The Clipse are back. After delivering one of the more memorable album rollouts in recent rap history, Pusha T and Malice have reunited for their first project in 16 years as Let God Sort Em Out hit streaming services on Friday (July 11).
The album boasts 13 tracks in total with features from a versatile cast of collaborators that includes Kendrick Lamar, Tyler, the Creator, Nas, John Legend, The-Dream, Pharrell, Stove God Cooks and Ab-Liva.
Fully produced by Pharrell and recorded at the Louis Vuitton HQ in Paris, Pusha and Malice set the tone for the album with “Ace Trumpets” and then dropped the “So Be It” visual on YouTube, which found King Push sniping at Travis Scott.
It was a winding road for Clipse to Let God Sort Em Out. Def Jam attempted to block their collaboration with Kendrick from landing on the album, which led to Pusha paying seven figures to buy himself and Clipse out of their deal with Def Jam, before bringing LGSEO to Roc Nation for a distribution deal.
“I was shocked at first,” Push told Billboard of Def Jam trying to remove Kendrick’s vocals. “We haven’t been doing anything particularly. For the past two years, it was just creating the album and back and forth to Paris. It was no ill intent in creating that song. We weren’t on that type of time, so it was totally a shock from what I feel like the optics were enough to put a halt to something like that.”
The Virginia-bred duo’s hoping that the album run ends up with them on the Grammy Awards’ red carpet, as Push told Billboard that’s “always the goal.” As for Malice, he succinctly summed up the Clipse’s mission statement: “We’re not into existing in rap, it has to be revolutionary.”
Stream Let God Sort Em Out below.
