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.
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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.
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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.’”
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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.
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“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.”
