Fifteen years out the game and Clipse haven’t missed a step—they’ve just been sharpening the blade. With Let God Sort Em Out, the Virginia duo re-emerges not as nostalgia bait but as elder statesmen of a genre they helped define. The tracklist, revealed via Spotify’s Countdown To, reads less like a feature list and more like a summit of modern rap royalty: Kendrick Lamar, Nas, Tyler The Creator, John Legend, The-Dream—and Pharrell Williams, of course, who executive produced the entire album and adds verses of his own.
This isn’t just a return. It’s a reckoning.
The rollout’s been years in the making. From their reunion at Pharrell’s Something In The Water fest in 2022 to the cryptic hints across interviews and Instagram teases, Clipse have been slowly lighting the fuse. Now the bomb’s about to go off, and the results look explosive.
The track titles suggest a spiritual and economic tightrope walk—“The Birds Don’t Sing,” “Chains & Whips,” “E.B.I.T.D.A.,” “F.I.C.O.”—with an undercurrent of generational reflection. “Let God Sort Em Out/Chandeliers” with Nas already sounds like a funeral hymn for the fake and a coronation for the real. And “By The Grace Of God”? That’s the Clipse gospel: cold-blooded truth wrapped in spiritual armor.
Pharrell’s presence throughout the album isn’t just a nod to past chemistry—it’s a statement. He’s not just behind the boards; he’s inside the architecture of every beat, every bass drop, every silence. With his minimalist precision and instinct for drama, he gives the brothers exactly what they need: room to breathe, space to strike.
And don’t sleep on the sequencing. It opens with John Legend and a choir on “The Birds Don’t Sing”—a warning or a prayer, maybe both—and closes with a title that turns grace into grit. Between those two bookends, it’s war stories, code-switching, and quiet moments of moral clarity. It’s No Malice and Pusha T not just reuniting, but realigning.
Let God Sort Em Out drops July 11 via Roc Nation. If the music matches the weight of its ambition—and there’s every reason to believe it will—this album won’t just be a comeback. It’ll be canon.
Clipse Let God Sort Em Out Tracklist
01. “The Birds Don’t Sing” Feat. John Legend & Voices Of Fire
02. “Chains & Whips” Feat. Kendrick Lamar
03. “P.O.V.” Feat. Tyler The Creator
04. “So Be It Pt. II”
05. “Ace Trumpets”
06. “All Things Considered” Feat. The-Dream & Pharrell Williams
07. “M.T.B.T.T.F.”
08. “E.B.I.T.D.A.” Feat. Pharrell Williams
09. “F.I.C.O.” Feat. Stove God Cooks
10. “Inglorious Bastards” Feat. Ab-Liva
11. “So Far Ahead” Feat. Pharrell Williams
12. “Let God Sort Em Out/Chandeliers” Feat. Nas
13. “By The Grace Of God” Feat. Pharrell Williams
