Schoolboy Q has been nominated for several Grammy Awards and released the albums "Setbacks" (2011), "Habits and Contradictions" (2012), "Oxymoron" (2014), "Blank Face LP" (2016), and "Crash Speak" (2019 ).

"Oxymoron" was his major label debut and was certified platinum and reached #1 on the "Billboard" 200, Top RB/Hip-Hop Albums, and Top Rap Albums.

Additionally, his other two albums topped the RB/Hip-Hop Albums and Rap Albums charts. Schoolboy Q is credited for singles such as "Hands on the Wheel" (featuring A$AP Rocky), "Collard Greens" (featuring Kendrick Lamar), "Man of the Year", "Studio" (featuring BJ the Chicago Youngster), and "This Part” (featuring Kanye West) and was featured on the 2x platinum singles “White Walls” by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis and “Work (Remix)” by A$AP Ferg.

Schoolboy Q is also a member of the supergroup Black Hippy alongside fellow rappers Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul, and Jay Rock.

Early life

Schoolboy Q was born Quincy Matthew Hanley on October 26, 1986, in Wiesbaden, West Germany on a US Army base.

He is the son of a Honduran-American father and an African-American mother. They divorced before schoolboy Q was born, and his mother gave him a random surname, as opposed to giving him one of his parents' surnames.

His father remained in the military and Schoolboy Q moved to Texas with his mother. Both later moved to South Central Los Angeles.