Pusha T‘s debut album My Name Is My Name exceeded expectations initially set by the rapper who came up alongside his brother as the Clipse. It marked Push’s official venture as a solo artist after the release of mixtapes and stand-out verses. Reuniting with Pharrell on the song, “S.N.I.T.C.H” (an acronym for “Sorry N***a, I’m Tryna Come Home), Pusha T closed out the project on not only a high-note but a personal one as well.

Anthony “Geezy” Gonzalez, the former manager of the Clipse, was locked up at the time the song came out but this became problematic for him inside of the prison. Geezy sat down with Vlad for a detailed conversation about the single but also, the repercussions he was possibly facing because people began to think that he was the subject of the song. Explaining that he didn’t identify any shots against him in the first two verses, it was a particular line in their that he took as a shot against him.

“Covered his own tracks, he didn’t care that
We had a legacy he killed, I got to wear that
Every move we ever made is gettin’ stared at”

“I’m like hold on, ain’t nobody built this legacy but me,” Geezy explained as he recounted his first reaction to the song. “So now I put my manager hat on and sayin’, ‘oh, I get it’. There is so much stuff surrounding people snitching and people doing this and people doing that and as an artist, he got to say something about it. He got to try to play the card of ‘hey, I don’t got nothing to do with this.’  It was well played because he’s very smart.”

Unfortunately, Push’s stand-out outro on MNIMN turned into problems for Geezy. “Other people [inside the prison] are looking at it like the Virginia boys are harboring a rat,” he explained.

Peep the interview below. 

The Clipse were far from the first to rap about cocaine but the way that they took the niche genre and innovated it shifted the game for the better. Push is still rapping about cocaine nearly 20 years later but he’s faced a backlash from people who’ve claimed that he’s not really about that life while others have criticized the romanticized and largely exaggerated depiction of his kingpin stature.

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In a recent interview with Anthony “Geezy” Gonzalaz, former manager to the Clipse, there might be some validity behind the criticism towards their authenticity. Push, specifically, was able to take moments of their real-life conversations and turn it into glorified bars of gold. In fact, Geezy said roughly 95% of the things No Malice and King Push rapped about surrounded a life that he did.

“They never had to ask me about no idea off of what they have seen,” Gonzalez said. “But, I remember a couple of times it was a rap back in the day and me and him were sitting there talking and I said to him, I made a statement, for every car I got add nine O’s. It was me just talking in general when I said that and he looked at me but he ain’t say nothing. Then I heard him say it in a rhyme, ‘For every car I got add nine O’s.’ When I heard it, I was like, man I said that to him. He was good when it came to that type of stuff.”

This only adds more fuel to the claims made by Drake and No Malice that Pusha T isn’t actually living the stuff that he raps about. We’ll see if Push ends up responding to this clip.