Pusha T cuts ties with Kanye West: “He knows I don’t think he’s a man”
Pusha T has officially drawn a hard line in the sand: he and Kanye West are done, both professionally and personally.
In a new cover interview with GQ, the former G.O.O.D. Music president didn’t hold back, opening up for the first time in full about the collapse of his relationship with Ye. And if there was any doubt that things might still be salvageable between the two former collaborators — consider that door closed, locked, and burned down.
“The one thing that I can say about him is that he knows that every issue that he’s having and crying about online right now, I’ve told him distinctly about those things,” Pusha said, addressing Ye’s ongoing controversies and public meltdowns. “He don’t talk to me like he talks to others.”
Their creative partnership goes back more than a decade, with Kanye producing some of Pusha’s most iconic solo tracks and albums — Daytona, My Name Is My Name, and even contributions to Donda 2. But according to Push, something fundamentally shifted after Ye’s 2022 antisemitic outbursts — a string of actions that not only cost Kanye deals with Adidas, Balenciaga, and Def Jam, but also fractured his closest artistic alliances.
Pusha doesn’t mince words. “He knows I don’t think he’s a man,” he said bluntly. “That’s why me and him don’t click, because he knows what I really, really think of him. He’s showed me the weakest sides of him, and he knows how I think of weak people.”
Calling Ye “sick” wasn’t just a throwaway comment. Push took it further, suggesting that Kanye’s behavior isn’t just illness — it’s calculated. “If I take your sickness and take how calculated you’ve been and disruptive you’ve been and tried to be to me, then it cancels itself out. I can’t look at it as sick, because you’re detrimental. You’re detrimental to everything.”
That’s a heavy statement from someone who once publicly stood by Ye through thick and thin, even as other artists quietly stepped back. And while Pusha appeared on “Diet Coke” during the Donda 2 era, he says even then, he felt creatively sidelined — signaling that the split had already begun before it became public.
For fans of both artists, it’s a major rupture in one of the most influential rap alliances of the last 20 years. But for Pusha, it’s also about standing on principle. He didn’t just walk away because the backlash got too loud — he walked away because, as he sees it, Ye stopped being someone worth building with.
