Joey said it took six years for STEEZ’s family to set up his estate.

Pro Era fans have been waiting for years for King Capital, the posthumous debut album of founding member Capital STEEZ, who committed suicide in 2012. In a heated exchange on Instagram with STEEZ’s sister, Tamara Dewar, Joey Bada$$ explained part of the impetus of the delay and threatened to cancel the STEEZ Day Festival Pro Era has been throwing since 2015.

“As far as King Capital goes I’ll say this, it took the fam six years to form the estate which means that nothing could have been released prior to the estate being formed,” Joey explained.

Earlier in 2018, Dewar announced that members of STEEZ’s family were boycotting the festival, which is supposed to provide financial support to them. In the Instagram exchange, Joey claimed to have provided $100,000 of support to Dewar and STEEZ’s family, while she appeared to allege that it was just $7,000. Dewar also criticized Bada$$ for not having released King Capital yet.

“Let’s stick to the fact that you told the people about releasing my brother’s music and you didn’t,” she wrote.

Bada$$ fired back, saying that he would no longer work with them to put out King Capital and claiming that because of Dewar there will not be another STEEZ Day Festival.

“The same music Jamal has is what I’ve always had. So y'all can do whatever y'all want with it from this point on and count me out because I can’t fuck with y'all,” he said. “And thanks to you Tamara there will no longer be a STEEZ Day Festival ever again.”

Since his passing, a handful of STEEZ tracks have appeared online, including “Nine More Burgers” with Rokamouth and Chuck Strangers, and “In Vision,” but there have been no official albums or mixtapes.

His verse from Bada$$‘ “Killuminati” was sampled on Nyck @ Knight’s on which Kirk Knight pays tribute to STEEZ. He raps:

We keep the dope fiends itching

This that crack y'all been missing

Audiopium

Shoot this through your veins and take a trip and

R.I.P. King Cap, you gave us vision

In the four years that STEEZ Day has been going on artists like Flatbush Zombies, A$AP Mob, and Danny Brown have all performed.

Joey Bada$$ appeared on Genius' series For The Record to discuss his first mixtape 1999 and STEEZ’s legacy.

Read the full lyrics to Joey Bada$$ and STEEZ’s “Survival Tactics” and check out Capital STEEZ’s full discography on Genius now.