Clipse Drop Snippet Of Kendrick Lamar's 'Chains & Whips' Verse

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Clipse have dropped an early preview of Kendrick Lamar‘s guest verse on their upcoming song “Chains & Whips”.

The highly anticipated song, which will feature on their reunion album Let God Sort Em Out, was played by the brothers when they hooked up with Pharrell Williams on a rooftop.

On the track, Kendrick can be heard addressing the state of Hip Hop, spitting: “Let’s be clear, Hip Hop died again / Half of my profits may go to Rakim / How many Judases done let me down? / But fuck it, the West mine’s, we right now.”

The Clipse were forced to part ways with Def Jam over Kendrick’s appearance on the album.

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Speaking to GQ, Pusha T described how their relationship with the storied label crumbled over Lamar’s feature on “Chains & Whips”.

He said: “They wanted me to ask Kendrick to censor his verse, which of course I was never doing. And then they wanted me to take the record off. And so, after a month of not doing it, Steve Gawley, the lawyer over there was like, ‘We’ll just drop the Clipse.’ But that can’t work because I’m still there [solo]. But [if] you let us all go… ”

It was also revealed that Def Jam were concerned about the optics of two of Drake’s arch rivals teaming up on a track while his lawsuit against UMG was ongoing.

The brothers paid a large sum to get out of their contract with Def Jam and keep their album intact.

Their manager, Steven Victor, said to Billboard: “They said, ‘Find another deal, and let’s figure out a business.’ They didn’t drop us. They were like, ‘Pay us this money’ — which was an exorbitant amount of money, a shit ton of money — ‘and we’ll let you out the deal.’ That’s what happened. We paid them the money, an insane amount of money. It wasn’t, like, $200,000. It was a lot of money for an artist to come up with. They bought themselves out of the deal.”

Victor then confirmed that the dollar amount was in the seven figures range.

Clipse subsequently signed with Roc Nation to release Let God Sort Em Out.