"-" denotes a title that did not chart, or was not released in that territory. Separate from Schoolboy Q’s 2016 release entitled Blank Face LP, Schoolboy Q’s single featuring Kanye West, That Part was remixed by Black Hippy, released July 6th 2016.ĭiscography Singles As featured artist List of singles as featured performers, with selected chart positions, showing year released and album name The album features the first Black Hippy posse cut since 2013, titled " Vice City". On September 11, 2015, Jay Rock released his long-awaited second album, 90059. In June 2015, Ab-Soul, Jay Rock and Schoolboy Q, appeared alongside Lamar, in the beginning of his music video for " Alright", To Pimp a Butterfly 's fourth single. On March 16, 2015, Lamar released his second major-label album, To Pimp a Butterfly, which received rave reviews from music critics. During a February 2014 interview with Lamar, Schoolboy Q, Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith and Dave Free, there was talk of a debut effort from the Black Hippy collective, to possibly have been released during 2014. In December 2013, Black Hippy performed at Power 106 and Footaction's 2013 Cali Christmas event. įollowing the highly acclaimed TDE cypher at the 2013 BET Hip Hop Awards, which featured Black Hippy rapping alongside their TDE label-mate Isaiah Rashad, the group appeared on the cover of the October/November issue of XXL. On May 23, 2013, in anticipation of their tour together, Black Hippy released a remix to Atlanta-based rapper Rocko's 2013 single " U.O.E.N.O.". Also in April 2013, it was reported that Kendrick Lamar added dates to his good kid m.A.A.d city concert tour, revealing his upcoming US dates will feature all four members of the Black Hippy crew. magazine, which hit newsstands on the 30th. In April 2013, Black Hippy covered RESPECT. In March 2013, Black Hippy became the first hip hop group to have all members make XXL's annual Top 10 Freshmen list with Jay Rock appearing on the 2010 issue, Kendrick Lamar on the 2011 issue and Ab-Soul, alongside Schoolboy Q, on the 2013 issue. On December 20, 2012, the lineup for the 2013 Paid Dues hip hop festival was revealed, announcing Black Hippy as the headliners. In late 2012, the group collaborated once again to remix Lamar's singles " The Recipe" and " Swimming Pools", which were included on his debut Good Kid, M.A.A.D City. In the summer of 2012, the group performed at the annual hip hop festival Rock the Bells. On Augthe music video for Ab-Soul's "Black Lip Bastard (Remix)", which features the rest of Black Hippy, was released. Under the new deal, it was announced Lamar's debut album, Good Kid, M.A.A.D City (2012), would be jointly released via Aftermath, Top Dawg and Interscope.
In March 2012, MTV announced that Kendrick Lamar closed a joint venture deal with Interscope Records and Aftermath Entertainment. Dre and Snoop Dogg, as well as Tech N9ne who called them "the new N.W.A", and had hopes of signing the group to his Strange Music imprint. In 2011, Black Hippy received co-signs from West Coast hip hop legends Dr. Schoolboy Q, the last of the four to join the label, admitted to initially being intimidated when he first started going to the studio, but eventually the tenacity of his collaborators rubbed off on him. The idea of forming a group came from Schoolboy Q, who said he was "slacking in music": "I figured if I could be in a group I could just write one verse and I could be good", he added.
The group was formed in 2008, when all of its members were signed to Top Dawg Entertainment, a Carson-based independent record label. History Formation and career beginnings (2008–11)
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