Pusha T appears to have issued a response to Jim Jones, after the “We Fly High” rapper questioned his relevancy and song-making pedigree.
On Friday (April 21), after receiving weeks of slander from the Dipset capo, King Push seemingly offered his own response via an Instagram post.
In the pic, Push is seen alongside fashion designer Jerry Lorenzo in preparation for his recent performance at the Fear of God fashion show at the Hollywood Bowl. “Places they’ll never be, stages they’ll never see…” Push wrote, seemingly taking aim at Jim Jones.
He added: “Jerry, you turned the Hollywood Bowl into your world and let me be apart of it…forever grateful.”
The situation started earlier this month when Capo sat down with Spotify’s RapCaviar podcast, where he ruffled some feathers as he chimed in with his thoughts regarding Billboard and VIBE‘s 50 Greatest Rappers of All Time list — which placed the Clipse rapper at No.29.
“What has he done that puts him in the greatest rappers of all time besides talk about coke that he probably didn’t get himself?” Jones questioned the other panel members.
While he did give the Daytona rapper his flowers as a lyricist, he questioned his impact on the culture, overall.
“He’s nice as shit. He could rap his ass off, but what has he done?” asked Jones. “Nobody has dressed like him. Nobody wants to be like Pusha T. I don’t remember nothing. And let’s not be evil, but we don’t talk about rap where the n-gga that’s popping the bitches wanna fuck and the n-ggas wanna be like. I don’t know too many n-ggas in this game that was leaning towards being like Pusha T.”
He then doubled down on his criticism of the Virginia-bred rapper during a recent appearance on The Breakfast Club. At one point in the conversation, Jim went around asking various members of the decorated radio show’s staff if they could rap along to five Pusha T records — a challenge only Charlamagne Tha God seemed able to accept.
“Could you name five Pusha T records?” Jones asked Charlamagne, who listed off a couple of standout King Push songs. “Could you name five Pusha T records? No. Could you rap to five Pusha T records?
“Could you rap five [JAY-Z] verses if they came on? Could you rap five Drake verses if they came on? You lying because you work at radio. I’m just gonna say that because n-ggas gonna say Jim went way wildin.’”
Despite Pusha T’s talent as a lyricist, the Harlem native said he hadn’t made enough cultural impact to be considered an all-time rap great.
“Shoutout to Pusha T, I love your soul,” Jones continued. “You my dawg. You not in my top 50. You might be in Charlamagne’s top 50 and things like that, but you haven’t done that much for me in my life.
“I never wanted to be like Pusha, I never had a Pusha moment in my life. Where I’m from, n-ggas wanted to be like you if you was really that dude as a rapper.”
Yeah, a place called the showers.
This cracked me up. I’ve always thought that Jimmy that dude with drip but probably smell like booze and cigarettes with a musky touch of body odor. And his beard make his face look like a hairy raccoon female body parts.
LMAO
Too stoned for this hahahahahah awesome
jj HOLDING ON TO HIS YOUTH, he’s doing the lazy thing and not trying anymore. He isn’t in the higher plane of artist that came out in the early 00’s. The LOX put his shit in a box and kicked it down the river it feels like. JJ’s whole aura is made old dude scrambling to get paid.
The last big thing Jim did was let a rat get into the house
Jim has made a surprisingly good career for himself in the last decade or so, especially for someone who wasnt originally even a rapper.. but all this negativity about others gives off jealous vibes, meanwhile he’s trying to appeal to youngsters by riding Drake’s knob, not very becoming of him. I’m not a fan of all these silly GOAT lists, but Push at #29 is a realistic number. Not like they put him in the top 10. Top 30 or 40 is realistic for Push.
The list in question is wack as fuck seeing how Dre was on there at all and never wrote any of his own rhymes. Not only was Dre on there, but he was ahead of Redman, Jadakiss, and Rev Run. I agree that Push isn’t in my top 50, but Jim Jones isn’t in my top 500 so he should probably just chill. It’s akin some streetballing nobody claiming ‘insert popular basketball player here’ sucks.
Not ahead of Jada though. 🤦🏽♂️
So the dude who is the wackest in his group, the dude who we all saw in verzuz straight embarrass himself is the one talking about who is and who isn’t in the top 50. Just so we are ALL CLEAR JIM JONES IS IN NO ONES top ANYTHING!! Dude is wack, has always been wack and will always be WACK
He is just trying to be Drakes girlfriend and stick up for his new boo….WACK!!
So the dude who is the wackest in his group, the dude who we all saw in verzuz straight embarrass himself is the one talking about who is and who isn’t in the top 50. Just so we are ALL CLEAR JIM JONES IS IN NO ONES top ANYTHING!! Dude is wack, has always been wack and will always be WACK
He is just trying to be Drakes girlfriend and stick up for his new boo….WACK!!
Just gave Daytona another listen. Still trash with no flow.
Push guest spots on kanye songs alone body this guys whole career…foh
Jim is doing all this just tryna get momentum for the Fit Lit album, you don’t see Dave or Fab doing this bs, Maino is invested in a serious beef with Troy
How many McDonald’s jingles did jimmy make