Is Pusha T teasing a new Clipse album?
Fans have been speculating as to whether Pusha T and No Malice will reunite as the Clipse to release a new album. They have already performed together again, and Pusha has now claimed that he plans on releasing a new album alongside his brother.
If the Clipse release a new project, it will be their first in over 15 years. This week, fans saw that the rapper deleted all his previous Instagram posts, which is something that many MCs do before they begin to roll out an album officially.
Still, although Pusha has made this cryptic decision, nothing has been announced, and no further details have been confirmed aside from Pusha’s comments last year that he planned to release an album as the Clipse with No Malice.
During a conversation with Ari Melber at a Saint & Citizen event at Miami’s Art Basel in December, Pusha T explained that he and his brother always take a while to put out an album and understand that it angers fans. However, the rapper reassured the crowd that he has material already recorded and stored on his phone.
Speaking to Melber, Pusha stated, “We always take long, people be mad. [But] it’s okay ’cause it’s done. I’m telling y’all, it’s done. I promise you. It’s in my phone.” He gave the name of the project, Let God Sort Em Out, and insisted it would be an evolved version of street rap, asserting, “It’s been 15 years since we dropped an album. We’ve been at it since’ 98/’99 but I think people are gonna witness greatness…You will get to see how street Hip Hop matures,” he declared.
Pusha also confirmed that Pharrell has produced the album, adding, “This is a chemistry, this is a brotherhood. And when I say that, I mean Pharrell as well. He produced it from top to bottom. We’re very precious with this music, we’re very, very meticulous about everything that we do when it comes to that.”
The duo recently announced they have signed an album deal with Def Jam to release the project. Pusha is signed to the label as a solo album, but the Clipse have never released an entire body of work on Def Jam. Previously, in the early 2000s, their albums were handled by a variety of labels including Jive and Arista.
Irrespective of that news, it was announced in October last year by No Malice, who simply uploaded a photo to Instagram of him in Def Jam’s offices standing in front of a TV reading, “Def Jam welcomes Clipse.” The veteran rapper also captioned the image: “A picture’s worth…”
Although Pharrell is supposedly involved, the project was produced solely by him and fans have assumed it has no input from his estranged Neptunes partner Chad Hugo. Furthermore, it is said to have guest appearances from the likes of Nas and John Legend.
In an interview with Vulture magazine earlier this year, the duo shed a little bit more light on Let God Sort Em Out, with Pusha T telling the publication, “I think this is where you get the difference between taste and filler. This music is curated. This is a high-taste-level piece of work. You can only have that level of taste when you have the fundamentals down to a science. I think it’s been definitely missing.”