Of course, Pusha’s relationship with his producers is more symbiotic than parasitic: he asks for a certain type of beat, picks and prunes until he gets the ones he likes, and draws out their best qualities with his writing and performance. What arrangement can't be enriched by a judicious "yeuch?" When the duo dissolved at the end of the ‘00s, Kanye swooped in and signed Pusha to a solo deal on the label he’s now running, and guest spots on singles like " Runaway" and " Mercy" helped keep him afloat before he managed to put together My Name Is My Name. As one half of the Clipse, he and brother (No) Malice were gifted some of the most experimental, playful beats the Neptunes were producing at their peak. He opens Darkest Before Dawn with a bold claim, one that flips the conventional wisdom regarding his career on its head: "The only great I ain’t made better was J Dilla." Pusha’s discography lends itself well to a producer-centric reading. They’re more jagged and strange than anything on Pusha’s fine 2013 LP My Name Is My Name, a cold and physical album in its own right. Sure enough, the most interesting part of Darkest Before Dawn is its beats. "I had the producers doing things they weren’t usually known for, and a little bit out of their wheelhouse." "What we have here is like a compilation of 10 of the hardest records that I’ve compiled… I didn’t want to break up that body of work," said Pusha in a recent interview with Noisey. To hear Pusha tell it, Darkest Before Dawn came together naturally while he was recording King Push with a murderer’s row of hip-hop veterans. (It’s now scheduled to arrive sometime in the spring.) Music president has been hard at work on King Push since at least 2014.
Will you accept a stocking stuffer from his musical consigliere? Pusha T’s King Push – Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude isn’t a surprise album, but it’s somewhat unexpected: the newly minted G.O.O.D. Barring some kind of Christmas miracle - think turkey dinner in the studio with Kim and North manning the boards - Kanye West isn’t releasing a new album this year.
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