Grammy Winner for Best Rap Performance: “Chains & Whips”

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In the 15+ years since Clipse’s last album hit the shelves of record stores, the music world has been upended several times over. Through it all, enthusiasm for the duo from Virginia never waned. Let God Sort ’Em Out showcases the singular talent and lasting influence of Pusha-T and Malice.

The brothers emerged from Virginia Beach, where they met the Neptunes, who would help them craft some of this century’s most forward-thinking rap music. Their career has been marked by the kind of industry red tape that can mummify entire careers and keep brilliant music out of the public eye, first with their would-be debut album, Exclusive Audio Footage, and later with their sophomore effort, Hell Hath No Fury. But they persisted.

Through the 2010s and on, the brothers took divergent paths, with Pusha embarking on an illustrious solo career and dropping seminal works of his own, while Malice — who for a time changed his name to No Malice — explored more deeply the spirituality that had long informed his work. This unmistakable alchemy — vicious renderings of crime and the sense of a moral code that lurks just underneath — is what makes Let God Sort ’Em Out so arresting.

The need to be authentic is paramount, but it’s also natural to these two. Perhaps Malice puts it most clearly: “Nothing else works for us.”

Released: 10/24/25