From GQ - gq.com/story/clipse-gq-hype

“The label loved what they heard—except for Kendrick Lamar’s guest verse on the thunderous “Chains & Whips,” the final version of the song that Pharrell teased at his first LV runway show, and the song Pusha says was the first to come out of their sessions. Don’t be fooled by Pusha’s interviews appealing for one last guest verse and the Twitter jokes that he went to a GNX Tour date to physically walk Kendrick into the nearest studio; K. Dot’s verse homework has been turned in for a while now.
But after a summer of beef between their two biggest artists that resulted in a still ongoing lawsuit from Drake, Def Jam’s parent company UMG blanched at the antagonistic opp-optics of two of Drake’s biggest enemies linking on wax. Pusha calls their apprehension “stupid”—primarily because none of the bars in Kendrick’s otherwise excellent verse could really be perceived as a shot or even subliminal. (It does, however, contain the stellar line: “Therapy taught me how to open up/it also showed me I don’t give a f***.”)
Pusha can barely contain his disgust recounting how the stalemate with Def Jam played out. “They wanted me to ask Kendrick to censor his verse, which of course I was never doing,” he explains. “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, ‘We'll just drop the Clipse.’ But that can't work because I'm still there solo. But if you let us all go…”

In on chaos

sounds like marketing to me

push should leak this

beef thread v56,953

let's ride

So is it off the album or not?

Rightfully so

Them niggas p**** hate to see it

It's on there, this is just a gimmick to make at least 15 people care about a Clipse album in 2025

Drake lost

Malice makes or breaks this album

“Sure enough, Def Jam eventually agreed to release the Clipse and drop Pusha as a solo artist, freeing the duo up to shop for a new home with a finished Clipse album and “plenty more music” in their pockets. Ultimately, Pusha says, the endeavor was gratifying: “It felt good to even see how other labels were buying for the project.” Now—as they teased last week, with a picture in front of the label’s plane insignia—they’ve ended up at Jay-Z’s Roc Nation, where they feel fully supported and energized. “I think that that synergy, just in a rap sense, is going to speak volumes,” Pusha says of the partnership.“

As a massive Drake fan, this is WHACK.

It's on there because Push left and decided to drop the album on a different label that would allow it, can u read?

supposed mafioso terrified by a fake crack dealer

what are we doing here

So umg feeling the burn

Fans of rap music in general should see it as wack tbh

Nah this is crazy

No lol they delayed the album for months bc of this

Could be a possibility, however more importantly it’s going to really affect smaller artists moving forward.

They literally got dropped from Def Jam over it

Y’all are genuinely brain dead and pathetic

Sounds like bs for marketing like when he pit the Whitney Houston hotel pic as an album cover