Clipse exclusive audio footage
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Clipse was formed by brothers Gene “No Malice” Thornton (formerly known as “Malice”) and Terrence “Pusha T” Thornton, in Virginia Beach, Virginia, in 1992. The group is affiliated with the production team The Neptunes, and in 2001 signed to their imprint Star Trak Entertainment.
The Thornton brothers were born in The Bronx and moved to Virginia Beach. They formed the group Jarvis and were introduced to Pharrell Williams, one half of the production team The Neptunes. Impressed with their lyrical talents, Williams formed a working relationship with the duo. He eventually helped them secure a recording contract with Elektra Records in 1996. Under Elektra, and with The Neptunes handling its production, Clipse recorded its debut album, Exclusive Audio Footage. The group’s first single, “The Funeral”, helped to generate fan interest in the album, but failed to make a significant commercial impact. With “The Funeral” deemed a failure, Exclusive Audio Footage itself was shelved indefinitely. Clipse was released from it
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Clipse & Pusha T
Clipse, the rapping duo of Virginia-based brothers Gene "Malice" and Terrence "Pusha T" Thornton, were discovered by Pharrell Williams (one half of The Neptunes) and recorded Exclusive Audio Footage (1999), that was not released. The ghostly single Grindin, immersed in a sparse soundscape, propelled their first released album, Lord Willin' (2002), that also contained the driving James Brown-ian funk-soul jam with vintage saxophone riff Young Boy and the bouncy soul pseudo-ballad Gangsta Lean. A formal balance between production and rapping yields Ma I Don't Love Her, with a female choir reminiscent of vocal pop groups of the 1940s, and a New Orleans-esque melody; and the carnival atmosphere of Cot Damn. No less intriguing, however, is the disruptive anti-eloquent arrangement of When The Last Time.
After the two-volume mixtape We Got It 4 Cheap (2005), the brothers returned with Hell Hath No Fury (Star Trak, 2006), a sonic jewel produced by the Neptunes that better emphasized their ferocious act
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Born in the Bronx, later migrating to Virginia Beach, VA -- brothers Pusha T and Malice -- are Clipse. And they were one of the very first artists to associate with the Neptunes, a move that was very smart.
The Neptunes' Pharrell Williams first met the duo in the early 90s and was immediately impressed by their talents. He decided to help them get a gig. Hooking them up with Elektra, their first single was a disappointing flop. The group seemed done before they really got started, even though they had an ENTIRE album's worth of material recorded.
Pharrell Williams, however, was not discouraged and continued to hype the group until a new label - Arista - intervened in 2001!
With the new label in the bag, Pharrell and partner Chad Hugo produced Lord Willin', Clipse's 2002 full-length "debut", and released it under their newly developed Star Trak name. With "Grindin'," the album hit Top 10 on the R&B/Hip-Hop and Billboard 200 charts and eventually went GOLD!
The merger between Sony & BMG threw their follow-up album's future into limbo and so began a long list of legal i
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