For Tyler, the Creator, earning a feature on Clipse’s Let God Sort Em Out album was truly a bucket list item, as Pusha T has referred to Tyler as the “No. 1 Clipster.”
A month after his “P.O.V.” hit streaming services, Tyler is still geeked that he’s on a Clipse project, well over 20 years since becoming a fan.
The Grammy-winning rapper joined Zane Lowe for an interview with Apple Music on Thursday (Aug. 7), where he called his collaboration with Clipse one of the top moments of his life to date.
“Just pressing play and hearing your voice on a Clipse album. I don’t think folks know the weight that s—t really got. I got Grammys, I got whips, I done did it all. That might be top eight moments of my life,” he claimed. “So thank you to Pusha, Malice, [Pharrell]. For real, love y’all down.”
Tyler told Hot 97 that he re-recorded his verse for the album about “79 to 100 times” before finally getting it right while recording on tour in Dublin, and admitted at one point that he nearly texted Pusha to scrap it altogether. “It’s been a few times I’ve gotten nervous and trying to nail that verse with two of my Mount Rushmores, produced by Mount Rushmore, was like I can’t f—k this up for me,” he said during the interview.
Tyler continued: “It took me so long to write that and just trying to perfect it … Was really in that b—h sweating. That n—a Pusha sent me that before I went on tour, probably in April and I ain’t get him that s—t until end of May, early June.”
“P.O.V.” entered the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 65 as a standout from Clipse’s Let God Sort Em Out, which debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200.
Listen to “P.O.V.” and watch the full interview below.