compellingly chopped loop that hones in on key lines "Crush a bit, little bit, roll it up, take a hit/ Feelin’ lit, feelin’ light, 2 am summer night", Lis' fiery "Hands on the wheel" howls, and her rendition's thunderous rock lumber, then underlining [...]

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