

His first EP, Cilvia Demo, had dropped and dented not just the rap scene, but the Billboard 200. Isaiah Rashad, newly signed to Top Dawg Entertainment, was making up for lost chaos. That’s a long time to wait for madness, to skirt the party for weed with your girl and stay in the back seats of cars rather than taking control of the radio.

At 23, he’d only been drinking for two years. He’d done it before, but now it was getting physical – his stomach lining had been ripped apart by liquor and Xanax. Midway through 2014, a young dude screwed up.
