Good Music President Pusha T on the cover of Complex Magazine

Photo: TIMOTHY SACCENTI

GOOD Music is led by a man who gets to the point with as few words as possible. Pusha T is the subject of a well-penned cover story in the December/January issue of Complex by writer Mychal Denzel Smith (@mychalsmith) which emulates its subject by being eloquently succinct.

Keying in on the subject of pipeline systems for the mass incarceration of children of color, Smith delivers Pusha T’s focus and message straight with no chaser which concentrates on a type of human trafficking that sees our prisons swell as a money making operation.

Pusha T and Lady Justice – Photo: TIMOTHY SACCENTI

Read the opening below and be sure to check out the full interview on Complex.com.

When he was 8 years old, Terrence Thornton knew that the quickest way to get his older brother Gene’s attention was to target what he prized most: his book of rhymes. “He wouldn’t pay me no attention or no mind, so I’d go straight for his rap book!” he says, acting out the scene with his now 39-year-old body, arms considerably longer and thicker, flesh tattooed. He makes his voice squeak a bit for greater e ect. It’s a funny scene to imagine— first, because it’s hard to picture it ending with anything other than an ass whooping. But also because of the irony of Terrence growing up to become Pusha T, one of today’s best and most respected writers in hip-hop.

“Everybody that I came into the music game with in ’97, seven of them are locked up in jail. From 10 to 34 years now.”

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