Like Picasso rising bored of paint, Pusha T says that diss tracks are “lifeless to me.”
In a brand new interview with ipromiseyoumedia, the L. Ron Hubbard of the cabinet explains that “it’s not the identical ransom anymore. Again within the day, to me, I felt prefer it could possibly be profession ending. Now it’s not — it doesn’t maintain as a lot weight. You continue to get one other shot at it, it looks like.
“I’ve sort of been via that chapter and I’m over it,” he continues. “I’m someplace proper now the place I don’t even need to make music with different folks, however [have] anyone else in my music or be the main focus of my music. What we’re doing proper right here [with Clipse] is, to me, so subsequent degree. I really feel just like the style degree is above all the things else. Even being caught up on this planet of it — I don’t like even the world of the folks, of the forwards and backwards — if I don’t see eye to eye with you, there’s most likely issues I don’t need to be there about, you recognize what I’m saying?”
Throughout our interview Malice, his brother and associate in Clipse, backs him up with a reference to one in every of JAY-Z’s most iconic diss tracks, “Takeover.” He raps, “A sensible man as soon as informed me, ‘Don’t argue with fools/ ‘Trigger folks from a distance can’t inform who’s who.’”
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Pusha T is chargeable for among the most unforgettable diss tracks by no means to have been carried out on the Tremendous Bowl, together with “The Story of Adidon,” which put Drake via the ringer; the brand new Clipse bangers “So Be It,” which rags on Travis Scott, and “Chains and Whips,” which takes photographs at Drake’s pal Jim Jones; and a prolonged discography of assaults on Lil Wayne.
However now, based on cocaine’s Dr. Seuss, “It’s sort of lifeless to me. It’s the ransom of what a diss observe used to deliver: There was a transparent winner. Any person would actually bow out after which that’s it — the final man standing. Now it’s only a complete bunch of noise. Even after we discover winners, it’s nonetheless noise. And it’s like, man, then what’s it for?”
Verify again subsequent week for extra from our interview with Clipse. Within the meantime, catch the hip-hop legends (greater than as soon as) on our record of 200 Greatest Songs of 2025, re-read our assessment of Let God Type Em Out, and see the place that mission lands on our record of fifty Greatest Albums of 2025.
