“He sees through my fakeness with him”: Pusha T opens up about his relationship with Kanye West 

Pusha T addressed his falling out with controversial rapper Kanye West in a June 2, 2025, GQ cover story featuring himself and fellow Clipse member No Malice. Pusha T, who has collaborated with West on hit tracks like Runaway and Dreamin of the Past, parted Ways with the Famous rapper after the latter’s antisemitic comments in 2022.

The Virginia-based rapper, while appreciating West’s musical genius, shared that he could no longer get along with the latter because he couldn’t hide how he really felt about him:

"His intuition is even more genius-level, right? But that's why me and him don't get along, because he sees through my fakeness with him. He knows I don't think he’s a man. He knows it. And that's why we can't build with each other no more."

Pusha T added that after West revealed “the weakest sides of him”, he stopped seeing him the same way:

"That's why me and him don't click, because he knows what I really, really think of him. He's showed me the weakest sides of him, and he knows how I think of weak people.”

Pusha T says he is grateful to Kanye West for giving him his profits from Def Jam deal

In the interview with GQ’s Frazier Tharpe, Pusha T stated that Kanye West was trying to make everyone believe that Pusha T had done a “great injustice” to their friendship, but that wasn’t the case. He claimed that he had advised Kanye West in the past:

"The one thing that I can say about him is that he knows that every issue that he's having and crying about online right now, I've told him distinctly about those things,” Push said. “He don't talk to me like he talks to others.”

Pusha stated that Kanye West’s mental health issues didn’t justify some of his actions, saying that they were calculated:

"You're sick, but you're also very calculated. And if I take your sickness and take how calculated you've been and disruptive you've been and tried to be to me, then it cancels itself out. I can't look at it as sick because you're detrimental. You're detrimental to everything.”

Fallout notwithstanding, Pusha T added that he appreciated Kanye West’s decision to give him a 50 percent ownership stake in G.O.O.D Music’s catalogue after he expressed his dissatisfaction with the initial contract:

“The greatest thing he did and why I am okay with where me and him are right now—and I'm cool with staying that way—is because, at the end of the day, my truth is my truth, but I still respect what he did in the business. And he speaks ill about the music we've made and giving me certain records, but the one thing he did give me was all the profits back from the Def Jam deal.”

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Kanye West, on May 30, 2025, took to X to seemingly extend an olive branch to his former friend and collaborator, stating,

“I miss me and Pusha’s friendship,”

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