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Wale and Pusha T carry out throughout 2019 Rolling Loud music pageant

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Key Takeaways:

• “Damage Control” options Pusha T and Wale buying and selling bars over manufacturing by Don Cannon.
• The monitor is a part of a Culture Jam undertaking curated by NBA star Anthony Edwards.
• Pusha T’s lyrics embrace pointed bars that reference his respective beefs with Birdman and Drake.

On Friday (July 25), a brand new track from Wale and Pusha T known as “Damage Control” dropped, with a co-sign from NBA star Anthony Edwards. The track is a part of a forthcoming Culture Jam album and likewise occurs to incorporate bars from Push A Ton aimed toward his longtime foes Birdman and Drake.

A inventive studio based by Eesean Bolden, Culture Jam is gearing as much as launch a brand new compilation, Culture Jam Presents: Legend In My Hood, which is within the works. 2021’s Kawhi Leonard Presents: Culture Jam (Vol. 1) was curated by NBA star Kawhi Leonard, so this time Edwards is taking the reins.

“We are beyond excited to partner with Anthony [Edwards], his brother AnTony and the AE Five Enterprise team on this cultural musical compilation,” Bolden told Billboard. “The story of Anthony and his brother is not only rooted in authenticity and inspiring, but it exemplifies Culture Jam’s ethos of authentic and compelling storytelling at the intersection of sports and entertainment. This partnership is a perfect match.”

As for “Damage Control,” Wale teased the track on Wednesday (July 23) night by way of an Instagram put up, which featured Edwards for an added punch. As for the track itself, Don Cannon holds down the manufacturing, offering spirited horns and marching drums. The “Lotus Flower Bomb” artist ably spits bars over Cannon’s pulsing manufacturing. Meanwhile, Pusha T takes the time to throw new alleged photographs at Birdman and Drizzy, which is getting loads of consideration.

“All I hear is birds, that’s just words in the booth,” Pusha T raps. “The realest Birdman, I just cock-a-doodle-doo / Doorstep, doorstep, I get it right through / Money talk, money talk, the wrist is light blue / Sugarhill sweet, s**t is feeling type 2 / Bruised egos, man, you n**gas might sue / New Jack Ninos telling on the crew.”

For those that might not know, Birdman and Pusha T haven’t been cool since Clipse’s fall out with Cash Money Records signee Lil Wayne. As for the DAYTONA creator’s points with Drake, the Toronto artist is actually suing his document label, Universal Music Group, over Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us.”

Well, a minimum of Wale and Pusha T are nonetheless mates. Their previous collabs embrace “Only You Can Tell It” from the latter’s Wrath of Caine mixtape and “The Deep End” from the previous’s Festivus mixtape.