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Yahoo
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
What Are Clipse's First-Week Sales Projections For Their New LP ‘Let God Sort Em Out'?
Clipse reuniting for their new album Let God Sort Em Out has been one of the hottest topics of 2025, in large part due to a highly active rollout, Malice returning to Hip-Hop, and Pusha T dissing multiple rappers. The first-week sales projections for their fourth studio album have hit the timeline to a myriad of reactions. The popular Billboard-tracking X page Chart Data reported, via Hits Daily Double, that the duo's latest LP is set to sell 90,000 album-equivalent units in its first week and debut at No. 4 on the Billboard 200. If that comes true, this album would tie their 2002 debut album Lord Willin' for reaching the No. 4 spot, but fall behind it at the No. 2 spot on their list of first-week sales performances throughout their career. Willin' sold 122,000 album-equivalent units in large part due to their classic single 'Grindin'.' The internet has been loving this LP, largely due to the presence of Kendrick Lamar on 'Chains & Whips,' the reunion of Clipse and Pharrell, and seeing a veteran group still performing at a high level. Sales have rarely been their metric of success, but their recent venture into independence has many people thrilled about these projections. 'Clipse selling 90K first week units 16 years after their last album is an incredible feat,' one X user wrote. '90k first week sales for Clipse? Huge W. Their biggest first week since Lord Willin' in 2002. The press takeover worked — media STILL matters in 2025, don't let anyone tell you different,' another user wrote. 'Clipse projected to sell 90k in the first week while dropping this album independently + it's been over 16 years since they've dropped one as a group is a win,' another user wrote. Their rollout included a live interview with Apple Music's Rap Life Review, an appearance on The Joe Budden Podcast, a COLORS performance, an NPR Tiny Desk set, and much more. Watch the duo perform 'Chains & Whips,' 'The Birds Don't Sing,' 'Grindin',' and more on NPR below. More from Clipse Release "Culturally Inappropriate" Video For "Chains & Whips" Feat. Kendrick Lamar Drake Reacts To "What Did I Miss?" Debuting At No. 2 On The Billboard Hot 100 Did Justin Bieber Diss Clipse's New Album On Instagram? Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Clipse Release 'Culturally Inappropriate' Video For 'Chains & Whips' Feat. Kendrick Lamar
Clipse has released the official music video for 'Chains & Whips,' a standout track from their latest drop, Let God Sort Em Out. While the track features Kendrick Lamar, the surreal visual, directed by Gabriel Moses, does not include the Compton-bred rapper. Instead, the brotherly rap duo presents various situations and stretches the 'culturally inappropriate' track to extreme versions of reality. From a diapered-toddler, to a beauty pageant, to a prison, to a church, to a strip club, the video uses various settings to add an additional artistic point of view to the collaboration, which caused ominous buzz ahead of the album's release. The 'Chains & Whips' music video ends with two women on a porch, performing a rendition of Clipse's 2002 hit 'Grindin'.' One handles the classic beat while the other takes on the lyrics. A young boy stands to their side, poised next to the United States flag. 'What happened was, basically, we were in the studio creating, we had the record. We were in the studio just creating an album, and his publisher happened to be in the studio. It was in Paris, and just was listening and called Dot and was like, 'Listen, you need to be on this album.' And so we sent him a few records. I was like, 'Man, listen here, take them, whatever you want.' And man, through everything that was going on, man, he really came back with that,' explained Pusha T to Apple Music's Ebro Darden. 'And I mean, if you just think about the time, it was like anybody could have used the excuse not to. You know what I'm saying?' Let God Sort Em Out was officially released last week (July 11), following a keenly executed roll-out from the Virginia-bred lyricists. With all production handled by Pharrell Williams, the 13-track album features Tyler, The Creator, Nas, Stove God Cooks, The-Dream, John Legend, Ab-Liva, and Voices Of Fire. 'So we were talking and I thought he actually came up with the title, he thought I came up with the title, but I think that just speaks to how innate we are with our album and album themes. Hell Have No Fury, Lord Willing, Til the Casket Drops. We just wanted to keep with the same thing,' explained Malice. Listen to Let God Sort Em Out below and take a look at the music video for 'Chains & Whips' above. More from What Are Clipse's First-Week Sales Projections For Their New LP 'Let God Sort Em Out'? Beyoncé And Kendrick Lamar To Face-Off At 2025 Emmy Awards Who Are The Potential Witnesses In Drake's Lawsuit Against UMG? Solve the daily Crossword
Hypebeast
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Hypebeast
Clipse and Kendrick Lamar Release 'Chains & Whips' Music Video With Powerful Visuals
Summary Clipsehas recently dropped the music video for 'Chains & Whips,' a fan-favorite off their long-awaited comeback albumLet God Sort 'Em Out. Featuring a standout verse fromKendrick Lamar, the track dives deep into themes of systemic oppression, generational trauma, and the complicated relationship between survival and material success. The title itself is a play on words. On the surface, it nods to luxury — chains on necks, whips in garages. But behind the gloss, it's a direct reference to the violence of slavery, incarceration, and generational control. That tension sits at the heart of the track: how wealth and status are often worn like armor, even though they're forged from the very systems that once shackled you. Directed byGabriel Moses, the video brings this message to life with moody, surreal visuals. From the very first frame — a woman clutching a guitar in silence — you feel the weight. It's not performance; it's tension. Her stillness feels louder than any verse, setting the emotional temperature for everything that follows. One of the most powerful motifs throughout is the recurring presence of children. They're not placed in overtly adult-coded environments yet it poses an assumption, their expressions — watchful, reserved, cautious — say more than any backdrop could. They aren't playing or smiling for the camera; they're absorbing. The visual tone suggests how early the system begins to shape people — before they even understand it. Before they ever wear chains as fashion, they've already been handed invisible ones: silence, expectation, inherited weight. Meanwhile, there are glimpses of everyday life — children playing, a man watching a lottery machine, adults moving through familiar routines — all quietly interrupted by discord. Showcasing that the system doesn't explode instead hums beneath it all, embedded in the fabric of the ordinary. Kendrick doesn't appear in the video, but his presence lingers. His verse closes the track with a sharp rejection of superficial accolades. He name-drops Rakim and questions the culture's obsession with clout, fame, and virality. It's a pointed reminder that while everyone's chasing trends, the real stories and roots are being erased. The final scene strips it all down. Two women stand by a porch, singing an a cappella version of their debut single 'Grindin'.' No beat. No effects. Just raw voices echoing the legacy of Clipse. It's a full-circle moment — a return to roots. Check out the 'Chains & Whips' music video above.
Black America Web
13-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Black America Web
B-Side Bangers: Clipse (Pusha T And Malice)
Gregory Bojorquez This weekend in particular has been quite a treat for longstanding hip-hop fans, especially those with a soft spot for early-to-mid-2000s rap, thanks to sibling emcees Pusha T and Malice reuniting as the dynamic rap duo that go by Clipse. Let God Sort Em Out , their new album released this past Friday (July 11) after a 16-year break to pursue solo efforts and personal life, is a testament to the old saying that a bond between brothers is unbreakable. Lucky for us, this bond comes with the added bonus of genius-level lyricism backed by the production of Pharrell Williams. RELATED: B-Side Bangers – Michael Jackson Of course, the effortless musical connection that makes it so easy for Skateboard P to bless the bros with heat on this album is a bond in itself that's been growing for the better part of three decades and counting. From the start, Pusha T and Malice have grown up with the super producer both in life by way of Virginia (see: Pharrell's Piece By Piece LEGO biopic) and in the studio on virtually every album they released as a group. Despite well-documented label disputes that delayed singles and even albums, time proved that Clipse never needed to do more than make music on their own terms for a fanbase that clearly was willing to wait 16 years for a proper follow-up. All things considered though, these guys managed to amass a strong catalogue even with just three albums released prior to Let God Sort Em Out . As a small nod to their decades-spanning hustle, we put together a list of some of their more deeper cuts that will really show you just how busy they got in the studio at their peak. While we all know and love classic tracks like 'Grindin,' 'Hot Damn,' the speaker-thumping 'Mr. Me Too' and synth-savvy 'I'm Good' — don't let Pusha fool you and say Til the Casket Drops didn't give us any heat! — these b-sides will show a different side of the duo that you hear when the song wasn't necessarily made for Billboard. 'Let's Talk About It' (feat. Pharrell and Clipse) [2001] Album: Instructions by Jermaine Dupri Just A Memory' (feat. Clipse) [2005] Album: Duets: The Final Chapter ( aka Biggie Duets ) by The Notorious B.I.G. (Released posthumously) SEE ALSO
