<a href="/profile/tde" class="text-word" target="_blank" >TDE</a> President Dave Free does not share <a href="/profile/LupeFiasco" class="text-word" target="_blank" >Lupe Fiasco</a>&#8217;s views concerning <a href="/profile/KendrickLamar" class="text-word" target="_blank" >Kendrick Lamar</a> and <a href="/profile/sza" class="text-word" target="_blank" >SZA</a>&#8217;s <a href="https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/kendrick-lamar-and-sza-deliver-all-the-stars-off-black-panther-soundtrack-new-song.1976869.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">&#8220;All The Stars&#8221;</a> artwork.<a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/_/status/949514653901754369" rel="nofollow noopener">https://twitter.com/_/status/949514653901754369</a>
 



On Friday, Lupe said he&#8217;d be changing the album cover for Drogas Wave after <a href="https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/lupe-fiasco-thinks-kendrick-lamar-and-sza-s-artwork-for-all-the-stars-looks-too-much-like-his-news.41852.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">seeing the art for Lamar and SZA&#8217;s Black Panther single</a>, which he felt resembled his own graphic. &#8220;I admit this is a little too close for comfort,&#8221; he wrote. In a subsequent tweet, he argued that ideas and themes including &#8220;all black album covers,&#8221; &#8220;ninjas,&#8221; and &#8220;backwards albums&#8221; had also been lifted from him, seemingly pointing to Kendrick once again.
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On Saturday, Dave Free shared a response to Lupe&#8217;s comments, referencing the rapper&#8217;s debut single in a tweet that told him to &#8220;go kick &amp; push yourself into a tree with these wild allegations.&#8221;
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Not long thereafter, Lupe replied to Free, sarcastically questioning the physical plausibility of his joke. &#8220;I see what you did there,&#8221; he said. &#8220;However it’s rather impossible to skate into a tree because most trees are located in grass where skateboards don’t actually work to well due to the wheels not really being optimal for traversing across such terrain. Now a car or say a well placed gate.&#8221;


Lupe Fiasco <a href="https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/lupe-fiasco-announces-drogas-wave-project-news.30001.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">announced DROGAS Wave last March</a>. At a show later on in the year, he promised that as his first project since fully breaking with Atlantic, fans would be &#8220;getting the fully complex, fully involved Lupe Fiasco&#8221; on the upcoming LP. The album is currently without a release date.
Dave Free, on top of being president of TDE, has played many roles in Kendrick Lamar&#8217;s career, including managing the rapper and co-directing many of his videos as one half of The Little Homies.

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