Pusha T speaks on finding the Clipse’s niche with release of Hell Hath No Fury.
Although the Clipse’s sophomore album, Hell Hath No Fury was preceded by Lord Willin’, Pusha T revealed that the group didn’t find their niche until the second album was released.
During his “VICE Autobiographies” episode, the Virginia rapper revealed that with the release of Hell Hath No Fury, the Clipse’s hipster audience was uncovered.
“I remember on the Clipse’s sophomore album, Hell Hath No Fury. And we were doing press around the album,” Pusha T said. “And the write-ups were so good. The blogs were clamoring about the Clipse. We just found our niche with that album. We found out who exactly our fans was. We started off solely in the streets. And then we sort of just found these college, white, internet monsters. We even had a name. They were called the Clipsters. Like hipsters. But it was the hipster bunch that was all about the Clipse. And they were all about us. And we embraced ‘em as well.”
In the documentary, Pusha T also recalled the moment he wrote his first verse. He says he was with his brother, No Malice and Pharrell Williams at Chad Hugo’s house when he first put his pen to work.
“As a creative, I was just copying all my favorite artists,” he said in the film, which is running on Verizon’s go90 streaming service. “And I looked up to anybody who was on a Clue tape. Whether that be Fab. Whether that be Jadakiss, The LOX, Mobb Deep, Wu-Tang. I was just trying to just be better or realer or whatever I thought that they were. I had to outdo it…We would all go to Chad’s house. And primarily it would be my brother and Pharrell writing raps. Pharrell making beats. And one particular day I just was like ‘Man, I’mma write.’ And I just wrote a verse. And everybody loved it. And I was like in high school, probably.”
Vince Staples, Ty Dolla $ign and D.R.A.M. are among the other artists who have done VICE Autobiographies episodes.
Video of Pusha T speaking on the Clipse finding their niche, can be found below.
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Anyone who is white and reading this: Fuck you! Stay out of our culture, you racist shits. We don’t get in your shit, don’t get in ours.
Rick Rubin is the only reason that hip hop exists today.
Fuckin idiot never heard of Kool Herc, Marley Marl , DJ Red Alert, Grandmaster Flash or Busy Bee
Basketball? Football?
how can anyone look up to mobb deep? the last time they were poppin fr was 99. thas a long time ago. prodigy done took so many LLLLLs its not even funny
Not as many Ls as meek mill
Nas is the undisputed king of L’s. But Prodigy is definitely up there, though.
I like this article. It’s about how white people kneel to the feet of a black man. You see white people do this all the time, to Michael Jackson, Mike Tyson, Michael Jordan, LeBron James, etc. You never see black people give a shit about white people lol. We only care how you can make us rich, bitch!
As a fellow black, let me just point out that you are fucking retarded. Racists in every race need to do like Chingy and disappear.
@heat
Damn dog, how can you talk about repatriations for slavery since your mind is a slave of stupidity. Yo go back back to da project!
Last time I checked close to 50% of you were incarcerated, so yeah you rich as hell. Btw check if your food stamps has arrived for this month!
I see there are some salty white apologists here. But watch, with the Oscars the black man will come out on top. We speak, white people comply. Simple as that.
gavin, as poor white trash I know for a fact noone gets their food stamps this time of month. wish we did though cause i’m hungry
I see Pusha new favorite word this year is “creative/creatives”. Not mad at the verbiage but when Push finds a word he likes he goes full throttle with use