Clipse Leak Kendrick Lamar’s Verse Amid Label Fallout

Clipse have simply dropped a snippet of Kendrick Lamar’s verse on their upcoming observe “Chains & Whips,” and it’s already turning heads. 

The tune will seem on their reunion album “Let God Type Em Out“, and the preview got here throughout a rooftop link-up with Pharrell Williams.

Within the verse, Kendrick pulls no punches, taking purpose on the state of Hip Hop and his place in it: *“Let’s be clear, Hip-Hop died once more / Half of my earnings could go to Rakim / What number of Judases carried out let me down? / However f*ck it, the West mine’s, we proper now.”

The verse additionally induced main drama behind the scenes. In a current GQ interview, Pusha T revealed that Def Jam, their former label, requested them to both censor Kendrick’s verse or minimize the tune fully. Pusha refused. “They needed me to ask Kendrick to censor his verse, which in fact I used to be by no means doing,” he stated. After a month of backwards and forwards, Def Jam determined to drop the Clipse, regardless of Pusha nonetheless being signed as a solo artist.

A part of the strain got here from Kendrick and Clipse each being recognized rivals of Drake, who’s at the moment suing Def Jam’s dad or mum firm, UMG. The label didn’t like how that appeared, particularly with the authorized battle nonetheless occurring. Decided to maintain their imaginative and prescient intact, Clipse paid to get out of their Def Jam contract.

They’ve since signed with Roc Nation to launch “Let God Type Em Out” on their very own phrases. If this “Chains & Whips” snippet is any signal, the album’s going to be daring, unfiltered, and definitely worth the wait.