During the entire rap battle between Kendrick Lamar and Drake, one person has notably kept quiet about the entire feud: Pusha T. Despite his known hatred for the Toronto rapper, Pusha has respectfully stayed out of it, letting the two titans battle it out.
But despite his efforts, he was still put in the middle of it, when Lamar infamously rapped on “Euphoria,” “Yeah f**k all that pushin’ P/Let me see you push a T/You better off spinnin’ again on him you think about pushin’ me/He’s Terrance Thornton I’m Terrance Crawford/Yeah I’m whoopin’ feet.”
Thankfully, Pusha didn’t take it personally at all.
In an interview with Vulture of he and his brother and fellow Clipse member No Malice, the Virginia MC finally shared his thoughts on K-Dot dropping his name on the Drake diss track, telling the outlet, “Incredible. Incredible display. Incredible display of battle raps. Listen man, Kendrick…”
No Malice added, “It was a master class.”
Like Kendrick, Pusha T is a guy who appreciates the competition of the genre. He doesn’t take things like that personally unless it’s a direct shot. In fact, he had a similar response to Lamar’s 2013 verse on “Control” where he was also name-dropped.
During an interview shortly after the verse dropped, Pusha said, “The first thing he [Kendrick] said to me is, ‘Yo thank you so much for just understanding and not taking the verse the wrong way.’ And I was like ‘Oh Kendrick you don’t know I’m different bruh. I’m different.’”
He added, “I understand. I listen to rap. It’s the sport of hip-hop. And I looked at it like he was shouting out his peers. I wanna take something from your fanbase. When is that not the mission.”
Pusha T is as Hip-Hop as they come, and it’ll take an MC calling out his family (like Drake did), for him to tear down a rival artist’s character (like he did on “The Story of Adidon”).