In a new interview with Frazier Tharpe, for GQ , Pusha T said that he departed his longtime label home, Def Jam Recordings , over the company’s apparent reluctance to release a new Clipse song featuring a guest verse from Kendrick Lamar . “They wanted me to ask Kendrick to censor his verse, which of course I was never doing,” he claimed. “And then they wanted me to take the record off.” Ultimately, the parties agreed to go their separate ways, according to Pusha T, and Clipse’s new comeback album, Let God Sort Em Out , is being released in partnership with Jay-Z ’s Roc Nation .

Pusha T’s longtime manager, Steven Victor , also discussed the rapper’s Def Jam departure in a new interview with Billboard . “Yeah, I don’t know what their concern is,” Victor said. “But

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