Pusha T Compares Solo Debut to "The Devil’s Advocate"

Billboard recently caught up with Pusha Ton to discuss both the upcoming G.O.O.D. Music compilation album as well as his solo effort. He mentions that there was a great deal of experimentation during the recording process for Cruel Summer and that fans will be surprised by certain things they’re doing, especially with Common. “It was so great to be on a record that may have a bit of a different flow than what you would know Common for,” he says.”

Push also touched on his solo debut, and says he has a specific date in his mind but won’t reveal it just yet. Speculations continue to float around that October seems to be the time, though. He says that he wanted to make a “dark album” and went on to compare the project to the 1997 film The Devil’s Advocate.

“It’s cinematic in the sense that I wanted to make a dark album,” says Pusha. “I see music in colors and try to put it in a physical perspective at times, and I saw it as like, if I had to name a movie, ‘The Devil’s Advocate.’ You know, ‘Devil’s Advocate’ was a very dark movie. It dealt with very dark themes, but to the naked eye, it was total beauty. You have total beauty and total greatness. You have the wizardry of Al Pacino, the beauty of Charlize Theron, at the time the go-to guy of Keanu, and at the same time it dealt with like this demonic man in [the field of] law. You would see a beautiful woman changing in front of Charlize and you’d look at her and she’d be beautiful and then there’d be a monster under her. I feel like that’s what my album is.”

You can read the full piece over at Billboard here.