Hip-hop duo Clipse are set to cement their reunion with a new album coming sometime in the “next year” produced entirely by Pharrell Williams.
Shortly after their new song titled “Birds Don’t Sing” was played in the background at Louis Vuitton’s Spring 2025 Menswear show on Tuesday (June 18th), brothers Pusha T and Malice (who has officially dropped the “No” from his name) spoke with Vulture about their first album in 15 years.
“The next year is going to be filled with appearances, touring, and a rap album of the year,” Push pronounced, before describing the project as “curated,” “a high taste-level piece of work,” and the “supreme maturation of a rap duo.”
He continued, “You can only have that level of taste when you have the fundamentals down to a science.” Malice added, “It’s what rap should look like if you’re real about your craft, real about your experience, real about your storytelling. It’s bringing the fans along to see the growth, not trying to fit in or fabricate… This is what the true evolution of the Clipse looks like.”
Pusha T and Malice also spoke about the importance of having a single producer in Pharrell to reach their desired “level of meticulousness” and revealed they did not work with the other half of the Neptunes, Chad Hugo, who filed a lawsuit against Williams last year.
“Pharrell producing everything is also an ode to the type of music and the type of albums we want to make. We still want to make full bodies of work. These are movies, man. These aren’t just songs,” Push explained, with Malice describing the LP as “cohesive material.”
Read the full interview at Vulture.
Featuring John Legend, “Birds Don’t Sing” finds each brother processing the death of their parents, with Pusha T addressing their mother and Malice remembering their father. Check out a preview below starting around the 5:35 mark.
Clipse first reunited with a feature on Kanye West’s “Use This Gospel” in 2019 and came together for their first live performance in a dozen years at Pharell’s Something in the Water festival in June 2022. Their last studio album was 2009’s Til the Casket Drops.
See where Clipse’s debut album, Lord Willin’, landed in our ranking of the best hip-hop albums of all time.