Pusha T has shared some thoughts about Kanye West saying that he misses their friendship.
In Complex‘s latest cover story with the Clipse to promote their new album, Let God Sort Em Out, King Push addressed Ye saying he missed him after he heard the duo’s recent single, “Ace Trumpets.”
“I don’t care about that at all,” Push said. “It’s fine. I’m sure. I would miss me, too. I really would.”
Pusha then explained the finality that comes with losing his respect. “I’m not in a position to where I can even risk and gamble with the wishy-washiness or the lack of loyalty,” he explained. “I don’t play like that. Why would I ever dive back into that type of scenario? I’m with my brother and Pharrell, come on.”
“I don’t even understand that lack of principles just amongst people you call your brother,” he continued. “I don’t get that. That’s not for me.”
Afterward, Pusha T reflected on the sessions for the recording of Ye’s Donda album, which is when he realized his friendship with the controversial star had run its course.
“It is just a whole host and a cast of characters,” remembered Pusha. “There are a lot of great ones who were there and who were contributors. And then there are a lot of people who are not that good, and they’re just around, and they’re around for no reason, and they’re like the backbiters and the people who have hidden agendas and so on and so forth. But you surround yourself by all this chaos. It’s not for me. It just wasn’t for me.”
Pusha went on: “On top of that, I mean, listen, just in how he tends to connect with a lot of people that I don’t connect with. I don’t understand that. That’s just not my name. He does it a lot, and it’s cool, but you got to just stay over there with that, and I’m going to stay over here with this.”
During an episode of the New York Times Popcast podcast in June, Pusha T delivered some harsh words about his (lack of a) relationship with Ye. “We ain’t the same outside of music,” he said. “We’re nothing. We can’t be anything outside of music. Music is where we click. … His principles, his morals, his mindset — we don’t see eye to eye, hardly ever. And we never have.”
Pusha T first opened up about his issues with West during a June interview with GQ. “His intuition is even more genius-level, right? But that’s why me and him don’t get along, because he sees through my fakeness with him,” Pusha said at the time.
“He knows I don’t think he’s a man. He knows it. And that’s why we can’t build with each other no more. That’s why me and him don’t click, because he knows what I really, really think of him. He’s showed me the weakest sides of him, and he knows how I think of weak people.”
