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He also unveiled the first single, “ Lay Wit Ya,” off his new album The House Is Burning, out today.

This past spring, the artist with so much promise interrupted resurfaced with a tell-all Fader cover story about where he’d been all this time.

And after confiding in his boss, Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith, Rashad spent the majority of his 2019 summer in a California rehab. Rashad’s enlightenment came in the form of self-discovery, and he feels like he owes his fans some closure, telling GQ, “ I owe finishing what I said I was going to be.” In 2018, Rashad moved back to L.A. Between then and 2015’s classic To Pimp a Butterfly, the Compton rapper embarked on a journey to South Africa, an experience that allowed him to “see all the things he wasn’t taught.” At the time, Lamar said that on his followup he felt he had to be responsible for enlightening his fans on the struggles faced in the homeland while equally expressing and making space for his own vices. Long, unannounced hiatuses seem commonplace with TDE artists Lamar also went ghost after the release of his 2012 major label debut good kid, m.A.A.d. Rashad learned the hard way that being signed to a major label, especially as a newcomer, means nothing when you can’t hold up your end of the bargain. Rashad succumbed to crippling alcoholism - a disease he revealed runs in his family - and financial hardships in the form of frivolously spending on himself and his friends to the point where he was forced to move back to his mom’s house in Chattanooga. A sold-out national tour and festival appearances leveraged his success - and lined his pockets - sooner than he could keep up.Īfter that first taste of stardom, shit hit the fan. In 2016, he released his critically acclaimed debut album, The Sun’s Tirade. With Lamar, Jay Rock, Ab-Soul, ScHoolboy Q (known together as Black Hippy) already leading TDE, Rashad - along with SZA - brought a new perspective and embraced his identity as the lone Southerner among a crew of L.A. The then-22-year-old Chattanooga native had left Middle Tennessee State University to pursue a rap career and, by 2013, signed to the California-based label TDE the following year, he released his debut mixtape Cilvia Demo.

For a certain time, it seemed like Isaiah Rashad might follow in Kendrick Lamar’s immediate footsteps as the newest rap star of the formidable Top Dog Entertainment roster.