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If you expected the album last summer, the brothers sympathize—so did they. Pusha says they felt confident, proud and assured of themselves when they presented the music to Def Jam. The label loved what they heard—except for Kendrick Lamar’s guest verse on the thunderous “Chains & Whips,” the final version of the song that Pharrell teased at his first LV runway show, and the song Pusha says was the first to come out of their sessions. Don’t be fooled by Pusha’s interviews appealing for one last guest verse and the Twitter jokes that he went to a GNX Tour date to physically walk Kendrick into the nearest studio; K. Dot’s verse homework has been turned in for a while now.

But after a summer of beef between their two biggest artists that resulted in a still ongoing lawsuit from Drake, Def Jam’s parent company UMG blanched at the antagonistic opp-optics of two of Drake’s biggest enemies linking on wax. Pusha calls their apprehension “stupid”—primarily because none of the bars in Kendrick’s otherwise excellent verse could really be perceived as a shot or even subliminal. (It does, however, contain the stellar line: “Therapy taught me how to open up/it also showed me I don’t give a fuck.”)

Pusha can barely contain his disgust recounting how the stalemate with Def Jam played out. “They wanted me to ask Kendrick to censor his verse, which of course I was never doing,” he explains. “And then they wanted me to take the record off. And so, after a month of not doing it, Steve Gawley, the lawyer over there was like, ‘We'll just drop the Clipse.’ But that can't work because I'm still there [solo]. But [if] you let us all go… ”

Sure enough, Def Jam eventually agreed to release the Clipse and drop Pusha as a solo artist, freeing the duo up to shop for a new home with a finished Clipse album and “plenty more music” in their pockets. Ultimately, Pusha says, the endeavor was gratifying: “It felt good to even see how other labels were buying for the project.” Now—as they teased last week, with a picture in front of the label’s plane insignia—they’ve ended up at Jay-Z’s Roc Nation, where they feel fully supported and energized. “I think that that synergy, just in a rap sense, is going to speak volumes,” Pusha says of the partnership.