Clipse and Kendrick Lamar’s unreleased collab mysteriously vanished after leaking online, but then it returned like a fat kid that loves cake.
Sometimes it feels like Clipse—Pusha T and Malice—think Paris exists in a different dimension where WiFi, smartphones and die-hard rap heads don’t exist. I’m (mostly) joking, but hear me out.
On Monday (June 23), a track featuring Kendrick Lamar leaked online, and let’s just say… it didn’t last long. I was on it. I listened. Then poof—the original post vanished. Whoever let that fly probably got hit with an angry phone call or DM. They took it down, but that was just the beginning.
You already know how this game works. Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it’s not going back in. Despite the takedown, that track started bubbling up on Reddit, Twitter and encrypted fan forums. The next thing you know—it’s everywhere.
And now? We finally get to hear that verse. The big, bad verse Universal Music Group allegedly wanted to bury. This is the one that got Malice and Push out of their deal. Industry whispers claim some lines—or maybe the entire feature—was a problem for execs. UMG represents both Kendrick Lamr and Drake, and after Drake filed a lawsuit accusing them of backing Kendrick’s “diss tracks,” the label seems to be scrambling to cover their “a###.”
But now that the leak is out in the wild—what do you think? Kendrick snapped, obviously. Malice and Push haven’t missed a step. It’s 2025 and these two sound sharper and colder than most of the current crop clogging your algorithms.
Clipse might be exactly what Hip-Hop needs right now—a culture reset. The game’s gotten so lost in gossip, antics and clickbait that we forgot the music is supposed to mean something. Clipse showing up right now feels like the big brothers pulling up to talk Hip-Hop to the young bucks.
Let me know your thoughts in the comments or in the community section. Are you here for a full Clipse takeover in 2025? Or has the culture gone too far to pull back?
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