Top Dawg Entertainment — the label home of Kendrick Lamar, ScHoolboy Q, SZA and more — has shared a teaser for what could be its first release of 2021.
On social media, TDE founder Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith shared a video of the label's logo above a glowing progress bar. Upon the bar's completion, the teaser reveals a date pointing to May 7. According to Tiffith's post, that is when "THE WAIT IS OVAH."
On social media, TDE founder Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith shared a video of the label's logo above a glowing progress bar. Upon the bar's completion, the teaser reveals a date pointing to May 7. According to Tiffith's post, that is when "THE WAIT IS OVAH."
Now, fans will surely spend the next week theorizing who the release date could be for, so we'll run down the label's recent activity to help make your estimate.
At the tail end of 2020, SZA shared new singles "Good Days" and "Hit Different," the latter of which featured Ty Dolla $ign and the Neptunes. Both songs are expected to appear on her long-awaited follow-up to 2017's acclaimed Ctrl.
Last year also saw Reason release studio debut New Beginnings, following his 2018 commercial mixtape There You Have It. Then 2019 brought TDE listeners SiR's Chasing Summer, ScHoolboy Q's CrasH Talk and Zacari's debut EP Run Wild Run Free.
In 2018, Jay Rock released his most recent album Redemption. That year also saw the label produce Black Panther: The Album, led by Lamar, whose most recent studio release remains 2017's DAMN.
Finally, the trio of Isaiah Rashad, Ab-Soul and Lance Skiiwalker have not released new projects since 2016, when they delivered The Sun's Tirade, Do What Thou Wilt. and Introverted Intuition, respectively.
Recently, Tiffith and ScHoolboy Q were tied to forthcoming animated series The Freak Brothers, while the latter also guested on a single from Freddie Gibbs. Lamar launched company pgLang in 2020 and jumped on a track with Busta Rhymes.
At the tail end of 2020, SZA shared new singles "Good Days" and "Hit Different," the latter of which featured Ty Dolla $ign and the Neptunes. Both songs are expected to appear on her long-awaited follow-up to 2017's acclaimed Ctrl.
Last year also saw Reason release studio debut New Beginnings, following his 2018 commercial mixtape There You Have It. Then 2019 brought TDE listeners SiR's Chasing Summer, ScHoolboy Q's CrasH Talk and Zacari's debut EP Run Wild Run Free.
In 2018, Jay Rock released his most recent album Redemption. That year also saw the label produce Black Panther: The Album, led by Lamar, whose most recent studio release remains 2017's DAMN.
Finally, the trio of Isaiah Rashad, Ab-Soul and Lance Skiiwalker have not released new projects since 2016, when they delivered The Sun's Tirade, Do What Thou Wilt. and Introverted Intuition, respectively.
Recently, Tiffith and ScHoolboy Q were tied to forthcoming animated series The Freak Brothers, while the latter also guested on a single from Freddie Gibbs. Lamar launched company pgLang in 2020 and jumped on a track with Busta Rhymes.