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Clipse’s forthcoming album Let God Sort Em Out is already one of the year’s most anticipated hip-hop releases. The Virginia-bred duo of Pusha T and No Malice has now released their second video from the upcoming project; “So Be It” is a preview of what fans can expect from Let God Sort Em Out. And in the track’s final verse, Pusha T is taking some lethal shots at Travis Scott.
Over thumping Pharrell production recalling the Beastie Boys’ classic “Paul Revere,” and laced with melodic Arabic chants, Push raps: “You cried in front of me / You died in front of me / Calabasas took your b***h and your pride in front of me.”
Some listeners assumed the lines were pointed at Push’s former collaborator, Kanye West. But GQ confirmed that Scott is the intended target. Pusha explained to GQthat he took issue with Scott playing his Utopia album for Pharrell in 2023, only to take part in Drake dissing the superproducer and Pusha on “Meltdown” later.
“The true context of that is we were in Paris, literally working, and he was calling to play P his new album,” Pusha says. “He came to [Pharrell’s] studio [at Louis Vuitton HQ, where Clipse recorded most of Let God Sort Em Out]. He interrupted a session.”
“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].”
Let God Sort Em Out is produced by the Clipse’s longtime collaborator Pharrell Williams and is being “marketed and distributed in partnership” with Roc Nation. Pharrell has been in a legal dispute with his former partner, Chad Hugo, over rights to the Neptunes’ group name. The matter hasn’t been publicly resolved.
In May, it was confirmed that Kendrick Lamar is appearing on the album on the track “Chains & Whips.” But the Kendrick appearance led to a rift between the duo and their label, Def Jam. The label was nervous about Kendrick Lamar and Pusha T together, given their shared history of beef with Drake. Def Jam wanted no parts of it.
“They wanted me to ask Kendrick to censor his verse, which of course I was never doing," Push claimed. "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…”
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