"They wanted me to ask Kendrick to censor his verse, which of course I was never doing,” Pusha T said in an interview GQ, adding that he and Clipse left the label over the disagreement.

Pusha T and Malice announced their comeback Clipse album "Let God Sort 'Em Out" would drop on Def Jam last year ... but touting a Kendrick Lamar feature amid the Drake/UMG lawsuit proved to be a bit too much for the label to handle!

If the title of their forthcoming new album Let God Sort Em Out doesn't make it clear, we'll say it plain: Pusha T and Malice are as laser-focused as ever as they ready the first Clipse full-length in nearly 16 years.