Clipse are set to launch their first new album in 15 years, Let God Kind Em Out, on July eleventh in partnership with Roc Nation. In a current GQ interview, Pusha T defined the comeback venture was initially slated for launch via Def Jam, however the label in the end balked at a visitor verse from Kendrick Lamar.
Kendrick is featured on a music titled “Chains & Whips,” which Push stated was the primary music to emerge from their album recording classes. In response to Push, Def Jam’s mother or father firm, Common Music Group, was significantly involved concerning the optics of the collaboration between two of Drake’s most distinguished rivals, particularly with UMG nonetheless tangled in an ongoing lawsuit with Drake.
Pusha T known as their fears “silly,” asserting that none of Kendrick’s lyrics might be construed as even a subliminal diss. Nonetheless, Def Jam wished to play it secure and allegedly issued an ultimatum.
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“They wished me to ask Kendrick to censor his verse, which in fact I used to be by no means doing,” Push recalled. “After which they wished me to take the document off. And so, after a month of not doing it, Steve Gawley, the lawyer over there was like, ‘We’ll simply drop the Clipse.’ However that may’t work as a result of I’m nonetheless there [solo]. However [if] you allow us to all go…”
With Clipse and Pusha T [as a solo artist] subsequently free from the clutches of Def Jam, they introduced the finished Clipse album and “a lot extra music” to different suitors earlier than touchdown at JAY-Z’s Roc Nation. “I feel that that synergy, simply in a rap sense, goes to talk volumes,” Push stated concerning the new partnership, although he sidestepped a query a couple of potential JAY-Z function on the album.
Later within the GQ interview, Push additionally weighed in on Drake’s lawsuit towards UMG over its launch of “Not Like Us,” framing it throughout the context of his personal 2018 beef with the rapper.
“If [Drake’s] adamant to have a lawsuit, it’s solely as a result of he is aware of all of the issues that they did to suppress every thing that was occurring round ‘[The Story of] Adidon’ and the verses and the information and issues that had been occurring again then,” he speculated, including the caveat that he had no insider information of Drake’s particular lawsuit.
Editor’s Observe: Learn why Kendrick Lamar’s “Euphoria” was the warning Drake didn’t heed right here.