Will Pusha T, 45 years old, ever give up his cocaine gimmick?

[SnowflakesByTheOZ]

Black don’t crack so he still looks like he is in his 30’s

I see what you did there

 

[Take It In Blood]

dudes acting like he aint just drop a delicious diss track towards mcdonalds

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Push is good in his element.

I think lot of casual/mainstream fans here like to hate him because he’s in his 40’s and has maintained relevance by just being able to rap his ass off in a traditional emcee sense: wordplay, vocab, metaphors, symbolism, rhyme patterns, etc. with no melodies and trend-hopping. He’s the last one left really.

Everything about him on paper sounds like he should be just another washed 90’s coke rapper but he isn’t.

Yeah, Pusha T actually RAPS.

He dont do that goofy ass shyt. You wont ever see a studio session where he on the mic like tryna sing to his heart's content

 

[RAW_SPK]

You know…now I hope he never stops rapping about it…just because of how flustered nikkas is. Nobody gave a fukk that son rapped about coke all the time and if they did…they aint give a fukk enough to make mad threads about it. nikka been doing it 20 years strong and about to get a #1 album off rapping the same shyt he been doing on top of putting blood in a top artists mouth. Its either Drake stans mad cuz nikkas fukk with Push or its other fans mad that son is successful and getting the praise for “rapping about one thing”

 

[MoneyTron]

No, and I hope he never does.

 

[Pop123]

That's his "thing"...as unbelievable as it is it's still working so why give it up? Lol.

Pusha T not rapping about cocaine anymore is like Lil Kim not rapping about sex anymore...or Mayweather not talking about money anymore...your whole gimmick/persona was built on that one thing, might as well ride it out.

 

[Premeditated]

future has way more versatility than pusha…not sure what you were going for here

and still a shyttier rapper

whats good with having all that versatility when you can't rap?

same subject matter with good bars over>"versatility" with melodic "rapping"/autotone singing/mediocre lyrics

 

[A Tribe Called Quest ™]

Pusha lowkey becoming overrated, he’s always been a Good MC but I wouldn’t say he’s lyrically great or some shyt. He’s like Game level on the mic minus name dropping and a better vocabulary

 

[CrimsonTider]

Black don’t crack so he still looks like he is in his 30’s

He looks 45

 

[We Ready]

future has way more versatility than pusha…not sure what you were going for here

Yeah, Pusha could never have the versatility to write a bar like "fukked her in the ass, made her pee-pee"

 

[wizworld]

Sounds to me like you don't understand the importance of "image". Seems like black men are the only group who doesn't care about their collective image as a group.

No other group of men are constantly having their image demonized and criminalized to the world like the black man. If you are a black man yourself, you should know this.

The black man's image has been reduced to gangbangers, thugs and drugdealers. That's damn near the DEFAULT SETTING of a black man in this society.

Your post suggests that I care about what others think. I don't. I barely interact with "other's" period. But that's my point .....I have a bigger picture. I think about us as a collective and I ABSOLUTELY DESPISE our collective image.

Sad that I seem to be in the minority.

These whiteboys and Asians who listen to rap don't have the same image problems as the average young black male.

I want you to take a look at this video:



It's a whiteboy prank video of him fukking with people at an ATM.

If a black male did this same prank the cops would be called or he would even be killed due to paranoia by the person he's doing the prank on. The whiteboy can get away with doing pranks like this because he's not viewed by society as a "savage".

Rap music has destroyed our collective image. Crazy that we as black people don't see this.

Black people were getting lynched by mobs of angry white people in this country way before rap music existed. African soccer players don't get called "monkeys" by Eurocacs because of rap.

That hatred & fear of Black men has always been there, if rap ends hateful people will latch on to some other reason to be hateful. If I denounce rap will airports stop searching through my checked luggage? I never made it so I don't put my rap name on my luggage, it's my regular birth name but they search it regardless.

I know brothers who have taught at MIT & Harvard so realistically my perspective could never be like yours. Brothers that listened to rap growing up and don't feel like they need to prove themselves to their colleagues that don't look like them.
You need to work on how people perceive YOU and possibly try to build connections to more productive people. Feeling like you need to apologize for folks you have no influence over will just keep you confused, depressed. & isolated. There are no white people keeping score of your life. There's nothing wrong with taking negative imagery/content in rap music to task but that imagery doesn't effect my day to day life.

You want image problems, try being a dark skinned Indian dude or a Teletubby shaped Mexican kid. Your Black ass might not even get a medal in the woe is me image olympics.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

You know…now I hope he never stops rapping about it…just because of how flustered nikkas is. Nobody gave a fukk that son rapped about coke all the time and if they did…they aint give a fukk enough to make mad threads about it. nikka been doing it 20 years strong and about to get a #1 album off rapping the same shyt he been doing on top of putting blood in a top artists mouth. Its either Drake stans mad cuz nikkas fukk with Push or its other fans mad that son is successful and getting the praise for “rapping about one thing”

yeah, I love seeing people salty about it. It's dope as fukk that someone actually fukking rap raps, and is loved by the underground and gets mainstream love as well. Can dance in and out of working with producers like Pharrell and Kanye to working with producers like Madlib and Nottz. Push doesn't need to sing on hooks. He pays homage to his favorite rappers but also has unique flows and styles himself. And manages to make a limited subject matter sound sonically diverse as hell.

Hip-hop should respect Push and give him his flowers while he's here. He also made his own way and really came into his own as a solo artist when all the odds are stacked against his style and the type of music he makes.

I can't imagine anyone that actually appreciates the art form and the craft of hip-hop not having love and respect for Pusha T.

Any hate I see for Push I assume is either from Drake stans or from contrarians.

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

Future damn near 40 about to drop another album about strippers, drugs and designer clothes but same Coli posters complaining about Push hyped for that one

"Even serve them chickens to ma auntie" - future

Coli brehs :" , fewtch da GAWD "

 

[u mad son?]

I find it very weird how Pusha has a found a lane in music being a cocaine gimmick.

To me, no clipse album or pusha album was ever anything above a 3/5

I never understood the clipse hype and no fukking way do I understand this new Pusha meme hype

His whole rap career is a low budget version of OB4CL

 

[Rembrandt]

Its either Drake stans mad cuz nikkas fukk with Push or its other fans mad that son is successful and getting the praise for “rapping about one thing”

Or some ppl just don't overhype or care about a 40something year old nikka getting off coke stories like y'all


Yall nikkas have some weird ass victim complex mixed with over the top stanning. Grown men getting upset at reviews and people commenting on the subject matter while talking fantasies yall having off the album

nikkas can be in the middle on push or not like his music. Jesus Christ.