Clipse recently spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about their incredible year with Let God Sort Em Out and how it felt for brothers Pusha T and Malice to reunite. This interview also addressed one of the most simple but interesting questions around this whole rollout: what happened to No Malice?
For those unaware, Gene Thornton changed his stage name to No Malice three years after the duo's Til The Casket Drops album amid a spiritual journey. But when they came back with LGSEO, he went back to the OG stage name, and he explained this dynamic.
"Since inception, it was Malice, and the theme behind it was I was just attacking these verses maliciously," the Infinite collaborator expressed. He also confirmed that his two solo albums were under No Malice.
"That’s what the whole name was about," Malice continued. "With my convictions and with my heart change over time, I just wanted to show that there was nothing malicious about me as far as bringing harm or ill will about anything. But when my brother and I decided to come back together into the group, I felt like we owed it to ourselves and to the fans to stick with the initial branding. I never wanted to try to do Clipse with a little tweak or a little change. Clipse will always remain Clipse. It’s who we are when we come together and it’s who the fans know it to be, and I wouldn’t want to have that any other way."
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"I really think you’re the first person we’ve talked to who really want to clarify that," he told THR's Kyle Eustice. "I’ve spoken on it, but you’re making it a staple, so I appreciate that."
In a separate Billboard interview, Pusha T spoke on what their album represents as far as hip-hop's age ceiling. "Looking at just competing in music, I’ve never felt like it was a young man’s sport," he reflected. "I always felt like it was a competitor’s sport. As long as you’re competing and you’re living through the times, you should be in it. You have to be in it. You can’t passively be in it."
