Since early 2017 the industry has been anticipating a new Pusha T album. The follow-up to 2015’s ‘King Push – Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude’ album was over a year in the making and includes a solid 7-tracks.
‘Daytona’ was originally titled ‘King Push’, but Pusha made the name change just days before saying, “I changed the album title from “King Push” to “DAYTONA” because I felt it didn’t represent the overall message of this body of work.”
The first G.O.O.D. Music release out of Wyoming includes only two features from Rick Ross on the drug dealing reminiscent “Hard Piano” and Kanye West on the Meek Mill-inspired “What Would Meek Do?”.
On the scathing closing track of the album “Infrared,” Push takes shots at the Cash Money/Young Money camp, most notably Drake rapping, “It was written like Nas but it came from Quentin / At the mercy of a game where the culture’s missing / When the CEO’s blinded by the glow, it’s different / Believe in myself and the Coles and Kendricks / Let the sock puppets play in their roles and gimmicks, shit.”
It’s safe to say Kanye West was happy with the album off a tweet where he said, “Daytona is the first project out of Wyoming. I’m really proud of what we put together. We’ve spent a year and a half digging for samples and writing. I really appreciate the overwhelmingly positive response that we’ve been receiving.”
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