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Pusha T on the 2025 Met Gala and Kanye West on the 2025 Grammy Awards

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Key Takeaways:

• Pusha T confirmed that he’s now not working with Kanye West, calling their relationship “definitely in the past.”
• He acknowledged their artistic historical past, together with tracks like “So Appalled” and “New God Flow,” however emphasised loyalty over nostalgia.
• Their cut up deepened throughout the Donda period and after West’s controversial remarks, which Pusha T publicly denounced.

Don’t anticipate a Pusha T and Kanye West reunion anytime quickly, if ever. In an interview revealed on Thursday (Aug. 7) by The Guardian, the Virginia rapper made it clear that his working relationship with the Graduation creator is over.

When requested if the 2 would ever collaborate once more, Pusha T advised the publication, “Yeah, that’s in the past. That’s definitely in the past.” He added, “If I diss someone, it’s a very real thing to me. I watch other rappers use disses as a gimmick and s**t like that, but that ain’t what this is for me.”

It’s a sentiment we’ve heard earlier than from the DAYTONA artist, most notably when he addressed his fallout with Travis Scott earlier this yr. While Pusha T appears to have fully dominated out one other collaboration with West, he was nonetheless keen to confess that they made “great things together” earlier than.

“Creating ‘So Appalled’ and ‘New God Flow’ were some of my favorite memories. The GOOD Fridays series, that was crazy, too,” he stated. Although, because the saying goes, all good issues should come to an finish. The final undertaking that noticed a Pusha T and Ye joint effort was 2022’s It’s Almost Dry.

As famous by REVOLT, their relationship started operating its course across the time of 2021’s Donda. It solely worsened after Ye’s anti-Semitic feedback the next yr, which Pusha T known as “very disappointing.” Speaking to The Los Angeles Times in November 2022, he emphasised, “As a Black man in America, there is no room for bigotry or hate speech.”

Over the years, each artists have publicly spoken about their strained relationship. “I miss me and Pusha’s friendship,” Ye tweeted in May. The “Nosetalgia” rapper later responded throughout Clipse’s cowl story with Complex: “I’m not in a position to where I can even risk and gamble with the wishy-washiness or the lack of loyalty. I don’t play like that. Why would I ever dive back into that type of scenario?”