Kendrick Lamar will be on the upcoming Clipse record, which drops June 11.
All it took for this collab to happen was for Def Jam to drop both Pusha T and the Clipse.
Push explained how it all went down in a chat with QQ.
"They wanted me to ask Kendrick to censor his verse, which of course I was never doing," Push said of the labels' "stupid" concern. "And then they wanted me to take the record off. And so, after a month of not doing it, Steve Gawley, the lawyer over there was like, ‘We'll just drop the Clipse.’ But that can't work because I'm still there [solo]. But [if] you let us all go…"
That's what UMG/Def Jam decided to do, and Pusha and The Clipse were cut loose.
Here's the result of all that maneuvering:
CLIPSE
— NFR Podcast (@nfr_podcast) June 2, 2025
KENDRICK LAMAR
CHAINS & WHIPS
(LET GOD SORT EM OUT)
🚨JULY 11TH🚨
Kendrick on the track — “Therapy taught me how to open up/it also showed me I don’t give a f**k.” pic.twitter.com/RcHiAf0sTK