Travis Scott has officially responded to Pusha T’s recent remarks targeting him, which were delivered on the Clipse track “Let God Sort Em Out” and echoed throughout its promotional campaign.
In the single “So Be It”, Pusha T dedicated his entire closing verse to mocking his former G.O.O.D. Music collaborator, rapping lines like: “You cried in front of me, you died in front of me/ Calabasas took your bitch and your pride in front of me/ Her Utopia had moved right up the street / And her lip gloss was poppin’, she ain’t need you to eat.”
He also alluded to possessing incriminating footage of La Flame, spitting: “The ‘net gon’ call it the way that they see it/ But I got the video, I can share and A.E. it/ They wouldn’t believe it, but I can’t unsee it/ Lucky I ain’t TMZ it.”
In a GQ interview last summer ahead of the release of “Let God Sort Em Out”, Pusha explained his issues with Travis Scott. He accused him of intentionally excluding Drake’s verse from the song “Meltdown” during an “Utopia” listening session with Clipse and Pharrell in Paris, a moment he claimed Travis had “interrupted.”
Pusha alleged that Drake’s verse, which included jabs at Pharrell, was left out strategically. He said, “He’s smiling, laughing, jumping around, doing his fucking monkey dance. We weren’t into the music, but he wanted to play it, wanted to film [us and Pharrell listening to it]. And then a week later you hear ‘Meltdown.’ He played the song, but not [Drake’s verse].”
Pusha added: “[I was like], ‘Dawg, don’t even come over here with that.’ Because at the end of the day, I don’t play how y’all play … He’s a whore.”
In a Rolling Stone cover story published on January 21, Travis Scott challenged Pusha’s account. Reflecting on the situation, he countered: “When you go back and look at it … it’s crazy. N*ggas said I had a film crew [with me]. I’m like, ‘What?’
“I remember when I pulled up, it was them n*ggas that had a film crew. I’m talking about the little microphone on the stick and all of that. I was like, ‘Oh, shit. Am I in a documentary?’”
Scott also took aim at Pusha’s allegations around the omission of Drake’s verse. He clarified that Drake hadn’t submitted the verse at the time he played his album.
“A lot of shit [Pusha] was saying just didn’t make sense to me,” he added. “It was like he was saying I was interrupting shit and I was playing them shit. First of all, I can’t interrupt something that somebody [Pharrell] asked me to come pull up on.”
