But they've been hammering away at those two subjects with single-minded focus for years now, and the wear is starting to show. This has made for some ferociously exciting music, as on long-delayed sophomore album Hell Hath No Fury and the now-classic We Got It 4 Cheap, Vol. In the intervening years, they've left rap's mainstream behind completely, becoming internet cult heroes by diligently and eloquently pursuing two basic subjects: selling drugs and the money that comes with it. That was them on Justin Timberlake's "Like I Love You", after all. On that and a handful of other Lord Willin' tracks- songs released in 2002, when the duo had something to do with the commercial rap landscape- Clipse seemed totally genuine talking about how club night was one of the reasons they loved life, and their cold monotones worked just as well on frothy dance-pop tracks as on harshly mechanical tough-guy shit.
But they also made "When the Last Time", one of this century's greatest club jams. With breakout single "Grindin'", Malice and Pusha established the dead-eyed coke-talk they're still running with six years later.
Thing is, once upon a time, Clipse were able to do girl records, or something like them, anyway, in a way that didn't just turn the songs into morbid jokes.
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