Travis Scott addresses recent remarks from Pusha T in a new interview.
As you’ll recall, lines from Clipse’s Let God Sort Em Out track “So Be It” were quickly connected to Scott upon release. In subsequent interviews promoting the album, the picture was seemingly made clearer. Now, in a new interview with Jeff Ihaza for Rolling Stone, La Flame offers his assessment.
He believes “a lot of shit” Pusha said about him “didn’t make sense.” He also suggested that his name was being used as part of Clipse’s rollout for the Grammy-nominated LGSEO, Pusha and Malice’s first album together in over 15 years.
“A lot of shit [Pusha] was saying just didn’t make sense to me,” Scott told Rolling Stone, as seen here. “It was like he was saying I was interrupting shit and I was playing them shit. First of all, I can’t interrupt something that somebody asked me to come pull up on. So when I hear that type of shit, it’s just like, I don’t know, man. If you got to drop Trav name for the rollout, so be it.”
Travis, to be clear, isn’t named on “So Be It.” The intended target is clear, however, thanks to lines from Pusha like “Calabasas took your bitch and your pride in front of me” and “Her Utopia had moved right up the street” in the fourth verse. Alongside the song’s release last June, Complex alum Frazier Tharpe, via GQ, provided some added insight into the inspiration behind these lyrics.
In short, Pusha views Scott as “a whore” with “no loyalty to anybody.” To illustrate his point, he recalled a Paris studio session that he claimed at the time was “interrupted” by the Utopia artist.
In the same GQ conversation from last year, Pusha, who alongside his brother Malice is up for multiple potential Grammy wins next month, said that Scott had played “Meltdown” during the visit, albeit without Drake’s widely headlined guest verse alluding to LGSEO producer Pharrell.
As noted above, Scott has a differing account of this moment, suggesting he didn’t crash the session but was instead invited. Speaking with Rolling Stone, he also disputed Pusha’s claim that he had pulled up on the session with a film crew, asserting instead that it was the other way around.
As of this writing, Pusha T hasn’t responded to the latest from Travis Scott.
