Cause, a member of the sprawling High Dawg Leisure operation, is prepping for the discharge of his upcoming album Porches this Friday (August 11). The Carson, Calif. rapper aired out some grievances with TDE, getting right into a heated dialogue with label co-president Anthony “Mossa” Tiffith Jr. over options that didn’t occur.

Cause was a visitor on the BACKONFIGG podcast with hosts T-Rell and Smac. Through the chat, the artist born Robert Gill Jr. had lots to say concerning the practices of TDE as a label, explaining that options from Latto and EST GEE have been lined up however misplaced as a consequence of time.

“We had sure options lined up that would’ve went by way of,” Cause stated. “We had the finances, we had the function lined up, takes too lengthy to get pushed by way of, function value ended up going up or one thing goes away. Content material concepts lined up, not executed. Rollout concepts lined up, not executed.”

He went on to clarify that Latto was all however set to go in addition to EST GEE however TDE execs held up the method.

“I had Latto lined up for one thing, not executed. I had EST Gee lined up, not executed. Like, us not pushing by way of. Options lined up, we acquired a value set, video and verse for the love, takes too lengthy,” Cause added.

The EST GEE function particularly jumped in value by $25,000, which apparently would’ve been an enormous hit to the album’s advertising finances.

Through the interview, Moosa known as into the podcast to problem a few of the factors made by his artist. Moosa defined that a lot of what TDE does is a course of and saved pointing to the “movement” that TDE artists Ray Vaughn and Doechii have managed to garner so far as fan curiosity goes.

Moosa then challenged the co-hosts, self-proclaimed followers of their visitor, to call 10 Cause songs, which they each did not do. Additionally within the name, Moosa defined that former TDE exec Dave Free didn’t need to signal Cause, citing that the rapper gave off, “substitute instructor” vibes.

Cause took to X (previously often known as Twitter) to clarify that he’s very a lot releasing his album on TDE and seemingly needs to stay on the label.

“I recognize ppl that’s reached out to me. Belief I’m nearly as good as I could be. We’ll have an actual convo in some unspecified time in the future about what occurred, simply belief that wasn’t a “rollout transfer” lol that really occurred! All constructive vitality as of now shifting ahead tho! Porches Friday! Love y’all!” he tweeted.

Test the complete BACKONFIGG podcast episode with Cause beneath. Hop to the 1:24:00-minute mark to see the second in query.

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