After years of build-up and a few teases, there's really a new Clipse album on the way and it's entirely produced by Pharrell. From the opening 808s, rim-shot snare hits, and icy drone that hovers in the backdrop, there's no doubt that Clipse have returned like no time has passed at all. The brothers of Pusha T and No Malice hit hard with their rigid, venomous bars, snarling like sharks as they swerve over these sinister beats that bring back the diamond-tough production Pharrell somehow still has hidden up his sleeve after all of these years. We knew he had it in him via Pusha's great Daytona, but the magic that is conjured by these three blings with full effect on this track and it serves as a reminder as to just why we needed them all back together again. While Pusha has shined on his own over the years, it's Malice with his uninterrupted and committed delivery that steals the show here and these two are dropping bars like only they can, proving their excellence is at its height when they're in the same room. From the jump, Pusha hits us with "Ballerinas doin' pirouettes inside of my snow globe / Shoppin' sprees in SoHo / You had to see it, strippers shakin' ass and watchin' the dough blow," a quintessential Clipse line if there ever was one and No Malice follows it up with rhymes like "Never leavin' home without my piece like I'm Mahatma" and "Dressed in House of Gucci, made from sellin' Lady Gaga." Clipse have always been the tough guys and that certainly has changed with age. Pusha reminds us when he snaps "White glove service with the brick, I am Luigi / Sold ecstasy and disappeared, I am Houdini / Look at them, him and him, still waitin' on Yeezy." For two dudes with a lot of bark, they back it up with brick loads of bite.
Let God Sort 'em Out is out July 11.
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