Consequence has reignited his long-simmering feud with Pusha T, using a Hot 97 appearance to air what he said were private text messages and to accuse his former G.O.O.D. Music labelmate of being a hypocrite, before abruptly storming out of the interview.
During a sit-down with DJ Drewski, Consequence claimed Pusha T’s recent remarks about not respecting Ye undermined the state of hip-hop this summer, which he said lacked an actual “song of the summer.”
“One of the reasons why we didn’t have a ‘song of the summer,'” Consequence said, “is because the sound bite of the summer was, ‘I don’t respect Kanye as a man,’ performed by Pusha T and his brother Malice, known as the Clipse.”
Consequence then had Drewski read aloud alleged text messages from a group chat with Ye and Pusha T dating back to 2021, around the release of DONDA. In them, Ye appeared to express lingering hurt over Pusha’s involvement in his feud with Drake: “In the diss record to Drake, you still not 100 percent in the right with me even though he should not have spoke on your wife. You not perfect either. The record still caused me mental harm, so that meant when you shot, you hit me and my family also.”
Pusha’s alleged reply acknowledged the damage but offered an apology: “Yeah I agree, I’m not perfect…I never learned how to turn the other cheek when disrespected. It’s how I was raised. Martin Luther King wasn’t respected in my house either. Hurting you or your family wasn’t my intention. Protecting my family and the brand was the only mission. Sorry for any trauma caused by me.”
Consequence used this tidbit as ammunition to argue that Pusha was contradicting himself.
“He actually said in his own words, ‘Sorry for any trauma I’ve caused you and your family.’ Where I’m from, if you’re willing to apologize to someone, that would mean you respect them,” he said. “So if you’re running a rollout based on not respecting someone and you’re a man, but you know that you already apologized to this man, then are you being honest with your base? Are you being honest to the world? Is this a real feeling or is this contrived for marketing?”
He went further, questioning Pusha’s integrity and even referencing Malice’s Christian faith: “From everything I’ve seen, isn’t Malice engulfed in the same scripture as Martin Luther King? … Maybe you don’t respect your brother either.”
Before walking out, Consequence closed with a pointed challenge: “I’m outside. Anybody got anything to say to me, you can take your brother out the pulpit and find me in the streets. I’m from the same streets as the Supreme Team. I’m from the same streets as Rich and Alpo and AZ, you know, real drug dealers. Remember those? One.”
Drewski later posted a clip of the moment to Instagram with the caption: “I’ve seen guests walk out in other interviews, but it was a first for me. N I didn’t even say anything wrong.” The YouTube link to the full interview has since been set to private.
The confrontation is the latest chapter in more than a decade of tension between Consequence and Pusha T, dating back to 2011 when Consequence accused Push of stealing his rap style and released the diss track “The Plagiarist Society.” As of now, neither Pusha T nor Ye has responded publicly to Consequence’s remarks.
