ScHoolboy Q says he’s done smoking weed and, according to him, the decision came after years of heavy use, a sense that the habit had stopped doing anything for him, and a desire to set an example for his children. Still, he recognized its health benefits —distinguishing it from habits like alcohol— and how it works for some people… just not him at the moment.
The TDE rapper opened up about the decision during an appearance on the Par 3 Podcast with J.R. Smith and Stephen Malbon, where he explained that quitting was not just about health or discipline in the abstract. It was personal. More specifically, it was about his daughters and old habits leading nowhere.
“Me, personally, I feel like I got everything I got out of it,” he said, according to KBXT. “I’ve been smoking so much, and smoking, like, 20 times a day. At some point, it ain’t really doing nothing. You just got this oral fixation. You’re just constantly doing it. … But it was mainly for my daughters, my kids. Just to let them know you can do anything.”
Smoking 20 times a day sounds like a lot—at least to him. But the deeper point Q seemed to make was that weed had shifted from something he chose to do to something he was simply doing on autopilot. Not necessarily because he was getting more out of it, but because the motion itself had become part of the day.
For someone whose public image and personal story have long been tied to weed, this is a big U-turn. Q built part of his persona around smoking. But in this interview, he described a moment when the routine stopped feeling useful.
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