"They wanted me to ask Kendrick to censor his verse, which of course I was never doing," Pusha T said in an interview GQ, adding that he and Clipse left the label over the disagreement.

After Pusha T refused to change a guest verse from Kendrick Lamar on the upcoming Clipse album, he bought his way out of his record deal with Def Jam.

Pusha T and Malice left Def Jam after creative conflicts, securing master ownership through a Roc Nation deal.