Having spent most of the last decade as an underground king and one half of Clipse, Pusha T excited rap fans last year when he joined Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music imprint and began experiencing stardom. His official solo debut is still a work in progress, but he’s managed to keep his momentum with a number of high-profile guest verses and a well-received mixtape earlier this year. Pusha continues to keep us warm with Fear of God II: Let Us Pray, a retail mixtape/EP that may not be what Pusha’s fans have been waiting for, but still manages to be a decent hold-over until that true debut actually comes.
The new material added to the retail edition of Fear of God does live up to the standard set by the original version, making it worth a second look. Most notably, Tyler, the Creator lives a dream on “Trouble on My Mind,” 
joining Pusha on a Neptunes-produced collab that perfectly marries the emcees’ love of dark humor. Later, “Body Work” (with Juicy J, Meek Mill and French Montana) finds Pusha getting his Three 6 on over a hard Southern track, and standout “What Dreams Are Made Of” is exactly the high-grade variety of coke rap that we all expect.
“Amen” (with Kanye West and Young Jeezy) and “Everything that Glitters” are also thrown in the mix, and while both have been available elsewhere, they’re still something of a bonus since most of the rest of the EP is composed of the singles from Fear of God’s free version . That first version is a great pool to draw from and the tracks that were imported are among its best, but that doesn’t change the fact that there’s a good chance you’ve already heard them plenty of times. A well-assembled cash-grab, yes, but a cash-grab nonetheless.
It’s isn’t exactly a new album or even an entirely new mixtape, but taken at face value, Fear of God II is a solid collection of tracks. There are definitely still plenty of people out there who don’t spend all day online looking for music, and those people should be very happy with what they find on this EP. Unfortunately, the fans who are the most anxious for new music from Pusha T are the ones who’ll be the least excited by the release since they’ve almost certainly heard this all before. The good news, however, is that if these songs are any indication, Pusha T’s actual album should live up to the standard that’s been set by his past work. Cold comfort, perhaps, but still better than nothing.
good album, pusha is dope
^pusha is boring w/o Malice, we need another clipse album, fuck this solo bullshyt
wtf is wrong with you? this is a 4 or even 4.5 album.
dope man………….
The album is dope but half of the tracks were on the mixtape Fear of God. I dont understand artists or their staff nowadays
album is trash
only decent song is alone in vegas
too many subpars beats plus pusha t’s style is boring
Wow, this clearly shows u don’t know rap, or have a decent vocabulary, cause he’s Metaphors are beyond impressive. Who’s your favorite rapper, Soulja boy, lol or maybe is it WACKA FLACKA FLAMES lol?
pusha-t, not bad work…can ‘t wait til your real album drops
Did a remix to the song “Trouble On My Mind”, check it out if you want, thanks.
http://soundcloud.com/tiltmusic/trouble-on-my-mind-remix
THIS SUCKS 1/5
not to sound ignorant, but your name tells me everything i need to know about your about you musical preferences and rap knowledge. your comment and lack reasoning tells me more about you personally. Your an idiot that probably hasn’t even listened to the EP. and even if you have, i doubt you had the intellectual capacity to comprehend the lyrics.
YEAH YOU SOUND IGNORANT US TEXAS FOLK ARE TO DUMB TO READ YOUR BIG WORDS ILL JUST SIT BACK AND DRINK SOME LEAN AND JAM MY MIKE JONES………..YOU DUMB FUCK I DID LISTEN TO THE EP AND THERE’S NOTHING INTELLECTUAL ABOUT COKE RAPS AND FASHION OUTFITS (NOTHING WRONG WITH IT) BUT THIS WASHED BITCH NEVER COULD DO IT RIGHT I LIKE SOME OF THE CLIPSE AWHILE BACK BUT THIS TAPE IS TRASH TO ME ALL DAY I SMOKE AND LISTEN TO HIP HOP (ALL KINDS) AND LOVE TO SEE THE REVIEWS SO I CAN RATE THEM MYSELF SO DO YOU UNDERSTAND NOW OR DO I NEED TO DUMB IT DOWN FOR YOU (1/5)
OH IM NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS THIS SUCKS
You know Pusha T’s manager is from Texas, Tony Draper.
NO I THINK HES FROM NEW YORK I COULD BE WRONG THO
You are wrong. Pusha T’s manager is Tony Draper, founder of Suave House Records.
YOUR WRONG DUMB ASS TONY DRAPER IS FROM NEW YORK I LOOKED IT UP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Draper
kids…kids….kids!!! stop fighting before i bring your father in here to punch you in your ovaries again
kids, kids, kids!!! stop fighting before i bring your father in here to punch you in your ovaries again
How did the tour with Ice Cube come about? Did he come at you guys like a fan?
Pusha: We’re co-managed by Tony Draper [founder of Suave House Records], and he sort of spearheaded the whole thing. He put us in touch with Cube and we just clicked. Cube was totally into the Clipse movement. He was going on his promo tour, and he was starting on the West. We had everything settled with Jive, and our promo tour was starting on the West [too]. We were like, “Why don’t we just link onto the tour?” It was a great look. We did the whole West Coast.
http://www.prefixmag.com/features/clipse/what-happened-to-those-boys/12688/
^^^^ WHAT IN THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT I SAID HE WAS BORN AND FROM NEW YORK SMH…………………http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Draper
Pusha’s lyricism is exceptional. “few still reminiscing in their CL, selling Pete Rock as they’re cruising in their v12s”. Pusha wack? fuck off. this is a solid 4, set up for the album perfectly.
Dude do your research. Tony Draper was not born in NY. Tony Draper of Suave House is from Houston, TX. Yes, he does manage Pusha-T and the Clipse. Clowns, I hate them.
this shit cray!!! was listen to some drake and the let us pray was the gangster music i needed to recover…am not saying take care it was just too much singing for me..dope tho!!
just out of curiosity, what the fuck does this post mean in english? Are you mentally handicapped or something?
1. I am not american i am African. 2. English is my third language. 3. a person is not allowed to make a few mistakes? I will tell you in my language mdidiwakho hamba uyefela katshana sibunukanyoko ngizikugqibela! so fuck off american bigot!
^please excuse American arrogance…
Eh, a letdown to me.
solid ep my rating is 80/100 so 4/5 sad thing is this is better than half the hip hop releases this year
Great effort for what it’s worth.
album is decent, lyrics was on point but the beat selection wasnt very good.. overall i expected better, no way this deserves the same rating as sideline story.
PUSH
Just average for me. French Montana is awful.
wtf..this deserves at least a 4. solid production through out and lyrics was on point as usual. I would of been VERy happy with paying for this. Put the album out already!
I THOUGHT THIS WAS A MIXTAPE WHY ARE THEY REVIEWING IT
This dude is highly overrated. Clipse is overrated to though. The had one dope album. I’m not surprised the is lackluster….
Body Work is interesting. Replace Meek Mill with Project Pat and you’d have a much better song. And Pusha’s flow is heavily influenced by Paul Wall in this song.
Dude is boring with his same style. Im getting tired of his coke lyrics
album has some bangers but that it
did this FRAUD really just repackage a GARBAGE mixtape and try and sell it?
and niggas wonder why pusha t ain’t ever gonna be shit on his own.
first official solo work in stores is a weak ass mixtape you coulda got for free months ago. guy is an idiot. pusha t is one of the few rappers out who can’t advance his career with kanye west helping him.
i’d say 80-90% of the free tapes i’ve heard this year SHIT on this crap.
this guy has spent close to 15 years rapping about nothing but coke and fashion. he hasn’t ever had a REAL moment on record. pusha t is don johnson is miami vice. dressing up for play in the booth.
1/5 for the fact he repackaged weak material for sale. even his die hard fans are gonna be pissed about this one. he failed. big time.
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Something didn’t go right on the production of this album, there was a beef or a year-long miscommunication, or something. And come someone explain to me how this album gets down with not one single track produced by Kanye. Very disappointed.
sucks….pusha is over…this shit was wweak
My biggest highlight was to hear the Ric Flair clip on the EP, from the NWA days. Surprised that Pusha took the character before Rick Ross.
You really have to be into lyrics for this one because the production is not great(but not awful). The lyrical topics are the coke talk for years – nothing new.
Plus its tracks are from old mixtapes.
…and I’m a Pusha T fan. I hope Kanye learns from this EP and does better for the LP.
I was gonna get this because the mixtape was brilliant. But there’s too many posts saying that its just a recycled version of the mixtape with a few sub par songs added.
Gonna have to do better Pusha.
i liked trouble on my mind so i gave it a try and it was not very good i mean it was horrible 1/5
Pusha is so boring he only raps about coke.
Whats really sad is that some of the songs on this album are the EXACT same songs from the first Fear of God mixtape. How dumb does he think we are?
artists do that all the time. Its not neccasarily a bad thing.. this isnt even a real album so relax mann
I still havent heard the whole album but I like Pusha so, cant wait! I did however, do a full LYRICAL BREAKDOWN of What Dreams Are Made Of on YouTube. Has anyone heard that song yet?
“What Dreams Are Made Of” Lyrical Breakdown Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glabh2Y_-q8&feature=channel_video_title
this is just a mixtape in my eyes so i will just download it but as a mixtape i give it a 4/5 i cant wait for him to give me an album
This is a joke..i dont understand what he was thinking..seriously half of this music was off of 1st ‘Fear of God’…TERRIBLE…with that said I did enjoy “Trouble on My Mind” ..that is hot as fu^&…How many more times can Pusha paraphrase cocaine? My guess is much, much more.
Big Pusha-T fan…BuuuuT, can we get the Official Album. #IJS
Yooo whoever says this mix tape is wack ur on crack nigga, pusha is on his agame so fuck off U guys r fuckin idiots. coke boys by tha way French Montana is that nigga
that shit fucking hard keep up tha goood work
Good Work. Like the predecessor.
so disappointing. no way would I buy this.
T-Pushing Pusha T da truth
HIPHOP HIPHOP 2 THA WORLD DPGC ALBUM ON THE WAY
MAN UR CRAZY PUSHA T IS SOOOOO SICK VERY NICE ON THE MIC
BOW WOW IS A FOOL 2 GO ON YMCMB IT REALLY DO NOT FIT HIS STYLE
So far so good only listened to the first two tracks and they are awesome so far!
PUSHA T is a great rapper. In the Clipse, it was PUSHA’s voice that just kept growing in my brain until i kept saying PUSHA needs to go solo, his voice is too rich — and he’s fine too. I LOVE this cd. Best of the year.
Pusha t the best rapper right now untiil ii get signed
5/5