May 04, 2022
While many fans combed through Pusha T‘s new album It’s Almost Dry searching for any fresh Drake disses, there was one line that some believed was aimed at another rapper entirely: Cardi B. “Award shows the only way you bitches could rob me,” Push raps on “Dreamin of the Past.”
Cardi B’s Invasion of Privacy beat out Pusha T’s DAYTONA — as well as Travis Scott‘s Astroworld, Nipsey Hussle‘s Victory Lap and Mac Miller‘s Swimming — to win Best Rap Album at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards in 2019.
But in an interview with TIDAL’s Elliott Wilson that was published on Tuesday (May 3), Pusha T shut down the speculation that he was jabbing Cardi with the aforementioned line, while saluting the Bronx bombshell’s victory.
“2018 was super strong to me, because I felt like the Grammys even got the rap nominations — and the rap winner — right,” he said. “Come on, man. Cardi deserved that. When you just look at the lineup, you had Cardi B, you had Travis Scott, you had Mac Miller, you had Nipsey Victory Lap and you had DAYTONA. Anybody could’ve won! And I couldn’t have argued!
“Cardi actually won and I would never argue with [that]. I actually was going to the gym with her joint in my headphones like, ‘Oh yeah, she killed this joint.’ It was just about what the final voters gravitated towards. But it was fair. The lineup was fair.”
He added, “What I’m saying is, Cardi was popular as hell. Pusha T wasn’t as popular. But to even put DAYTONA on the levels of… I feel like it had all tiers of great rap music in that category.”