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Pusha T has spent the better part of his post-Clipse life as becoming arguably rap’s best shit-talking villains, while his brother Malice rechristened himself as No Malice and went down the route of a spiritual cleansing from all of the cocaine and sex beats he and his brother carved into the culture’s early millennial turn. It’s as if they needed to go in completely separate directions to eventually cross paths, and 16 years since their last effort Til the Casket Drops, they’re resurrecting their kindred wrecking crew through rhyme with their return album, Let God Sort Em Out.

“So Be It”, the album’s latest highlight, is Clipse with no ring rust showing up between the bars to the surprise of no one, flexing off in a classic, ultra-finessed, calculated form to their detriment of a new generation of rival targets. In this corner, making his Pusha T ragdoll debut is WWE celeb tough guy flop Travis Scott looking like a total nerd and a poser when put in the shadow of what he and (the re-rechristened) Malice have amounted in their own life’s riches. “You cried in front of me, you died in front of me / Calabasas took your bitch and your pride in front of me / Her Utopia had moved right up the street / And her lip gloss was poppin’, she ain’t need you to eat.” Poured over an ice cold Pharell-produced beat with just the right menace in its walk in sampling Saudi musician Talal Maddah’s “Maza Akoulo Wa Qad Himto”. As cool as it flows, the only thing left remaining once they’re done on the mic is all that smoke.

Clipse’s Let God Sort Em Out will be released July 11th on Roc Nation.