Pusha T and his brother Malice didn’t mince phrases when requested about Travis Scott throughout a rapid-fire section on MSNBC’s The Beat with Ari Melber, dismissing the rapper with a pair of blunt responses that lit up social media.
When Melber tossed out Scott’s title alongside Hip-Hop heavyweights like Pharrell, JAY-Z and Kendrick Lamar, Pusha T responded, “Who’s it?” whereas Malice adopted with, “I don’t do this.”
The second got here throughout a fast-paced spherical of phrase associations, the place the Clipse duo provided fast takes on among the style’s greatest names. Pharrell was dubbed “visionary,” JAY-Z earned “goat” and Kendrick Lamar was labeled “craftsman.” However when Travis Scott’s title got here up, the vitality shifted quick.
Melber, identified for weaving rap lyrics into political commentary and incomes respect from the Hip-Hop neighborhood, didn’t flinch. The Emmy-winning journalist has interviewed everybody from Meek Mill to Fats Joe and is commonly praised for his deep data of rap tradition. His present has change into a go-to platform for artists trying to communicate on each music and social points.
The Clipse brothers’ dismissive remarks towards Scott weren’t adopted by any clarification. Whereas neither Pusha T nor Malice elaborated, the second added one other layer to the long-standing friction between Pusha and Scott.
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The meat between Travis Scott and Clipse, primarily fueled by Pusha T, erupted after an incident through the recording of Clipse’s new album, Let God Kind Em Out, in Paris. Whereas Clipse and Pharrell have been working within the studio, Scott entered, wanting to play tracks from his soon-to-be-released UTOPIA album.
“He sees me and Malice there, and he’s like, ‘Oh, man, all people’s right here,’” Pusha T recounted. “He’s smiling, laughing, leaping round, doing his f###### monkey dance. We weren’t into the music, however he wished to play it, wished to movie [us and Pharrell listening to it].”
The scenario escalated when Scott performed the track “Meltdown” however intentionally omitted Drake’s verse, which contained a diss aimed toward Pharrell.
Pusha interpreted this as a breach of loyalty, declaring, “He don’t haven’t any picks, no loyalty to no one. He’ll bounce round no matter he feels is scorching or cling onto no matter he feels is scorching. So, that’s the place my difficulty is available in—like, dawg, don’t even come over right here with that, as a result of on the finish of the day, I don’t play how y’all play. To me, that actually was similar to…he’s a w####. He’s a w####.”
Pusha T retaliated lyrically on the Clipse single “So Be It,” unleashing pointed barbs: “You cried in entrance of me, you died in entrance of me/Calabasas took your b#### and your satisfaction in entrance of me/Heard Utopia had moved proper up the road/And her lip gloss was poppin’, she ain’t want you to eat.”
The verse references Scott’s high-profile breakup with Kylie Jenner and alludes to her success exterior of their relationship, even threatening, “However I obtained the video, I can share and A.E. it/They wouldn’t consider it, however I can’t unsee it/Fortunate I ain’t TMZ it, so be it, so be it.”
