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Earlier this year, Pusha T raised many eyebrows when he decided to throw darts at Travis Scott seemingly out of nowhere. While he explained why he decided to take such action, he’s also taken issue with Scott’s decision to release his album around the same time as Clipse’s reunion album, Let God Sort Em Out.
After Pusha T’s diss bars about Travis Scott on “So Be It” began circulating on social media, Travis Scott decided to play spoiler for the highly anticipated Clipse return album and release his Jackboys 2 project just days after Clipse dropped LGSTO. While it’s debatable as to whether Travis’ album messed with Clipse’s album streams (they have two completely different fan bases), many felt that the move did impact the numbers that Clipse could’ve had if not for Travis’ sudden album release.
In a recent interview with GQ, Pusha T and Malice were asked about Travis’ attempt to jerry-rig their first week numbers, and true to form, the two seemed to be okay with it, as that’s just the name of the game these days.
Per GQ:
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We talked about the divine timing of the release. When people tried to crash that date, did it spoil the moment?
Malice: Listen, everybody has a right to do what they do. Whatever you have the power to do, whatever tools you have to utilize. That goes for everybody, even us. Let’s just play and see what it is. We embrace it all and love it all. Ain’t no sitting around moping and wishing—nah, let’s rock.
Pusha T: You cheat. We cheat. Everybody cheats. Fuck it.
Yeah, they don’t seem to be too bothered about Travis Scott crashing their reunion party.
Since the release of Let God Sort Em Out, Clipse have seen their latest project receive five Grammy nominations, including Album of the Year, and even performed their soul-moving cut “Birds Don’t Sing” at the Vatican in September. So yeah, they’re okay with how things panned out.
What did you make of Clipse and Travis Scott’s short-lived beef this past summer? Let us know in the comments section below.
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It is clear Jim Jones isn’t easily impressed. When asked about The Clipse’s new music he made it clear he wasn’t a fan.
As spotted on HipHopDX Jim Jones was making his rounds at the 2025 BET Awards media room. During a sit down with Bootleg Kev, CAPO was asked about The Clipse’s new single “Ace Trumpets.” As expected he did not bite his tongue when it came to the Virginia duo. “What’s so great about it? It’s good in what? The nostalgic value of it? I don’t believe it. I don’t believe it, I don’t believe them” he explained. “But that’s a whole other story and I don’t wanna downplay nobody’s craft, but I don’t listen to their music and never have. I don’t recall too many records that I can remember.”
Jim Jones is no stranger to The Clipse. He and Pusha T have traded jabs over the last few years and it stems from Push’s ranking in a Billboard Magazine’s 50 greatest rappers list. “What has he done that puts him in the greatest rappers of all time? Besides talk about cocaine that he probably didn’t get himself. He could rap his ass off but what has he done?” Jim Jones responded when asked about it. “Nobody has dressed like him. Nobody want to be like Pusha T. I don’t remember nothing.”
It is widely believed the “Mercy” MC responded to Jim Jones in a song that was played during a 2023 Louis Vuitton fashion show. “Beware of my name, that there’s delegate / You know I know where you’re delicate / Crush you to pieces, I’ll hum a breath of it / I will close your heaven for the hell of it / You think it’d be valor amongst veterans/ I’m watching your fame escape relevance / We all in a room but here’s the elephant / You chasing a feature out of your element.”
You can see Jim Jones discuss The Clipse’s new music and more below.
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Another year and another rapper that Pusha T feels he has to put in his place as the cussin’ half of Clipse (Malice is still keeping it PG with the bars) has taken aim at one of the game’s most popular artists. Travis Scott gets called out on Clipse’s latest cut, “So Be It.”
In a shot that came straight out of left field, Pusha T turned many heads when he spit, “You cried in front of me, died in front of me/Calabasas took your b*tch and your pride in front of me/Heard Utopia had moved right up the street/And her lip gloss was popping, she ain’t need you to eat.”
While many automatically knew that Pusha was sending straight shots to Travis Scott, many were left scratching their heads as to where the sudden animosity towards “The Highest In The Room” rapper came from. Well, Push answered that question in a new interview with GQ in which he explained that his beef with Scott began years ago when Scott crashed a recording session between Clipse and Pharrell while the three were in Paris.
Per GQ:
He interrupted a session,” Pusha recalled. “He sees me and Malice there. He’s like, ‘Oh, man, everybody’s here,’ he’s smiling, laughing, jumping around, doing his fucking monkey dance. We weren’t into the music, but he wanted to play it, wanted to film [us and Pharrell listening to it]. And then a week later you hear ‘Meltdown,’ which he didn’t play. He played the song, but not [Drake’s verse].”
While this rubbed Pusha the wrong way, he says this is common practice for Scott and that’s what ultimately led him to just air out his grievances on the new Clipse record.
“He’s done this a lot. He has no picks. He’ll do this with anybody. He did it with ‘Sicko Mode’”— on which Drake seems to diss Kanye, despite Travis’s close ties to him. Push then referenced last spring when Travis joined Future and Metro on stage and excitedly asked them to tease “Like That,” the song whose incendiary Kendrick Lamar verse ignited Kendrick’s beef with Drake: “He was on the [Rolling Loud] stage like, ‘Play that, play that!’ He don’t have no picks, no loyalty to nobody. He’ll jump around whatever he feels is hot or cling onto whatever he feels is hot. But you can play those games with those people…We’re not in your mix. Keep your mix over there.”
Added push, “He’s a whore.”
While Pusha seems ready and willing to engage in a lyrical showdown with a new opponent, it should be worth noting that Travis Scott himself isn’t exactly known for spitting battle rap bars and probably won’t respond with a diss record so much as he may reference it in some kind of way. Then again, he may surprise us and drop his first-ever diss record and let the world judge who got the better cut in the unforeseen battle.
Still, Travis did apparently decide to troll Pusha T on his IG stories with a reference to the 2023 bot overload of pics insinuating that Pusha once had sex with his pet lizard.
We completely forgot about this…
Check out the video for “So Be It” below, and let us know your thoughts on Pusha T calling out Travis Scott in the comments section below.
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Another year and another rapper that Pusha T feels he has to put in his place as the cussin’ half of Clipse (Malice is still keeping it PG with the bars) has taken aim at one of the game’s most popular artists. Travis Scott gets called out on Clipse’s latest cut, “So Be It.”
In a shot that came straight out of left field, Pusha T turned many heads when he spit, “You cried in front of me, died in front of me/Calabasas took your b*tch and your pride in front of me/Heard Utopia had moved right up the street/And her lip gloss was popping, she ain’t need you to eat.”
While many automatically knew that Pusha was sending straight shots to Travis Scott, many were left scratching their heads as to where the sudden animosity towards “The Highest In The Room” rapper came from. Well, Push answered that question in a new interview with GQ in which he explained that his beef with Scott began years ago when Scott crashed a recording session between Clipse and Pharrell while the three were in Paris.
Per GQ:
He interrupted a session,” Pusha recalled. “He sees me and Malice there. He’s like, ‘Oh, man, everybody’s here,’ he’s smiling, laughing, jumping around, doing his fucking monkey dance. We weren’t into the music, but he wanted to play it, wanted to film [us and Pharrell listening to it]. And then a week later you hear ‘Meltdown,’ which he didn’t play. He played the song, but not [Drake’s verse].”
While this rubbed Pusha the wrong way, he says this is common practice for Scott and that’s what ultimately led him to just air out his grievances on the new Clipse record.
“He’s done this a lot. He has no picks. He’ll do this with anybody. He did it with ‘Sicko Mode’”— on which Drake seems to diss Kanye, despite Travis’s close ties to him. Push then referenced last spring when Travis joined Future and Metro on stage and excitedly asked them to tease “Like That,” the song whose incendiary Kendrick Lamar verse ignited Kendrick’s beef with Drake: “He was on the [Rolling Loud] stage like, ‘Play that, play that!’ He don’t have no picks, no loyalty to nobody. He’ll jump around whatever he feels is hot or cling onto whatever he feels is hot. But you can play those games with those people…We’re not in your mix. Keep your mix over there.”
Added push, “He’s a whore.”
While Pusha seems ready and willing to engage in a lyrical showdown with a new opponent, it should be worth noting that Travis Scott himself isn’t exactly known for spitting battle rap bars and probably won’t respond with a diss record so much as he may reference it in some kind of way. Then again, he may surprise us and drop his first-ever diss record and let the world judge who got the better cut in the unforeseen battle.
Still, Travis did apparently decide to troll Pusha T on his IG stories with a reference to the 2023 bot overload of pics insinuating that Pusha once had sex with his pet lizard.
We completely forgot about this…
Check out the video for “So Be It” below, and let us know your thoughts on Pusha T calling out Travis Scott in the comments section below.
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Another year and another rapper that Pusha T feels he has to put in his place as the cussin’ half of Clipse (Malice is still keeping it PG with the bars) has taken aim at one of the game’s most popular artists. Travis Scott gets called out on Clipse’s latest cut, “So Be It.”
In a shot that came straight out of left field, Pusha T turned many heads when he spit, “You cried in front of me, died in front of me/Calabasas took your b*tch and your pride in front of me/Heard Utopia had moved right up the street/And her lip gloss was popping, she ain’t need you to eat.”
While many automatically knew that Pusha was sending straight shots to Travis Scott, many were left scratching their heads as to where the sudden animosity towards “The Highest In The Room” rapper came from. Well, Push answered that question in a new interview with GQ in which he explained that his beef with Scott began years ago when Scott crashed a recording session between Clipse and Pharrell while the three were in Paris.
Per GQ:
He interrupted a session,” Pusha recalled. “He sees me and Malice there. He’s like, ‘Oh, man, everybody’s here,’ he’s smiling, laughing, jumping around, doing his fucking monkey dance. We weren’t into the music, but he wanted to play it, wanted to film [us and Pharrell listening to it]. And then a week later you hear ‘Meltdown,’ which he didn’t play. He played the song, but not [Drake’s verse].”
While this rubbed Pusha the wrong way, he says this is common practice for Scott and that’s what ultimately led him to just air out his grievances on the new Clipse record.
“He’s done this a lot. He has no picks. He’ll do this with anybody. He did it with ‘Sicko Mode’”— on which Drake seems to diss Kanye, despite Travis’s close ties to him. Push then referenced last spring when Travis joined Future and Metro on stage and excitedly asked them to tease “Like That,” the song whose incendiary Kendrick Lamar verse ignited Kendrick’s beef with Drake: “He was on the [Rolling Loud] stage like, ‘Play that, play that!’ He don’t have no picks, no loyalty to nobody. He’ll jump around whatever he feels is hot or cling onto whatever he feels is hot. But you can play those games with those people…We’re not in your mix. Keep your mix over there.”
Added push, “He’s a whore.”
While Pusha seems ready and willing to engage in a lyrical showdown with a new opponent, it should be worth noting that Travis Scott himself isn’t exactly known for spitting battle rap bars and probably won’t respond with a diss record so much as he may reference it in some kind of way. Then again, he may surprise us and drop his first-ever diss record and let the world judge who got the better cut in the unforeseen battle.
Still, Travis did apparently decide to troll Pusha T on his IG stories with a reference to the 2023 bot overload of pics insinuating that Pusha once had sex with his pet lizard.
We completely forgot about this…
Check out the video for “So Be It” below, and let us know your thoughts on Pusha T calling out Travis Scott in the comments section below.
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After taking a 15-year hiatus, Clipse is back in full effect. And with an album releasing in just a few weeks, the Virginia duo will be taking their show on the road as they’ve announced some tour dates that their fans can flock to when they come to their city.
According to Variety, Clipse will be giving their new album, Let God Sort Em Out the proper rollout once it hits the streets on July 11. Pusha T and Malice will be hitting the road in August and will be bringing their new project along with them to 25 venues across the U.S. Kicking off their tour in Boston on Aug. 3, Clipse will continue to hit a new city almost every day for the next month and change before ending their tour in Detroit, Michigan, on Sept. 10.
Tickets for the tour will go on sale Friday (June 13), so if you’ve been dying to see Clipse perform live now is your chance; we don’t know if they’ll take another decade-long break before deciding to hit the studio and the road once again.
Check out the tour dates below, and let us know if you’ll be catching Clipse when they roll into your city in the comments section.
CLIPSE LET GOD SORT EM OUT TOUR 2025
Sun-Aug-03 – Boston, MA – Roadrunner
Tue-Aug-05 – Philadelphia, PA – Franklin Music Hall
Thu-Aug-07 – New York, NY – Terminal 5
Sat-Aug-09 – Fairfax, VA – EagleBank Arena
Sun-Aug-10 – Virginia Beach, VA – The Dome
Tue-Aug-12 – Miami, FL – The Fillmore
Wed-Aug-13 – Orlando, FL – The Vanguard
Thu-Aug-14 – Atlanta, GA – The Eastern
Sat-Aug-16 – Cleveland, OH – Agora Theatre
Sun-Aug-17 – Milwaukee, WI – The Eagles Ballroom
Mon-Aug-18 – St, Louis, MO – The Factory
Tue-Aug-19 – Fayetteville, AR – JJ’s Live
Thu-Aug-21 – Denver, CO – Mission Ballroom
Sat-Aug-23 – Los Angeles, – CA – The Novo
Mon-Aug-25 – San Francisco, CA – Warfield Theatre
Wed-Aug-27 – Phoenix, AZ – Marquee Theater
Thu-Aug-28 – San Diego, CA – SOMA
Fri-Aug-29 – Las Vegas, NV – The Theater at Virgin Hotels
Tue-Sep-02 – Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall
Wed-Sep-03 – Oklahoma City, OK – The Criterion
Thu-Sep-04 – Dallas, TX – The Bomb Factory
Sat-Sep-06 – Kansas City, MO – Midland Theatre
Sun-Sep-07 – Minneapolis, MN – The Armory
Mon-Sep-08 – Chicago, IL – The Salt Shed
Wed-Sep-10 – Detroit, MI – Masonic Temple
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Hip-Hop fans are rejoicing now that the Clipse have reunited and will be returning with a new album in July, Let God Sort Em Out, but interestingly enough the reunion didn’t come without some repercussions as the two-man group was dropped from Def Jam Records after refusing to remove a Kendrick Lamar verse from their project.
Now, we’re learning that not only did Def Jam release Pusha T and Malice from their label, but the two had to cough up seven figures to get their walking papers.
In a new interview with Billboard, the group’s manager, Steven Victor, talked about Def Jam’s demands to have Kendrick Lamar change his verse or have it removed entirely in order for the Clipse album to see the light of day. When that didn’t sit well with the artists who refused to do either, Victor tried to come up with creative ways to release the album that wouldn’t “implicate” Def Jam as being a part of the record. When that didn’t work he revealed that the only way The Clipse would be able to recoup their artistic freedom from Def Jam Records was if they came out of pocket and paid the label a Galactus- sized grip for their walking papers.
Per Billboard:
I went to them and I said, “Let us put the song out somewhere else since you guys have an issue with it. You guys won’t have to stand behind whatever complications come from it. We’ll put the song out somewhere else, and we’ll license it back to you guys when the album comes out.” Their response was, “How about you just find somewhere else to put out Clipse? Just pay something to us and put it out somewhere else.”
So they said, “Find another deal, and let’s figure out a business.” They didn’t drop us. They were like, “Pay us this money” — which was an exorbitant amount of money, a s—t ton of money — “and we’ll let you out the deal.” That’s what happened. We paid them the money, an insane amount of money. It wasn’t, like, $200,000. It was a lot of money for an artist to come up with. They bought themselves out of the deal.
Ultimately, The Clipse became free agents and Victor put in a call to Jay-Z to see if he’d be interested in an opportunity to have The Clipse as part of Roc Nation. And if we know anything about Jay-Z it’s that the man is all about opportunities and paper.
He hit me back right away, like,“You just made my day. Let’s figure it out. What do we need to get it done?” I went back to Pusha, and said, “Listen, Jay’s gonna give us a very artist-friendly deal, we get to own the masters, and they’ll put the marketing power of Roc Nation behind it. You guys are friends. It’s a great outcome.” We worked out the deal in less than 24 hours.
Naturally, Def Jam got a cut of the new Clipse deal as the record industry is shady, but in the end, we’ll be getting a new Clipse album and a Kendrick Lamar-featured cut in “Whips & Chains,” which freaked out Def Jam execs to the point where they were willing to shelf an entire album if they didn’t get them to remove a verse from arguably the biggest rap star in the game today.
Should be interesting.
What do y’all think about The Clipse having to buy their independence from Def Jam Records? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Clipse have revealed that their departure from Def Jam was reportedly sparked by a dispute over Kendrick Lamar’s guest verse on their upcoming album, “Let God Sort Em Out”.
In an interview with GQ, Pusha T recounted that the label pressured them to censor or remove Lamar’s verse from the track “Chains & Whips.” Pusha refused, saying, “They wanted me to ask Kendrick to censor his verse, which of course I was never doing.” After a month-long standoff, Def Jam’s legal counsel Steve Gawley reportedly told them the label would simply drop Clipse from their roster.
The tension was reportedly fueled by the fact that both Clipse and Lamar have long-standing feuds with Drake, who is currently engaged in a high-profile legal battle with Universal Music Group (UMG), Def Jam’s parent company. The optics of two of Drake’s biggest rivals collaborating while he sues UMG made the label uncomfortable, further complicating the situation.
Rather than compromise their artistic integrity, Clipse opted to part ways with Def Jam. Pusha T, who remains a prominent solo artist, negotiated a full release that allowed the group to sign with Roc Nation for their long-awaited reunion project. Neither Def Jam nor UMG have publicly addressed the claims made by Pusha.
This move underscores the ongoing tension in Hip-Hop’s most talked-about rivalries, particularly as Pusha T continues to stand firm against Drake, a beef that escalated when Pusha exposed Drake’s secret child in “The Story of Adidon,” a diss track that defined their feud.
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Do not look for any Pusha T and Kanye West reunions anytime soon. The Clipse is back and the group landed a feature story in GQ magazine, and Push A Ton held nothing back when speaking on his once choice collaborator turned foe, Kanye West.
Malice and Push are great with the timing since the GQ feature arrives shortly after they announced their new album, Let God Sort ‘Em Out, is dropping in July and just after a surprise set at this past weekend’s Roots Picnic in Philadelphia. The story is full of plenty of insight into the VA group’s return, but the tea that many are jumping to is Pusha’s take on his former friend Ye.
Unless you’ve been AWOL from society, you’re aware of Kanye West burning every relationship with most of his past collaborators of note, Push included. Just in 2022, Ye handled half of the production (Pharrell covered the rest) on Pusha T’s last solo project, It’s Almost Dry. What a difference three years make because the one-time President of GOOD Music (he stepped down in 2022) is anything but good with Mr. West.
“But…let me tell you something. He’s a genius. And his intuition is even more genius level, right?,” explains Push to GQ. “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 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.”
Apparently, Push got word that collaborators weren’t speaking of him in the best of lights as far back as during the recording of Donda back in 2021, and he kept his third eye open ever since. While those interview words are biting, Push also let it be known in song that West was persona non grata on the new Clipse single. On “Ace Trumpets,” he spits, “Look at them, him and him, still waiting on Yeezy/I hope you got your squeegee, at your interviews, I just kee kee, life’s peachy.”
If Kanye West eventually responds, you just know Push—who does give Ye kudos for keeping his word and giving him back the profits to his Def Jam music—has more bars in the tuck.
Also, as far as Yeezy’s erratic behavior being due to mental illness and deserving some grace, Push offered how he takes that into account. “He’s sick, I do believe that much,” said Pusha. “You’re sick, but you’re also very calculated. And if I take your sickness and take how calculated you’ve been and disruptive you’ve been and tried to be to me, then it cancels itself out. I can’t look at it as sick, because you’re detrimental. You’re detrimental to everything.”
Read the full GQ interview, conducted by Frazier Tharpe, right here.
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The Clipse announced on Friday (May 29) that their long-awaited new album will be releasing in July. And to coincide with the news, the duo—Pusha T and Malice—dropped a new single titled “Ace Trumpets” that’s produced by their homie Pharrell Williams.
The last proper Clipse album was 2009’s Til The Casket Drops, so it’s been a long minute. While Pusha T has enjoyed a successful solo career, and been an occasional thorn in the side of Drake, the public’s desire for a new Clipse album has been a constant despite Malice’s past assertions of a long hiatus. But in June 2024, the Brothers Thornton confirmed that a new project was on the way, and here we are.
Let God Sort Em Out will be released on July 11, 2025 and is executive produced by Pharrell Williams. In the announcement, the group revealed that the project was recorded at the Louis Vuitton headquarters in Paris, France. Westside Gunn would surely approve.
Also, the album’s artwork is provided by visual artist KAWS.
As for the new single, it’s called “Ace Trumps” and finds Push A Ton and Malice in fine form. Ballerinas doin’ pirouettes inside of my snow globe, shoppin’ sprees in SoHo,” spits Pusha on the hook. “You had to see it, strippers shakin’ ass and watchin’ the dough blow ace trumpets and rose mo’s.”
Also, “White glove service with the brick, I am Luigi,” raps Pusha. While Malice kicks, “Persona non grata, mi casa su casa, drugs killed my teen spirit, welcome to Nirvana.”
Yeah, Clipse is back.
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