Don’t call it a comeback, but rap duo Clipse is taking over the music scene once again thanks to their recently released album, “Let God Sort Em Out.” But while fans are having a time dissecting lyrics, a new viral performance is starting to take over timelines and make listeners emotional. And we’ve got the tea on why.
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The aforementioned performance took place on Tuesday (July 15) night when the brothers, namely Pusha T and Malice, appeared as the musical guest for “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” They performed the opening song off their critically acclaimed album, “The Birds Don’t Sing.”
The song is an emotional starter to the 13-track project — so much so that Malice’s voice could be heard shaking and cracking slightly while rapping his verse.
But why is it stirring up so many feelings? Well, the focus is on the loss of the rappers’ parents. As revealed to fans in an Instagram post in 2021, Pusha T shared that his mother Mildred Thornton passed away that November. Sadly, four months later, their father Gene Elliot Thornton would also pass away in March 2022.
In a new interview with “Cover Lines” with Brian “B.Dot” Miller released just one day before the Jimmy Fallon performance, Malice shockingly revealed that he found both of her parents deceased after getting an intuitive nudge to go check on them.
“I found both of my parents, yeah. I discovered both of my parents, you know, going in and checking on them,” Malice said before going into his emotional state in the immediate aftermath. “My faith and everything I have read from the Word of God took over. There was a supernatural sense of peace. There was no time to break down, start crying, getting out of my mind. ‘What’s going on? What’s happening?’ Screaming and kicking. Nah, I had a complete sense of peace.”
He concluded by saying that he had to have that peace in order to be in the right mental state to tell the rest of family what had transpired and that he was grateful to God for never letting him down, despite his struggles.
Thanks to that interview, fans were able to watch the now-viral set with a different lens and took to social media to express their feelings.
“Just finished watching clipse’s performance at jimmy fallon and when Malice’s voice started trembling while singing his verse i started sobbing like the way they described grief is insane yet so accurate i wanna go home and hug my parents fr,” wrote one user on X/Twitter.
“There’s no way I’m getting through Birds Don’t Sing on Jimmy Fallon without crying my eyes out, if I’m Clipse,” said another.
“They could’ve performed one of their hit singles like Ace Trumpets or So Be It, but for live television, they chose to pay tribute to their parents. Clipse is something special,” said one user on YouTube.
Added another, “My dad died in November 2020, never thought I’d be crying my eyes out to a Clipse track but here we are.”
One other user noted: “Eyes get watery each time I hear this. So powerful.”
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