cyclops

1y

I don’t care if she been d***ed down. I need her

Everest

1y

This new GQ article mentions Mike Tyson, that supposedly solo Pusha track, when talking about the album

Let God Sort Em Out is worth the wait. True to his word, Malice hasn’t missed a step, Pusha is right there with him, and the production—spare, synthy and hard-hitting—is the most locked-in Pharrell has sounded in years; it wouldn’t truly be a Clipse reunion without P hoarding his best beats for Terrence and Gene. But the idea of Pharrell crafting beats like the rugged centerpiece “Mike Tyson” or mixing a Stove Good hook down a hallway from Parisian designers sewing jackets provides an extra thrill

https://www.gq.com/story/clipse-gq-hype

So this snippet is on the album after all

Everest

1y

The label loved what they heard—except for Kendrick Lamar’s guest verse on the thunderous “Chains & Whips,” the final version of the song that Pharrell teased at his first LV runway show, and the song Pusha says was the first to come out of their sessions. Don’t be fooled by Pusha’s interviews appealing for one last guest verse and the Twitter jokes that he went to a GNX Tour date to physically walk Kendrick into the nearest studio; K. Dot’s verse homework has been turned in for a while now.

But after a summer of beef between their two biggest artists that resulted in a still ongoing lawsuit from Drake, Def Jam’s parent company UMG blanched at the antagonistic opp-optics of two of Drake’s biggest enemies linking on wax. Pusha calls their apprehension “stupid”—primarily because none of the bars in Kendrick’s otherwise excellent verse could really be perceived as a shot or even subliminal. (It does, however, contain the stellar line: “Therapy taught me how to open up/it also showed me I don’t give a f***.”)

Pusha can barely contain his disgust recounting how the stalemate with Def Jam played out. “They wanted me to ask Kendrick to censor his verse, which of course I was never doing,” he explains. “And then they wanted me to take the record off. And so, after a month of not doing it, Steve Gawley, the lawyer over there was like, ‘We'll just drop the Clipse.’ But that can't work because I'm still there solo. But if you let us all go… ”

Labels tried to get the Kendrick verse taken off

Everest

1y

The label loved what they heard—except for Kendrick Lamar’s guest verse on the thunderous “Chains & Whips,” the final version of the song that Pharrell teased at his first LV runway show, and the song Pusha says was the first to come out of their sessions. Don’t be fooled by Pusha’s interviews appealing for one last guest verse and the Twitter jokes that he went to a GNX Tour date to physically walk Kendrick into the nearest studio; K. Dot’s verse homework has been turned in for a while now.

But after a summer of beef between their two biggest artists that resulted in a still ongoing lawsuit from Drake, Def Jam’s parent company UMG blanched at the antagonistic opp-optics of two of Drake’s biggest enemies linking on wax. Pusha calls their apprehension “stupid”—primarily because none of the bars in Kendrick’s otherwise excellent verse could really be perceived as a shot or even subliminal. (It does, however, contain the stellar line: “Therapy taught me how to open up/it also showed me I don’t give a f***.”)

Pusha can barely contain his disgust recounting how the stalemate with Def Jam played out. “They wanted me to ask Kendrick to censor his verse, which of course I was never doing,” he explains. “And then they wanted me to take the record off. And so, after a month of not doing it, Steve Gawley, the lawyer over there was like, ‘We'll just drop the Clipse.’ But that can't work because I'm still there solo. But if you let us all go… ”

Labels tried to get the Kendrick verse taken off

Gosh

1y

One of yall needs to go ahead and turn that into a thread

Great Monday conversation

Everest

1y

The label loved what they heard—except for Kendrick Lamar’s guest verse on the thunderous “Chains & Whips,” the final version of the song that Pharrell teased at his first LV runway show, and the song Pusha says was the first to come out of their sessions. Don’t be fooled by Pusha’s interviews appealing for one last guest verse and the Twitter jokes that he went to a GNX Tour date to physically walk Kendrick into the nearest studio; K. Dot’s verse homework has been turned in for a while now.

But after a summer of beef between their two biggest artists that resulted in a still ongoing lawsuit from Drake, Def Jam’s parent company UMG blanched at the antagonistic opp-optics of two of Drake’s biggest enemies linking on wax. Pusha calls their apprehension “stupid”—primarily because none of the bars in Kendrick’s otherwise excellent verse could really be perceived as a shot or even subliminal. (It does, however, contain the stellar line: “Therapy taught me how to open up/it also showed me I don’t give a f***.”)

Pusha can barely contain his disgust recounting how the stalemate with Def Jam played out. “They wanted me to ask Kendrick to censor his verse, which of course I was never doing,” he explains. “And then they wanted me to take the record off. And so, after a month of not doing it, Steve Gawley, the lawyer over there was like, ‘We'll just drop the Clipse.’ But that can't work because I'm still there solo. But if you let us all go… ”

Labels tried to get the Kendrick verse taken off

Maximus

1y

Wait so does that mean it won’t drop?

mmonay

1y

Honestly thread worthy and super concerning moving forward for all artists

Maximus

1y

Wait so does that mean it won’t drop?

Gosh

1y

It’s actually mind blowing and literally why suing over rap battles is so disgusting

It’s literally anti art

Maximus

1y

Wait so does that mean it won’t drop?

Gosh

1y

One of yall needs to go ahead and turn that into a thread

Great Monday conversation

Everest

1y

This is the following paragraph, so I assume roc nation is gonna let the verse drop

Sure enough, Def Jam eventually agreed to release the Clipse and drop Pusha as a solo artist, freeing the duo up to shop for a new home with a finished Clipse album and “plenty more music” in their pockets. Ultimately, Pusha says, the endeavor was gratifying: “It felt good to even see how other labels were buying for the project.” Now—as they teased last week, with a picture in front of the label’s plane insignia—they’ve ended up at Jay-Z’s Roc Nation, where they feel fully supported and energized. “I think that that synergy, just in a rap sense, is going to speak volumes,” Pusha says of the partnership.

SignedTwice

1y

Might do it on some

mmonay

1y

So essentially they didn’t budge, imagine what impact this would have on a smaller artist.