Pusha T has joined forces with his longtime friend and collaborator Nigo on a new track called “Hear Me Clearly.”
The song, which follows Push’s latest Kanye West-produced single “Diet Coke,” will appear on Nigo’s upcoming new album, I Know Nigo. The record will mark the Japanese cultural and fashion icon’s first musical body of work in nearly two decades.
“See the difference ‘tween me and them?” Pusha raps on the powerful track. “I move to a different drum like EDM.” It was executive produced by Pharrell Williams, who the Virginia Beach rapper shared a story about in an Instagram post about the release.
“@pharrell heard this song and told me ‘it’s cool, but I don’t want you to be a mixtape rapper for the rest of your life,’” Push said. “I was devastated. He then flew me to Miami and proceeded to produce the first half of the best album of the year. Moral of the story… always ‘push’ your friends to be greater, even when they’re the greatest.”
“Hear Me Clearly” follows Nigo’s previous singles from I Know Nigo – the Kid Cudi-featuring “Want It Bad” and the A$AP Rocky-assisted “Arya.” The full album will be released on March 25 via Victor Victor Worldwide/Republic Records.
Tracks from the record were recently showcased at Nigo’s debut Paris Fashion Week show as artistic director for fashion label KENZO. After the show, snippets of the new music went viral and trended on Twitter, with over a million plays on the clips that were shared online.
Meanwhile, Pusha T is also working on his own new album, which will be the follow-up to his Grammy-nominated No.1 album Daytona. The new material was produced entirely by Pharrell Williams and Kanye West.
Last summer, the former Clipse member participated in a Spotify Sunday Dinner recording, alongside Ari Lennox, Anwan “Big G” Glover, Rico Nasty, and Spotify’s Black Music Editor, Domo Wells. The group chatted about music from the DMV, the area celebrated in the rap world that consists of Washington D.C., Maryland, and Virginia.