You know you’ve made it when you’re a clue on Jeopardy! — and that’s especially true for Pusha T, who shared a sweet message on Tuesday (Jan. 27) about growing up watching the classic game show with his late grandma.
On Tuesday’s Tournament of Champions episode, a clue about Clipse — Pusha’s rap duo with brother Malice — came up in the category “It Happened in 2025.”
“In 2025, Clipse gave the first-ever rap performance in this city-state during the ‘Grace for the World’ concert,” host Ken Jennings read, with two wrong answers (Monaco and San Marino) coming before Scott answered correctly. “What is the Vatican?” “Even less rapping the Vatican,” Jennings quipped.
Pusha celebrated the mention by sharing a message to his Jeopardy!-loving late grandmother.
“Hey Shank (my grandmother in heaven) we made it!!!” he wrote on Instagram alongside the Jeopardy! clip. “Watching @jeopardy was what we would do every night…I was too young to know the answers but turning the tv wasn’t an option. I caught on quick and it became ‘our’ thing…look at your grandsons.
“Hope you were watching and playing along tonight,” he sweetly capped the message.
To add to the sentimentality of the moment, when the Thornton brothers took part in the Grace for the World concert at the Vatican back in September, they gave a poignant performance of the Let God Sort Em Out album opener “The Birds Don’t Sing,” which is a tribute to their late parents.
“I’ve been here for a long time with hip-hop, and I remember it not being seen as an art, and it not being televised,” Pusha said in an interview with VIBE. ” … Now being at the Vatican — we do this so everyone can see how far it can go.”
Clipse are up for five awards at Sunday’s 2026 Grammy Awards, including album of the year for their acclaimed 2025 project Let God Sort Em Out, and they’ll also perform with Pharrell at the show. As the Billboard staff rolls out our list of the Greatest Pop Stars of 2025, we just named Clipse the Comeback of the Year for their valiant return with the Billboard 200 top five album.
Watch the Jeopardy! moment and see Pusha’s sweet message below.
