Are Skool Boyz the same as ScHoolboy Q?

No, completely different acts. ScHoolboy Q is a contemporary West Coast rapper signed to Top Dawg Entertainment, known for albums like Oxymoron, CrasH Talk, and Blue Lips. Skool Boyz is a late-1990s R&B vocal group whose tracks live mostly on YouTube reuploads. The naming overlap is coincidence. If you wanted Q's music, search 'ScHoolboy Q' on any streaming platform — his catalog is fully available. If you wanted Skool Boyz, expect a more scattered hunt across YouTube, Bandcamp, and Discogs.

When was 'Loose Screws' released?

Public records on Skool Boyz's discography are thin. The most consistent timeline puts the group's main releases between 1997 and 1999, with 'Loose Screws' appearing on their debut album. Discogs is the most reliable source for catalog numbers and exact dates if you need them — fan-curated entries there often beat anything on Wikipedia for niche 90s R&B groups. The era is unmistakable from the production: drum-machine-heavy, layered harmonies, and the slow-groove tempo characteristic of late-90s slow jams.

Why does Google show skool.com when I search this?

Skool.com (the creator community platform) ranks for any query containing 'skool' because it's the highest-authority domain using that exact spelling. The platform is unrelated to the song or the group — same five letters, totally different brands. If you're trying to find the music and Google is pushing you toward platform-related results, add the word 'song' or 'lyrics' or 'R&B' to your query and the music sources will surface. YouTube is generally the most reliable path for niche 90s R&B.

What's skool.com if I'm curious?

Skool.com is a community-as-a-service platform that creators use to host paid courses and groups. Launched by Sam Ovens, it costs about $99/month flat per community regardless of member count. The platform combines a Facebook-style feed, a classroom for hosted video, a calendar, and a leaderboard with points and levels. It's popular with creators in marketing, AI, fitness, and trading. The whole platform is intentionally minimal — owners typically pair it with third-party tools (like tools4skool) for DM automation and analytics once their community grows past 100 paying members.

Does the platform have anything to do with the song title?

Not at all — the naming overlap is purely coincidence. 'Skool' as a stylized spelling has been used in music branding since the late 1980s (Stetsasonic's 'Old Skool', De La Soul references, etc.). Sam Ovens chose the same spelling for his platform decades later. If you came here from the song and stayed for the platform info, fair trade. If you came from the platform and stumbled into 90s R&B trivia, also fair trade. The internet routes traffic in funny ways when domain names share spellings with song titles.

Skool Boy 'Loose Screws': The Song, the Group, and the Confusion

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TL;DR
About the song
Who Skool Boyz are
Where to listen
If you wanted skool.com
FAQ

TL;DR

'Skool boy loose screws' is an underground R&B reference, not a tech product or skool.com feature. 'Loose Screws' is a song attributed to the late-90s American R&B group Skool Boyz, who also recorded tracks like 'This Feeling Must Be Real' and 'Before You Go'. The group never crossed into mainstream charts but maintains a small following in 90s rare-groove circles. Streaming availability is patchy — most listeners find the track on YouTube reuploads and a few Bandcamp reissues rather than Spotify or Apple Music. If you searched this expecting something related to skool.com (the creator community platform), the spellings are coincidentally close but completely unrelated. We cover both at the bottom of this page so nobody leaves empty-handed.

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About the song

'Loose Screws' fits the late-90s R&B template: layered male harmonies, slow groove, lyrics built around relationship friction. Production is era-typical — drum machines, synth pads, the occasional live bass. The track has the same vibe as Jagged Edge, 112, and Silk B-sides from 1997–1999, though Skool Boyz never reached that level of mainstream rotation.

There's no canonical music-video upload, and the track sits on a debut album with no Wikipedia entry. Reddit's r/RandB and a few rare-soul DJ blogs are the most reliable sources. If you found it via a TikTok or Reels sound, it likely went semi-viral as a nostalgic loop in the last 12–18 months — that's how a lot of forgotten 90s R&B has resurfaced.

Who Skool Boyz are

Skool Boyz (occasionally spelled Skoolboyz) is a late-1990s American R&B group with a discography of roughly one full-length album and a handful of singles. They are not the same as British band School Boys or any of the various '70s acts using similar names. Members and label affiliation are spotty in public records — much of what's online comes from fan-curated discographies rather than official archives.

Known tracks attributed to them: 'This Feeling Must Be Real', 'This Is the Real Thing', 'Before You Go', 'Your Love', 'Superfine', and 'Loose Screws'. If you're building a 90s slow-jam playlist, they pair well with Total, Allure, Changing Faces, and Az Yet.

Where to actually listen

Real talk on availability:

YouTube is your best bet. Search the exact track title in quotes and you'll find one or two reuploads with under 10k views.
Spotify and Apple Music carry some Skool Boyz tracks but coverage is incomplete. 'Loose Screws' specifically may or may not be on the major streamers depending on rights cleanup.
Bandcamp occasionally hosts indie reissues of forgotten 90s R&B. Search 'Skool Boyz' there.
Discogs has the cleanest discography listing if you want catalog numbers and release years.
Rare-soul DJ blogs (e.g. soulwalking, soulful-detroit) sometimes have rips and liner notes.

If the song shows up in your shuffle elsewhere — TikTok sound, mood playlist — Shazam will usually surface the artist and track name within a few seconds.

If you actually meant skool.com

Outside chance you typed 'skool boy loose screws' as a confused shorthand for skool.com — the creator community platform — and 'loose screws' was a placeholder for 'something's broken'. Real story: skool.com is the platform Sam Ovens launched for hosting paid online communities and courses. Roughly $99/month flat per group, used by Iman Gadzhi, Liam Ottley, and a long tail of marketing/AI/fitness creators.

What's typically 'loose' on skool.com: the operational layer. No native DM automation, no churn-recovery flow, no segmentation, no member CSV export. Owners past 100 paying members usually install a Chrome extension to fix this. tools4skool — the extension we make — handles auto DM sequences, churn saves, comment-to-CSV mining, and a Post-Now scheduled-posts feature. Free tier covers 1 sequence and 20 DMs/day. Paid tiers run $29 / $59 / $149 per month. If that's what you actually wanted, the rest of the site has more depth.

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Frequently asked

Coverage is incomplete. Some Skool Boyz tracks appear on Spotify and Apple Music, but specific deep cuts often don't because rights weren't fully cleaned up post-90s. Your best move is to search 'Skool Boyz' on Spotify directly and see what's available, then check YouTube for anything missing. If you find a track you love on streaming, it's worth saving offline immediately because catalog availability shifts when small-label rights changes happen. The song has resurfaced occasionally as a TikTok or Reels sound in the last year or two.