Clipse were forced to pay a seven figure sum to get out of their Def Jam record contract.

It was previously revealed by Pusha T that the duo had parted ways with the storied record label over a dispute regarding their new album Let God Sort Em Out .

However, Pusha’s longtime manager, Steven Victor, has revealed that Def Jam forced the brothers to cough up a significant amount of money to break their deal.

Speaking to Billboard , he said: “They said, ‘Find another deal, and let’s figure out a business.’ They didn’t drop us. They were like, ‘Pay us this money’ — which was an exorbitant amount of money, a shit ton of money — ‘and we’ll let you out the deal.’ That’s what happened. We paid them the money, an insane amount of money. It wasn’t, like, $200,000. It was a lot of money fo

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