{"id":863876,"date":"2025-07-20T22:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T03:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/20\/pusha-t-reveals-kendrick-lamar-actually-wanted-to-do-two-songs-on-clipses-comeback-album\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T22:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T03:13:08","slug":"pusha-t-reveals-kendrick-lamar-actually-wanted-to-do-two-songs-on-clipses-comeback-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/20\/pusha-t-reveals-kendrick-lamar-actually-wanted-to-do-two-songs-on-clipses-comeback-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Pusha T Reveals Kendrick Lamar Actually Wanted To Do Two Songs On Clipse\u2019s Comeback Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Image<\/p>\n<div>\n              <picture><source type=\"image\/webp\"  media=\"(min-width: 600px)\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" ><source type=\"image\/jpeg\"  media=\"(min-width: 600px)\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt src=\"http:\/\/www.rap-up.com\/.\/media_1054753f3478a38bd73a28089dffeecb9726d459f.jpg?width=750&#038;format=jpg&#038;optimize=medium\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\n              <\/picture>\n            <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Image Credit<\/p>\n<p>Pascal Le Segretain \/ Staff via Getty Images and Michael Owens \/ Contributor via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Image Alt<\/p>\n<p>Pusha T at Louis Vuitton\u2019s Paris Fashion Week show and Kendrick Lamar at Apple Music Halftime Show Interview<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Image Size<\/p>\n<p>landscape-medium<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Key Takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kendrick Lamar nearly appeared on two tracks from Clipse\u2019s upcoming album, \u2018Let God Sort Em Out.\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Pusha T revealed that label concerns over optics led him to exit Def Jam Recordings to keep Lamar\u2019s feature on \u201cChains &#038; Whips.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The final tracklist includes only one Lamar collaboration, leaving fans speculating about what could\u2019ve come from a second.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On Monday (June 30), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rap-up.com\/article\/pusha-t-fires-back-at-travis-scott-on-new-clipse-song-so-be-it\">Clipse<\/a> officially revealed the tracklist for their highly anticipated comeback album, <em>Let God Sort Em Out<\/em>. The 13-song LP will arrive with contributions from Pharrell Williams, Nas, John Legend, Tyler, The Creator and, perhaps most notably, Kendrick Lamar. As it turns out, fans almost got two features from the Compton lyricist, if only he hadn\u2019t been \u201csuper busy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sitting down with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rap-up.com\/article\/ye-slams-jerry-lorenzo-and-adidas-in-lengthy-rant-after-yeezy-settlement\">Jerry Lorenzo<\/a> on Tuesday\u2019s (July 1) episode of Spotify\u2019s \u201cCountdown To,\u201d Pusha T explained how their first Lamar collaboration, &#8220;Chains &#038; Whips,&#8221; came together, and how a second effort with the Compton lyricist slipped away. \u201cIt was a situation where the traffic of people just coming in and out of the studio, and it happened to be a person from Kendrick\u2019s camp who was in the studio,\u201d the Virginia native explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe let his folks hear the album, and he called [Lamar] and was like, \u2018Listen, you need to get on this,\u2019\u201d Pusha T recalled. \u201cAnd mind you, at this particular time, he was just super busy. Man, [I] sent them songs over, [and] he just called back laughing\u2026He was like, \u2018Yo, I wanna do two.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even getting just one Lamar feature proved so important to Pusha T that he willingly paid seven figures to exit his Def Jam Recordings deal. According to him, the label \u201cdidn\u2019t like the optics\u201d of two of Drake\u2019s biggest rivals teaming up, especially with the Canadian star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rap-up.com\/article\/umg-files-motion-to-dismiss-drake-defamation-lawsuit\">currently suing their parent company<\/a>, Universal Music Group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Def Jam] pinpointed a line where the phrase \u2018Trump card\u2019 was used. It\u2019s so stupid,\u201d Pusha T told The New York Times\u2019 \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rap-up.com\/article\/pusha-t-clipse-def-jam-kendrick-lamar-verse\">Popcast<\/a>\u201d in June. Interestingly, when Clipse and Pharrell gave fans an early preview of <em>Let God Sort Em Out<\/em> that same month, the line was noticeably missing. For now, fans will have to wait until the album drops on July 11 to find out what else \u2014 if anything \u2014 about Lamar\u2019s verse had the label so on edge.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> Thomas Coby<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rap-up.com\/article\/kendrick-lamar-clipse-let-god-sort-em-out-collab\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image Image Credit Pascal Le Segretain \/ Staff via Getty Images and Michael Owens \/ Contributor via Getty Images Image Alt Pusha T at Louis Vuitton\u2019s Paris Fashion Week show and Kendrick Lamar at Apple Music Halftime Show Interview Image Size landscape-medium Key Takeaways: Kendrick Lamar nearly appeared on two tracks from Clipse\u2019s upcoming album<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":863877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3509,336],"tags":[19045,6130],"class_list":{"0":"post-863876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pusha","8":"category-reveals","9":"tag-pusha","10":"tag-reveals"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}