Prescription / Oxymoron by Schoolboy Q

The song I’m choosing to dissect is Prescription / Oxymoron by Schoolboy Q. This song contains a lot of deeper meanings and his lyrics express his struggle with his prescription drug addiction. Initially, Schoolboy Q was just trying to sell drugs in order to support his daughter and give her the best chance at life that he could. The first line in this song, “Prescription drugs, show me love” is intended to show that Schoolboy Q was turning to selling drugs in order to make a better life and provide for his family, however, the stress of selling the drugs eventually got to be too much for him and he mixed business with pleasure and got addicted to them in order to try to numb his own mental and physical handicaps. The song doesn’t narrate that substances are being used in the song but he does note how he’s felt while using and on the drugs. The lyrics that portray this best is “my chin press on my chest, my knees press the floor, I’m blanking out, woke up on the couch, dinner on my shirt, my stomach hurts”. The drugs are physically harming his well being and making him sick all over from the pains in his chest to the fact that he can’t even stand up and is on his knees trying to get a grasp on reality. Multiple slang terms are thrown in throughout the songs. Q refers to “Xannies” and needing “wood for the trees” which is slang for the wrappers that are used to roll blunts to smoke weed with. Q really doesn’t seem to leave any drug off boundaries and throughout the song sings about the multiple substances that he uses and ultimately needs in order to make it through the day selling drugs in order to support his daughter. He talks about using Percocets, Adderall, Xanax, Codeine and more, even going further to explain that he’s “Stuck in this body high, can’t shake it off”. The addiction has literally gotten so bad that