It’s a state of the union address from the prez. Pusha T’s elevation to president of Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. music label may look swell on his LinkedIn profile, but it’s business as usual when he heads to the studio.
This sees the rapper move on apace from relying on streetwise smarts and gnarly, roughneck cinema verite narratives. There's still grizzly grandstanding in the mix – Keep Dealing is certainly not about negotiating royalty rates with new G.O.O.D. signees – but there's also great moments.
On Sunshine, Pusha casts a gaze on the racial injustice and police violence of recent times. West, Timbaland and Puff Daddy provide production twitches on this sparse album, but the real star of the show is King Push and that menacing, dexterous, superbly tuned vocal pitch and punch of his. Vote Pusha!
