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Clipse Announces ‘Let God Sort Em Out' Release Date With Cinematic Trailer, Reveals Album Cover Art
The Clipse is back. Pusha T and No Malice officially announced the first Clipse album in more than 15 years on Thursday (May 29) with Let God Sort Em Out. The project is set to make it snow in the summertime with a July 11 release date. Fellow Virginia native and close collaborator Pharrell will be handling production on the entire album, which was recorded at the Louis Vuitton headquarters in Paris. Let God Sort Em Out will be marketed and distributed in partnership with Roc Nation. More from Billboard Kelly Clarkson Totally Nails the Ultimate Karaoke Ballad 'Total Eclipse of the Heart' for Kellyoke Maria Becerra, Paulo Londra & XRoss' 'Ramen Para Dos' Adds Second Week at No. 1 on Billboard Argentina Hot 100 How Curaçao Became the Heart & Soul of Ryan Castro's New Album 'Sendé' A new single will set the tone for the project with 'Ace Trumpets' slated to hit streaming services on Friday (May 30). The album is currently available for pre-sale with bundles of vinyl and merch collections on sale on the Clipse's website. American artist-designer KAWS helms the cover art, which includes his signature white cartoon hands as well as the bones of a skeleton topped with a Mickey Mouse skull. KAWS handled the artwork duties for Clipse's last album, Til the Casket Drops, and famously did the cover for Ye's 808s & Heartbreak album a year earlier in 2008. Pharrell, John Legend, A$AP Ferg and plenty of fans have flooded the Clipse's IG comments expressing their excitement about LGSEO. A cinematic trailer also for the album arrived on Thursday (May 29). 'This is culturally inappropriate,' a woman's voice repeats to start the clip. There's plenty of religious artwork and cameos from Slick Rick, DJ Clue, Mike Tyson and more. No Malice and King Push are seen at the LV HQ working on the project. 'Shoot em all and let God sort em out,' Marge Simpson says to close out the trailer. Watch the trailer below. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
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Pusha T Reflects on Severed Relationship With Ye: ‘I Don't Think He's a Man'
Pusha T severed ties with G.O.O.D. Music, where he served as the label's president and distanced himself from Ye (formerly Kanye West) in late 2022. King Push and his brother No Malice graced the cover of GQ on Monday (June 2), and Pusha reflected on his falling out with the embattled rapper, who has faced criticism for his repeated hate speech. More from Billboard A Timeline of the Consequences Ye Has Faced for His 'WLM' Shirts & Antisemitic Hate Speech Joe Jonas Reflects on Infamous 'South Park' Episode: 'I Was the Only Brother That Loved It' Peter Murphy Cancels 2025 Tour Dates Due To Ongoing 'Health Issues' 'The one thing that I can say about [Ye] is that he knows that every issue that he's having and crying about online right now, I've told him distinctly about those things,' Push said. 'He don't talk to me like he talks to others.' Pusha T took things a step further while disrespecting Ye and saying that he doesn't 'think he's a man' following his myriad controversies over the years. 'His intuition is even more genius-level, right? But that's why me and him don't get along, because he sees through my fakeness with him,' he continued. 'He knows I don't think he's a man. He knows it.' The Virginia rapper went on: 'And that's why we can't build with each other no more. That's why me and him don't click, because he knows what I really, really think of him. He's showed me the weakest sides of him, and he knows how I think of weak people.' Billboard has reached out to Ye's rep for comment. Pusha T and No Malice kicked off the Clipse's Let God Sort Em Out rollout on Friday (May 30) with 'Ace Trumpets,' which finds Push name-dropping Yeezy. 'Sold ecstasy and disappeared, I am Whodini/ Look at them, him and him, still waitin' on Yeezy/ I hope you got your squeegees/ At your interviews, I just ki-ki,' he raps. Ye got wind of Pusha's bars and expressed that he misses the friendship they once had. 'I miss me and Pusha's friendship,' West wrote of his ex-G.O.O.D. Music president to X. While Yeezy won't be appearing on Let God Sort Em Out come the July 11 release date, Push confirmed that Kendrick Lamar is slated to be featured on the album track 'Chains & Whips.' However, Lamar's assist was at the center of Clipse's rift with Def Jam, as the Universal Music Group-owned label wanted K. Dot's verse removed from the project. Push stood firm in keeping the Compton rapper on the album, which led to a split with Def Jam for the duo as well as Pusha's solo career. LGSEO will now be distributed by Roc Nation. 'They wanted me to ask Kendrick to censor his verse, which of course I was never doing,' he said. '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.' Billboard has reached out to Def Jam for comment. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
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Pusha T Not a Fan of Drake's UMG Lawsuit: ‘It Just Kind of Cheapens the Art'
As you might have predicted, Pusha T isn't the biggest fan of Drake's UMG lawsuit. While sitting down with GQ alongside his brother Malice to promote their upcoming Clipse reunion album Let God Sort Em Out, Push brought up the lawsuit when discussing a Kendrick Lamar feature that almost didn't make the album. More from Billboard Joe Jonas Reflects on Infamous 'South Park' Episode: 'I Was the Only Brother That Loved It' Peter Murphy Cancels 2025 Tour Dates Due To Ongoing 'Health Issues' Ye Says He 'Dreams' of Apologizing to Jay-Z 'They wanted me to ask Kendrick to censor his verse, which of course I was never doing,' he said of Def Jam's parent company UMG. '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.'' They got their wish, as both the group and Push himself were dropped from the label, according to GQ. He then added that he went through similar pushback over his unreleased verses on Rick Ross' 'Maybach Music VI' and Pop's Smoke's posthumously released track 'Paranoia' after the release of 'Story of Adidon.' 'If [Drake's] adamant to have a lawsuit,' he said, 'it's only because he knows all the things that they did to suppress everything that was happening around 'Adidon' and the verses and the records and things that were happening back then. I don't rate him no more. The suing thing is bigger than some rap sh–. I just don't rate you. Damn, it's like it just kind of cheapens the art of it once we gotta have real questions about suing and litigation. Like, what? For this?' However, he feels no need to reignite his beef with Drake anytime soon. 'I think after everything that had been done, I don't think there was ever anything subliminal to be said ever again in life,' he said of his longstanding feud with the Toronto rapper. 'Not only just musically, like bro, I actually was in Canada. I actually had a show and made it home. So, I can't pay attention to none of that. I did the dance for real, not to come back and tiptoe around anything.' Push added that he would only engage again if he felt like it. Elsewhere in the interview, Push addressed his current standing with Ye (formerly Kanye West), saying he doesn't view his former collaborator as 'a man.' Ye recently tweeted over the weekend that he misses his friendship with the Virginia rapper. The Clipse released 'Ace Trumpets,' the lead single from their first album since 2009, last week. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
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Clipse Announce Let God Sort Em Out , First New Album Since 2009
Clipse's No Malice and Pusha T, photo by Cian Moore After years of teasing, Pusha T and No Malice have made it official: There will be a new Clipse album. Let God Sort Em Out, the Thornton brothers' long-awaited follow-up to December 2009's Til the Casket Drops, is out July 11 via Roc Nation Distribution. Longtime collaborator Pharrell Williams produced the new album, and Kaws did the artwork. The new album's lead single, 'Ace Trumpets,' is out on Friday, May 30. During their 2000s heyday, Clipse released three studio albums—Lord Willin' (2002), Hell Hath No Fury (2006), and Til the Casket Drops—and three volumes of their iconic We Got It 4 Cheap mixtape series. After Clipse went on hiatus, Pusha T released numerous standout projects, beginning with 2011's Fear of God mixtape and extending to the 2022 studio album It's Almost Dry. No Malice, meanwhile, shared just two albums, Hear Ye Him (2013) and Let the Dead Bury the Dead (2017). Clipse reunited, in 2019, on Kanye West's Jesus Is King song 'Use This Gospel.' The Thorntons have since performed together regularly, playing sets at Primavera Sound Barcelona, Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival, and elsewhere. Originally Appeared on Pitchfork
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The Clipse's ‘Ace Trumpets': The 12 Best Lines
The Clipse finally released a full-blown single from their highly anticipated album Let God Sort Em Out after releasing portions of songs over the last couple years and there are no shortage of slick lines and clever wordplay. More from Billboard Rihanna's Father, Ronald Fenty, Dies at 70: Report Ye Says He Misses Pusha T's 'Friendship' After Being Name-Dropped in New Clipse Song President Trump Says He'd 'Look at the Facts' When Considering Potential Diddy Pardon Pusha T and his brother No Malice each have one verse, with the former handling hook duties as they try to outdo each other with rhymes about drug dealing and being millionaire rap stars, which is maybe some of my favorite type of rap music if I'm being honest. And no one does crime tales quite like the Brother Thornton. We also get Push addressing his hot-and-cold relationship with Ye (formerly Kanye West) and his former collaborator's erratic behavior. Pharrell and his neighborhood friends from Virginia Beach started giving fans glimpses of the music they've been working on since 2023 when 'Chains & Whips' was played during Paris Fashion Week as the Clipse walked down the runway dipped in Louis Vuitton designed by Skateboard P. Then in 2024, a song was played about their late parents featuring John Legend on the chorus during another Louis Vuitton runway show. And more recently, Push used an unreleased song entitled 'So Far Ahead' with Pharrell on the hook for a social media video of him getting ready for the 2025 Met Gala. Their first album since 2009's Til the Casket Drops, is due out later this summer and will be entirely produced by Pharrell. Check out our list of 12 of the best lines from 'Ace Trumpets.' Who said it? Pusha T Push lives like a Grand Theft Auto character and changes exotic cars like sneakers. This is just one of those clever lines that we've come to expect from him. Who said it? No Malice I still can't believe Will Smith walked up to Chris Rock and slapped him at the Oscars live on TV. Who said it? No Malice Some nice wordplay to start of his verse off with some drug smuggling and pasta references. No Malice is officially back, ladies and gentlemen. Who said it? Pusha T Not guilty, building a family with Rihanna the billionaire mogul pop superstar, starring in a Spike Lee movie opposite Denzel — who has it better than A$AP Rocky right now? Who said it? No Malice We gotta thank the Good Lord above for No Malice deciding to resurrect one of the greatest groups of all time. We are not worthy. Who said it? No Malice This line is better than the movie. Who said it? Pusha T You just knew he had to have a line about Ye on this album and he wasted no time addressing his estranged friend, business partner, and collaborator who has ranted about feeling like Pusha should be more supportive publically of his trials and tribulations. Who said it? Pusha T I mean, come on. This is rap music. These are bars *picture of Funk Flex screaming into a microphone*. Annotation correction by Pusha himself which makes it an even crazier line as he's referencing the late John 'Ecstasy' Fletcher of the legendary hip-hop group Whodini who passed away in 2020. Who said it? No Malice He's just able to deliver witty lines in a menacing fashion. It's funny, it's insane, it's maniacal. Who said it? Pusha T Just gonna leave this here. Who said it? Pusha T Referencing the totally avoidable conflict Big Meech and his son Lil Meech find themselves entangled in with 50 Cent is a diabolical bar only someone like Push could think of. Who said it? No Malice It's going to be hard for someone to top this line this year. I'm not even gonna break this down, for fear of sounding like those nerdy rap accounts on social media. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
