Latest Release
- OCT 27, 2023
- 1 Song
- My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy · 2010
- Mercy (feat. Big Sean, Pusha T & 2 Chainz) - Single · 2012
- Faith · 2021
- VII (Deluxe Version) · 2014
- Honest (Deluxe) · 2014
- Kanye West Presents: Good Music - Cruel Summer · 2012
- My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy · 2010
- KIDS SEE GHOSTS · 2018
- DAYTONA · 2018
- It's Almost Dry · 2022
Essential Albums
- “You can’t come get this work until it’s dry. I made this album while the streets were closed during the pandemic. Made entirely with the greatest producers of all time—Pharrell and Ye. ONLY I can get the best out of these guys. ENJOY!!” —Pusha T, in an exclusive message provided to Apple Music
- Back when he was still one-half of Clipse, Pusha-T dazzled listeners of the Virginia duo's mixtape series We Got It 4 Cheap by annihilating popular beats of the day. The project's sole criticism was that the production was already so good, it could carry anyone. DAYTONA, copiloted by hip-hop production genius Kanye West, upends that conceit, with contemporary boom-bap built from luscious soul samples that would swallow a lesser MC. With Pusha at the absolute top of his game, DAYTONA is somehow more than the sum of its parts, a fact the rapper acknowledges proudly on “The Games We Play”: “To all of my young n****s/I am your Ghost and your Rae/This is my Purple Tape.”
Artist Playlists
- Putting "Numbers on the Boards" with Kanye's favorite pusherman.
- Pusha T talks to Ebro about It’s Almost Dry.
- Highlighting the best of the Rap Life and La Fórmula playlists.
- Classics and hidden gems from rapper Pusha T.
- King Push unveils "Coming Home" feat. Ms. Lauryn Hill.
- "Dangote" is a Beats 1 Banger, plus Hare Squead.
About Pusha T
In a 2017 episode of the Apple Music radio show OTHERtone, Pusha T and Pharrell joked about how compulsively neat Pusha T’s raps are. Like, not just in the rhythmic or syllabic sense, but in how the words look on the page: each letter the same size, everything lined up, nothing outside the lines. “I’m just super anal,” he said. “It’s stupid. I don’t know why it’s like that, but I can’t even think if there’s a crease in my paper.” Both as a solo artist and member of the brother duo Clipse, Pusha brings a surgical precision to street rap, leveling stories of drugs and violence with a ruthless lucidity that made him one of the most respected, and morally complicated, rappers of the 2000s and beyond. That you could never tell whether he enjoyed what he did compounded the appeal: With Pusha, the hustle was an end in itself. Born Terrence Thornton in 1977, he grew up in Virginia Beach, forming Clipse with his brother Malice (later No Malice) in their teens. Even had he not gone on to a solo career (2018’s DAYTONA being a standout), Clipse—in particular their work with the production team The Neptunes—would’ve secured his legacy: “Grindin’,” “Mr. Me Too,” the Birdman track “What Happened to That Boy.” His trademark ad-lib was “YUUGH,” an expression that not only captured disgust, but the abject quality of his stories: To keep it inside would’ve made him sick. As the president of Kanye West’s GOOD Music label, Pusha has also helped shape rap on an industry level, following an artist/executive path more common as the years wind on. And, as one can imagine, he likes doing business, and being on time.
- HOMETOWN
- Bronx, NY, United States
- BORN
- May 14, 1977
- GENRE
- Hip-Hop/Rap