Clipse’s new album is already generating some serious buzz — and it’s only getting louder. A track featuring Kendrick Lamar leaked online Monday (June 23), and was quickly pulled. Both Clipse and the track’s producer, Pharrell, briefly shared a short clip via Instagram stories, and the leaked track resurfaced across social media platforms and on various websites.
Kendrick’s appearance on the track has been at the center of controversy and label politics. His verse allegedly led to a rift between the duo and their label, Def Jam. As implied by Push, the label was allegedly nervous about Kendrick Lamar and Pusha T together, given their shared history of beef with Drake. Def Jam reportedly wanted no parts of it.
“They wanted me to ask Kendrick to censor his verse, which of course I was never doing,” Push claimed in an interview with GQ. “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…”
Longtime Clipse manager Steven Victor told Billboard that it wasn’t easy brokering their exit from Def Jam.
“If you’re an artist, your whole life is to create art and put it out,” Victor says. “If someone’s telling you that you can’t do that, or you have to do it within the confines of whatever box they put you in, that’s like creative jail.”
The leak comes on the heels of Clipse releasing their single “So Be It” in anticipation of Let God Sort Em Out. In the track’s final verse, Pusha T is taking some shots at Travis Scott.
Let God Sort Em Out drops on July 11th. You can check out Kendrick Lamar’s verse below.
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