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Clipse are at Genius for a one-of-a-kind week dedicated entirely to them! Kicking things off is a Verified episode for their new track “Chains & Whips.” Produced by longtime collaborator Pharrell and featuring Kendrick Lamar, the song is off their new album 'Let God Sort ’Em Out.' The legendary duo breaks down their high-level bars, why No Malice felt now was the right time to return, the power of restraint, why all money isn’t good money and so many more gems on today’s episode!

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00:00Coming back into the clips, it has been presented to me over and over, over the years.

00:06I just believe that now is the time we're able to do it.

00:10I felt like No Malice did everything he was supposed to do.

00:14I took my beatings.

00:15I was humbled.

00:16I was stripped.

00:17I sat down over time, read what the Word of God had to say about me, not who I thought

00:23I was, who I made myself to be.

00:25There's so much liberty in God, and I feel like He's allowed me to come back.

00:30When I hear Him talk, I hear the conviction, the confidence, and the assurity.

00:36I know Him beside me.

00:37I'm in good hands.

00:38Better know it.

00:47Chains and Whips came about, again, another Paris Louis Vuitton session.

00:53There was a best MC list or something.

00:55Evidently, I made the list, and it was just a lot of different opinions on whether I should

01:01be on the list, whether I shouldn't be on the list.

01:03Me, me.

01:04Out of 50 MCs, I was one of the people being questioned, should I be on the list?

01:10For me, it was a thing of everybody can have an opinion, but when you're talking about an

01:16MC list, I would expect for at least the opinion to be followed with, and I belong on it.

01:21My mind state on the record was like, okay, well, I'm going to give you my opinion.

01:25I truly admire his restraint.

01:28People think he goes over the top, and just with me knowing where all the bodies are buried,

01:32I admire his restraint.

01:33Pharrell started this chorus off.

01:46The chorus, actually, we were stuck on.

01:49Sometimes the beat's so good that you get stuck on the words, because you're too locked

01:54in to the beat.

01:55It's just grooving.

01:56You can't even get out of the groove to even know what you're about to say.

02:00P kind of keyed into the emotion of the track, and with that came just the statement, like,

02:06Uncle said, nigga, you must be sick.

02:09All you talk about is just getting rich, and he's just looking at it, just saying, yo, this

02:14is y'all.

02:15This is what I think of y'all, because the whole song was like, oh, what I think of you.

02:20You run from the spirit of repossession.

02:23The whole verse was sketched about looking at somebody and just figuring out their mindset,

02:28their fears.

02:29You run from the spirit of repossession was like a strong line.

02:34Too much enamel covers your necklace.

02:36I buy bitches, you buy them sections.

02:39You buy watches, I buy collections.

02:41I want to see stones.

02:42I don't want to see shellacked.

02:44Nothing.

02:45I don't see nothing shellacked on your chains.

02:48I want to see stones.

02:49Misery's fueling your aggression.

02:52Jealousy's turned into obsession.

02:54Reality TV is mud wrestling.

02:57Some sign checks I know better than.

02:59I've been offered reality TV numerous times.

03:01They offer my wife reality TV.

03:03She'd never.

03:04It's just not my taste.

03:05It doesn't look fun, it looks scripted, it looks fake.

03:08Even if it is money, not all money is good money.

03:11Beware of my name that there's delicate.

03:14You know I know where you're delicate.

03:17Crush you to pieces, I hum a breath of it.

03:19I will close your heavens for the hell of it.

03:22Some of the bars are to cater to also the mood of the song.

03:26As soon as you sat down and start talking about this record, you said spooky.

03:30You said scary.

03:31That's a different type of fear.

03:33When you talk a certain way and you put things out there, that evokes a certain type of fear.

03:38That evokes a certain level of caution.

03:42That's what you're trying to inject into the song when you hear bars like that.

03:46You think it'd be valor amongst veterans.

03:49I'm watching your fame escape relevance.

03:52We all in a room, but here's the elephant.

03:54You chasing a feature out of your element.

03:57And those lab diamonds under inspection.

04:00The question marks block your blessings.

04:02There's no tombstones in the desert.

04:04I know by now you get the message.

04:07The line, you think it'd be valor amongst veterans.

04:10I was trying to exude disappointment.

04:13I wanted people to know that mid-verse, I'm taking a step back.

04:17It's giving some common sense like, damn, you think it'd be valor amongst veterans.

04:21You think that collectively, us veterans wouldn't be at odds over nothing.

04:26Ignorance just follows you, man.

04:39To be honest, everybody knows what it's like when it gets tight.

04:43Some people are fearful of that.

04:45I have come to understand that with money or without money, I am truly the man that I am.

04:52I don't have that fear.

04:54For some people, this money is everything.

04:56It is their whole entire identity.

04:59Of course, if that's your identity, it's going to scare you, you know, to lose it.

05:03John 1010, that's my usual.

05:05Mamas is falling out in funerals.

05:07And bomb and bloat, they now viewing you.

05:10They never find the guns, but the sewers do.

05:12John 1010, the devil's not playing with people.

05:15People think the devil is out here to agitate you or to irritate you, but the Bible says

05:21the devil comes, but to kill, steal, and destroy.

05:27And that's what he wants to see happen.

05:29And if you play with him long enough, he will get you.

05:33Bubbles was sick.

05:34He need medicine.

05:35He need medicine.

05:36Brought him back to life.

05:37Now he dead again.

05:38From the wire.

05:39Yeah.

05:40From the wire.

05:41Bubbles was sick.

05:42He need medicine.

05:43Brought him back to life.

05:44Now he dead again.

05:45Nodding and dozing.

05:46You know, an addict or whatever.

05:48Just painting those street pictures.

05:49Things that I've witnessed.

05:50Things that I've seen.

05:51Now it's an epidemic that needs help.

05:55The crack epidemic was throw everybody away like they weren't people.

06:00I don't know.

06:01Just looking back at everything, man.

06:02And seeing where we are today and the disparages between groups and class of people.

06:09You know, you see a lot of injustice.

06:24Since my departure from rap, this is the darkest that I've ever been.

06:28I'm, you know, staying free of conflict.

06:31Just trying to do my thing.

06:33You know what I'm saying?

06:34And staying in my lane.

06:35This the darkest that I've ever been.

06:39My particular class, I feel like this is the first class that does not have to age out of rap.

06:45I believe that.

06:46Like, I believe that with my heart.

06:47Like, when you hear these records and you hear these songs and you hear these verses,

06:51you will always be able to put them in the ring for today.

06:55That's something our class, we have that luxury.

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