Pusha T has revealed just how Kendrick Lamar ended up on the Clipseâs new album Let God Sort Em Out.
Speaking with Spotify, Pusha explained: âClipse and Kendrick together, that speaks lyricism. I donât think anyone wants anything other than that. There was a traffic of people coming in and out of the studio and one of the people just happened to be a person from Kendrickâs camp.
âWe let his folks hear the album. He called them and was like âlisten, you need to get on thisâ. At this particular time, he was super busy. He sent them songs over. He called back laughing like âokay, I gotta do it, donât worry about it, I wanna do two.â The idea of right place, right time makes everything happen.â
Kendrickâs verse on âChains & Whipsâ has caused controversy for the Virginia duo and led to them departing Def Jam.
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âHeâs called back laughing⊠He was like, okay I gotta do it. Donât worry about it, I wanna do two [songs].â pic.twitter.com/Lve2eBPTJP
â Kurrco (@Kurrco) July 1, 2025
Speaking to GQ, Pusha T described how their relationship with the storied label crumbled over Lamarâs feature on âChains & Whipsâ.
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He said: âThey wanted me to ask Kendrick to censor his verse, which of course I was never doing. And then they wanted me to take the record off. And so, after a month of not doing it, Steve Gawley, the lawyer over there was like, âWeâll just drop the Clipse.â But that canât work because Iâm still there [solo]. But [if] you let us all go⊠â
It was also revealed that Def Jam were concerned about the optics of two of Drakeâs arch rivals teaming up on a track while his lawsuit against UMG was ongoing.
The brothers paid a large sum to get out of their contract with Def Jam and keep their album intact.
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Their manager, Steven Victor, said to Billboard: âThey said, âFind another deal, and letâs figure out a business.â They didnât drop us. They were like, âPay us this moneyâ â which was an exorbitant amount of money, a shit ton of money â âand weâll let you out the deal.â Thatâs what happened. We paid them the money, an insane amount of money. It wasnât, like, $200,000. It was a lot of money for an artist to come up with. They bought themselves out of the deal.â
