Schoolboy Q is an American rapper and Schoolboy Q net worth of $6 million.

Schoolboy Q has been nominated for several Grammy Awards and released the albums "Setbacks" (2011), "Habits and Contradictions" (2012), "Oxymoron" (2014), "Blank Face LP" (2016), and "Crash Speak" (2019 ).

"Oxymoron" was his major label debut and was certified platinum and reached #1 on the "Billboard" 200, Top RB/Hip-Hop Albums, and Top Rap Albums.

Additionally, his other two albums topped the RB/Hip-Hop Albums and Rap Albums charts. Schoolboy Q is credited for singles such as "Hands on the Wheel" (featuring A$AP Rocky), "Collard Greens" (featuring Kendrick Lamar), "Man of the Year", "Studio" (featuring BJ the Chicago Youngster), and "This Part” (featuring Kanye West) and was featured on the 2x platinum singles “White Walls” by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis and “Work (Remix)” by A$AP Ferg.

Schoolboy Q is also a member of the supergroup Black Hippy alongside fellow rappers Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul, and Jay Rock.

Early life

Schoolboy Q was born Quincy Matthew Hanley on October 26, 1986, in Wiesbaden, West Germany on a US Army base.

He is the son of a Honduran-American father and an African-American mother. They divorced before schoolboy Q was born, and his mother gave him a random surname, as opposed to giving him one of his parents' surnames.

His father remained in the military and Schoolboy Q moved to Texas with his mother. Both later moved to South Central Los Angeles.

Schoolboy Q started playing football at age 6 and continued until age 21 when he played receiver, returner, tailback, and cornerback.

He attended John Muir Center School and Crenshaw Secondary School, then went to Glendale Junior College, Los Angeles Southwest School, Los Angeles City School, and West Los Angeles School.

While growing up in South Central L.A., Schoolboy Q joined the 52 Hoover Gangster Crips. He told "Complex" in 2012, "I was banging gangs at 12."

I was a Hoover Crip. My friends arranged it and I needed to do it. I don't understand it. Schoolboy Q net worth is estimated at $6 million.

I couldn't get into it with a different hood or anything like that. I just followed the leader.” Schoolboy Q became a drug dealer, selling drugs like Oxycontin and crack.

He was sentenced to six months in prison in 2007 after being arrested for a home invasion but served part of the sentence under house arrest.

Career

However, Schoolboy Q said he started writing at 16, and he stopped playing music until he was 21.

He became involved with the independent record label Top Dawg Entertainment and is credited with meeting his future Black Hippy bandmates Ab-Soul and Jay Rock while recording at the label's House of Torment studio.

In July 2008, he released the mixtape "Schoolboy Turned Hustla" on G.E.D. Inc. and supported Top Dawg Entertainment the next year.

Schoolboy Q released his second mixtape "Gangsta and Soul" in May 2009 and his debut album "Setbacks" followed in January 2011.

"Setbacks" reached No. 100 on the Billboard 200, No. 12 on Top Rap Albums, and No. 25 on Top RB/Hip-Hop Albums. As of now, Schoolboy Q net worth of $6 million.

His 2012 sophomore album "Habits and Contradictions" peaked at #111 on the Billboard 200, #16 on Top Rap Albums, and #25 on Top RB/Hip-Hop Albums and the single "Hands on the Wheel" (with A$AP Rocky) certified Gold.

In 2012, Schoolboy Q released "Oxymoron" on Interscope Records, which went platinum and reached #1 in the US and what's more, Canada.

The album featured the 2x platinum singles "Collard Greens" (featuring Kendrick Lamar), "Man of the Year" and "Studio" (featuring BJ the Chicago Youngster), and the gold single "Amazing Evening".