Key Takeaways:

• Kendrick Lamar shocked followers by performing “Chains & Whips” with Clipse in Los Angeles.
• The monitor, produced by Pharrell, confronted label pushback earlier than its launch on Let God Sort Em Out.
• Pusha T revealed Lamar initially needed to do two songs with Clipse, however just one made the minimize.

Clipse shocked followers at Los Angeles’ Novo with Kendrick Lamar over the weekend. On Saturday (Aug. 23), throughout their “Let God Sort Em Out Tour,” the trio handled the group to a reside rendition of “Chains & Whips.”

In footage shared on-line, Pusha T and Malice had been halfway by means of the music earlier than the stage briefly went darkish. Moments later, the Compton emcee delivered his visitor verse because the viewers erupted.

“I’m not the candidate to vibe with / I don’t f**k with the kumbaya s**t / All that talent must be Godsent / I send yo’ a** back to the cosmics,” Lamar rapped. Check out the clip and fan reactions beneath.

“This is our home city. It’s such a privilege to be in front of motherf**king legends, man,” Lamar closed out his efficiency earlier than displaying like to Malice and Pusha T. He added, “I’m going to be out there watching with you all. These are my motherf**king people.”

“If ‘needs no introduction’ was a person,” Clipse wrote on their Instagram Stories. A separate clip was captioned, “Thank you [Kendrick Lamar] for rolling out the red carpet in your city.”

“Chains & Whips,” which boasts manufacturing and extra vocals from Pharrell, arrived on Let God Sort Em Out in July. As Pusha T has defined greater than as soon as, getting the monitor out was tough. In reality, he finally had to purchase himself out of his contract with Def Jam.

According to Pusha, the label claimed their hesitation got here right down to Lamar’s “Trump card” line, which he thought was “so stupid.” In his view, the true motive had extra to do with the optics of “two Drake foes teaming up” whereas Universal music Group — Def Jam’s father or mother firm — was in the course of their authorized battle with the Canadian star.

Even extra attention-grabbing, there have been really talks of Lamar doing two records with Clipse. Pusha T shared with Fear of God designer Jerry Lorenzo, “[I] sent them songs over, [and] he just called back laughing… He was like, ‘Yo, I wanna do two.’” In the top, the “Not Like Us” hitmaker acquired “super busy” and solely “Chains & Whips” got here to life.