Pusha T calls out Kanye West for “backbiting” and “begging”
Pusha T has addressed his fallout with Kanye West. The Virginia rapper is preparing to release his new Clipse album, Let God Sort Em Out, and hasn’t been shy of sharing his thoughts and feelings in the rollout.
Push was once a frequent collaborator of Kanye, working together on records like ‘Runaway’ and ‘Mercy’. He was even the present of Ye’s label, G.O.O.D. Music, but their relationship has soured over the years, which has coincided with much of the public falling out of love with him.
Speaking on a new episode of Popcast, Pusha detailed their differences, claiming they were never friends on the same page.
“We ain’t the same,” he stated. “Outside of music, we’re nothing. We can’t be anything outside of music. Music is where we click. Outside of that, his principles, his morals, his mindset. We don’t see eye to eye. Hardly ever. And we never have. If you’re a man, you can’t move like this. Where you gotta flip-flop and kiss ass and do all the backbiting, begging.”
Push explained that he was always truthful with Kanye and doesn’t regret their musical relationship. To him, that’s all it was: musical.
“I don’t even know if I ever held my tongue,” he said. “I always spoke to everything. But what you do with that information, in taking advice or perspective from me, that’s what you do. But I don’t regret any of it. I mean, we made great music. Outside of music, we’re nothing. Outside of that, his principles, his morals, his mindset — we don’t see eye to eye hardly ever, and we never have.”
This isn’t the first time Pusha has questioned Kanye’s principles. Speaking to GQ earlier this month, he described Ye as “weak” and not a man.
“He knows I don’t think he’s a man,” he said. “He knows it. And that’s why we can’t build with each other no more. That’s why me and him don’t click, because he knows what I really, really think of him. He’s showed me the weakest sides of him, and he knows how I think of weak people.”
Clipse’s new album will be released on July 11th. It will be their first project in 16 years, following 2009’s Til the Casket Drops.