Schoolboy Q keeps performance lively despite laryngitis
Written by Holli Stephens, Posted in Arts & Entertainment, Music
The notorious bucket hat-wearing Schoolboy Q, also known as Quincy Matthew Hanley, wasn’t going to let a little case of laryngitis ruin the second day of his Worldwide Oxymoron tour. The West Coast rapper shoved his hands deeper into the pockets of his long, camouflage jacket and beamed at his audience as they belted back his lyrics, allowing for his voice to get some rest.
The rapper seemed as energetic as ever to perform his latest hits from his newest album, “Oxymoron,” released Feb. 25, as he danced around the stage of the Trocadero Theatre on March 3. Audience members were transported into a bouncy house of bucket hat-wearing adolescents screaming out lyrics to “Studio” and “Collard Greens” verbatim.
Q traveled back to the days of his first album, “Setbacks,” to perform “Figg Get Da Money,” and his second, “Habits and Contradictions” to perform “Hands on the Wheel” and “There He Go.”
The lyrics lent themselves toward a theme of thankful, more specifically, a thankfulness toward Schoolboy Q’s daughter, who he gave a shout out to as he sang one of his more emotional songs, “Blessed.”
After his initial spurts of energy, Q’s fatigue and voice loss got the best of him during his last song, “Man of the Year.” However, to solidify the end of the set, he performed the song again, getting every person to put his or her hand in the air.
