Clipse Get a New Release Date

By: Yves Erwin Salomon

Virginia-based rap group the Clipse have been battling their label, Jive Records, since their contract was picked up after the dissolution of Arista Records in 2003. The group finally made some headway this year and were set to release their sophomore album, Hell Hath No Fury, on Halloween but the project has been pushed back again. Group member Pusha T heard about the release date change while doing an interview with Rolling Stone and told the magazine, "I hate Jive with all my heart and all the passion and my soul."

The rapper isn't as down on the label anymore. He told MTV.com, "When I say things, I'm speaking from the emotional side of an artist. We do street rap where we feel that everything is dictated from the streets. And the hype and the buzz that you garner is something that can't be taken away from you. The record label, all they have to go by is what reads on paper. So it's like, as far as the Rolling Stone issue goes, it was a situation where it was a rough day. And I feel like my core audience -- the people who kept us relevant for all these years and the time on hiatus -- is waiting. So, you know, for them to say that s**t was pushed back, I was upset and I spazzed out."

The rapper added, "Jive hasn't denied us much, not really anything that we've asked for. But the time frame in which they do things sort of f***s up the situation. They'll do it, they just do it a little late. In all fairness, it has to be hard to put millions of dollars into a situation and to just go off what the streets is saying without any type of real gauge. But at the end of the day, record label people are not in the streets like that. They don't know the kids are like, 'Yo, I got the Clipse track "Mr. Me Too." This dude be trying to be like me all day long.' It turns into a trust thing. You have to trust the artists sometimes."

Hell Hath No Fury will now hit stores on December 5th.

The group was in Miami earlier this week shooting a video for their new single, "What It Do (Wamp, Wamp)" featuring Slim Thug.