The Sun’s Tirade is brutally honest and open, a record saddled by substance abuse and melancholia. It’s an album that examines the strain of family ties, smalltown spokesmanship, and self-awareness. “I can’t admit, I’ve been depressed/I hit a wall, ouch,” he raps on “Dressed Like Rappers” from his long-awaited follow-up, The Sun’s Tirade. Drug dependency threatened to derail a promising career and almost getting him dropped from Top Dawg Entertainment on a handful of occasions. During a stint on Schoolboy Q’s Oxymoron tour in 2014, he got hooked on a potent brew of Xanax and alcohol, a concoction used to numb himself during an ongoing battle with depression. In the two quiet years since Isaiah Rashad released Cilvia, his inactivity fed his addiction, and vice versa.
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