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If there’s anybody in the whole world of music we wouldn’t want to get on the wrong side of, it is Pusha T. There’s nobody with an aim truer than King Push, and besides, he seems to genuinely not give a single fuck what anyone thinks.

He’s Teflon.

Speaking to GQ, he spoke about Kanye. This is not a call to grab the popcorn (well, it is kinda), but a lesson in hearing someone just say things so flatly that it sounds like facts, managing to acknowledge that Kanye is an important figure in music, while simultaneously saying exactly what he thinks about him in 2025.

Of course, the backdrop to all this is the exciting return of Clipse, with a new LP due out soon.

Back to West, he said things began to disintegrate when West was having “sidebar conversations” about him behind his back, during the ‘Donda’ sessions, and since then, West has run the narrative that Push’ has done him some kind of “great injustice”, which is a “lie.”

“The one thing that I can say about him 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. He don’t talk to me like he talks to others.”

“He knows I don’t think he’s a man – he knows it. 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.”

Phew.

Adding to this, Push branded Ye as “sick” and “calculated”: “If I take your sickness and take how calculated you’ve been and disruptive you’ve been and tried to be to me, then it cancels itself out. I can’t look at it as sick, because you’re detrimental. You’re detrimental to everything.”

“I am OK with where me and him are right now – and I’m cool with staying that way – is because at the end of the day, my truth is my truth, but I still respect what he did in the business. And he speaks ill about the music we’ve made and giving me certain records, but the one thing he did give me was all the profits back from the Def Jam deal.”

Pusha cut ties with GOOD MUSIC which he was the head of, after he denounced West’s anti-Semitic actions, saying: “It’s been disappointing. As a Black man in America, there is no room for bigotry or hate speech.”