I know he will be successful in whatever he decides to do and will have our FULL support.Īs for Top Dawg Entertainment, we will continue to grow, develop and give artists the platform to expand into whatever way they choose.Ī post shared by TOP DAWG aka TDE president Terrence Louis Henderson Jr., has posted a similar statement.
With this being Dot’s last album on TDE, this is more of a VICTORY LAP, a celebration. TDE and its artists have provided a way to end generational curses that we were all personally born into over the last 17 years in the business. We did those things 10 times over and then some. The whole goal when we started this thing was to make music, make money, and make history. The tone of the message makes it feel like it’s all love between artist and label its Instagram caption reads, “It’s been an honor and a privilege for TDE to bless the world with the GOAT!” The rest says this: UPDATE: Tiffith has shared his own statement confirming Kendrick’s next album will be his last for TDE. Thank you for keeping me in your thoughts. As I continue to pursue my life’s calling. May the Most High continue to use Top Dawg as a vessel for candid creators. The life in which my words will land next.Īs I produce my final TDE album, I feel joy to have been a part of such a cultural imprint after 17 years. While the world around me evolves, I reflect on what matters the most. Love, loss, and grief have disturbed my comfort zone, but the glimmers of God speak through my music and family. The morning rides keep me on a hill of silence. I spend most of my days with fleeting thoughts. Here’s the full text of Kendrick’s message: As I continue to pursue my life’s calling.” He signed the note “oklama.” The life in which my words will land next.” He goes on to sing TDE’s praises: “May the Most High continue to use Top Dawg as a vessel for candid creators. “While the world around me evolves, I reflect on what matters the most. “Love, loss, and grief have disturbed my comfort zone, but the glimmers of God speak through my music and family,” he writes. On a new website called, there’s a graphic of a file folder labeled “nu thoughts.” In it, Kendrick has shared his update. It may have been technically true that Kendrick is not leaving the label for now, but his new note indicates he’s currently working on “my final TDE album.” Kendrick joined TDE’s founder and namesake Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith to squash that rumor a year ago. Last year Kendrick and Dave Free, the former president of his longtime record label Top Dawg Entertainment, launched an “at service” company called pgLang, described in hifalutin corporate speak as “not a ‘record label,’ a ‘movie studio,’ or a ‘publishing house.’ This is something new.” This led to suspicion that Kendrick was leaving TDE, a label whose artists (Schoolboy Q and SZA, for instance) seem to have mostly stopped releasing music lately.
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