“I like to think that we slammed the door on ageism in hip-hop,” Malice recently told us
Clipse and Pharrell Williams are linking up once again, this time to perform at the 2026 Grammys.
The 68th annual ceremony will take place on Feb. 1, at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. Clipse — Pusha T and Malice — and Pharrell join the list of performers that include Best New Artist nominees Olivia Dean, Addison Rae, the Marías, Katseye, Leon Thomas, Lola Young, Sombr, and Alex Warren. Sabrina Carpenter, who received six nominations, will also perform.
Clipse’s Let God Sort Em Out, their first collaboration since 2009, was produced by Pharrell. The LP, which Rolling Stone named the sixth best album of 2025, is nominated for five Grammys: Album of the Year, Best Rap Album, Best Rap Performance for “Chains & Whips,” Best Rap Song for “The Birds Don’t Sing,” and Best Music Video for “So Be It.” (The latter is a diss track to Travis Scott, which the rapper responded to in his recent Rolling Stone cover.)
Clipse’s nominations marked their first nods in 22 years, following their one nomination for their 2003 Justin Timberlake collaboration, “Like I Love You.” As Pusha recently told Rolling Stone, “It’s a testament to, first and foremost, how we look at music, and the high level of taste — and just executing. We’re perfectionists almost to a fault sometimes, but we know what we want, and I think it translated.”
Malice added: “I like to think that we slammed the door on ageism in hip-hop. That’s a stigma that probably never should have existed, and hopefully that’s done away with.”
