Since the rise of Top Dawg Entertainment, the eyes have been on all the artist, Kendrick, Jay Rock, Q, Soul, Sza and Isaiah Rashad. While the six were making their mark in their respective fields of music, it was TDE’s Co-President, Punch, who was garnering fans in the shadows. Every once in a while he would randomly release music he’d recorded, whether it featured a TDE artist or didn’t. With each release Punch showed fans that he is a great rapper who can make laid back lyrical songs that will hold your attention. Punch started to gain a lot of fans, which then lead to the question, would he ever put out a project? He teased a project here and there, once even mentioning if he received a Nas feature that the project would be out immediately.
An album from Punch is in high demand, so high that fans are now hitting Top Dawg himself on Twitter asking for the project.
My nigga I just put his name on the board and him in the stu https://t.co/m4cGO7n4lM
— dangeroo kipawaa TDE (@dangerookipawaa) March 5, 2016
In a new interview with Billboard, he lets the cat out the bag and tells Billboard “I think I’mma do a project for sure, I think I’m going to finally finish it because I write a lot and I record every so often. I think I’m just gonna go ahead and knock it out at this point.” Punch revealed why he wants to the finish the project saying, “I’m starting to get that itch more and more, before, it was like, ‘OK, I write a little bit, I can rap. Let me put it down for fun, it’s cool.’ At this point, it’s starting to turn into a burning. I really want to do it now.”
If you’re a fan of TDE, you know that this news comes with no date attached too it, but we can definitely expect a random release soon. Punch was featured on Kendrick’s Untitled Unmastered. Untitled 5 | 09.21.2014 which also featured Jay Rock. Be on the lookout for more news on the upcoming project.