After a lyric in Big Sean’s recent On the Radar freestyle was perceived as a diss against West, more than a dozen songs from his upcoming album surfaced online without authorization

Fourteen songs from what is supposedly Big Sean’s next album appeared online in the hours after the exchange via a popular website for music leaks. “Since he wanna disrespect Ye so much, here’s the album,” the user bigseandon811 wrote while posting the files in question. “Fuck him and his whole team.” The user went on to claim that West himself instructed him to share the unauthorized copy of the album.

As Variety notes, some of the music that surfaced was incomplete, with open spaces for verses to be dropped in later. It also featured what sounds like guest appearances from Nas, Charlie Wilson, and Brent Faiyaz.

In recent years, we’ve seen artists scrap projects altogether following leaks of this magnitude. But rather than starting over from scratch, Big Sean is trying his best to get ahead of the leaker. “I’m a just start droppin this new music before they leak it all,” the rapper wrote on Instagram while teasing an upcoming collaboration with The Alchemist.

Apart from “Precision,” the one-off single Big Sean shared earlier this year, the rapper hasn’t released music as a lead artist in two years. In 2022, he shared the deluxe edition of his fifth studio album, Detroit 2, the standard edition of which arrived in 2020. In 2021, the Detroit musician existed West’s label G.O.O.D. Music after 14 years. That same year, West appeared on Drink Champs and declared: “The worst thing I’ve ever done is sign Big Sean.”