In a new interview, Pusha T dubbed Puff Daddy “the toughest critic in life.”
During an interview with Sway Calloway of Sway’s Universe, Pusha T was asked to break down the lyrics to his “Crutches, Crosses, Caskets” record. In the first verse, Pusha raps: “I don’t like back and forths with Puff about rap shit.”
When asked about the Puff mention in the song, the Virginia wordsmith revealed that he’s “the toughest critic in life.” Pusha T later explained that being in the studio with Puff, who helped produce “Crutches, Crosses, Caskets,” gave him a better understanding on how some of Biggie’s lyrics came to be.
“That means that he’s the toughest critic in life,” Pusha T said while speaking on Puff Daddy. “It means that don’t nobody push you like him in a studio. Absolutely nobody. I mean, it’s hard to impress him. This my first time ever working with him. So, he giving you that ‘Yeah, it’s alright I guess, playboy.’ And I’m like rapping my heart out. I’m like ‘Nigga, is you crazy?’ And then he’s teaching me. He’s like ‘Man, listen. If I know or if I got an idea what you gon’ say next, that ain’t the line, playboy.’ He’s shaking his shoulders and shit…On the real side of that, that answered a lot of questions in regards to things—When Big would rap—As a fan of Big, me and my friends would be in the car listening to Big and we stopping and we like ‘Man, what made him say that though? How you talk about the love of your daughter and shooting up the block in two bars? Why do that?’ And then I get in with him.”
With Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude serving as the title of his latest album, Pusha was asked what the darkest hour in his life has been. He revealed that his life has had a number of dark moments, but one that stands out is not being able to work with his brother musically.
“My whole career has been full of pitfalls,” he said. “Losses. Losses to the prison system. If we wanna talk musically, man, I been shelved for four years at a time before. Basically coming into the—Even creatively, I came into the rap game with my best friends. And even going through the label drama and stuff, I got separated even from them. Not that we couldn’t work together. And we still did work together, but just that housing of us as a unit. It got sorta separated. So, it’s been dark quite a few times in my career. My brother not being my partner, musically. That’s probably about the worst.”
Video of Pusha T speaking on recording with Puff Daddy, can be found below.
Dx staff you made a comment about Whale crying for attention………Pusha is way worst.
How would you say he’s crying for attention? He was asked a set of questions and he answered them you jackass
How Sway?
Whose Pusha Ts brother
Malice. I hope this is not a troll question. Ever hear of The Clipse? They’ve had 3 albums.
Fuck Pusha T I don’t even listen his shit but I respect Puff yo
I fuck with Pusha t but theres something about him extremely feminine
Cmon man. If there’s something feminine about him, then that would mean a majority of the current rap artists are pure feminine. The Autotune singing that is so popular now?
Im not talking bout the rest of them. Im talking about HIM. There is something off about him. Something suspect about him.
I guess this means Pusha T met everyone in the music business before he made this statement
First. If you think Pusha T needs attention or you have some crazy idea that he isn’t good. Then you clearly have no idea what real hip-hop is all about. He is on a different level then all the fuck-shit that is going on right now in hip-hop. DX, why aren’t you mentioning the fact that Push went hard at Wayne and Drake in that song? Keep protecting Drake and is corny gimmick shit.
Yo! This Vashtie Kola on the ad is bad!
Pusha is one of my favorite artist. He’s good.