Thanks to this deal, Q’s next album, 2014′s “Oxymoron,” became his major label debut.
Later in 2012, Top Dawg signed a joint distribution deal with Interscope Records and Dr. This album featured a long list of guest artists including A$AP Ty Beats, Lex Luger, Best Kept Secret, Mike WiLL Made It, Curren$y, and Dom Kennedy alongside Q’s friends from Black Hippy.
Q’s second full length album, “Habits + Contradictions,” another iTunes exclusive, was released in 2012. Two weeks later, Q started giving the album away for free. Q released the album exclusively through iTunes, and within less than a week it had already sold 1,000 copies and hit number 100 on the Billboard Hot 200 chart. The album featured collaborations with all of his Black Hippy cohorts, as well as artists BJ the Chicago Kid, Alori Joh, and Jhené Aiko. A year later, Q officially signed to Top Dawg, and he and his friends Jay Rock and Ab-Soul joined forces with labelmate Kendrick Lamar to form Black Hippy.Īnother mixtape followed before the release of Q’s full-length debut, “Setbacks,” in 2011. Q released his first mixtape, “Schoolboy Turned Hustla,” in 2008 on the independent label GED Inc. His first recording session for Top Dawg saw him in the studio with Jay Rock and Ab-Soul, who would later become his bandmates in Black Hippy. Q got his start as a rapper through the independent record label Top Dawg Entertainment. Soon after his birth, however, he was moved back to the US, and California became his home. He is also a successful solo artist, with three full-length albums and a number of hit singles to his name.Īlthough he’s best known for representing the neighborhood of south central L.A., Q was actually born in Germany on a US military base in 1986. Q is one fourth of the hip-hop group Black Hippy, along with Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul, and Jay Rock. Quincey Matthew Hanley is a West Coast rapper with a net worth of $1.35 million. Inc., Universal Music Group, Interscope Records, Aftermath Entertainment ScHoolboy Q Net Worth: $1,350,000 Related Net Worths: ASAP Rocky, Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul, Jay Rock, Danny Brown, Mac Miller, Dom Kennedy, Curren$y