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Closing out Clipse Week, the duo is diving into their track “So Far Ahead.” The braggadocious song is once again produced by longtime collaborator Pharrell, who also lends his vocals to the chorus this time around. They break down how they keep their rhymes sharp, give a deeper look into their creative chemistry with Pharrell, make it clear they’re done answering questions about Kanye, and so much more on today’s episode!

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00:00It's not pressure to top yourself.

00:01I look at it like a crossword puzzle.

00:03The beat is the backdrop for the puzzle.

00:06You have to fit comfortably the words into weaving through this beat and still make it

00:12sound clean, clear, and concise.

00:14Once you find the flow and crack the code, then it's just about saying the freshest shit.

00:19And we can say fresh shit all day.

00:20It's a gift.

00:21It's a talent.

00:22It's a standard.

00:23Yeah.

00:24It's definitely a standard.

00:25I truly believe we could do 10 albums a year and everybody be satisfied with it.

00:32We just wouldn't be satisfied with anything mediocre.

00:35You know what I'm saying?

00:36When you get Eclipse music, it's chiseled.

00:38It is handcrafted.

00:39I think the Eclipse is a novelty and not fly by night.

00:50So far ahead, of course, once again, starts with the beat.

00:53The beat, man, is like an off bop.

00:58We had the hook for it first.

00:59So it was Pharrell singing in falsetto, but he was talking shit.

01:03Like heavy shit through the falsetto.

01:06The hook was so infectious, but the bop of the beat was so different.

01:11The bop was so unorthodox, we had to ensure that the lines were just cutting each time.

01:17That was the attack on it.

01:18I think it's fair to say, Pharrell lives vicariously through everybody that he works

01:24with.

01:25He studies them.

01:26He understands the artists.

01:28That's how he produces for artists.

01:31Pharrell and I actually had a conversation because I told him, I said, it seems to me when you

01:35make the beat, the hook comes right with it in your head as you're making the beat.

01:39And he was like, you're exactly right.

01:40You know, that's exactly how it happens.

01:43I thought it was ill that Brittany Griner got swapped for somebody else.

01:59And that's how she got out of her situation.

02:01The only one to swap for me is Chapo.

02:04You know, you got to top it, man.

02:06That's just drawing that parallel and it's taking it to the next level.

02:13The dope boys be fucking up the worlds of innocent people who are, you know, innocent

02:22women who ain't from the streets or, you know, and they just bring that energy on.

02:27Hanging out with the guys like us, it's a whole preconceived notion about you as, you

02:32know what I'm saying, as a woman.

02:33It's just shit that come along.

02:34We the dark cloud.

02:35That was just the whole energy behind the verse.

02:37It's just, you know, dope boy, dark cloud.

02:40This is what happens.

02:41Your co-defendant claim immunity.

02:43It was you and he.

02:44How'd you not know?

02:45Unless you leaving court in a Bentley sport just to meet you at the yacht though.

02:50Unless y'all done collaborated and then talked out what's going to happen.

02:53If he made a deal that you didn't know about, man, that's just, that's dirty work.

02:58Somebody's at ease and somebody's made the deal.

03:00Like somebody's calm and very convinced at what they're already going to do already.

03:05Somebody's eating and somebody's not eating.

03:07Someone doesn't have an appetite.

03:09Because of what happened to PNB, I'll probably just never go to Roscoe's ever again.

03:22I didn't like it.

03:23I just didn't like the, you know, I didn't like how that scenario played out.

03:26Just corny shit, man.

03:27Like that's corny.

03:28Like PNB super talented.

03:30With his family.

03:31With his family.

03:32Like, come on.

03:33I just ain't going.

03:34I ain't never going again actually.

03:35The attitude in the verse is like basically how the dope boy just kind of like, he don't

03:49give a fuck about shit.

03:51Like he, he really, he really fucks up a lot of what he encounters.

03:55A million ways to stop it.

03:56Pray for me.

03:57Cause we not though.

03:58It's just like, man, we not, we not going to stop.

04:00We know, we, we, we, we see it.

04:02We understand that it's the wrong way to go, but you just not going to stop.

04:14This music is being written in real time.

04:17So like, you know, everywhere I turn is like, you know, because I was such a part of good

04:23music, it was nowhere I couldn't turn when people were asking me about Ye, like what,

04:27what's he on?

04:28What's this mindset?

04:29At the time it was maybe had just turned into the Nazi thing or whatever.

04:33Everybody was asking me like, man, no more questions about that shit.

04:36Like I can't explain it for you.

04:38I can't explain it for him.

04:49My calling or what I felt I had to do.

04:52There were some people that, that tried to write it off.

04:54There were some people that thought it, that thought it was, uh, you know, crazy.

04:58Yeah.

04:59There was just a lot of things going on that were not within our code of conduct.

05:04So it really wasn't hard to leave, especially when you know what it is you have to do for

05:11yourself.

05:12When you know you have to look at your, yourself in the mirror.

05:15When you know that you having sleepless nights, it really was an easy choice.

05:19There is no amount of money.

05:21There's no amount of anything if you're, you know, in search of and seeking for your own

05:28inner peace.

05:29No mistaking me for the Reverend, ushering the money, my confession.

05:32How you passed a whip of Rolls Royce?

05:35That was me pre 9-11.

05:37That no mistaking me for the Reverend, uh, I didn't want anyone to misconstrue the choices

05:43that I had made for, for being or thinking that I'm high and mighty or passing judgment

05:50on anybody.

05:51I wanted to make that clear.

05:52How you passed a drive of Rolls Royce?

05:54That was me pre 9-11 speaking to a time when I had had a Porsche, you know, a 9-11 Porsche.

06:01And then of course we know everything that happened with the towers and all of that.

06:05You know, everybody wants to kind of discredit the pastor for having money.

06:11They think that if you stand for the word of God, you're supposed to be dingy and destitute,

06:16you know, and not have anything or whatever.

06:19It's not the money that's the root of all evil.

06:21It's the love of the money.

06:24Even in the Bible, Jesus said, do what they say, don't do what they do.

06:28The word is true.

06:30Everything man touches, he defiles.

06:32You know, count every man a liar and let God be true.

06:35People watch everybody and try to critique people.

06:38Everybody falls short.

06:39Look at me post Armageddon, walking with my dog, I am legend.

06:43Walking with my dog and I'm all about my dog.

06:45You know, I post them from time to time, but everybody that knows me knows I'm a dog fanatic.

06:50I love dogs.

07:04I feel like I relate to Mace and his walk.

07:09Being at the pinnacle of his career and having a change because what would make you give up

07:15everything?

07:16And not give up everything on one hand, knowing something's over here to catch you.

07:20It's giving up everything on one hand and not knowing how it's going to play out.

07:24I think that's just the biggest testament.

07:27I think as far as walks is concerned, I feel like I walked a very similar walk or experience

07:34to what Mace had experienced.

07:36I could even take you back to our first album, exclusive audio footage.

07:50And it opened up with a very sincere prayer.

07:54We knew the things that we were saying.

07:56We knew the things that we were doing.

07:58We knew the things that we were talking about.

08:00Even in that prayer, it was like, can somebody see past this?

08:05Not to harm anyone or anyone who would latch on it and try to replicate the things that

08:09we were into at that time.

08:19This whole project right now is a testament of me letting God take the will.

08:24When we first came out, we fought for this.

08:27We were able to accomplish a lot of great success.

08:31This time, I ain't strive for nothing.

08:34I ain't seek out no deal.

08:35I ain't look for no deal.

08:37I ain't look for no fashion.

08:38I ain't look for no jewelry.

08:40You know what I'm saying?

08:41I ain't look for nothing.

08:43That is me letting God take the will.

08:46And I would suggest that to anyone.

08:48Stop stressing so much.

08:49Stop worrying about a thing.

08:52Get some faith and fast.

08:54The album title is Let God Sort Him Out.

08:59It's funny because me and T was just talking about it and he thought I came up with the

09:04title.

09:05I thought he came up with the title.

09:06You know what I'm saying?

09:07So somewhere in our conversations, it just, you know what I'm saying, came into fruition.

09:11Looking at all of our titles of the albums, it just follows the same theme.

09:16You know what I'm saying?

09:17Lord willing, hell have no fury till the casket drops.

09:20Now let God sort him out.

09:22It plays right into who we are.

09:24In the competitive spirit of hip hop, you know, the full phrase is kill them all.

09:28Let God sort them out.

09:29I'm out.

09:30I'm out.

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