On June 16, DJ Hed gave the world a first listen to Clipse’s new track “So Be It”, and it didn’t take long for the internet to start playing Who Got Dissed?™.
At first, everyone assumed Ye was the unlucky winner, thanks to this suspiciously personal bar: “You cried in front of me, you died in front of me, Calabasas took ya b*tch and ya pride in front of me…”
Naturally, with Pusha T recently throwing Ye under a few buses (and then reversing over him), people figured he was going in again. However, when the full song and visuals dropped on June 17, the plot thickened.
Pusha in the rest of his verse raps that “Heard Utopia had moved right up the street, And her lip gloss was poppin’, she ain’t need you to eat…” The rapper’s call-out of Scott instead of Ye was not exactly subtle. Pusha name-checks Scott’s album, clowns the Kylie Jenner breakup, and serves it all with that signature smirk you can hear through the beat.
Pusha T doubles down on the diss
Here’s where it gets messy. Travis and Pusha haven’t exactly had public beef—no leaked texts, no sneak disses, not even a tense backstage photo. But according to Push, that’s because Travis likes to act like Switzerland… when it suits him.
It all started back in 2023, during a session at Louis Vuitton HQ in Paris (yes, that’s a real sentence). Scott popped in to preview Utopia for Pharrell, Pusha, and Malice. But according to Pusha, things went left real quick.
“…He sees me and Malice there. He’s like, ‘Oh, man, everybody’s here,’ he’s smiling, laughing, jumping around, doing his fucking monkey dance. We weren’t into the music, but he wanted to play it, wanted to film [us and Pharrell listening to it]. And then a week later, you hear ‘Meltdown,’ which he didn’t play. He played the song, but not [Drake’s verse],” he explained to GQ.
In case you need a refresher, Drake sent shots at Pharrell and Pusha T on “Meltdown,” which Kendrick Lamar took issue with and referenced on his Drake diss “euphoria.”
Pusha then went on to reference when “Like That” was previewed during Future and Metro’s set at Rolling Loud, thanks to encouragement from an over-eager Scott. Fans have speculated about whether or not Scott knew about Kendrick’s nuclear Drake diss on “Like That” when he requested it—Pusha T seems to think he did.
“He was on the [Rolling Loud] stage like, ‘Play that, play that!’ He don’t have no picks, no loyalty to nobody. He’ll jump around whatever he feels is hot or cling onto whatever he feels is hot. But you can play those games with those people…We’re not in your mix. Keep your mix over there,” he said.
Scott’s antics pissed him off enough to let the choppa sing on what eventually became “So Be It.”
“…Dawg, don’t even come over here with that, because at the end of the day, I don’t play how y’all play. To me, that really was just like…he’s a whore. He’s a whore,” he proclaimed.
Since the drop, Pusha T has been on his own little press tour letting the world know how he feels about Houston’s very own, from print to audio like the NYT Popcast.
While Scott hasn’t responded to Pusha yet, Mike Dean (one of Scott’s closest producers with production credits on UTOPIA), Tyler, the Creator and A$AP Rocky have all shown love to the new Clipse track. Shade from Rocky shouldn’t be much of a surprise considering he called him out years ago for “stealing his flow.”
Pusha T’s going for a three-peat
In a new clip from a Clipse interview with Ebro Darden for Apple Music, Push managed to circle back to his current favorite pastime: throwing shade at Travis Scott. In case there was any confusion about the who, what, why, when, and where of this beef.
“…We don’t even want you here, to be honest. We aren’t here to hobnob with any rappers and I personally don’t like rappers who don’t rap. I don’t want to hear that … To come and interrupt the session to do something backhanded and backbiting and not for nothing, I have had to put my arm around you before…” Pusha stated.
No Malice was laughing as his brother kept going like someone who’s been waiting for the green light to vent.
“To go along with the title ‘So Be It,’ he does this numerous times. He will do it with his mentor Ye. He was even instrumental in the whole beef now with the ‘Like That’ verse and egging it on. I don’t want nobody that don’t rap to egg nothing on,” Pusha proclaimed. Translation: If you’re not gonna pick up a mic, kindly exit stage left.
Meanwhile, Travis Scott has chosen the “seen” option and kept things quiet. But that doesn’t mean he won’t respond eventually—H-Town royalty, Bun B, says there’s a diss from La Flame in Pusha’s future.
