Pusha T calls Travis Scott a “whore,” shares new Clipse song

The latest single from Clipse’s upcoming album Let God Sort Them Out dropped today, and the final verse from Pusha T was initially the subject of a lot of online speculation. “You cried in front of me, you died in front of me,” Pusha raps over a beat from Pharrell, “Calabasas took your bitch and your pride in front of me.”

Lots of people thought that those lyrics were referencing Kanye West, who Clipse had a public falling out with following West’s embrace of Trump and anti-semitism (Calabasas is West’s former residence, where he lived with now-ex Kim Kardashian). However, the next couplet complicates things: “Heard Utopia had moved right up the street / And her lip gloss was poppin’, she ain’t need you to eat.”

If you thought those lyrics might be a reference to Travis Scott, you’d be correct: not long after the release of “So Be It,” GQ writer Frazier Tharpe II, the writer behind this month’s Clipse profile, shared a previously unpublished excerpt of his interview with Pusha discussing the song and his targeting of Scott.

In Pusha’s telling, he and his brother Malice were recording the new Clipse album with Pharrell at the Louis Vuitton HQ in Paris when Scott stormed into the studio, eager to play music from his then-unreleased album Utopia. “He’s smiling, laughing, jumping around, doing his fucking monkey dance,” Pusha says. “We weren’t into the music, but he wanted to play it, wanted to film [us and Pharrell listening to it].

One of the songs played was “Meltdown.” The released song contained a verse from Drake targeting Pharrell, but Pusha says the version he heard didn’t contain it. He believes that was deliberate: “He don’t have no picks, no loyalty to nobody. He’ll jump around whatever he feels is hot or cling onto whatever he feels is hot.” Pusha pointed to his public embrace of Future and Metro Boomin’s Drake diss “Like That” as further proof.

“To me, that really was just like…he’s a whore. He’s a whore,” Pusha says, putting a fine point on it. “I’ve already dealt with the lack of loyalty [to his] mentor, the guy he looks up to… I’ve been dealing with the corny shit that goes along with them. So it’s like, I’m in a whole ‘nother place. Don’t bring that over to bring that over to my house.”

Let God Sort Em Out drops August 3. Check out Clipse’s upcoming tour dates here.