TDE’s Ray Vaughn is the newest member of the RCA roster. The label announced his signing today, on the heels of his The Good The Bad The Dollar Menu mixtape and his selection to XXL‘s 2025 freshman class. Vaughn also garnered headlines for his part in a bicoastal barfest against …
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Jay Rock was arrested in Los Angeles yesterday, March 14, after police allegedly found a gun in his car. The longtime TDE rapper — whose real name is Johnny Reed McKinzie — was arrested early Thursday evening in Nickerson Gardens, a public housing complex in Watts. Per NBC 4, the …
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The women accusing Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE) executives Anthony “Moosa” Tiffith Jr. and Brandon Tiffith of sexual misconduct have amended their civil lawsuit to include their recent alleged doxxing. The women initially filed their joint suit anonymously in December. Earlier this month, the Tiffith’s legal counsel, Marty Singer, released a …
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SZA is no longer being managed by Top Dawg Entertainment president Terrence “Punch” Henderson. In a series of Instagram comments, the singer and songwriter revealed that their often contentious manager-client relationship came to an end after Henderson “stepped away abruptly” from his managerial responsibilities. “Nothing to celebrate. The end of …
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O n the second-to-last day of her first New York Fashion Week, the young singer Alemeda is dodging bees on the rooftop of a hotel in the Flatiron District while we try to talk about some very big news for her. Alemeda is 24 years old. She’s Ethiopian, Sudanese, and …
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“Love.,” the four-time platinum single from Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer Prize-winning opus Damn., was made an inescapable earworm and a breath of fresh air with a timeless hook from Zacari. At the time, the young singer was not yet signed to Kendrick’s label, Top Dawg Entertainment, but was managed by TDE …
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There are two things ScHoolboy Q has been trying to wrap his head around. One of them is the success of Blue Lips, the his sixth album and first in nearly five years, released earlier this month. The South Central Los Angeles rapper with storied backgrounds as both a Crip …
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I n the parking lot of Anderson Memorial Park in Carson, California, just south of Compton and north of Long Beach, Ab-Soul chain-smokes Newports and speaks gently. We’re close to the houses he grew up in alongside his mother, aunts, and paternal grandparents. “I kinda like to call it the …
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