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Feb 17, 2012Habits & Contradictions, the album, lives up to its title, which could throw some, but the complicated rapper always seems to convert more than he scares away, and you can blame his keen, exciting, risk-taking, vintage-styled, and deep set of skills for that.
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Feb 1, 2012An insistent, vital, full frontal assault.
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Apr 4, 2012Habits & Contradictions is a pleasurable listen with head-scratchingly pretty samplings and lyrics more or less liberated from value care of Q's devotion to "weed and brews" and the delirious enjoyment of something so simple as saying "fuck" a lot.
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Jan 27, 2012It may have its moments of aggression, but ultimately Habits & Contradictions is often a more quiet and thoughtful album.
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Feb 17, 2012Many of its strongest tracks are those that see Q take his foot off the gas, playing to more traditional communicative strengths in hip-hop.
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Jan 27, 2012Habits & Contradictions may be no follow-up to fellow Kendrick Lamar's Section .80, but ScHoolboy Q definitively shines through as a formidable rapper with immense future potential.
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Jan 27, 2012He's probably not going to be a break-out star, but it's hard to imagine that there will be many more original or satisfying rap long-players this year.
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Mar 5, 2012Habits & Contradictions is a total must-listen.
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Q MagazineJun 20, 2012Q's energetic, exuberant delivery is frames by some impressive and varied production throughout. [Jun 2012, p.108]
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Mar 27, 2012You can never really get a sense of what Q is or what he wants to be.
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Jan 30, 2012His tracks are dense and dark-tinted, more Wu-steeped trip-hop than Cali-funk.
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Jan 31, 2012Habits & Contradictions doesn't fully hold together as a great rap album, but it has some of the key hallmarks of one: big ideas, engrossing lyricism, and an unusual sense of exploration.
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Feb 1, 2012The key is confidence. Moments that would be cringe-inducing if delivered by the less intrepid come across as triumphant.
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Jan 27, 2012Ultimately, lyrical dexterity and a versatile delivery prove to be ScHoolboy's biggest assets.
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