The rapper took to twitter to announce that he had completed the follow-up project to Cilvia Demo and on September 20, 2015, Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith stated that new material from the rapper would arrive by the end of 2015. On May 5, 2014, XXL revealed that Rashad was indicted into their annual freshman class, alongside fellow up-and-comers Chance the Rapper, Ty Dolla $ign, Rich Homie Quan, Vic Mensa, August Alsina, Troy Ave, Kevin Gates, Lil Bibby, Jon Connor, Lil Durk and Jarren Benton. During its first week of release, the EP debuted at number 40 on the US Billboard 200 chart and sold 8,500 copies in the US. In regards to response the EP received widespread acclaim upon its release with the album receiving an average score of 82 out of 100 to reviews from Metacritic. The Ep followed its release on Januvia digital download retailers and was made available in CD format exclusively from Top Dawg Entertainment’s website. The day before the Cilivia Demo'[srelease, the rapper released the music video for “Soliloquy” Cilvia Demo’s song. The Ep only featured artists from TDE such as SZA, Jay Rock and ScHoolboy Q on the remix of “Shot You Down”.

His recording label’s CEO revealed the cover artwork for the EP and that Cilvia Demo would be released digitally on January 28, 2014.

In mid-January 2014, Rashad then revealed that the mixtape Cilvia would now be his debut extended play (EP) and would contain only a number of featured artists. On an interview with Revolt on November 7, 2013, the rapper confirmed that he would be premiering his first official project titled Cilvia in December that year.

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