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 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 initially assumed the lines were pointed at Push’s former collaborator, Kanye West. But GQ confirmed that Scott is the intended target. In a new piece GQ published today, Pusha that he took issue with Scott playing his Utopia album for Pharrell in 2023, only to take part in Drake dissing the super producer and Pusha on “Meltdown” later. GQ withheld this part of the Clipse’s original cover story interview because
“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.”
“[Travis] 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].”
Elsewhere in the conversation, Pusha continues his verbal barrage stating that he doesn’t “hold Travis to any standard.” He states, “He’s done this a lot. He has no picks. He’ll do this with anybody. He did it with ‘Sicko Mode.’”
In the same interview, Push also references an episode from last spring when Travis joined Future and Metro on stage to tease “Like That” the song which initiated the Drake Vs Kendrick Lamar beef. “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.”
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 reportedly nervous about Kendrick Lamar and Pusha T together, given their shared history of beef with Drake. Def Jam allegedly 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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