Clipse have revealed that their new album Let God Sort Em Out will feature a verse from Nas.
In a wide-ranging interview with Rolling Stone, the sibling duo played some of the album to the reporter, including a collaboration with the Queensbridge rap legend.
Nas’ guest verse is described as “sharp” and one Pusha T has been “seeking for several years.”
The article also compares Pharrell‘s production, which is “full of noxious synths and quaking 808s,” to the Clipse’s classic early work and reveals the album includes a tag of a woman saying, “This is culturally inappropriate” throughout.
“They tell me it was originally going to be a watermark for advances, but they liked it so much they kept it,” the reporter says.
In a separate interview on the Ghetto Runways podcast last month, Pusha revealed that Let God Sort Em Out is finished, with the exception of “just one feature” he and Malice are waiting on.
Some fans have speculated that he was referring to a verse from either JAY-Z or Kendrick Lamar, who shares a mutual enemy with Pusha in Drake.
John Legend is another confirmed guest on Let God Sort Em Out, lending his soaring vocals to “Birds Don’t Sing,” which the Clipse debuted at Pharrell’s Louis Vuitton fashion show in Paris earlier this summer.
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The track finds Pusha T and Malice mourning the deaths of their parents, who passed away within months of each other in late 2021 and early 2022.
The Virginia natives confirmed that they were working on their first album in 15 years in an interview with Vulture in June, with Pusha T describing it as “the supreme maturation of a rap duo.”
“I think this is where you get the difference between taste and filler. This music is curated. This is a high taste-level piece of work. You can only have that level of taste when you have the fundamentals down to a science. I think it’s been definitely missing. Then there’s the competitive aspect,” he said.
Malice added: “This is smart basketball. It’s fundamentals. And not only that, it’s authenticity. It’s what rap should look like if you’re real about your craft, real about your experience, real about your storytelling. It’s bringing the fans along to see the growth, not trying to fit in or fabricate.
“It just seems like in other genres of music, they have the luxury of growing. For some reason, we act like we’re not supposed to evolve. This is what the true evolution of the Clipse looks like. It’s just good to be able to show that and still have high-level raps.”
Let God Sort Em Out does not yet have a release date but is expected to drop later this year.
