Long before Pharrell Williams and Pusha T were Grindin\u2019 Coffee\u2014the pair launched a new coffee line in collaboration with Lavazza last month\u2014they were kids in Virginia Beach, skipping class to watch MTV and make music at each other\u2019s houses.<\/p>\n
\u201cProbably the breadth of our friendship was based on music,\u201d Williams reflects, seated opposite his longtime pal and collaborator. \u201cWhether it was Pearl Jam or it was Juvenile, when they first came out, or A-ha, whatever it was that moved us, that was the subject of conversation every morning before school.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy earliest memory of our friendship was acting like we went to school that day,\u201d Pusha T adds.<\/p>\n
In a new interview with Vogue, Williams and Pusha T reminisce on some of their best-loved projects, from Clipse\u2019s debut single, \u201cThe Funeral,\u201d with its video directed by Marc Klasfeld, to \u201cChains & Whips,\u201d which Clipse and Kendrick Lamar recorded at Williams\u2019s studio inside Louis Vuitton\u2019s headquarters in Paris, overlooking the Seine. (Williams then gleefully remembers Pusha T and Malice walking the Louis Vuitton men\u2019s show set on the Pont Neuf<\/a>, with Jay-Z, Beyonc\u00e9, and the Arnault family all looking on.) They also talk style (Pusha T loves a luxury tracksuit moment); compare and contrast Clipse\u2019s 2025 album Let God Sort Em Out with Hell Hath No Fury, from 2006; make a strong case for waking up early (it\u2019s all about mental acuity!); and muse on the songs they wish they\u2019d produced or had a verse on. (The Notorious B.I.G.\u2019s \u201cWho Shot Ya\u201d is one.)<\/p>\n Watch the full, rollicking conversation above.<\/p>\n Director: Rob Markman Senior Producer: Bety Dereje Production Coordinator: Tan\u00eda Jones Assistant Editor: Justin Symonds Global Entertainment Director: Sergio Kletnoy Filmed on Location: Ludlow House, Soho House<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long before Pharrell Williams and Pusha T were Grindin\u2019 Coffee\u2014the pair launched a new coffee line in collaboration…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1503,146,85,46,409,9157,5101],"class_list":["post-655011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-culture","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music","tag-textabovecenterfullbleed","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Director of Photography: Kevin C. Spence
Editor: Michael Suyeda<\/p>\n
Camera Operator: Paola Esquivel-Oliveros
Gaffer: R\u00e9al Gill
Audio: Tyson Dai
Production Assistant: Quinton Johnson<\/p>\n
Production Manager: Kristen Helmick
Line Producer: Jen Santos<\/p>\n
Post Production Coordinator: Holly Frew
Supervising Editor: Kameron Key
Post Production Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch<\/p>\n
Executive Producer: Rahel Gebreyes
Senior Director, Video: Romy van den Broeke
Interim Director, Creative Development, Video: Ella Mielniczenko
Senior Director, Programming: Linda Gittleson
VP, Video Programming: Thespena Guatieri<\/p>\n