pathetic pusha t moments

i'm surprised that nobody mentioned how incredibly appropriate the marlo line is for the LP title. (after being disappointed at the poor showing of this poll). like, of COURSE pusha idolizes marlo, maybe the most idiotically hardheaded tv character. pusha also shares marlo's self destructive streak. his bro basically shoving the "walk away with some dignity" in his face and push is like "nooooo but i wanna be faaamous"

some of the lines on the new mixtape along the lines of "i know i'm making all the wrong choices but can everyone just pretend i'm tony montana for a sec". "i am forgiven" is just so painful. it almost becomes compelling in the same way marlo was kind of my fav character on the wire... but even though i'm spending a lot of breath bitching about push here my appetite for trainwrecks has decreased significantly as of late. yeucch

Curren$y was all about "my name is my name" years ago

i never really followed curren$y but from the limited amount i know of him he seems relatively normal and well adjusted? like i get how he might use that line cuz marlo was BA or whatever, but pusha invoking marlo in this case is actually a little spot on. push just exudes this awareness of how ridiculous he is and CONTINUES to run with it. he's a lil special in that way i think

nice manpris, bruh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv4-PveczHA&feature=youtu.be

Wow I missed this poll

i was surprised to learn that their albums have really really high ratings on itunes

left out "i discovered chief keef"

my fav recent one besides the nate ruess pants was him believing that he has young money so shook that "love me" was written because of him

hahahahaha

New single: the antithesis of this poll

i did not expect him to have one of these in him

he sounds mean again.

referring to this I assume...?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7W_iWRxKG0

doin dirt like it's earth day

Those noises/bleeps are a little to loud and distracting but this is awesome overall.

great beat more noises/bleeps on louder on everything

its really aggravating that all rap producers aren't trying to make things this unique all the time.

also earth day's been doin dirt for 43 years >:(

its really aggravating that all rap producers aren't trying to make things this unique all the time.

― paas de la huevo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, April 17, 2013 4:19 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

good thing madlib still releases like 100000 things a year

ha was gonna say

:-D

88 jordan leaping from the free throw

is that a silver apples sample?

"Numbers" is FINALLY on iTunes if anyone cares

PUSHA T is peering out from behind EVERY YOUTUBE VIDEO IN THE WORLD.

which qualifies as a pathetic Pusha T moment frankly, like no Pusha, still nothing, I feel nothing

"numbers on the boards" is so lame

Love the beat but Pusha is pretty generic on "Numbers." I even liked the Tyler's Crazy Uncle era better.

This beat is incredible. Love the weird juxtaposition with the cheering.

idg how this could be described as 'so lame'

hmmmmm. so.

http://splicetoday.com/music/three-concerted-rescue-efforts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsgZ16wTjA8

wait, so does all this mean the album is worth listening to? i already wrote it off but maybe ppl are right about it being good?

it has a few stinkers (chris brown, kelly rowland collabs), a couple more that are boring, the rest are bangers

Time for an ILX teaching moment: Can someone explain to me why Pusha is, it seems, generally thought of as a joke? I dug Hell Hath No Fury, paid zero attention since then, but am loving this new album pretty much top to bottom.

haven't given a shit about him in years but my best guess is that he's just one of those dudes who's hopped onto trends in a desperate attempt to stay relevant

i mean industry is filled to the brim with these otherwise unrealistic motherfuckers, good for him that he's getting paid

AS: It dates back, I think, to Clipse's national breakout as a blog favorite at their start and Pusha's monocular focus on drug sales

my boy was trying to tell me the kelly rowland track has pusha doing a "perfect 98 ma$e flow" which i guess is kinda true but is that really what you want people saying about your album?

the mase thing has been in every review i've read. dunno why he does it but it's fairly spot on. but yeah ... odd.

like all sane ppl, i despise Chris Brown but i like his hook on Sweet Serenade. the Rowland song is less successful.

the difference between pusha t and ma$e's voices was never that huge to begin with

Clipse's national breakout as a blog favorite at their start

No.

They had two top 30 hits in 2002 when Stereogum was a LiveJournal, dogg

yeah i was gonna say

Fair enough, will you accept that as "the perception of clipses" etc? Because there was a time.

Throw the words "in nyc" in somewhere if u want

i think that if you want to truly understand the clipse narrative you have to listen to the singularly bleak we got it 4 cheap vol 3, especially the punishing despair in the 4 track stretch from "good morning" to "fuck you." i find it so fascinating how the same tribulations that turned both brothers numb caused malice to go christian and pusha to double down on his bullshit.

"desperate" mentioned upthread pretty much nails it for push i think. for yeeeeears he's squandered immense talent by devoting it all to his need for acceptance. he's spent a comical length of time whining about his lack of mainstream breakthrough. most reasonable human beings would reevaluate their priorities after two uber hyped albums arriving with consecutive thuds (i know consensus was that HHNF was nice, but i think it's boring). funny to think he might finally have it now at the age of like 40. kinda screams pyrrhic victory.

as i've said already i haven't examined his recent breakthrough anywhere near closely but if i did i bet i would see some herzog level irony in the narrative. from what i understand this could be his nic-cage-in-bad-lieutenant moment... grinding away looking increasingly pathetic for wayyyyy too long and all of a sudden the clouds miraculously break and he suddenly gets everything he ever wanted. i mean i guess i have to be happy for the guy but at the same time "euch"

as soon as i began reading that post all i could hear in my head was Patrick Bateman's voice

Ha Al

The album is actually great, overall, kind of a redemption

maybe i should just be happy to come to the record w/o a bunch of Clipse/Pusha baggage...i just enjoy the beats and most of the rapping. simple.

wish he would've ditched a feature or two, but oh well.

receipts

So um I have no idea how Drake will respond to this one

the only thing drake can do now is drop a track to make pusha feel bad about hurting his feelings. "you found my blackface pics, man that really scars / i guess the T in Pusha T stands for 'took it too far'"

— demi adejuyigbe (@electrolemon) May 30, 2018

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/pusha-t-on-working-with-kanye-west-on-daytona-meek-mill-w520751

awesome interview, whiney. particularly loled at this part:

What was Wyoming like for you?
I didn't know what to expect, but I knew we were going to work and we were going to get all the work done. Absolutely, positively nothing but focus in a place like that. Totally not a outdoors person, I'm not into it. I'm not into wildlife. I'm not into moose. I'm not into mountain lions. I'm not into foxes, coyotes. I'm not into birds with long wingspans, snakes, hate it all. Hate it all.

Hiking?
Hate it. Not my thing.

How many times have you been camping in your lifetime?
Never. Never camping, never going. What you do is you camp out in these amazing mountain mansions.

pusha sounds like he's got Stockholm Syndrome in all these interviews. i'm kinda surprised Daytona is as good as it is.

“I’m not into birds with long wing spans” killed me lmfao

post very much in display name

Would love to hear the previous version of the album tbh.

^This

I do quite like "The Games We Play," though.

yeah i would love to have whatever King Push looked like 6 months ag AND Daytona

Recent events throw this analysis into very positive light
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYb3RmFREYI

who's the best PR contact for Push

Is the sample on "What Would Meek Do?" from "Heart of the Sunrise"?

Just listened and yes, definitely! From the very beginning, in the little break following the introduction of the main bass riff.

saw push tonight, not bad live!

we’ve got to save him from this good music executive role, though, because there were too many musical montages of his guest spots in the middle of the show instead of full tracks of his own material. at the least his dj could have done more interpolation, maybe lyrics over diff beats

https://i.imgur.com/SivpjBk.mp4

lol

The new Pusha T single with Lauryn Hill and production from Kanye West is such a great track !
(this thread's title is not really appropriate for my post but I didn't find another one about Pusha T...).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bx_r7H7eF8

Really hated that track tbh

I didn't hate it but it's a big blah

Really ? It's certainly one of my favourite Kanye related tracks of the last decade (that doesn't say much though).
And following the Pusha Vs Drake clash, it's kinda funny that Drake had a hit with a L. Hill sample... and now Pusha has L. Hill for real on this !

does it really count as an appearance if everyone's phoning it in?

eheh OK, apparently I'm alone in liking this one !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn0LjF4_5r4

arby's ads now include direct references to cocaine

see also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F__6-ssdNIM

eghck

his new album is just fine

as ever

the variety review is getting dragged, but there's nothing wrong with being sick of pusha's particular thing. where the reviewer went wrong, i guess, is that you shouldn't wish that pusha were a different artist (he clearly will never change), it's that you should listen to somebody else.

yeah

I think you meant “fire,” sir

is the album about painting

painting with white lines, i'm the picasso of these o's.

eghck

I think the new album is pretty great

as ever

same as it ever was

sorry i want pusha t's parenting tips

"#1 - son, be Sosa, not Tony"