Quincy Matthew Hanley (born October 26, 1986), better known by his stage name ScHoolboy Q is an American hip hop recording artist. Hanley is signed to Top Dawg Entertainment and is a member of 'Black Hippy' along with Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar and Ab-Soul. His album Setbacks reached #100 on the Billboard 200 in 2011, selling close to 1,000 digital copies in the first week. In a 2011 interview when asked about what encouraged him to start rapping, Hanley explained that it was something he was "born to do": "I was just chillin' man, but rapping's just something I was born to do. I don't know when I started rapping. I don't know how I started rapping, but I know I wrote a verse and I was stuck ever since," he explained.