That bubble did not necessarily include radio programmers, partially because Clipse’s hiatus allowed the rest of rap to flood the game with competing products, adding another chapter to drugs and rap’s decades-long complicated relationship.Īs early as 1983, Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel came with the anti-coke anthem “ White Lines (Don’t Do It)“. Clipse knew this and would hold loyal fans over while continuing to grow their following with We Got It 4 Cheap Volumes 1 and 2, a pair of mixtapes that ballooned anticipation for the album until it was ready to pop. A lull after giving the streets a hit of a product like Lord Willin’ is not good for business. But Clipse had to watch the rest of their Star Trak labelmates move to Interscope and on with their careers while a contract dispute with Jive led to their original, more immediate followup album getting shelved.Īs the years passed and that album began to feel stale, the duo started from scratch, cooking built-up frustration into their usual coke metaphors galore to create the triumphant proper sophomore album we know as Hell Hath No Fury.
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It was commercially viable thanks to the unconventional yet irresistible radio takeover “Grindin’” and three additional singles, “Cot Damn,” “Ma, I Don’t Love Her,” and “When The Last Time.” These hits suggested Clipse plus Pharrell Williams and the Neptunes equaled a force to be reckoned with, and that feeling was reinforced by deep cuts defined by lyrical mastery, thrilling drug tales, and complex personality.
Lord Willin’ was an excellent platinum debut. We couldn’t dare come out in the same mind frame as we did in Lord Willin’ – so, now we mad, we angry, we pissed the fuck off. Time passed, and we saw it was a big hold up, and the momentum, the people that waited for us, we took too long. We were ready to get into the thick of things with the success of the first album … the songs we had done were really hot, but at that point in time we were in a different place, we were happier. That’s exactly the mindset Virginia Beach-raised brothers Gene (“Malice”) and Terrence (“Pusha T”) Thornton carried into their sophomore album as Clipse - so aptly named Hell Hath No Fury - which turns 10 years old today. What might be even worse is pissing off two clever, vicious, sometimes joyously maniacal, drug-dealing storytellers that are seemingly happy to hit you with literal or verbal bullets with the quickness. Nor hell a fury, like a woman scorned.” The latter is the more famous and still widely used in its modified form: “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” That saying, like the many that persist throughout the ages, still rings true - just ask anyone who has ever done a woman wrong and felt the acute, essence-piercing sting of her vengeful wrath. In 1697, the British playwright William Cosgrove wrote The Mourning Bride, and two famous quotes have lived on from that play for centuries: “Music has charms to soothe a savage breast” and “Heaven has no rage, like love to hatred turned.