RAPPERS OF THE YEAR CLIPSE

WE are going to get everything due us,” Pusha T remembers thinking when he and Malice embarked upon their reunion as the rap group Clipse.

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With that mindset, the brothers Terrence and Gene Thornton stormed into 2025 with a new album and a vengeance, both reasserting their legacy as two of the best coke rap MCs to ever do it and establishing themselves as formidable contenders in the contemporary hip-hop landscape. Let God Sort Em Out is, after their more than 15-year hiatus, one of the most authoritative comebacks the genre has ever seen—if you dare describe it as such. Push and Malice would rather you recognize the album as them delivering on the level they have always done, all while deepening their range. ¶ Before the album came out this summer, I had a fiery conversation with them for GQ where they staked their claim as the best rap duo out there and aired out all outstanding beefs (and revealed some new ones); that interview became the de facto start to the year’s most engaging album rollout. Since we last talked, they’ve solidified their status as having the best rap album of the year, headlined a nationwide tour big enough to bring the reclusive Kendrick Lamar out for a cameo, and made history as the first rappers to perform at the Vatican. ¶ Next up? Pursuing their first-ever Grammy.

GQ: One thing that we heard this year was a lot of people were really into the rollout, especially the intention behind it. But the funny thing is that the way you rolled the album out was traditional, in a sense. But I think that speaks to a feeling that was missing, and you had to help restore it.