“Who do I see as competition for us?” Malice grinned. “None. I don’t feel it’s anybody out there who do what we do and is as thorough as my crew. That’s how we feel about it.
“We been selecting tracks for a minute,” Mal added, “trying to figure out what beats were relevant and what beats made sense. We took it back to [Raekwon and Ghostface's] ‘Rainy Dayz,’ [Ruff Ryders'] ‘Scenario 2000.’ The beats are hot.”
The Gang also brought it up to date by rhyming over Jay-Z’s “Roc Boys” and Shawty Lo’s “Dey Know.”
“You can tell we’re such fans of the record, the music that came before us,” Pusha said. “So much so, we be like, ‘Damn, we gotta get on that sh–.’ ”
Spirit of Competition, according to the fellas, is just the commencement of their ‘08 smackdown. The Re-Up Gang’s official album is coming this spring (Pusha says in March) with the Clipse’s third LP launching this summer.
“I can’t do no more records for that,” Pusha said of the yet-untitled Re-Up album. “I have to wait for [Sony executive] [Kyambo] ‘Hip Hop’ [Joshua] to round out the album with his A&R-ing. That’s something I never had before. … Then the Clipse album is the baby. That’s not done. So that could be the focus coming into the summer, as well as the solo projects.
“[Kyambo] and [his crew] have definitely proven themselves,” he added. “We both love the same in hip-hop music: very lyric-driven guys. Hip Hop comes from a camp where the criteria for rap is high. I think we’ve mastered that.”
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