It looks like Top Dawg Entertainment is getting ready to sweep the game in 2020. With new albums from Kendrick Lamar and SZA likely to drop this year, ScHoolboy Q is also getting ready to drop his follow-up to CrasH Talk. The rapper just wrapped up his European run on the CrasH tour with Jay Rock where he doubled down on his promise to drop a brand new album before the year ends. “Let me tell you this. I’m droppin’ a new album this year y’all,” he said during the final date in Moscow.

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Q’s tour runs for Crash Talk has not been as extensive as some of his previous efforts. His North American run was nineteen dates across the U.S. and Canada in November and early December before kicking off the European run in January. Perhaps the short tour is a sign that he’ll be back in California locking in-studio time for his next project. 

Along with Q, there’s been rumors floating around that Kendrick will also be unleashing a new album this year. He has yet to confirm this but he did recently announce his new media company, pgLang with Dave Free which prompted immediate speculation that he would be releasing new music. SZA also teased her new album would be dropping this year so it looks like we’ll be getting tons of good music from the TDE camp this year. 

Watch Q’s announcement in his latest vlog below. 

The Top Dawg Entertainment release schedule is looking positively stacked. With expected drops from Kendrick Lamar,SZA, Ab-Soul, Reason, and the off-chance of Isaiah Rashad coming through, it’s hard to imagine a timeline whereupon everybody eats. And yet the itinerary continues to pile on. Last night, HHNM confirmed that ScHoolboy Q took to the stage to announce his plans to drop a brand new solo album at some point this year. 

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Taking the stage at London’s O2 Academy Brixton, Q revealed that his CrasH Talk follow-up was already in development. “I’ma constantly be here bruh, I’m not lying to you, I swear to God,” declares Q. “I’ma drop a whole other album this year, I promise you that. I promise you that, I’m not lying this time! And I’m the most lying-ist muthafucka ever! I’ll drop next month. Yeah right. N***a, I’m dropping an album this year, I promise you that.”

“I’ve been working on this album since CrasH Talk came out,” he continues. “I been working nonstop. I constantly work because I’m hungry and I love to create. And every time when I come out and I see my fans, it makes me appreciate this shit way more than what it is.” Check out his passionate vow below, and sound off below — do you think Q will ultimately prove to be a man of his word?  We hope so, as there’s always time for ScHoolboy Q’s bleak and unflinching art of storytelling.