Pusha T was the special guest on SHOWTIME’s Desus & Mero on Thursday night (April 7), where he chopped it up with the Bodega Boys about his upcoming album It’s Almost Dry, the creative process behind his lauded coke raps and the making of his latest single “Neck & Wrist” featuring JAY-Z and Pharrell.
Halfway through the conversation, King Push shed light on his collaborative relationship with the Brooklyn rap legend and recalled Hov’s reaction when he sent him the unfinished song, loaded with his sneering dope boy bars and Pharrell’s Hell Hath No Fury-esque beat.
“It all happens over email,” he said. “I’ll have a beat and I’ll be like, ‘Man, this is crazy.’ I’ll write to it and I’ll say everything I can say crazy to it. And I’m like, ‘Man, who belongs on this beat?’ And if I don’t feel like anybody can match up but I feel like it needs a feature, because I can’t say anymore, I think I’ve done it all — this happened with ‘Drug Dealers Anonymous.’
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“So I recorded [‘Neck & Wrist’] and I sent it to him, I just emailed it to him. He hit me back with whatever, whether it’s emojis. I think he said, ‘What the hell you want me to say to this?!'”
Push added, “I know I can count on him to say things that I just can’t say. Bro, it’s Hov! A lot of times when I do features, I do features for people to really take the record to the next level, really step it up. Like I said, these albums come few and far between, so it’s like, ‘Man, it gotta be masterpiece-level.'”
JAY-Z certainly had a lot to say on “Neck & Wrist.” Aside from making boasts that only a billionaire could make, the Marcy Projects mogul responded to Friday actor Faizon Love’s claims he lied about being a “drug lord” in a 2016 VladTV interview with slick wordplay that may have gone over many heads.
“The phase I’m on, love, I wouldn’t believe it either/I’d be like, ‘JAY-Z’s a cheater’/I wouldn’t listen to reason either/All I know is he’s a felon, how is he sellin’?” he opens his verse.
Hov also addresses the critics who argue he wouldn’t be a successful as he is today if The Notorious B.I.G. — with whom he was planning a supergroup called The Commission — was still alive.
“They like, ‘If BIG was alive, Hov wouldn’t be in his position/If BIG had survived, y’all would have got The Commission’/Hov was gon’ always be Hov/It ’twas the universe will ’cause Allah said so, and now I’m here,” he declares.
Elsewhere in his Desus & Mero interview, Pusha T spoke about the joy of being a father to his 1-year-old son Nigel Brixx Thornton, who he and his wife Virginia welcomed in June 2020.
“I don’t know why I waited so long!” he joked. “My son is 20 months and he’s by far the best thing I’ve ever created. Ever. [I feel that] every single time [I see him]. For the first 18 months, he didn’t even care if I was around, but these past two months, when I leave he cries and he’s now like, ‘Daddy!’ Coming in the room, looking for me.
“It’s selflessness. And I’m very selfish, I’m a super selfish person; with my son, I have totally taken my self [out of it]. It’s all him first.”
Watch the full conversation below.
Hates another man for having a child, proceeds to have his own
False d ridin narrative: drake is a lame who tried to hide his kid he had with a damn stripper. Push had a kid with his wife who had drake not mentioned he wouldnt have gotten that L for being a super simp!
Feel ya…but that “tick tick tick” shit….we ALL have to watch our actions and WORDS…. TheReal
How about master P, NBA, future, DMX, 21, durk etc etc etc. Why didn’t pusha come for those rappers as well LOL. Drakes success has you (and terry) feeling like y’all failed. Negative emotions is really the largest threat to poor decision making. Hopefully one day you can see past your blindspots
Uhhh. Those guys aren’t Canadian industry transplants who steal US slang and don’t write their own shit…
Yeah, I don’t think Pusha has an issue with people having children lol
This guY seems like he worships the toilet Jay-Z piss in…LMA0! muthafucka’s like Dorothy when she got from Oz-n-shit…I am rooting for u though Push….and if u pause a sec…2013 My name is my Name….then Before My Darkest Dawn…then the 7song album…this should be his best work…its been 3 or 4 years since his last release…LMA0! like Kendrick, this album should be his best work…hell all that time u could do one song every 2months and have a solid album by 2022- TheReal
You said a bunch of nothing to sign off your message “The Real” LOL
Nice try faNboY…yet, u read it…LMA0
Exactly bro all cause Drake wanted to make sure a prostitute he was smashing wasn’t lying and make no mistake Sophia was a former prostitute look how darake treats his sun like a prince bro
No he did not yo all men with money fuck prostitutes bro what u think IG models r bro Prostitutes he just wanted to make sure it was his how can u b mad at that man
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