Lean leads to bloat, and while Oxymoron featured plenty of memorable moments, it had too much empty material to fully capitalize on the promise of the rapper’s snarling sophomore album, Habits & Contradictions**. Listening to the album though, you suspected that Q may have been dabbling before the record was mixed. He told radio personality Angie Martinez that he’d managed to keep it at arms’-length while recording his major label debut, Oxymoron, but that as soon as the album was done, he’d had something of a relapse. In 2014, Schoolboy Q bluntly described his difficulty staying off lean, and what the drug had done to his art and personal life.