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Clipse’s ‘Let God Sort Em Out’ Is Stylish, Intense and Sanctimonious: Album Review


Clipse's Pusha T and Malice reunite for 'Let God Sort Em Out,' their first album in 16 years.

Laced with unfailingly sharp rapping, but dented by heavy-handed self-mythology and intermittently sterile Pharrell Williams beats, “Let God Sort Em Out”is a well-executed album occasionally weighed down by its grandiosity. Svelte yet heavy, Clipse ’s latest sees all their phonetic and poetical gifts rendered to subtly maximal effect, with their lithe vocals cresting Pharrell’s glossy surfaces like snowfall. The production here, and throughout the album, is spotless, but somewhat unimaginative; “P.O.V.” could have been produced anytime between “Fear of God” and “My Name Is My Name.” In the beginning of their ascension, Clipse rapped atop spaceships; let the trillions of lunchtable “Grindin” renditions serve as proof.

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