Pusha T isn’t losing any sleep over Kanye West saying he misses their friendship.
In Complex’s latest Clipse cover story promoting Let God Sort Em Out, Push addressed Ye’s recent comments about hearing the duo’s track “Ace Trumpets” and expressing that he missed them.
“I don’t care about that at all,” Pusha said bluntly. “It’s fine. I’m sure. I would miss me, too. I really would.”
He went on to explain that once his respect for someone is gone, there’s no turning back. “I’m not in a position to where I can even risk and gamble with the wishy-washiness or the lack of loyalty,” he said. “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.”
Pusha continued, calling out what he sees as a lack of integrity. “I don’t even understand that lack of principles just amongst people you call your brother. I don’t get that. That’s not for me.”
He also looked back on the Donda album sessions, saying they revealed how far the friendship had unraveled. “It is just a whole host and a cast of characters,” he recalled. “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… the backbiters, the people who have hidden agendas. But you surround yourself by all this chaos. It’s not for me.”
Pusha added that Ye’s associations with certain people were another red flag. “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.”
This isn’t the first time Pusha’s made his stance clear. On the New York Times’ Popcast in June, he said, “We ain’t the same outside of music. 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.”
And during a June GQ interview, he went even deeper: “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,” he admitted. “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.”
