Pusha T Says He Passed On The "N****s In Paris" Beat & 50 Cent Is His Favorite Artist "No One Has Done What He Has Done"

Interview by Joe La Puma

Fear of God Part II is highly anticipated. What can we expect from that, compared to the first?


PUSHA: This whole Fear of God thing is spiralling out of control, honestly. It’s supposed to be a mixtape then somebody comes along and they want to help me shoot videos and stuff so now it’s an EP. As far as the EP, look for street rap, to me this is the part of hip-hop that I love, the mixtapes and so-on.

“Raid” the song you have with 50 and Pharrell is crazy. A lot of people feel like 50 is in vintage 50 form on that record…

PUSHA: I called Pharrell and said, “Yo, if you go back in with him and you make about seven more of those type of tracks you’re going to be responsible for something that’s monumental.” People don’t know that 50 Cent is like my favorite. Lyrically he’s not my favorite artist, but as a whole he’s my favorite artist. No one has done what he’s done in such a short time. What I always wanted 50 Cent to do was to get with all top-tier super-producers — Just Blaze, Kanye West, Pharrell, Chad Hugo, put out an album like that.

You were around for some of the Watch The Throne sessions, were there any beats on that album that you passed on?


PUSHA: “Niggas in Paris!” [Laughs.] I tell people all the time that I don’t know if I would’ve attacked it that way which means the record might not have been as special once I got on it.

Wow, that’s interesting.

PUSHA: ‘Ye gave me beats and that was in the bunch. “Niggas in Paris” was playful to me and I was in demonic rap mode. I was like, “Yo, I don’t want this right now,” he was like, “Man, this will be a club smash,” and I’m like, “Maybe, but don’t ask me to wrap my brain around that when I’m writing stuff like ‘My God,’ which is another Hit Boy beat.”

Obviously the Consequence thing kind of popped up out of nowhere, were you confused by that?


PUSHA: It was always something that I didn’t really want to get into, never. I sort of saw it coming, the records, the jabs. At the same time you have to think when all of this was happening I’m new to the fold of GOOD Music. He knows damn well that I totally embraced him. Man, I embraced everyone, and everyone embraced me. He knows that this isn’t even about me. It is what it is.