Pusha T as seen in RESPECT. magazine. Photo copyright Karl Ferguson Jr..

PUSHA T

New York City, 2013

“Pusha’s album My Name Is My Name had recently been released and he came up to Hot 97 to promote it on DJ Funkmaster Flex’s show. I was there to capture his portrait before he had to leave for his Gramercy Theater show. You can always count on Pusha to be cooperative, he’s so used to the process.”

 

– Karl Ferguson Jr.

From the RESPECT. Archive: Karl Ferguson Jr. photo feature. Issue #18 Nov 2013.

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“[The project] is my soundtrack for me being back home. It’s a personal experience from creator to consumer, just giving you bits and pieces of my [life],” the press statement reads. Each track walks you through a different piece of Kai’s life, storytelling at its finest. Back in January 2018, Ca$h released “400°,” which caught the eyes of labels alike. Check out the album below.

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Alongside the superstars mentioned above, G-Eazy and Miguel are set to headline the event. A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, Kodak Black, Jessie Reyez, J.I.D and more are set to hit the stage at the Gillette Stadium. Diplo is also set to perform with Jillionaire and Walshy Fire as their electronic trio, Major Lazer.

“It is now the year 2019 and sh*t has hit the fan, the world is a mess BUT hope isn’t lost!” the site reads. “Now the MDBP fam is back and they’ve joined forces with Diplo to become one giant sick Frankenstein / robot thingy known as the Major Lazord to throw one SUPER MEGA GIANT ULTRA MAD DECENT BLOCK PARTY FESTIVAL!!”

Tickets to the exciting event go on sale this Friday (Apr. 12) at 10 a.m. According to the flyer, those who are interested in attending will be able to partake in various and unique events throughout the weekend, such as the “world’s largest bounce house,” “go karts by K1 speed” and a “paintball arena by Team Dynasty.”

You can purchase your tickets here.

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The saga drama continues. Recently, an episode of Lebron James‘ The Shop featured Drake, who revealed to Bron Bron (and everyone watching) that Kanye West was the one who leaked information on his son to Pusha T, which led to “Story of Adidon” and pretty much everything else in that now-infamous rap battle. Note that this was something Kanye denied (although, given how Ye’s been acting lately, it’s pretty hard to take a lot of what he says seriously).

In response, Pusha T stopped by The Joe Budden Podcast and dropped yet another bombshell: it was Drake’s own producer that provided the information via pillow talk:

“The information came from [Noah “40” Shebib]. It didn’t come from Kanye at all,” he said, referring to Drake’s long-time producer Noah “40” Shebib. “40 is sleeping with a woman… He talks to her daily. Five, six hours a day… and ultimately speaks about how he’s disgruntled about certain things: Notoriety and things involving Drake, and his career, and so on and so forth. With that also came the fact that Drake has a child. With that also came the trip that everybody took to go see the child and bring him gifts, and all of this information. She divulged this information.”

That’s not all, either: King Push spent the sit-down breaking down everything about his back-and-forth with Drizzy, from all others involved, his wife being mentioned, a certainly bounty put out for information and much more. Check it out below.

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Recently, Pusha T (once again) spoke up about his battle-turned-ugly with Drake, essentially saying that he talks like he’s really about going to war, only to come up short when it’s time. Even with that in the air, nothing compares to what Drake said on the latest episode of Lebron James’ The Shop:

“People love to say, like rap purists and people who just love confrontation, they love to say, ‘There’s no rules in this s***.’ But there are f***ing rules in this s***… And I’m gonna tell you something, I knew something was gonna come up about my kid. They had to add the deadbeat thing to make it more appealing, which is fine. I understand that. Even that, I was like, OK. The mom and dad thing, whatever. You don’t even know my family. But I’ma tell you, wishing death on my friend that has MS? I study rap battles for a living. Now when you mention defenseless people who are sick in the hospital, that passed away, that really sent me to a place where I just believed then, and believe now, that there’s just a price that you have to pay for that. It’s over. You’re gonna get… someone’s gonna f***ing punch you in the f***ing face. The s***’s done, the event’s over. I wanted to do other things. I didn’t wanna further your reputation or your career by rapping back at you and having this exchange. And that was it for me.”

Taking a step backward, he also used that sit-down to explain his real issues with Kanye West — especially in regards to his supposed role in the “beef” with Pusha T:

“I ended up linking with Ye, and he sold me on this whole speech of like, ‘I’m in a great place, I’m making money, and I’m a father, and I wanna be Quincy Jones and help you, but in order to do that, you’ve gotta be transparent with me. And you gotta play me your music, and you gotta tell me when you’re dropping… And so I was in the studio, guess we all kind of felt a genuine vibe from it. So I play him my music, and I told him when I was dropping.”

“I spent all my time, pretty much working on [Kanye’s] stuff… And again, I left Wyoming with ‘Lift Yourself’ and a pat on the back. Alright, I’ll try to make the most of this and hopefully he sends some more things through. By the way, I’m in Wyoming, I play him ‘March 14’ I send him a picture of my son. I tell him I’m having trouble with my son’s mother. We had a conversation.”

“I wake up, and all these dates are out — all around June 15. Then the next two days, I wake up to this text from him, passive like, ‘Yo, I love you brother’… ‘Lift Yourself’ comes out with him just talking nonsense. ‘Oh this guy’s trolling me.’ This was a manipulative, ‘I wanna break you’ thing. So I said alright. I’m gonna go back to distancing myself again. I know what this is. Then, the first album drops. And of course there’s a diss song towards me that you produced, that’s talking about writing? I was just there with you, as friends, helping you. And now you’re dissing me. So I’m like, man, this is dark.”

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Finally, Drake also spoke on what really happened with his response to “The Story Of Adidon”:

“I got home and I just listened back to it, and I was like, ‘man, this is not something I ever want to be remembered for. This is not even a place that I necessarily want to go… And to all the people who enjoy that, I tip my hat to you. By the way, hell of a chess move. The song, I thought it was trash. But the chess move was genius. Back against the wall. I either go all the way filthy or I fall back and I have this sort of chink in my armor for the rest of time to a rap purist. Which is fine, I can live with that. I would much rather live with that than the things that I was about to… the research I did, the things that I was gonna say, and the places that I was gonna go. Not only for him, but the other guy too.”

For the record, Pusha T has since seen the interview as well (although Kanye probably hasn’t)…

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Man Pusha T out here in my comments laughing at Drizzy. Did drake do the right thing by not responding or…….

A post shared by DJ Akademiks (@akadmiks) on Oct 12, 2018 at 9:43pm PDT

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You can see the dates below.

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As promised…New #Daytona tour dates…Interstate traffickings alive!

A post shared by Pusha T (@kingpush) on Sep 26, 2018 at 9:39am PDT

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