Clipse
In the 15+ years since Clipse’s last album hit the shelves of record stores, the music world has been upended several times over. Through it all, enthusiasm for the duo from Virginia never waned. ‘Let God Sort ‘Em Out’ - Clipse’s new independent release in partnership with Roc Nation Distribution - is one of the most highly anticipated releases in recent memory, a fact that underlines the singular talent and lasting influence of Pusha-T and Malice. The history of Clipse has been well-documented, yet still retains a mythic quality. The brothers emerged from Virginia Beach, where they met the Neptunes, who would help them craft some of this century’s most forward-thinking rap music. Their career has been marked by the kind of industry red tape that can mummify entire careers and keep brilliant music out of the public eye, first with their would-be debut album, ‘Exclusive Audio Footage,’ and later with their sophomore effort, ‘Hell Hath No Fury.’ When the latter album was finally released, it was immediately hailed as a masterpiece. On those records, as on their monumental 2002 debut ‘Lord Willin’’, 2009’s ’Til the Casket Drops,’ or their unforgettable mixtape run, Pusha and Malice articulated a complex worldview informed by the dark realities of the drug trade but unapologetic about their determination to survive a cruel world. Through the 2010s and on, the brothers took divergent paths, with Pusha embarking on an illustrious solo career and dropping seminal works of his own, while Malice—who for a time changed his name to No Malice—explored more deeply the spirituality that had long informed his work. This unmistakable alchemy—vicious renderings of crime and the sense of a moral code that lurks just underneath—is what makes ‘Let God Sort ‘Em Out’ so arresting.
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FRAK PRESENTS:
with feat. Del The Funky Homosapien & Guapdad
Fri
08.14
9:00 pm
