Hot off the release of The Clipse’s new album, Let God Sort Em Out, Pusha T and No Malice premier the video for their Kendrick Lamar-featured track, “Chains & Whips”
Directed by Gabriel Moses, the symbolic visual depicts striking images of the ongoing inequity and trauma in Black America, while the Thornton brothers recite their fiery bars.
“Beware of my name, that there is delicate / You know I know where you’re delicate,” raps Pusha T on the Pharrell-produced track. He continues, “Crush you to pieces, I’ll hum a breath of it / I will close your Heaven for the hell of it,” while his brother No Malice follows suit. “John 10:10, that’s my usual / Mamas is falling out in funerals / Embalmed and bloat, they now viewing’ you / They never find the guns, but the sewers do.”
Meanwhile, Kendrick, who does not appear in the video, closes out the track with his guest verse. “I son niggas, I am the general, where my gin and juice? / Every song is the book of Genesis, let the sonics boom / Niggas want the tea on me, well, here’s the ginger root / I generate residuals, bitch, get off my genitals.”
Making it their first album together in almost 16 years, Let God Sort Em Out marks the Clipse’s fourth studio album. The 13-track set, entirely produced by Pharrell Williams includes the singles “Ace Trumpets“, “So Be It“, and features from Pharrell, Kendrick Lamar, Nas, Tyler, The Creator, Stove God Cooks, The-Dream, John Legend, Voices of Fire, and Ab-Liva.