Top Dawg CEO says Drake and Kendrick Lamar “battle is over”, but “a win for the culture”
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The Top Dawg Entertainment founder and CEO has taken to social media to say the Drake and Kendrick Lamar rap “battle is over”.
Last week (May 10), Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith took to X/Twitter to promote the upcoming TDE 20th anniversary compilation album, while also speaking out about the long and recent feud between Drake and Lamar.
” This battle is over. A win for the culture, while keeping it all on wax,” he tweeted. “Especially when these publications try to make it something else. We proved them wrong. That’s a victory within itself. On another note, it’s time to wrap up this TDE [20-year] anniversary compilation.”
Jay Rock also hinted at the first-ever TDE compilation album in an interview last December. He has been a member of the hip-hop supergroup Black Hippy for over 15 years, which was formed by Rock, Ab-Soul, Kendrick Lamar and ScHoolboy Q while signed to TDE.
Rock was asked by the Associated Press if there would be another Black Hippy album, to which he answered: “It’s been 20 years since TDE [has] been in the game. So we are putting together a compilation album, so we should be dropping that at the top of the year. I don’t know how many songs we’re going to put on there, but we got a majority of Black Hippy on that thing.”
Other signees on the Top Dawg Entertainment roster are SZA, Reason, Isaiah Rashad, Doechii, Ab-Soul, Lance Skiiiwalker, Zacari, Ray Vaughn and SiR. Kendrick Lamar left the label in 2022, releasing ‘Mr Morales & The Big Steppers’ before starting his own creative agency, pgLang. None of them have confirmed their involvement but are expected to feature on the upcoming TDE compilation.