Pusha T calls Kanye “sick” and “calculated”: “You’re detrimental to everything”
Pusha T has reflected on his split from Kanye West, calling him “sick” and “calculated”.
The artist told GQ about the fallout in a cover story about Clipse’s return. He told the outlet that their friendship began falling apart during sessions for West’s album ‘Donda’ in 2021, and claimed West was having “sidebar conversations” about him when he was out of earshot.
Pusha also alleged that West convinced others to believe Pusha had done “a great injustice” to him. However, Pusha called that a “lie”, adding: “The one thing that I can say about him is that he knows that every issue that he’s having and crying about online right now, I’ve told him distinctly about those things. He don’t talk to me like he talks to others.”
He noted that Kanye had “genius-level” intuition, pointing to this as the reason why “me and him don’t get along, because he sees through my fakeness with him.”
“He knows I don’t think he’s a man,” Pusha continued. “He knows it. And that’s why we can’t build with each other no more. That’s why me and him don’t click, because he knows what I really, really think of him. He’s showed me the weakest sides of him, and he knows how I think of weak people.”
Pusha went on to brand West as “sick” and “very calculated”, adding: “If I take your sickness and take how calculated you’ve been and disruptive you’ve been and tried to be to me, then it cancels itself out. I can’t look at it as sick, because you’re detrimental. You’re detrimental to everything.”
Despite this, Pusha said that he “still respects” Kanye’s impact in music. He explained that “the greatest thing he did and why I am OK with where me and him are right now—and I’m cool with staying that way—is because at the end of the day, my truth is my truth, but I still respect what he did in the business. And he speaks ill about the music we’ve made and giving me certain records, but the one thing he did give me was all the profits back from the Def Jam deal.”
The pair were previously close colleagues. Following his breakout as Clipse with his brother No Malice, Pusha signed to Kanye’s label GOOD Music for his solo releases. He even served as president of the label from 2015, and consistently worked with West throughout the years.
However, Pusha revealed he had severed ties with the label in 2022 shortly after criticising West for his wave of anti-Semitic remarks made that year. He called his comments “very disappointing”, adding: “It’s definitely affected me. It’s been disappointing. As a Black man in America, there is no room for bigotry or hate speech. So yeah. It’s been very disappointing.”
The rapper previously spoke to NME about his creative process with West in 2022, saying they were “very different people”.
“The only thing we have in common is our love of street rap,” he continued. “He’s a huge fan and I’m the DNA of that. We’re really parallel on it. I feel like everything else is a debate because we’re just very different people.”
Elsewhere, Pusha T is selling his own brand of coffee named after a Clipse single.
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