ScHoolboy Q has hit out at the claims that TDE boss Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith is to blame for the long delays between albums from Kendrick Lamar and SZA.
Sitting down with YG on his 4HUNNID Podcast, Q shut down online chatter that the label founder deliberately prevents his artists from regularly dropping music.
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“Muthafuckas gotta stop that. They be giving Top [Dawg] and them hell,” he said, before placing the blame on himself and his labelmates.
“I’ma be honest, that’s us. You think Top is telling Kendrick and SZA you can only drop one album in five years? Two of the biggest artists? He ain’t gonna get no chicken!
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“I think we just cuckoo in the head, bro. We all got similarities and it shows. [Isaiah Rashad] didn’t drop in five years, I didn’t drop in five years, SZA didn’t drop in five years, Dot didn’t drop in five years, it done hit five for [Jay] Rock. We have something in common and it’s not Top. I don’t see how he gains anything from doing that.”
He added: “Me being 37, I’ma be honest with you Top, I wouldn’t allow you to. He like my pops I never had so I’m going nowhere, but we gonna be arguing like a muthafucka if you making me wait five years between albums and it’s not by my choice.”
Q then joked that TDE artists all have a “mental illness” and their perfectionist tendencies are primarily to blame for their lack of output.
Schoolboy Q dispels rumors that Top Dawg is responsible for the infrequent album releases of Kendrick Lamar and SZA.
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ScHoolboy Q recently addressed another topic that has long circled the TDE camp: a rumored Black Hippy album from himself, Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock and Ab-Soul.
Sitting down with Danny Brown on the Detroit rapper’s self-titled podcast, he said: “I’m not making no Black Hippy shit. Hell no. I’ll never do that shit.”
He added: “I think we’re all kind of on our separate paths right now. Dot is doing his own thing with pgLang. I’m doing my own thing, curating a new artist. I did that part already. I gotta have this second part ’cause I got like 18 more albums to make.
“So it’s like I’m tryna figure out this phase before I get to the third phase. And Ab-Soul, he’s working, Jay Rock’s working. I just don’t see where we’ll ever have time to.”
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The album has long been a dream project for Hip Hop fans, though the West Coast quartet have not appeared together on a track in almost a decade. The last song to feature Q, Kendrick, Rock and Soul is 2015’s “Vice City.”
Q has said in the past that scheduling was a big issue in the album not coming together: “The chances of us getting into the studio together and working on Black Hippy is slim. There’s too much going on … I’m with it though. I wanna do it.”
