For years now, No Malice has been teasing us with a follow-up to the 2009 Clipse album Til the Casket Drops, but all we have been left with are empty promises and false hope. Even though he will always have a brother in Pusha T, we have all been resigned to the fact that No Malice has quit the group.
In a new interview with Vlad TV, No Malice addressed his name change from Malice back in 2012, and hinted at how certain elements of their songs led to the rapper parting ways with the Clipse. "I believe we become how we're labeled. You keep answering to a certain thing, you gon' be that, you know what I'm saying?" he confessed. "Unless you're trying to look at it as it's just entertainment. But you may try to say that, but certain things start to stick. You might start seeing, you talk about dope on record, you might start seeing an indictment or something like that. I guess it's that age old question, 'Does art imitate life or is life imitating art?' That's a real thing. I absolutely know that there is nothing malice about me, or who I'm supposed to be."
After Vlad referenced a recent discussion with Money B from Digital Underground where he talked about how 2pac would basically speak things like going to jail and getting shot into existence through his music, No Malice saw parallels between 'Pac and Clipse. But No Malice reflected on how his former group's material impacted their listeners.
"I do believe that we can speak death upon ourselves, the same way we can speak life upon ourselves," No Malice said. "If you look at the things that I have said in the past, can you imagine how many people went to jail listening to the things that I said? Think about how many times people got pulled over, went to jail...my record playing in the car. Think about how many times somebody's head was blown out and the theme music still playing, or whatever."
With No Malice well-established in his solo career and Pusha cooking up an album of his own, it's safe to assume that there won't be any chance of music from the Clipse in the future.
