Pusha T On Kanye West: "He Knows I Don't Think He's A Man"

Mon, June 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM

Pusha T On Kanye West: "He Knows I Don't Think He's A Man"

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Do not look for any Pusha T and Kanye West reunions anytime soon. The Clipse is back and the group landed a feature story in GQ magazine, and Push A Ton held nothing back when speaking on his once choice collaborator turned foe, Kanye West.

Malice and Push are great with the timing since the GQ feature arrives shortly after they announced their new album, Let God Sort 'Em Out, is dropping in July and just after a surprise set at this past weekend's Roots Picnic in Philadelphia. The story is full of plenty of insight into the VA group's return, but the tea that many are jumping to is Pusha's take on his former friend Ye.

Unless you've been AWOL from society, you're aware of Kanye West burning every relationship with most of his past collaborators of note, Push included. Just in 2022, Ye handled half of the production (Pharrell covered the rest) on Pusha T's last solo project, It's Almost Dry. What a difference three years make because the one-time President of GOOD Music (he stepped down in 2022) is anything but good with Mr. West.

"But...let me tell you something. He's a genius. And his intuition is even more genius level, right?," explains Push to GQ. "But that's why me and him don't get along, because he sees through my fakeness with him. He knows I don't think he's a man. He knows it. And that's why we can't build with each other no more. That's why me and him don't click, because he knows what I really, really think of him. He's showed me the weakest sides of him, and he knows how I think of weak people."

Apparently, Push got word that collaborators weren't speaking of him in the best of lights as far back as during the recording of Donda back in 2021, and he kept his third eye open ever since. While those interview words are biting, Push also let it be known in song that West was persona non grata on the new Clipse single. On "Ace Trumpets," he spits, "Look at them, him and him, still waiting on Yeezy/I hope you got your squeegee, at your interviews, I just kee kee, life's peachy."

If Kanye West eventually responds, you just know Push-who does give Ye kudos for keeping his word and giving him back the profits to his Def Jam music-has more bars in the tuck.

Also, as far as Yeezy's erratic behavior being due to mental illness and deserving some grace, Push offered how he takes that into account. "He's sick, I do believe that much," said Pusha. "You're sick, but you're also very calculated. And if I take your sickness and take how calculated you've been and disruptive you've been and tried to be to me, then it cancels itself out. I can't look at it as sick, because you're detrimental. You're detrimental to everything."

Read the full GQ interview, conducted by Frazier Tharpe, right here.