In September, Top Dawg Entertainment, home to Kendrick Lamar, ScHoolboy Q, Jay Rock, Ab-Soul, and SZA, signed Iasiah Rashad.
In an interview on Shade 45’s Sway in the Morning show, the Chattanooga, Tennessee native brushed off the notion of any pressure stemming from being on the successful label. “All I gotta do is rap good,” he said.
The 22-year-old rapper revealed that his first album is well under way in the recording process. “I’m pretty deep in it,” said Rashad of his first project. “I was trying to figure out how to go about the format of it. That’s what I was thinking about at first, because I had never made a project before. I was just, like, loosely recording, trying to send this to this A&R, let this blogger hear it. So I [hadn’t thought] about making a project. I thought I was going to make my first project when I was twenty-four. I’m two years early.”
Rashad continued, “It’s not necessarily a story or anything, but it’s taking you somewhere. So I was trying to wait until I had enough material that I can, like, piece it together and take you somewhere.”
Isaiah Rashad also spoke about the reactions he’s been getting from people since being featured on TDE’s BET Hip-Hop Awards Cypher. “It’s funny, I’ve been having the same number since I’ve been twelve years old, so nobody thinks I have the same number. Facebook? Private. Twitter got blown up, but I don’t pay attention to it. Just, in person, people hit me like I’m famous. It’s like, ‘I’m not famous, bro. You grew up with me. You know who I was. You know who I am. C’mon, you beat me up.'”
Watch the interview below:
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Not too much rappers in the game being vocal about some of the stuff going on. Always good to have someone like tyler who speaks their mind despite the possibilty of getting backlash beacause of doing so
No pressure because there whole image is cosigned
and watered down
he is in the best label, props to him
He’s not better than Kendrick at anything
hope he can read better than you cj
KING RASHAD!!!!
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Of course there’s no pressure, nobody knows your irrelevant ass
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He obviously dissed the system where white men in suits from Hollywood try to adapt the music so that it would appeal to the masses and would fuck up their mentaility. What the fuck were you thinking? He hates Hollywood cause they make movies over there? Moron.
Isiah is dope I hope things work out for him seem like a down to earth kid