N.O.R.E. Claims Pusha T Once Yelled Over Pharrell Williams Amid Drake Feud
'When we had Pharrell on the show [ Drink Champs], is the first time I ever heard Pusha T raise his voice,' described the 47-year-old. 'I said to Pharrell, 'Pusha T or Drake,' and he said 'both.' I don't know if I'm supposed to say this, Pusha. I'm sorry man, but I'm in the zone right now. Pusha called me like, 'How the f**k is our boy doing this? How's he doing that? How's he saying both of us? 'Drake wouldn't have picked both of us, Drake would have picked him!' And I'm like 'Pusha, this is the one time I'm shutting the f**k up. I'mma let you vent.''
'I say that to say that's how much of a human Pharrell is. He told me for years, N.O.R.E., don't do no crime in front of me.' Who the f**k thinks like that? He said, 'I'm going to tell…' He literally told me that from the beginning.'
Pharrell visited N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN on Drink Champs in 2020, where the aforementioned exchange went down. Recently, discussion around the Drake-Pusha T beef has been revived as the self-proclaimed 6 God went toe-to-toe with Kendrick Lamar. The Compton rapper is featured on Pusha T's upcoming Clipse album with his brother Malice. The album Let Got Sort Em Out is fully produced by the Virginia native and set to be released on Friday (July 11).
'I didn't wanna see that go that way. That didn't make me happy,' expressed Williams. 'I hate to see what him (Pusha) and Drake are going through—or what they went through. I hated to see all of it, every bit of it … it wasn't good.'
Last November, Williams addressed Drake's purchase of some of his legendary memorabilia and threats to melt it down by saying, 'I guess some things are not for me to understand.' Most recently, the chart-topping star copped Pharrell's white gold brain pendant chain, featuring 44.92 carats of white, blue, black, and natural pink diamonds, with the logo set in brilliant blue diamonds.
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