Rappers have spent a full decade trying to replicate that sound – if you’ve heard Pyrex, scales, zip lock bags or fiends referenced in your favorite rapper’s song, you can go ahead and thank Clipse.
If Pusha T and Malice didn’t invent “cocaine rap” with that album, they damn near perfected it. The albums are all standouts, but only the first album went platinum – the excellent Lord Willin’. It’s even stranger to think that Push had to leave Clipse, one of the absolute best hip-hop duos of all time, and link up with Kanye West before he could be truly appreciated as a rapper.Ĭlipse released three albums in the 2000s, and produced the classic We Got It 4 Cheap series of mixtapes as the Re-Up Gang.
It’s strange to think that Pusha T, after nearly 20 years of rapping, is still a few months away from releasing his first ever solo album.
