Pusha T, as he was then known, would go on to establish his own extremely successful solo career. HBD Legend… myfabolouslife. He began working with Kanye West on his bespoke record label and also released his debut solo mixtape in early Throughout the next several years, Pusha T worked closely with West on a wide variety of musical projects and also collaborated with other big-name musical acts such as the rock band Linkin Park, Big Sean, Chris Brown, and Kendrick Lamar. By this time, Pusha T was a name known all around the world.
And we did these shows. And we did these shows for like nine months. The video had just hit. People were doing the dances that the little girls were doing from around our way. It was definitely the lunch table beat of every cafeteria. The streets had spoken. The streets really had just spoken, and they understood. They understood exactly what we were talking about. What is all this? Wait a minute. Wait a minute, this is different. What is this? It was a lot of different things that just came together and made a great record.
I think one of the things that I find really interesting is that Clipse came out and had this credibility, and then merging my two worlds.
I was an early Clipse fan, but I really liked boy bands. And then you put out a track with Justin Timberlake. All of that was my shit. But you know, I think we have to keep in mind that those worlds were really divided at that time. Shout out to Neptunes. They were the darling producers. They were super producers. I mean, we never had apprehension because we were just in love with the process of it and in love with the music we were creating.
Do you know what the record labels looked at me like? How dare you? Luckily, you were into boy bands. Justin wanted to be a solo artist. He wanted this credibility. I think a different type of artist would maybe get clowned for doing something like that. Yeah, but the records were hot. Everybody wanted a piece of the streets. Everybody wanted the edge. Did the vision start to be more defined? Earlier you were talking about being competitive and having fun.
For me, the Clipse, we were always trying to accomplish our street, mixtape rap goals. We just got this guy who goes back and forth with us with hooks and stuff and gives us melody where we need it. And Chad, he likes to play chords, and he meshed all that with these street narratives. No, the Clipse was always uncompromised.
It was never about compromising anything for us. At this time, it was like street hip-hop was what ran everything. Looking back, did you have a sense that that was going to be as long of a hiatus as it has turned out to be?
He told me about it on tour. I sort of want to do the solo thing. And I wrote a book. Here, take it. You just want to be better than me. You should go ahead. Everybody who we came into the music industry with, outside of my rap friends, were indicted on a drug conspiracy.
It was a drug conspiracy, and everybody got from ten to 34 years. For me, of course it was a terrible blow.
His kids would go to bible study with their kids. He saw the effects in a different way than I saw it. If you ask me, through the kids. And he was not with it. When things got shaky with the whole prison situation, indictments, so on and so forth, I could just tell. His kids, friends with my God kids, and so on and so forth. They can come over and stay the night, but they do go back home and things are different.
I have management. I got management. I got friends that are relying and living off of what it is that I do. I was on tour in Europe at the time when my brother told me this.
This happened like a trillion times. Did you feel like you had to prove yourself? Are we hearing some of that tension or struggle on those records? Ye was like nuts. I know him in passing, met him in the studio a couple times. It was like an opening or something. So, Ye was a heavy, heavy Clipse fan. Heavy, heavy Hell Hath No Fury fan, heavy. I never worked with him before. Get that. RZA comes through with a sample pack. You know.
I met Rae before. Was it just the promise of Hawaii or? Well, no. Ye, production-wise, has always been top-notch to me. That marriage was like He was just always innovating. Always innovating. So it was a no brainer. You talked about Pharrell and Chad giving you brightness in rap whereas before you were hearing just darkness. What about with Kanye? Nostalgic soul. Nostalgic soul samples.
He just knows. He does. I mean, listen, it can take forever. It can take days, weeks, but he finds it. Go write that now!
It takes time. Was it 6,? Pull that up! Is there a method to any of that? Is there a spreadsheet, or like what is the playlist? Yeah, you go to Amoeba Records in LA, you grab a whole bunch of records, you buy a bunch, you load them up, and you listen to them. Like I said, he finds a sweet spot and creates the magic from there. But you had a record before going into Wyoming.
Yeah because, what we do is Before going into Wyoming, right, what I do is, I just go around and I sit with producers. All types of producers, new young, whatever. I hear anything that I like, I take it, I rhyme to it, I rap to it, lay it down and just store it. So between me picking and between him picking through that, I write all of those and then I let him hear it. This time, a lot was going on at the time, with him. You do know that you picked all of these beats.
You did this. I need some therapy, anyway. That comes about from that. When he said that, like I said, a lot was going on with him at the time. A few days? Four days? We were up in Utah in the mountains. House built out, studio built out, getting to it. The record you kind of had and put away, what was the theme or the story you were trying to tell with that record? And how might it be different from what we hear in Daytona?
The thing about it is, I like to write to beats. Rarely can you make that marriage, you know, can you fit it like a puzzle. I was definitely on my rap super hero shit, like totally. Ye, when it comes to me, is big on just sound and having a cohesive sound.
He hears me. It gets a little bothersome, you know. I like a lot of stuff. I like singing. I like things. This is what this needs to be! This is your sound, bro. We just want it all like this. I mean, I do. I say no a lot. I mean some people do. So how do you channel first album energy pretty much two decades into your career?
I just have a chip on my shoulder, honestly. I really do when it comes to rap. Even with rap changing and the different subgenres of rap and the different sounds, the chip on my shoulder is competing with those sounds. I want to be the disruption to all of this. That guy? You know what it is? Utah is honestly just getting away from everything else. It takes time. Was it 6,? Pull that up! Is there a method to any of that?
Is there a spreadsheet, or like what is the playlist? Yeah, you go to Amoeba Records in LA, you grab a whole bunch of records, you buy a bunch, you load them up, and you listen to them.
Like I said, he finds a sweet spot and creates the magic from there. But you had a record before going into Wyoming. Before going into Wyoming, right, what I do is, I just go around and I sit with producers.
All types of producers, new young, whatever. I hear anything that I like, I take it, I rhyme to it, I rap to it, lay it down and just store it. So between me picking and between him picking through that, I write all of those and then I let him hear it.
This time, a lot was going on at the time, with him. You do know that you picked all of these beats. You did this. I need some therapy, anyway. The record you kind of had and put away, what was the theme or the story you were trying to tell with that record? And how might it be different from what we hear in Daytona? This is your sound, bro. We just want it all like this. So how do you channel first album energy pretty much two decades into your career?
I just have a chip on my shoulder, honestly. I really do when it comes to rap. Even with rap changing and the different subgenres of rap and the different sounds, the chip on my shoulder is competing with those sounds. I want to be the disruption to all of this. That guy? Of course! But the seven song thing was a challenge because we had more. We had more. By this time I mean. You guys really gotta understand, I came in with the full, G.
Like everybody gets an album! Nas is getting an album! Its like Oprah. You get an album! He found his bounce, and I really think he was inspired. I feel like he fell in love with the keyboards and the drum machines, and he fell in love with all that stuff all over again right in front of my eyes. Matter of fact, everybody getting seven. We gonna give every. I like the number. You like bullying me at this point. I actually do like the number.
He could make it up right now if you asked him. The idea of everybody putting 25 tracks on an album to get their streams up and all of that is such a poverty way of cheating to me. We need to be totally against everything and we need have a whole other mantra in regard to what we are doing in this wave. Maybe some of you do. But that whole process was really happening in real time. And I was doing radio promo with no album artwork. I tweeted. This album is coming out.
I send that tweet out. We got him in to do a photo shoot. I like pictures of myself on my album. I like myself. I want to be seen.
OK, cool. Just let me just do this. What do you mean? I got this idea. I got an idea. We not putting that out quite yet, OK? I wake up in the morning… Um, oh no.
I feel a way. You feel a way. The home bathroom, I believe, not the hotel. I think it was the home bathroom. But nobody was trying to play Whitney out or nothing. The picture was just like it was perfect. It was the perfect description. Organized chaos, drugs, luxury, ups, downs, everything I was describing on this album. Rainy Day Relaxation Road Trip. Romantic Evening Sex All Themes. Articles Features Interviews Lists.
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