It’s been over three years since Pusha T dropped DAYTONA, the former Clipse rapper’s third studio album for G.O.O.D. Music/Def Jam Recordings.
Now, as he prepares to release the follow-up — which includes production from Kanye West and The Neptunes — he’s purging his closet and selling some of his clothing items on the luxury menswear marketplace, Grailed. Speaking to Billboard, Pusha T explained why he typically does this annually.
“I always have like a huge closet purge, usually yearly and definitely definitely going into an album cycle,” he says. “It’s like, ‘OK. What’s the look?’ And I have to like clear out my closet to be able to see where I’m going from here.”
As Pusha T transitions into album mode, he offered a small update on the project and revealed it’s in the mixing stage, while the array of guest features are still in the process of “being finalized.”
In September, Pusha T vowed the DAYTONA follow-up will find him in top form in a tweet to TIDAL’s Tony Gervino.
“First of all, I was listening to this just a second ago,” he wrote. “Secondly, I’m so much better now than I was then.”
Pusha T took it up a notch and confidently stated to Billboard, “I think I’ve topped DAYTONA for sure. One-thousand percent.” He also noted Pharrell pushed back on some of the directions Pusha T wanted to go with the album, adding, ““[Pharrell] said ‘Nah man, you’re always gonna say the greatest things but you want to be different? We’ve got to make compositions.'”
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Now with expectations sky high, Pusha T just has to deliver. Meanwhile, Upscale Vandal has provided additional details about the impending project, which is expected to arrive before 2021 is up.
Check out the texts below.
dont even like pusha but we all know drake shook in his high heels at this release. hahahaha got beat so bad that he admitted it. i mean daaaaaamn.
Over promotion. It’ll be a dud.
You have to respect Pusha’s work ethic. He tries to out-do himself every album…I wish he’d have some Pharrell beats on that joint
Can someone pleas tell Pusha that Daytona was not an LP? It was an EP bro. Stop trying to live off those 7 tracks and shit. Now this dude is the rap god and shit. I seriously listened to Daytona for like a month and left it on my shelf. Pusha, I am still listening to Ilmatic and Do or Die. I was like 18 years of age and shit and now I am 45 years of age still banging those albums. Those albums my friend (Pusha) are classics not that bs EP you dropped like 3 years ago. It is taking you like 3 years to make another 7 tracks. Go sit down bruh!
Drake fans suck and aren’t hip-hop. You use maple syrup for lube. As the catcher.
damn that is a lot of percent . hopefully there will be a 1000% more minutes than the 19 EP we got last time
Pusha T you to old, no one listens to Disco
DAYTONA WAS DOPE. THE SHORT LENGTH MADE SENSE CONSIDERING THE CONTENT ON THERE. LOOKING FORWARD TO THE NEW ONE.
Daytona was trash from the cover art on down. Str8 garbage. Pusha went from being one of the top mcs in the game on Cruel Summer to a clown trying to clout chase with his fake Drake beef and robbing Whitney’s grave. Guarantee you he only getting to drop because he ghost wrote all of Tyler’s record
what is so special about this guy?
1000%? that’s easy, Daytona was straight trash…..