Pusha T and Malice - Announce First Tour Dates in 15 Years
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After Pusha T refused to change a guest verse from Kendrick Lamar on the upcoming Clipse album, he bought his way out of his record deal with Def Jam.
Virginia Beach hip-hop duo Clipse is going back on tour for the first time in 15 years. And, of course, they have a show in their hometown. The Hampton Roads rappers — Gene and Terrence Thornton, a.k.a Malice and Pusha T, who are brothers — will perform Aug. 10 at The Dome.
Clipse, the rap duo of Pusha T and No Malice, is making a stop in Houston on its first tour in more than a decade. The group announced Monday the Let God Sort Em Out Tour for later this summer, which is its first tour since the duo went on hiatus 15 years ago.
Pusha T dropped a few bombs during his recent interview with GQ. Among them was his decision to part ways with Def Jam Recordings, where he’d been signed as a solo artist for the last 15 years and where Clipse had planned to drop their upcoming album, Let God Sort ‘Em Out.
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"They wanted me to ask Kendrick to censor his verse, which of course I was never doing,” Pusha T said in an interview GQ, adding that he and Clipse left the label over the disagreement.
After years of teasing, Pusha T and No Malice have made it official: There will be a new Clipse album. Let God Sort Em Out, the Thornton brothers’ long-awaited follow-up to December 2009’s Til the Casket Drops,
In addition to reuniting with Virginian classmate Pharrell for Let God Sort Em Out, the duo also once again taps graphic designer Kaws, who provides the album art and other design elements. Meanwhile, Jay-Z’s Roc Nation is the distributor, building on Pusha’s working relationship with the Brooklyn music impresario.
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