ScHoolboy Q has made it clear that he has no plans of leaving Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE), which is the label he constructed his profession with.
On Sunday (February 18), a fan on Twitter requested the California native: “Is this your last album with TDE?”
“Never leaving,” Q responded whereas plugging his web site and upcoming album’s newest music video, ““Yeern 101.”
Check out his pledge of allegiance under:
Never leaving https://t.co/dwSMdded4Uhttps://t.co/d8YdePrCeuhttps://t.co/d6ND2Fpg6d
— ScHoolboy Q (@ScHoolboyQ) February 18, 2024
The album in query is Blue Lips, which is due out on March 1. The 17-track effort will characteristic a visitor verse from Freddie Gibbs (who Q admitted “washed” him) however no different cameos have been revealed but.
Last month, fellow TDE rapper Jay Rock needed to set the document straight about rumored tensions within the camp, which initially started following Kendrick Lamar’s departure from the label in 2021.
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In a uncommon message posted to his web site previous to the discharge of 2022’s Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers in 2022, , Okay.Dot knowledgeable followers that it could be his last launch on the label after being on the crew for greater than a decade.
He went on to launch his imprint, pgLang, together with longtime supervisor and inventive collaborator Dave Free.
Around that point, TDE followers had been turning into annoyed by the imprint’s inactivity. Criticism additional intensified this previous summer time when Reason publicly known as out the label for dropping the ball on his newest album, Porches.
“We had certain features lined up that could’ve went through,” the rapper complained throughout an look on the BACKONFIGG podcast. “We had the budget, we had the feature lined up, takes too long to get pushed through, feature price ended up going up or something goes away. Content ideas lined up, not executed. Rollout ideas lined up, not executed.
“It was a few different things. I had Latto lined up for something, not executed. I had EST Gee lined up, not executed. Like, us not pushing through. Features lined up, we got a price set, video and verse for the love, takes too long.”
This led to a tense backwards and forwards between Reason and TDE co-president Anthony “Moosa” Tiffith, who disparaged his artist by calling him a “substitute teacher,” amongst different issues.
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