Pusha T Not a Fan of Drake’s UMG Lawsuit: ‘It Just Kind of Cheapens the Art’
The Virginia rapper also spoke on his frustration over being asked to censor a Kendrick Lamar guest feature.
Pusha T at The 2025 Met Gala Celebrating "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York, New York.
As you might have predicted, Pusha T isn’t the biggest fan of Drake‘s UMG lawsuit.
While sitting down with GQ alongside his brother Malice to promote their upcoming Clipse reunion album Let God Sort Em Out, Push brought up the lawsuit when discussing a Kendrick Lamar feature that almost didn’t make the album.
“They wanted me to ask Kendrick to censor his verse, which of course I was never doing,” he said of Def Jam’s parent company UMG. “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.’” They got their wish, as both the group and Push himself were dropped from the label, according to GQ.
He then added that he went through similar pushback over his unreleased verses on Rick Ross’ “Maybach Music VI” and Pop’s Smoke’s posthumously released track “Paranoia” after the release of “Story of Adidon.”
“If [Drake’s] adamant to have a lawsuit,” he said, “it’s only because he knows all the things that they did to suppress everything that was happening around ‘Adidon’ and the verses and the records and things that were happening back then. I don’t rate him no more. The suing thing is bigger than some rap sh–. I just don’t rate you. Damn, it’s like it just kind of cheapens the art of it once we gotta have real questions about suing and litigation. Like, what? For this?”
However, he feels no need to reignite his beef with Drake anytime soon. “I think after everything that had been done, I don’t think there was ever anything subliminal to be said ever again in life,” he said of his longstanding feud with the Toronto rapper. “Not only just musically, like bro, I actually was in Canada. I actually had a show and made it home. So, I can’t pay attention to none of that. I did the dance for real, not to come back and tiptoe around anything.” Push added that he would only engage again if he felt like it.
Elsewhere in the interview, Push addressed his current standing with Ye (formerly Kanye West), saying he doesn’t view his former collaborator as “a man.”
Ye recently tweeted over the weekend that he misses his friendship with the Virginia rapper.
The Clipse released “Ace Trumpets,” the lead single from their first album since 2009, last week.
