ScHoolboy Q

Schoolboy Q isn't playing any games radiating a not-to-be messed with attitude in his new video "Banger" (MOSHPIT). In the dark visual, the TDE rapper spits fierce bars as the scenery shifts from a warehouse ultimately ending in the subway...

ScHoolboy Q has one of the most highly anticipated projects that has yet to come out. Fans have been waiting for Oxymoron for almost a year now but will have to wait a little bit more because the album release date was pushed back from November to January 2014, which he raps about on Isaiah Rashad “Shot You Down (Remix).” ...

Ed. Note: The following interview with Terrence "Punch" Henderson is pulled from the outtakes from XXL‘s TDE cover story in our upcoming Oct/Nov issue.  While Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith is the namesake and visionary behind the growing Top Dawg Ent. empire, it's T...

As the BET Cyphers last week proved, there's something special about watching a rapper just spit. Though the cyphers only come once a year, there are still places out there that force rappers to deliver verses over a beat in a live setting...

With the airing of the BET Hip-Hop Awards, drama between Drake and Future, and XXL Freshmen talks starting up; Twitter was quite hectic this week. From rappers throwing shots at each other in regards to the BET Cyphers to others giving their highest praises, there were many tweets this week that honestly unexpected and others that we were simply counting on...

Isaiah Rashad drops the remix for his hit record "Shot You Down." For "Shot You Down (Remix)," Isaiah stays in camp and enlists the help of two of TDE's OGs, Jay Rock and ScHoolboy Q, for a track that should get some major buzz. The 21-year-old Chattanooga native has seen his popularity skyrocketed since signing to TDE and drops a record at the perfect time. Lis...

ScHoolboy Q gave an update on the release date for his debut album, Oxymoron, in his verse for Isaiah Rashad's "I Shot You Down (Remix)." Q took to twitter to share the news first, tweeting: Info on #OXYMORON >>>> https://t.co/RuQhke38y4 ...

Even before the BET Hip-Hop Awards aired on Tuesday (October 15) people were already talking about Top Dawg Entertainment's cypher performance, thanks to a leaked snippet of Kendrick Lamar seemingly sending shots Drake's way. When the entire set aired, it didn't disapoint with Ab-Soul, ScHoolboy Q, Jay Rock and Isaiah Rashad catching wreck...

Last night's BET Hip-Hop Awards cypher appearance from XXL cover-stars highlighted something we've know for a while: TDE has incredible rappers and they sound incredible together. The interplay between the group last night—the nods, the glances, yep, the high-five—was part of what made the cypher so special. These guys...

In May, there were murmurs of TDE signing their next artist. Tennessee rapper Isaiah Rashad was already a buzzword in the industry before he even dropped a full project to back it up. Peter Rosenberg, who is always on point when it comes to inside information, tweeted that he met the newest signee, but couldn’t say much about it. A mo...

Last night, BET aired its annual BET Hip-Hop Awards, which means one thing: cyphers. While the awards themselves are more often than not treated as an afterthought at the ceremony, the cyphers still have the potential to make waves. With an early clip of Kendrick Lamar's appearance leaking weeks before the show, anticipation was higher than ever...

With Kendrick Lamar, ScHoolboy Q, Jay Rock and Ab-Soul plus newest additions Isaiah Rashad and SZA, Top Dawg Entertainment has proven already that it's the illest crew in hip-hop right now, and it's all just begun. TDE's Black Hippy group appears on the cover of the October/November issue of XXL with a special photo shoot by Jonathan Mannion and story by kris ex, which explores the fast-growing s