{"id":329826,"date":"2025-12-05T17:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T17:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/329826\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T17:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T17:08:09","slug":"pusha-t-says-diss-tracks-are-dead-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/329826\/","title":{"rendered":"Pusha T Says Diss Tracks Are “Dead to Me”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like Picasso growing bored of paint, Pusha T<\/a> says that diss tracks are \u201cdead to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a new interview with Consequence,\u00a0the L. Ron Hubbard of the cupboard explains that \u201cit\u2019s not the same ransom anymore. Back in the day, to me, I felt like it could be career ending. Now it\u2019s not \u2014 it doesn\u2019t hold as much weight. You still get another shot at it, it seems like.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve kind of been through that chapter and I\u2019m over it,\u201d he continues. \u201cI\u2019m somewhere right now where I don\u2019t even want to make music with other people, nevertheless [have] anybody else in my music or be the focus of my music. What we\u2019re doing right here [with Clipse] is, to me, so next level. I feel like the taste level is above everything else. Even being caught up in the world of it \u2014 I don\u2019t like even the world of the people, of the back and forth \u2014 if I don\u2019t see eye to eye with you, there\u2019s probably things I don\u2019t want to be there about, you know what I\u2019m saying?\u201d<\/p>\n

During our interview Malice, his brother and partner in Clipse, backs him up with a reference to \u00a0one of JAY-Z\u2019s most iconic diss tracks, \u201cTakeover.\u201d He raps, \u201cA wise man once told me, \u2018Don\u2019t argue with fools\/ \u2018Cause people from a distance can\u2019t tell who is who.’\u201d<\/p>\n

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Pusha T is responsible for some of the most unforgettable diss tracks never to have been performed at the Super Bowl, including \u201cThe Story of Adidon,\u201d<\/a> which put Drake through the ringer; the new Clipse bangers \u201cSo Be It,\u201d<\/a> which rags on Travis Scott, and \u201cChains and Whips,\u201d<\/a> which takes shots at Drake\u2019s pal Jim Jones; and a lengthy discography of attacks on Lil Wayne.<\/p>\n

But now, according to cocaine\u2019s Dr. Seuss, \u201cIt\u2019s kind of dead to me. It\u2019s the ransom of what a diss track used to bring: There was a clear winner. Somebody would really bow out and then that\u2019s it \u2014 the last man standing. Now it\u2019s just a whole bunch of noise. Even after we find winners, it\u2019s still noise. And it\u2019s like, man, then what\u2019s it for?\u201d<\/p>\n

Check back next week for more from our interview with Clipse. In the meantime, catch the hip-hop legends (more than once) on our list of 200 Best Songs of 2025<\/a>, re-read our review of\u00a0Let God Sort Em Out<\/a>,\u00a0and see where that project lands on our list of 50 Best Albums of 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Like Picasso growing bored of paint, Pusha T says that diss tracks are \u201cdead to me.\u201d In a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-329826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}