 'Every time I touch the stage I give you my all, I give you my everything, I give you my family,' Pusha T told a feverish crowd in Birmingham last night. His tour date in the city may have been twice postponed as he worked on new music, but the hip-hop legend touched down seemingly determined to hit home three times as hard. The chronicler of stashed-away millions and 'choppas in the closet' evidently has a different source for his riches nowadays, and there was no sign of impatience at the packed O2 Institute. He delivered with an electrifying set where every word was fired home with laser-guided precision. From the very first bar on the tyre-scorching opener, Let the Smokers Shine The Coupes, the Virginia Beach rapper, real name Terrence LeVarr Thornton, showed why he is arguably one of rap's all-time greats. Pusha T whipped up the crowd on a ride into his world of dollar bills and narcotics during a high octane show (Picture: Josh Layton) Whipping the crowd along with his impeccable flow and lyrical dynamism, the line 'I'm Cocaine's Dr Suess' was testament to his agile wordplay in matching an illicit past with a reflective present. Peppered with references to narcotics dealing, his scorching set nevertheless showed no sign of gangster rap tropes and contained a wider range of reference points than many MCs will manage in a lifetime. Pusha, 46, was in good company at the Digbeth venue, latest stop on his delayed UK and European tour originally intended to mark the April 2022 launch of his fourth studio album, It's Almost Dry. The roof-raising crowd chanted 'f*** Drake' without King Push ever mentioning the Canadian hitmaker's name beyond oblique references to their beef within his tracks. Pusha T displayed his lyrical mastery on a night when he showed why he is considered one of the rap greats (Picture: Josh Layton) To v){kind=link}
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‘Every time I touch the stage I give you my all, I give you my everything, I give you my family,’ Pusha T told a feverish crowd in Birmingham last night.
His tour date in the city may have been twice postponed as he worked on new music, but the hip-hop legend touched down seemingly determined to hit home three times as hard.
The chronicler of stashed-away millions and ‘choppas in the closet’ evidently has a different source for his riches nowadays, and there was no sign of impatience at the packed O2 Institute.
He delivered with an electrifying set where every word was fired home with laser-guided precision.