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Clipse at 2025 ESPYs and Kendrick Lamar at Rolling Loud Miami 2022
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Key Takeaways:
- Kendrick Lamar shocked followers by performing “Chains & Whips” with Clipse in Los Angeles.
- The monitor, produced by Pharrell, confronted label pushback earlier than its launch on Let God Type Em Out.
- Pusha T revealed Lamar initially wished to do two songs with Clipse, however just one made the minimize.
Clipse shocked followers at Los Angeles’ Novo with Kendrick Lamar over the weekend. On Saturday (Aug. 23), throughout their “Let God Type Em Out Tour,” the trio handled the group to a stay rendition of “Chains & Whips.”
In footage shared on-line, Pusha T and Malice have been halfway via the music earlier than the stage briefly went darkish. Moments later, the Compton emcee delivered his visitor verse because the viewers erupted.
“I am not the candidate to vibe with / I do not f**ok with the kumbaya s**t / All that expertise have to be Godsent / I ship yo’ a** again to the cosmics,” Lamar rapped. Try the clip and fan reactions beneath.
“That is our house metropolis. It’s such a privilege to be in entrance of motherf**king legends, man,” Lamar closed out his efficiency earlier than displaying like to Malice and Pusha T. He added, “I’m going to be on the market watching with you all. These are my motherf**king individuals.”
“If ‘wants no introduction’ was an individual,” Clipse wrote on their Instagram Tales. A separate clip was captioned, “Thanks [Kendrick Lamar] for rolling out the purple carpet in your metropolis.”
“Chains & Whips,” which boasts manufacturing and extra vocals from Pharrell, arrived on Let God Type Em Out in July. As Pusha T has defined greater than as soon as, getting the monitor out was troublesome. The truth is, he finally had to purchase himself out of his contract with Def Jam.
In keeping with Pusha, the label claimed their hesitation got here right down to Lamar’s “Trump card” line, which he thought was “so silly.” In his view, the true cause had extra to do with the optics of “two Drake foes teaming up” whereas Common Music Group — Def Jam’s dad or mum firm — was in the course of their authorized battle with the Canadian star.
Much more attention-grabbing, there have been really talks of Lamar doing two data with Clipse. Pusha T shared with Concern of God designer Jerry Lorenzo, “[I] despatched them songs over, [and] he simply known as again laughing… He was like, ‘Yo, I wanna do two.’” Ultimately, the “Not Like Us” hitmaker bought “tremendous busy” and solely “Chains & Whips” got here to life.