With his major label debut, Oxymoron, ScHoolBoy Q has the much anticipated challenge of being next in the Black Hippy release rotation. As an album, Oxymoron will aesthetically please the ears of Q’s fans, common hip hop listeners, and especially those who have consumed the storybook LP of his TDE label-mate. Kendrick Lamar, the force behind the arguable modern-day classic that is good kid, m.A.A.d city. However, lyrical comparisons aside (for a moment), what makes the album a great follow up in TDE releases extends beyond the music. Not unlike KL’s album, Q’s final product stands as a symbol of a unified label and their aim to progress forward.

Beyond the music, Oxymoron is a symbol of cohesion between the TDE collective showing that there isn’t a sense of superiority. Both artists as well as TDE members who are behind the scenes have participated in the promotion of the album by changing avatars, campaigning through tweets as well as sharing goals such as obtaining the label’s first number one album and selling over 242,000 units this week. That support carries over to wax, such as the Oxymoron features of Jay Rock, Kendrick and SZA for example. Where GKMC’s original release featured one member of Black Hippy, that unwavering support beyond the bars held true to the recent Grammy debacle.

But within the music is where you find the gem of the entire movement; the key to what has amassed the cult large fan base. Bars filled with guns and gang references immediately kick off the album as they are coupled with bass heavy beats that will have you considering your EQ setting. The first couple of tracks, “Gangsta” and the Jay Rock assisted “Los Awesome,” take you to gritty street culture and provide a reminder to the vast range of styles that TDE posseses. The latter of the two tracks boasting about gang banging with lines like “Plead the fifth, No L’s, no whips, backyard full of Crips,” you will quickly find out this is a different experience than that of coming of age K. Dot.

Also evident within the album’s 15 tracks – 17 if you throw up a couple extra dollars – is that Q loves to kick it. “Man of the Year” and “Hell of a Night” knock as ScHoolBoy lures ladies with his own brand of romanticism, “Uh, ménage á troìs, four titties, no bras and no flaws.You, me, and her ball with no drawers.” If that’s not you’re vice, these tracks are definitely party jams. Don’t worry, we quickly added these jams to our go kickback playlist too.

Other standouts include the drug-laden cut “Prescription/Oxymoron,” BJ The Chicago Kid-assisted “Studio” and the hand-off between Q and the interesting structure of intertwined featured verses from Tyler, The Creator and West Coast legend Kurupt on “The Purge.”

Not only is Oxymoron worth the delay, but it will appease those who are interested in how the label continues to push their personal bar while giving quality products to hip hop. To grab the regular or deluxe edition of Oxymoron you can visit iTunes today.