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Kendrick Lamar’s The Big Steppers Tour is now the highest-grossing tour in hip-hop history. According to Touring Data, Kendrick’s nationwide trek has earned $110.9 million in revenue from 929,000 tickets sold across 73 shows. Big Steppers gives Kendrick the most lucrative tour ever by a rapper as a headlining act, surpassing Drake’s 2018 Aubrey & […]
SZA earned nearly $35 million on her first arena tour following the release of her highly-anticipated sophomore album SOS. As reported by Billboard, the SOS Tour grossed $34.5 million, spanning 17 cities across North America and lasting just over a month. Billboard notes the tour averaged 12,812 tickets per night and $1.9 million per show. SZA dropped SOS in […]
Black Hippy is way overdue for a standalone project. The supergroup made up of TDE pioneers Jay Rock, Schoolboy Q, Ab-Soul, and Kendrick Lamar last came together on a track in 2016, for Q’s “That Part” remix. A fan tweeted at Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith on Monday to find out whether we’ll ever get another Black Hippy remix, and the CEO took it one step further. […]
Not long after picking up Billboard’s Women in Music Rising Star Award, Doechii has teamed up with Kodak Black for her new song “What It Is (Block Boy).” Her first single of 2023, “What It Is” sees Doechii make it clear what got Top Dawg interested in signing her. To coincide with the track, Doechii also […]
Terrence “Punch” Henderson says SZA has gotten a hard-earned handle on fame and the pressures that come with it. The Top Dawg Entertainment boss, who signed the artist in 2013, made the comments on the Rap Radar podcast with Elliott Wilson and Brian “B.Dot” Miller. At one point during the sit-down, Wilson referenced past incidents in which SZA expressed her frustrations with industry and […]
DJ Dahi didn’t bite his tongue. The Los Angeles-born producer hit up Instagram on Thursday to slam the recent leak of Kendrick Lamar tracks, which were seemingly intended for his 2022 album Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers. The songs in question appeared on Spotify that day, but were not listed on K-Dot’s official page. Instead a playlist titled “Morale Pack” was posted by […]
Zacari has shared his new song “Restless.” The singer’s latest offering marks Top Dawg Entertainment’s last release for 2022. He announced the song on social media, writing, “Closing the DTLA chapter of my life,” alongside the single artwork. Last December, Zacari shared his 4-track EP Sol, which included a feature from Justin Nozuka. Zacari recently […]
Kendrick Lamar has never been particularly active on social media, and in a new interview with the New York Times, he explains why. “My social media, most of the time, is completely off,” he said in the feature, which also focuses on his pgLang co-founder and longtime collaborator Dave Free. “Because I know, like … I […]
Ab-Soul has shared his new album Herbert via Top Dawg Entertainment. It’s the first time the Los Angeles rapper has released a record in six years. Herbert boasts appearances from Joey Badass, Big Sean, Jhené Aiko, Russ, Fresh, Ambré, ALEMEDA, and TDE’s SiR, Punch, Zacari, and Lance Skiiiwalker, plus production by DJ Premier, Sounwave, James Blake, Hit-Boy, Boi-1da, […]
SZA said that she plans to “disappear” for a while following the release of her new album SOS. In a cover feature with Consequence, the TDE singer-songwriter suggested that she might leave fans waiting for a follow-up to the new album as long as they did after CTRL dropped in 2017. “I’m gonna disappear, definitely, for as long as I can,” […]
