The Brothers Thornton: Pusha T - King Push - Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude (December 18, 2015) + My Gut Reaction: No Malice - Let The Dead Bury The Dead (August 18, 2017)

Terrence “Pusha T” Thornton has been threatening to release an album entitled King Push ever since his debut solo full-length, My Name Is My Name, hit store and digital shelves in 2013. The first song on My Name Is My Name is even called “King Push”. Clearly this is a title he’s been in love with for a long time. But it seems that title may not like him back, since I’m writing these words five years later and there still hasn’t been any movement on the Pusha front. One would think that being named president of G.O.O.D. Music would give him the confidence he needs to push his own project to the forefront, but allegedly King Push is supposed to be produced in its entirety by label founder Kanye West, and between the two of them, every song on King Push has been scrapped in favor of something “better”, so I wouldn’t expect something from the man anytime soon.

Which is just as well: Pusha T has a bunch of EDM and dubstep club joints to guest-rap on.

Two Gut Reactions: Pusha T - My Name Is My Name (October 8, 2013) + No Malice - Hear Ye Him (August 18, 2013)

First off, apologies to everyone who kept checking back to see what I would write about after Drake. While I'm still trying to work through the real life shit that triggered my most recent hiatus, I have been actually trying to write, but I've blown self-imposed deadline after self-imposed deadline, due to a combination of exhaustion and laziness. (Hi, Deltron! Maybe we'll see your post up here soon, yeah?) As my way of trying to make sure you all have something to read while you're at work / in class / mid-coitus, today I present a double review for the brothers Thornton and their separate solo full-length debuts.