Clipse have simply dropped a snippet of Kendrick Lamar’s verse on their upcoming observe “Chains & Whips,” and it’s already turning heads.
The track will seem on their reunion album “Let God Kind 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 might go to Rakim / What number of Judases completed let me down? / However f*ck it, the West mine’s, we proper now.”
The verse additionally precipitated main drama behind the scenes. In a latest GQ interview, Pusha T revealed that Def Jam, their former label, requested them to both censor Kendrick’s verse or minimize the track completely. Pusha refused. “They wished 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 forwards and backwards, Def Jam determined to drop the Clipse, regardless of Pusha nonetheless being signed as a solo artist.
A part of the stress got here from Kendrick and Clipse each being identified rivals of Drake, who’s at the moment suing Def Jam’s mum or dad firm, UMG. The label didn’t like how that seemed, 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 Kind 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.
