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There are currently eleven artists signed to the label: the label's flagship artists, Black Hippy
Black Hippy
Black Hippy is an American hip hop supergroup from South Los Angeles, California, formed in 2008. The group is composed of West Coast rappers Ab-Soul, Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar and ScHoolboy Q. Black Hippy was constructed after all of its members had signed to Carson-based indie record label, Top Dawg Entertainment.
Schoolboy Q
Quincy Matthew Hanley, better known by his stage name ScHoolboy Q, is an American rapper and songwriter based in South Central Los Angeles, California. In 2009, Hanley signed to Carson-based independent record label Top Dawg Entertainment and in late 2011, secured a recording contract wi…
Isaiah Rashad
Isaiah Rashad McClain is an American rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer from Chattanooga, Tennessee. Rashad began taking rapping seriously in the tenth grade, where he and his friends would record on laptops. He spent the next few years recording at local recording studi…
SZA
Solána Imani Rowe, known professionally as SZA, is an American singer and songwriter. In October 2012, SZA self-released her debut EP, See.SZA.Run, which she then followed up with her second EP, S, in April 2013. In July 2013, she signed with the hip hop record label Top Dawg E…
Lance Skiiiwalker
Lance Howard, better known by his stage name Lance Skiiiwalker, is an American singer, rapper and record producer from Chicago, Illinois. He is signed to Top Dawg Entertainment and his debut album, Introverted Intuition, was released in October 2016.
Full Answer
Who is the president of TDE?
Dave Free and Punch are both presidents of the TDE. There are currently ten artists signed to the label: The label's flagship artists, Black Hippy members Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul and Schoolboy Q, as well as Isaiah Rashad, SZA, Lance Skiiiwalker, SiR, Reason and Zacari.
Is Schoolboy Q signed to TDE?
In 2009, Los Angeles-based rapper Schoolboy Q signed with TDE after being affiliated with the label since 2006. In 2009, once they were all signed to the label, Schoolboy Q suggested that he, Lamar, Rock and Ab-Soul form a rap group.
Is Kendrick Lamar still signed to TDE?
In 2021, Kendrick Lamar announced he would also be leaving the label, with his next album being his last for TDE. On August 25, 2021, TDE announced the signing of Long Beach rapper Ray Vaughn, who signed in 2020.
Who are the members of TDE?
The TDE tour featured Kendrick Lamar, ScHoolboy Q, Jay Rock, Ab-Soul, Isaiah Rashad, SZA, Lance Skiiiwalker and co-president/occasional rapper Punch. On January 19, 2017, TDE officially announced the signing of Inglewood, California singer SiR.
Who else has he collaborated with?
Beyond writing songs for Jill Scott, Anita Baker and Stevie Wonder, SiR has embedded himself in L.A.’s underground scene. Seven Sundays featured appearances from Anderson .Paak, Knxwledge and Iman Omari. He’s also appeared on projects by Warm Brew, Ill Camille and Joyce Wrice. Then, of course, there are SiR’s guest spots on Jay Rock’s 90059 and Isaiah Rashad’s The Sun’s Tirade, which placed him in the TDE conversation before we even knew it. SiR even has ties across the pond, having lent his soothing voice to London rappers Little Simz and Jay Prince.
How many projects has he released?
Four, so far. SiR dropped his full-length debut Wooden Voodoo in 2012, followed by Long Live Dilla —a J Dilla tribute project featuring a mix of original Dilla beats and songs inspired by the late producer—in 2014. But it was 2015’s Seven Sundays which put SiR on the map and set the ball rolling for his solo career.
Kembe X
Kembe X might be a new name to many casual observers, but to those who have their ear to the ground and eyes on the DJBooth Top Prospect series know that the Windy City up-and-comer has been poised to strike like a cobra for a hot minute. But this is more than just wishful thinking.
Terrace Martin
I know what you are thinking, “Terrace Martin? But he’s not a rapper!” And to those people I would reply, so? It might sound weird at first, but the more I think about it, the more Terrace makes sense. The L.A.
Rapsody
This one is farther out than a Steph Curry three-point shot, but I had to include Rapsody in this conversation because if I'm going to speculate and make crazy assumptions I might as well go all the way in. No half measures. Here it goes.
JaVonté
Working off the assumption that Kembe X is John Doe 1, TDE might have decided to go in a different direction (a la SZA) with their follow-up punch (pun intended). If that’s the case JaVonté may be at the top of the list.
Ash Riser
Like JaVonté, Ash is another safe pick (if we are locking in on Kembe as #1) because he also brings something different to the table and has experience with the TDE crew. In addition to appearing on The Kendrick Lamar EP, Overly Dedicated, Section .80 and To Pimp A Butterfly, he also appeared on Ab-Soul’s Control System.
Overview
Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE) is an American independent record label founded in 2004, by CEO Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith. Terrence "Punch" Henderson is president of the label. There are currently eleven artists signed to the label: the label's flagship artists, Black Hippy members Jay Rock, Ab-Soul and Schoolboy Q, as well as Isaiah Rashad, SZA, Lance Skiiiwalker, SiR, Reason, Zacari, Ray Vaugh…
History
In 1997, Anthony Tiffith (also known by his monikers, Dude Dawg and Top Dawg) embarked on a career in music as a record producer, producing for rappers such as The Game and Juvenile, among others. In 2003, Tiffith found a then 15-year-old Kendrick Lamar, a Compton native, who at the time went by K.Dot and had just released his first mixtape, which gained recognition and earned the young rapper some local buzz in his area. Tiffith saw potential in Lamar, signing him onto the la…
Other ventures
In 2014, TDE started the inaugural Christmas concert and toy drive in Watts, Los Angeles, including performances by TDE's roster of artists as well as donations to families in need. The fundraising event has been an annual concert for the holidays, and had guest appearances from Rihanna, E-40, and Chris Brown.
Advocacy
In May 2018, it was announced that Kendrick Lamar was planning a departure from Spotify. The announcement came after he heard the streaming platform intended to ban fellow rapper XXXTentacion from their editorial and algorithmic playlists for his alleged acts of violence against women. Lamar had been a fan of XXXTentacion's music. He tweeted a link to his debut album 17 accompanied by praise for the controversial rapper's "raw thoughts." The removal of XXXTentaci…
In-house producers
Top Dawg Entertainment houses a production team named Digi+Phonics, composed of music producers Dave Free, Willie B, Tae Beast and Sounwave. They have composed the majority of the production on many of the TDE releases.
King Blue, also known as Blue The Misfit, was once half of the musical duo Sore Losers and is also signed to Top Dawg as a producer, producing songs such as Kendrick Lamar's "P&P", Schoo…
Discography
The discography of Top Dawg Entertainment currently consists of 25 studio albums, two compilation albums, six extended plays (EPs) and 17 mixtapes. Overall the label has sold more than ten million records in the US alone.
External links
• Official website
About TDE
- Information applicable to SQL Database
When you use TDE with Azure SQL Database, SQL Database automatically creates for you the server-level certificate stored in the master database. To move a TDE database on SQL Database, you don't have to decrypt the database for the move operation. For more information on using T… - Information applicable to SQL Server
After you secure a database, you can restore it by using the correct certificate. For more information about certificates, see SQL Server Certificates and Asymmetric Keys. After you enable TDE, immediately back up the certificate and its associated private key. If the certificate become…
Enable TDE
- To use TDE, follow these steps.
Applies to: SQL Server. - 1.Create a master key.
2.Create or obtain a certificate protected by the master key.
Commands and functions
- For the following statements to accept TDE certificates, use a database master key to encrypt th…
Important - If you make the certificates password protected after TDE uses them, the database becomes in…
The following table provides links and explanations of TDE commands and functions:
Catalog views and dynamic management views
- The following table shows TDE catalog views and dynamic management views.
Permissions
- Each TDE feature and command has individual permission requirements as described in the tabl…
Viewing the metadata involved with TDE requires the VIEW DEFINITION permission on a certificate.
Considerations
- While a re-encryption scan for a database encryption operation is in progress, maintenance oper…
Use the sys.dm_database_encryption_keys dynamic management view to find the state of database encryption. For more information, see the "Catalog views and dynamic management views" section earlier in this article. - In TDE, all files and filegroups in a database are encrypted. If any filegroup in a database is mark…
If you use a database in database mirroring or log shipping, both databases are encrypted. The log transactions are encrypted when sent between them.
Restrictions
- The following operations are disallowed during initial database encryption, key change, or datab…
•Dropping a file from a filegroup in a database - •Dropping a database
•Taking a database offline
TDE scan
- To enable TDE on a database, SQL Server must do an encryption scan. The scan reads each pag…
To give you more control over the encryption scan, SQL Server 2019 (15.x) introduces TDE scan, which has a suspend and resume syntax. You can pause the scan while the workload on the system is heavy or during business-critical hours and then resume the scan later. - Use the following syntax to pause the TDE encryption scan:
Similarly, use the following syntax to resume the TDE encryption scan:
TDE and transaction logs
- Letting a database use TDE removes the remaining part of the current virtual transaction log. Th…
To find the status of log-file encryption, see the encryption_state column in the sys.dm_database_encryption_keys view, as in this example: - For more information about the SQL Server log-file architecture, see The Transaction Log (SQL S…
Before a database encryption key changes, the previous database encryption key encrypts all data written to the transaction log.
TDE and the tempdb system database
- The tempdb system database is encrypted if any other database on the SQL Server instance is encrypted by using TDE. This encryption might have a performance effect for unencrypted databases on the same SQL Server instance. For more information about the tempdb system database, see tempdb Database.
TDE and replication
- Replication doesn't automatically replicate data from a TDE-enabled database in an encrypted fo…
Snapshot replication can store data in unencrypted intermediate files like BCP files. The initial data distribution for transactional and merge replication can too. During such replication, you can enable encryption to protect the communication channel.
TDE and Always On
- You can add an encrypted database to an Always On availability group.
To encrypt databases that are part of an availability group, create the master key and certificates, or asymmetric key (EKM) on all secondary replicas before creating the database encryption key on the primary replica.
TDE and FILESTREAM data
- FILESTREAM data isn't encrypted even when you enable TDE.
TDE and Backups
- Certificates are commonly used in Transparent Data Encryption to protect the Database Encryption Key (DEK). The certificate must be created in the master database. Backup files of databases that have TDE enabled are also encrypted by using the database encryption key. As a result, when you restore from these backups, the certificate protecting the database encryption …
Remove TDE
- Remove encryption from the database by using the ALTER DATABASE statement.
To view the state of the database, use the sys.dm_database_encryption_keys dynamic management view. - Wait for decryption to finish before removing the database encryption key by using DROP DATA…
Important
TDE and buffer pool extension
- When you encrypt a database using TDE, files related to buffer pool extension (BPE) aren't encrypted. For those files, use encryption tools like BitLocker or EFS at the file-system level.
TDE and In-Memory OLTP
- You can enable TDE on a database that has In-Memory OLTP objects. In SQL Server 2016 (13.x) and Azure SQL Database, In-Memory OLTP log records and data are encrypted if you enable TDE. In SQL Server 2014 (12.x), In-Memory OLTP log records are encrypted if you enable TDE, but files in the MEMORY_OPTIMIZED_DATA filegroup are unencrypted.
Guidelines on Managing Certificates used in Transparent Data Encryption
- The backup of the certificate and database master key is needed when the database is enabled …
It's also important to remember that the certificate used to protect the Database Encryption Key should never be dropped from the Master database. Doing so will cause the encrypted database to become inaccessible. - A Warning message like the following one is raised after executing the Create Database Encrypti…
The following query can be used to identify the certificates used in TDE that haven't been backed up from the time it was created.
See also