Malice Completes Christian Transformation, Now Realest Rapper Alive (Video)

If you had told me in 2006, while the Clipse's "Hell Hath No Fury" was essentially on constant rotation in my headphones, that in six years we'd have a black president, Tiger Woods would be embroiled in a sex scandal and Malice would be appearing on conservative Christian television network CBM.com my head would have exploded. And yet, here we are.

It's hard to understate what a radical transformation this is for Malice. He and Push were one of the inventors of modern coke rap, and now Malice has essentially disavowed all of his music. Although in retrospect it's fascinating to think about the constant flood of Christian imagery in their music.


"Open the Frigidaire, 25 to life in here / so much white you might think that Holy Christ is near."

Regardless, Gene Elliott Thornton had now unexpectedly become of the bravest and most outspoken rappers alive, if he still considers himself a rapper. All the money, the guns, the drugs, the women that he rapped about so perfectly for all those years? He now says they were only empty symbols that left him depressed and longing for a normal life.

We hear a lot of famous rappers complain about the trapping of fame, but almost all of them simultaneously continue to devote their lives to increasing their fame (cough Drake cough). Very, very few actually pull a Dave Chappelle and walk away on principle. We can now add Malice to that list.

His brother's transformation into a man of religion is clearly one of, if not the, major reasons Pusha's pursued a solo career so heavily. It's hard to imagine the two will ever make music like "Big Deal" again given everything Malice is saying in that CBM interview:



You know what? I'm actually fine with that. No, I'm more than fine with it. The Clipse will forever be one of my favorite rap groups, and they were always at their best when they were at their grittiest, but life is bigger than hip-hop. If this is what Malice needs to do to be a well-adjusted, happy person than more power to him. If we really do value realness in rap, then that interview's just about the realest shit you'll ever hear.