Clipse Interview with Complex

From the cover story of the Oct/Nov issue of Complex:

Complex: In this new age of the industry, where you have artists getting signed off one single, there are rappers just putting more and more music out. There are people on Nah Right that drop like 13 songs a week. You guys seem more…

Malice: Because we care about it, man. We can do everything they’re doing now. I mean, we can put out an album in a week. We can do that. But I wouldn’t be happy with it. I think our songs, our albums, singles, even the mixtapes, everything is handcrafted.

Pusha: Yeah, I think that stuff sucks too.

Malice: [Laughs.]

Pusha: All of that music I’m seeing every fucking day…all these 50,000 mixtapes. With not one gem on it.

Complex: Yeah, it makes it very disposable.

Pusha: Come on…You’re ruining it. You’re pissing me off.

Malice: Then making 50 songs, and throwing away 30 that don’t make the album. It’s like, What were you thinking when you were writing those?

Pusha: Stupid! Hey, stupid!

Malice: When we make a track, we loved it from the beginning.

Pusha: Hey, dummy!

Complex: That’s a good point.

Pusha: What’s wrong with you stupid? Who works like that?

Malice: What song do you make that you can throw away? What the hell is wrong with you?

Pusha: Unless…

Malice: You knew it was doo-doo.

Pusha: And they are real stupid…

Malice: And frivolous.

Pusha: Pointless, meaningless…

Complex: You don’t think it’ll help if you released a song every week?

Malice: I think our fans expect more from us.

Pusha: Yeah.

Malice: I think if we try to do that, they’ll be like, “What the hell is wrong with y’all?” I think they expect more from us.

Pusha: It’s like they wait to see it. And when they see it, they’re expecting fucking pyramids.