At the end of last week, <a href="/profile/ScHoolboyQ" class="text-word" target="_blank" >ScHoolboy Q</a>&#8217;s Blank Face LP hit shelves and online retailers, somehow avoiding the constant threat of an internet leak. That feat was paired with the release of the<a href="http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/vote-who-had-the-best-verse-on-the-black-hippy-that-part-remix-news.22748.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"> first official Black Hippy collaboration we&#8217;ve been blessed</a> with in a long minute&#8211; with each member adding a verse to the single <a href="http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/schoolboy-q-that-part-black-hippy-remix-feat-kendrick-lamar-ab-soul-and-jay-rock-new-song.1970516.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">&#8220;THat Part,&#8221;</a> prompting Q to re-write his own verse.
When ScHoolboy Q stopped by the office ahead of the album&#8217;s release, Prior to the knowledge we would receive a new <a href="/profile/BlackHippy" class="text-word" target="_blank" >Black Hippy</a> collaboration, we asked the rapper about the heralded collective that lives on the <a href="/profile/tde" class="text-word" target="_blank" >TDE</a> label.
When asked about the dynamic within the crew, Q admitted they don&#8217;t spend as much time together as they once did, a correlation to their success.
&#8220;Everybody in they own creative space now, back in the day we used to always be together all the time,&#8221; he says. &#8220;We used to be in the studio all the time together, now more so, we all busy, man. Kendrick just performed with <a href="/profile/Beyonce" class="text-word" target="_blank" >Beyonce</a> yesterday. You know how many times you gotta go to rehearsal to perform with Beyonce? [Laughs].&#8221;
As for the possibility of a Black Hippy album, Groovy Tony won&#8217;t make any promises. &#8220;It&#8217;s just hard for us all to be in the same room cause we&#8217;re all busy now. I&#8217;m pretty sure a posse cut,&#8221; he says (hopefully this still rings true now that the &#8220;THat Part&#8221; remix is out), &#8220;but a Black Hippy album I dunno, I can&#8217;t say that. A posse cut for sure. That&#8217;s easy, one song, but a whole album, that&#8217;s hard.&#8221;
Check out the interview clip below. Read our full feature with ScHoolboy Q <a href="http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/schoolboy-qs-pursuit-of-happiness-news.22736.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">here</a>.