The cycle goes hype, leak, hype, final release and then we all move on and forget after a few days. Not for me. I stay fashionably late, lingering around to listen for a while before picking up whatever’s next. A week or two ago, I ran up on a hard copy of Fear Of God and keep it in the rotation, mostly playing “Blow” and “Cook It Down” back-to-back. While “Malice found religion, Tony found prison,” Pusha’s still set in his ways, seeking more intricate methods to describe selling coke through a pen. Others may alter content but not Mal, but why should he anyways? He’s good at it and makes it all sound idealized with lines like “First class flights, Ciroc-filled nights, Wakin’ up to models, what a motherf*ckin’ life.”

Pusha T – “Blow”