The Clipse

Download Fear of God, the New Mixtape From the Clipse's Pusha T

​One of the happiest of the many stories to get lost in the maelstrom that was Kanye West's 2010 was the rehabilitation of Pusha T, perhaps the single most critically beloved and commercially unsuccessful rapper of the last five years. The Clipse, his duo with his brother Malice, had sat on th ... More >>

Malice From The Clipse Will Be Signing His New Book In Bushwick Friday

​"I knew this was something I had to do, so I went ahead and did it." Thus did Malice, the currently non-Kanye-affiliated half of SOTC-beloved rap duo Clipse, explain his decision to write Wretched, Pitiful, Poor, Blind, and Naked, a somber autobiography tracing the coke-rap kingpin's highs, l ... More >>

Q&A: Malice Of The Clipse Loses His Porsche, Finds Religion, And Writes A Book About It

"'Wealth of the wicked is laid up for the righteous.' That quote spoke to the next person getting my Porsche for the remaining 50K left on it." ​Even for a rapper, Gene Elliot Thornton, Jr., a/k/a/ Malice, a/k/a one-half of critically acclaimed Virginia rap duo Clipse, has talked about the dr ... More >>

THANK HIM LATER

Let's hope no one throws furniture this time

Week in Review: May Day

Salute. Photo by Sam Horine.​In the week we finally got to unleash the initial Siren Festival details on the world (July 17! 10th anniversary! Matt & Kim, Ted Leo, Surfer Blood, Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and Harlem! Totally free!), we celebrated Cinco De Mayo like Anna Wintour, Pharrell, a ... More >>

Tonight! Clipse, Ninjasonik, Lucky Dragons, Beach House, Washed Out, Sia, Local Natives, Jeff Mangum, a-ha, Bear Hands, Lemonade, And Dinosaur Feathers

Having learned about Pusha T's badass grandma (not to mention that Rambo-themed pizza joint) yesterday, you can better appreciate NYC tour guides/coke rap extraordinaires Clipse tonight at Highline Ballroom. For obvious moral support, Ninjasonik will also be there, "squeezing into tight pants and ... More >>

Hear Aziz Ansari and Dave Sitek's Bravura Rap Attack "AAAAAAAANGRY (with eight A's)"

​A worthy successor to "How to Rob," if not "Second Round Knock Out," even if you hate laughing. Over five minutes formerly Brooklynite and world-beating comedian Aziz Ansari goes in on everyone from Dre to Eminem to Clipse to Kid Cudi, with the same loving attention to detail and hilarity he ... More >>

Listening To Rappers Gush Over Sade Will Seriously Never Get Old

Sade media-blitz week is winding down (much to David Letterman's dismay) -- looks like her Soldier of Love, despite its rampant iciness, will top next week's Billboard chart with ease. It's nice to have something/someone we can all agree on. With that in mind. our arch-enemies over at Vulture corr ... More >>

New Clipse Video: "Freedom," Which Is A Great Song

In these three minutes and forty-seven seconds is a fascinating Clipse full-length that never got made--ditto for the video here, which has the same unsparing and self-ravaging feel as the song for which it was made. The more we listen to this song, the more Til the Casket Drops feels like the gre ... More >>

Week in Review: Let Us Soak in Positive Forces

New Year's Eve...no idea, basically. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​In the week we learned that Animal Collective's manager is apparently endowed with a baby leg, in the one dark place where that would be a meaningful statement, we did our best to otherwise cleanse the ol' SOTC soul, apologizing to ... More >>

Clipse on Fallon: "Popular Demand," Featuring Black Thought

So if you're keeping track, there was yesterday's impromptu "Grindin'" remix in a Late Night rehearsal closet, the official-yet-web-only "Grindin'" in-studio (Jimmy calls it an "oldie but a goodie"), and now the official, broadcast version of the Clipse doing "Popular Demand" on Late Night With Ji ... More >>

Ha, Clipse's "Grindin'", the Roots Remix

Almost definitely not the song the Clipse are going to perform on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon tonight, but here's a web-only type rehearsal take of Pusha and Mal jumping on the song anyway, as assisted by the Roots. Worth it for Questlove and Captain Kirk's falsetto chorus punctuation alone. Love ... More >>

Hey, Gucci Mane's The State Vs. Radric Davis Is #10 in the Country!

​He's no Susan Boyle (#1 for the third straight world beating week, for a grand old-people-still-buy-records total of 1.8 million copies of I Dreamed a Dream sold), but Gucci Mane does have his first top ten record. He sold 90,000--not quite Jadakiss numbers, but better than being the Clipse, ... More >>

Week in Review: Bros4Life

Not even the 15th worst record this decade. Have a good weekend!​In the week our F2K crew quantitatively decided that though Nickleback and Gym Class Heroes are bad, William Hung and Hinder were a whole lot worse, we continued to count down the worst songs of the '00s. That Santana song keepin ... More >>

The Clipse Go Apartment Shopping in NYC

Clipse in NYC. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne​Hey, so the Brothers Thornton are moving here. Vulture even went apartment shopping with them! There are many good details in the ensuing piece, not limited to the revelation that Pusha and Mal do not use their government names, even when they're talking ... More >>

Susan Boyle Bypasses Young, Illegal Downloaders En Route To A Second #1

​527,000 copies. She is a commercial juggernaut no one can touch, not least because in all likelihood the vast majority of her fans have no idea how to pirate and/or steal I Dreamed a Dream--the 10th best-selling record of the year and rising fast. If you can find a demographic old enough, thi ... More >>

Cam'ron Would Like You To Buy the Clipse's Till the Casket Drops (Which Has, Ahem, Leaked)

Sean C & LV may well have performed some kind of successful triage on this thing, but boy could next week be a pretty tough one for the Clipse. Having the record leak all over the internet probably doesn't help, but then again, whose doesn't at this point? If you want to be scrupulous about it, gr ... More >>

"You're All So Hammered You Don't Give A Fuck What I Say": Live From The Woodies

Girls not having much fun. Pic by Connar Walik, more below.​Once a year, mtvU hosts the Woodies, an event that's a lot like the Teen Choice Awards, except that it caters to college kids and music-industry people who can say stuff like, "I started listening to that band, like, two years ago." T ... More >>

Week in Review: Or Whatever's Left of Her

Your guess is as good as ours. Photo by Nate "Igor" Smith​In the week we ran all over town looking for a headless pop star (and found her, hiding out in the Barnes and Noble Union Square magazine section), we also hailed the non-headless pop-stars-in-the-making Girls at their New York coronati ... More >>

Clipse Are at Hiro For Free Next Tuesday

​Not the first time this year they've gone the secret elaborate MySpace free show route. RSVP here. Maybe Cam will show up this time. Video of Pusha T flashing a promo copy of Till the Casket Drops while simultaneously slipping in the fact that the record's been pushed back to December 8th, ri ... More >>

News Roundup: The Sonic Youth Gossip Girl Single, Clipse Manager Pleads Guilty, Arthur Russell at NYU

​--That Sonic Youth Gossip Girl cameo is approaching, and since SY evidently take this responsibility very seriously, they're releasing a single of their performance on the show--an acoustic version of EVOL's "Star Power" is the word--on Tuesday, October 13, the day after the show airs. It wil ... More >>

Interview: The Clipse on Till the Casket Drops, Their Official Position on "Girl Songs," and Whether Kanye Got Them on Their Own Song

"If they say anybody got us on anything, who better than Kanye?" ​ Right around this time three years ago, the Clipse were on the verge of releasing Hell Hath No Fury, their terminally delayed follow-up to 2002's Lord Willin'. Anger--at their label, Jive, for failing to promote them, and at t ... More >>

Week in Review: I've Never Seen So Many Sick Weirdos Gathered in One Place

Rebecca Smeyne In the week one of us had to publicly defend himself against the crime of using the phrase "Fey Highwayman," we watched with amusement as close SOTC affiliate Christopher R. Weingarten became a viral video poster boy for the death of music criticism. Poetic choice of t-shirts, Chris! ... More >>

New Clipse, A Phrase We're Starting to Dread Saying: "Eyes on Me," Featuring Keri Hilson

It's hard to imagine the Clipse actually performing this song in front of any audience we've even seen them play in front of, let alone recording it with a straight face. But one of those things already happened, and the second one is sure to come. Is it possible that we still like this more than ... More >>

Week in Review: Get Ready #Bonnaroo You're Gonna Be My Bitch For the Weekend

Rebecca Smeyne In the week we didn't go to the mud-soaked hobbit/hippie fest that is Bonnaroo (well, except for the top secret one of us who did, and is even now Twittering about it), all three members of SOTC did go to Prospect Park, where we wandered the green green grass 27,000 parents and thei ... More >>

There Is a New Clipse Single: "I'm Good," Featuring Pharrell

So, yeah--weird time for the Clipse (or, more accurately, Pharrell) to go to the auto-tune well. "I'm Good" is the first official single off Till the Casket Drops, and, well...visions of the long commercial nightmare to come, I guess, where all the viral marketing and neo-neo-r&b singles in the worl ... More >>

Live: The Clipse Go Web 2.0 At Webster Hall

For those that care maybe a little too much about the Clipse, last night's free, RSVP-by-text show in the basement of Webster Hall was less than encouraging: the same set, plus or minus a song or two, from increasingly undifferentiated past shows at the Knitting Factory and CMJ; the same smatterin ... More >>

Week in Review: Swine Flu False Alarm Total Panic Edition

In the week that we thought maybe we had swine flu, ran frightened from our offices, wandered the East Village for hours looking for wireless or a good doctor, and eventually received an email with the subject line "It's NOT Swine Flu," we sheepishly came back to our desks, only to find an army of c ... More >>

Week in Review: "Some Magazine, I Don't Know Where It Was."

Sahoko Yui In the week Rush Limbaugh called us "some magazine," we invited our friend Status Ain't Hood back for a day. Oh, and right: Congrats Tom! Interviews: Wavves' Nathan Williams on drugs and the beach, Albert Maysles on HBO's new Grey Gardens, Ian Svenonius on Kanye West and his new band, C ... More >>

Kanye, Clipse Still "Kinda Like a Big Deal" When It Comes to Rapping

Having basically been left speechlessly happy about this song since the Clipse finally let it go this morning, it's hard to want to do more than just let the rappers on this track speak for themselves. What to say? This song, if it were done right, was always going to be some perfect mix of startlin ... More >>

Jadakiss' Last Kiss Didn't Entirely Brick

Although pathetic by all pre-industry collapse standards, the news that Jadakiss somehow managed to sell more than 100,000 copies of The Last Kiss his first week out is weirdly heartening--healthy smattering of crossover records aside, our guess is Jada has not ladies but a perversely loyal, perhaps ... More >>

EW Has the Clipse Coverage Beat On Lock, Apparently

Somewhere Russell Simmons is wondering just what the hell happened First came the not-quite news that the Clipse were in the studio with Rick Rubin (he was the one who signed them to Columbia, after all). Now that same Entertainment Weekly reporter, Simon Vozick-Levinson, has managed to actually he ... More >>

Clipse in the Studio with Rick Rubin; Nation Prays for "99 Problems," Not That Slipknot Garbage

Pharrell is dead to us Nice: Entertainment Weekly reports the Clipse are in a Malibu studio with Rick Rubin. While Pharrell will forever probably be the murky, coruscating ideal for the Clipse's brand of savage, merciless precision (here's hoping they borrow "Yes" at some point), it was also time t ... More >>

Clipse Respond To Unfeeling, Heartless Pitchfork Critic

The Clipse's Pusha T Endorses A.P.C. Jeans

SXSW: Clipse

Clipse: Back with Vengeance

Live: Zune's Old-Rapper Picnic

Live: Status Ain't Hood at the Pitchfork Music Festival

We're on our way...

The Quarterly Report: Best New Albums

Clipse: Critical Love Doesn't Mean Pop Success

Lil Wayne Attacks Jay-Z

Total Eclipse

Virginia's finest ride dirty but can't wash their hands clean

Live: The Clipse Shines Through All the Bullshit

Pharrell: Best Rapper Ever? (Well, No)

Live: Clipse Figures Out That People Still Like Them

Trapped in the Kitchen

Current coke-rap LPs raise the crucial question: If I'm the seller, who's the buyer?

Pitchfork's Year-End List Vs. Haters

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