Pusha T moves on from Kanye West — Inside the feud that ended their collabs

Pusha T is closing the door on the possibility of another collaboration with Kanye West.

The rapper spoke with The Guardian for an interview, where he curtly shut down the prospect of working with Ye, whose iconic GOOD Music label has met its demise.

"Just as a rap aficionado, well, being there was special!" Pusha recalled. "Creating So Appalled and New God Flow were some of my favorite memories. The Good Friday series, that was crazy, too. The albums I dropped during that time, like Daytona and It’s Almost Dry, they are very, very strong offerings. It goes without saying that me and Ye made great things together."

He continued, reflecting on the notion that he could ever work with his fellow musician:

"Yeah, that’s in the past. That’s definitely in the past," he said. "If I diss someone, it’s a very real thing to me. I watch other rappers use disses as a gimmick and shit like that, but that ain’t what this is for me."

Pusha T and Kanye West's friendship dynamics explored:

For the unversed, Pusha T and Kanye West worked on several iconic tracks together, including My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Runaway, Mercy, and more. As pointed out by Hot New Hip Hop, Pusha was even the president of the GOOD Music label before he resigned in 2022.

However, in recent years, as Ye's proclivity to make contentious statements on X arose, including praising Hitler at one point, their bond soured. Just last month, Ye took to X to declare that he missed his former friend, but during another interview with The Guardian, the Clipse rapper said he "doesn't care."

“I don't care about that at all. It's fine. I would miss me, too. I really would,” he said. "I’m not in a position to where I can even risk and gamble with the wishy-washiness or the lack of loyalty," he explained. "I don't play like that. Why would I ever dive back into that type of scenario? I’m with my brother and Pharrell, come on. I don't even understand that lack of principles just amongst people you call your brother," he continued. "I don't get that. That's not for me."

Around the same time, he spoke to Ebro Darden about why he and Kanye don't see eye to eye anymore. Speaking on Apple Music, he said:

“I feel like me and Ye, we don’t gel. Where I am right now in my life, I’m not with anybody who ain’t on my team — especially when I’ve been on yourteam.”

He also said that West was open to working with artists he saw as adversaries, which contributed to the demise of their bond:

“He champions and stands next to anybody and everybody who don’t f**k with me,” Pusha explained.“And I don’t get that. I don’t understand that.”

Referring to the negative shadows Kanye cast on their previous work, Pusha T said:

“Why would you ever say anything negative about the music we created when you know it slaps?”

In yet another interview with GQ, Pusha T opened up about he faults he sees in his once-friend:

"We did… He's a genius. And 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," Pusha told the outlet. "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."

In June, he spoke on an episode of the New York Times Popcast podcast, where he dished some scathing remarks about Ye, and the lack of a friendship there:

"We ain’t the same outside of music," he said. "We’re nothing. We can’t be anything outside of music. Music is where we click. … His principles, his morals, his mindset — we don’t see eye to eye, hardly ever. And we never have."

Hot New Hip Hop has reported that another Clipse album titled Let God Sort Em Out is due soon, so it seems like Pusha T is only going forward in his career.

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