Key Takeaways:

• Pharrell hopes to see Clipse carry out “The Birds Don’t Sing,” a tribute to their late dad and mom, on the Grammy Awards.
• The duo’s album, Let God Sort Em Out, might face stiff competitors from Kendrick Lamar; Tyler, The Creator; and others when nominations drop on Nov. 7.
• Clipse’s return to music after 16 years provides emotional and cultural weight to their Grammy marketing campaign.

Could Clipse stroll away with a Grammy in February? The brother duo is actually hoping so. On Thursday (Oct. 2), Pusha T and Malice sat down with Billboard to speak about their expectations for Let God Sort Em Out, their first album in almost 16 years.

“I think that there’s been a lot of thought and efforts to at least get it right in the hip hop space,” Pusha T advised the music/rb-hip-hop/clipse-pharrell-let-god-sort-em-out-grammys-interview-1236080265/”>publication. “To be [potentially] nominated and in the mix of that company — you want the hardware, my man, trust me. We all want the hardware.” Pharrell, who executive-produced the venture, added that he hopes the committee will get it “all the way right.”

When it involves the Grammy Awards, nothing is ever actually off the desk. Album of the Year may carry more durable competitors, nevertheless it’s undoubtedly not out of attain for Clipse. They might additionally rating nods within the rap classes, although loads of nice tasks got here out previously 12 months.

Let God Sort Em Out might simply find yourself competing towards Kendrick Lamar’s GNX and Tyler, The Creator’s CHROMAKOPIA. There’s additionally an opportunity Playboi Carti’s music or Lil Baby’s WHAM might get nominated, contemplating how properly they fared on the charts. The official nominations announcement arrives on Nov. 7, so followers gained’t have to take a position for an excessive amount of longer.

Either means, Pusha T looks like a Grammy win could be a “well-deserved full-circle moment” for Clipse. “The Grammys is definitely the high-water mark for musical achievement. And this is what you do it for,” Malice added. “So, it would definitely mean a lot, for sure.”

Another second on their bucket checklist — or no less than on Pharrell’s — is seeing Clipse carry out “The Birds Don’t Sing” on the awards present. “That’s all I care about,” he admitted. The monitor, devoted to Pusha T and Malice’s late dad and mom, is arguably some of the shifting songs on your complete 13-track venture. They just lately dropped a music-video”>visible companion for it on Tuesday (Sept. 30).

Elsewhere, Pharrell appeared to take a playful shot at Kanye West, who beforehand shared a video of somebody (presumably himself) urinating on the golden gramophone. “You got people who get them and pee on them, and we ain’t doing none of that,” the Virginia producer joked. “We want them for our parents.”