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Brothers Pusha T and No Malice have returned after a 15-year hiatus to reconnect as rap duo Clipse.
After many start-and-stop reunions, they’re serious this time, releasing their first single “Ace Trumpets” off their forthcoming album Let God Sort ‘Em Out.
In preparation, they chopped it up with GQ to talk everything music, including the solo journey younger brother Pusha has been on, which includes some drama with Kanye West and Drake.
The long-standing beef between Cash Money and Pharrell was handed down to Drake and Push, and after their 2018 spat, the Virginia rapper isn’t pining for round two.
“I think after everything that had been done, I don’t think there was ever anything subliminal to be said ever again in life. Not only just musically, like bro, I actually was in Canada,” he said. “I actually had a show and made it home. So, I can’t pay attention to none of that. I did the dance for real, not to come back and tip-toe around anything.”
Asked if he’d ever respond to the taunts, he says, “Man, I would only engage again if I felt like it.”
He also speaks about Drake’s lawsuit against UMG and believes that if he’s that confident about the suppression claims, he must know similar shadiness occurred around the release of “Adidon.”
“I don’t rate him no more,” Pusha says of Drake. “The suing thing is bigger than some rap shit. I just don’t rate you. Damn, it’s like it just kind of cheapens the art of it once we gotta have real questions about suing and litigation. Like, what? For this?”
Another soured relationship, albeit much more unexpected, arose when Pusha parted ways with Kanye West, citing that one of the breaking points occurred during the 2021 Donda recording sessions in Atlanta.
Pusha respects everything he’s done for the culture, and has talked to him behind the scenes about his antisemitic rants and KKK regalia, but could no longer have a working relationship with him.
“He’s a genius. And his intuition is even more genius level, right? But that’s why me and him don’t get along, because he sees through my fakeness with him. He knows I don’t think he’s a man,” he said. “He knows it. And that’s why we can’t build with each other no more. That’s why me and him don’t click, because he knows what I really, really think of him. He’s showed me the weakest sides of him, and he knows how I think of weak people.”
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