Word is Kendrick Lamar will be dropping an album in 2019.

If he does, he will have had a lot of beats to choose from.

TDE's Tae Beast explained how many beats during a Red Bull Music Academy discussion.

"If you make something, and somebody [in TDE] hear it, it's a wrap," Beast said. "Kendrick's like the beat hoarder, too. He has 97,000 gigs of beats from everybody. [If] it get to Kendrick's hands, it probably ain't never gonna leave."

Kendrick missed this year's Oscars, even though he was up for a trophy and set to perform, because of "logistics and timing."

Perhaps he's too busy finishing up on those beats.