Pusha T has confirmed what many fans suspected — his verse on the Clipse track “So Be It,” off the group’s new album Let God Sort Em Out, takes direct aim at Travis Scott.
On the track’s final verse, Pusha raps:
“You cried in front of me / You died in front of me/Calabasas took your b**** and your pride in front of me/Heard Utopia had moved right up the street/And her lip gloss was poppin’, she ain’t need you to eat/The net gon’ call it the way that they see it/But I got the video, I can share and A.E. it/They wouldn’t believe it but I can’t unsee it/Lucky I ain’t TMZ it.”
In a new interview with GQ, Pusha T explained the backstory behind the diss. He recalled an awkward encounter with Travis at Pharrell’s studio, where Travis unexpectedly showed up during a Clipse recording session to play his Utopia album.
“He interrupted a session,” Pusha said. “He sees me and [Malice] there. He’s like, ‘Oh, man, everybody's here,’ he’s smiling, laughing, jumping around, doing his f***ing monkey dance. We weren’t into the music, but he wanted to play it, wanted to film [us and Pharrell listening]. And then a week later, you hear ‘Meltdown,’ which he didn’t play. He played the song, but not [Drake’s verse].”
The verse in question, delivered by Drake on Utopia’s “Meltdown,” was widely perceived as a diss toward Pharrell and his fashion legacy:
“I melt down the chains that I bought from yo' boss/Give a f*** about all of that heritage s***/Since V not around, the members done hung up the Louis, they not even wearin' that s***.”
Pusha called Travis disloyal for platforming the track, saying this wasn’t the first time the Houston rapper played both sides. He referenced "Sicko Mode," where Drake seemingly took shots at Kanye West, as well as Travis’ recent support of Kendrick Lamar at Rolling Loud, where he encouraged Metro Boomin to play “Like That” — the song that sparked Kendrick’s ongoing beef with Drake.
“He was on the [Rolling Loud] stage like, ‘Play that, play that!’” Pusha said. “He don’t have no picks, no loyalty to nobody. He’ll jump around to whatever he feels is hot or cling onto whatever he feels is hot. But you can play those games with those people… We’re not in your mix. Keep your mix over there.”
Pusha didn’t hold back, labeling Travis a “whore” for hopping between camps when tensions rise.
“So, that’s where my issue comes in — like, dawg, don’t even come over here with that. Because at the end of the day, I don’t play how y’all play. To me, that really was just like… he’s a whore. He’s a whore.”
He doubled down in a recent appearance on the New York Times’ Popcast podcast, telling host Jon Caramanica:
“It’s Travis. He’s harmless… I took it there… He’s shameless. You’ve seen him do it to everybody.”
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