When Kanye West gives his opinion, you listen to it, whether it’s awards-show etiquette, fifty-tweet tracts on the state of the music industry and society at large or menswear choices. When you’re signed to G.O.O.D. Music like rapper Pusha T, thus having to answer to Kanye, then you definitely listen to his opinion. And no matter what he says about your upcoming album, you damn well accept it:
“When [my upcoming album's listening session was] over, [Kanye] says, ‘Yo, you know that if you die and hear your music, you know you ended up in hell, right?’ I don’t know how to take that. Is that a good thing to say or a bad thing to say?”
It’s helpful to imagine the situation here. Pusha T, still a little surprised he got to the point where he’s not just guesting on Kanye’s stuff but actively sitting around awaiting Kanye’s approval. Kanye, looking very solemn and not visibly approving of anything. The album plays, and neither party changes his facial expression. Then it’s over. Five seconds of silence, five more. Kanye, probably off-the-cuff, mentions something about Pusha going to hell. This doesn’t change the silence at all. I mean, you can just picture this, can’t you?
There’s some context to this–MTV reports that Pusha was inspired by The Devil’s Advocate, a 1997 Keanu Reeves/Al Pacino horror flick partly based on Paradise Lost. And the hip-hop landscape, dotted with dystopias like Rack City, does try to seem hellish. Nevertheless, this is still the greatest nonpliment in recent history, certainly in recent Kanye history; if there’s any justice in the world, it’ll join the likes of “Do you know she’s a bird?” “No, I never noticed that” and that little VMA moment in the West quotebook. Maybe Pusha could use it as an album blurb. We’d be enticed.
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