Confidence Men: An Interview with The Clipse

Complex’s latest cover story lands Hip-Hop’s premier brotherly duo, The Clipse, with some artistic assistance from the always highly coveted New York-based artist KAWS. Catching up with Malice and Pusha, we gain further insight into their personal fashion tastes and upcoming album release, Till The Casket Drops.

…on Play Cloths

This whole thing was born, honestly, by the fans. When we were doing the We Got It 4 Cheap series, we were doing shows packed with 500 or 1,000 kids per night. Not only were they reciting the words to the mixtape, but they were also pointing at the Bathing Ape jacket.

…on Fashion

And then you start getting online, and then you start seeing what the hypebeast types are into. They were the ones who sort of nudged us in that direction. It was like, “Wait a minute. Y’all pay this much attention? This much?” We had to.

The interview in its entirety can be found here.