Final week, Clipse dropped their long-awaited fourth main label album, Let God Type Em Out, which was sans a speculated shock visitor look from Jay-Z. Pusha T lately revealed why Hov failed to look on the LP.

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Pusha and Malice reunited on the long-awaited album on July 11. The 13-song venture options visitor appearances from Nas, Tyler, The Creator, Range Good Cooks and extra. Whereas there was hypothesis that Jay-Z can be on the venture, Jigga doesn’t seem on the extremely praised LP. The identical day of the album’s launch, the Virginia duo appeared on The Breakfast Membership, the place King Push defined why the collab didn’t come to fruition.

“He was despatched ‘Chains & Whips,’ ‘M.T.B.T.T.F., [‘So Be It],” Push says across the 27:05 mark of the interview beneath. “Hov had the album. It was all for him to…no matter he needed to do.”

“Nothing moved his spirit?” cohost Charlamagne Tha God asks.

“I do not know, man,” Push responds.

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Clipse’s Ties to Jay-Z

Clipse’s new album was launched by Jigga’s Roc Nation distribution firm. The duo inked a partnership cope with the Roc earlier this yr after parting methods with Def Jam. The cut up got here after Clipse refused to take away Kendrick Lamar from the album at Def Jam’s request.  As an alternative of doing so, the group paid a seven-figure buyout to get out of their Def Jam contract. The group’s supervisor, Steven Victor, was capable of negotiate a cope with Roc Nation in a day.

“As soon as I knew that we had, in precept, a deal in place with Def Jam [to leave], I obtained on the telephone with Jay-Z,” Victor mentioned in June. “I used to be like, ‘Look, that is what’s taking place. We have been speaking about doing X, Y, Z, collectively. There’s a possibility right here to do that album. What do you assume?”

“He hit me again straight away, like, ‘You simply made my day. Let’s determine it out. What do we have to get it accomplished?” he continued. “I went again to Pusha, and mentioned, ‘Hear, Jay’s gonna give us a really artist-friendly deal, we get to personal the masters, they usually’ll put the advertising and marketing energy of Roc Nation behind it. You guys are buddies. It is an awesome final result.’ We labored out the deal in lower than 24 hours.”

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Take a look at Clipse’s interview on The Breakfast Membership beneath.

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