Let God Sort Em Out turns one: Clipse's comeback year, from the Grammys to Roskilde

Let God Sort Em Out turned one this weekend. Released on 11 July 2025, produced front to back by Pharrell Williams, it was the first Clipse album in sixteen years, and easily one of the least likely comeback stories in rap: two brothers, Pusha T and Malice, picking up mid-conversation as if 2009 never ended.

What a year it bought them. Five nominations at the 2026 Grammys, including Album of the Year. A win for Best Rap Performance with "Chains & Whips". And one of the night's most talked-about performances: "So Far Ahead" with Pharrell and the Voices of Fire choir, the stage drowned in red, snow falling on their suits by the final bars. A duo that spent a decade and a half apart closed the show like they had never left.

Nine days ago, a field in Denmark

We caught the anniversary lap in person. Clipse played the final day of Roskilde Festival 2026 on 4 July, and whatever sixteen years off is supposed to do to a rap duo, none of it was visible from the pit. The set leaned heavily on Let God Sort Em Out and still found room for "Grindin'", and Clash's live report said it best: no signs the hiatus had dulled them, and an utter refusal to let the crowd stand still.

What struck us from the pit was who was doing the rapping along: a new generation, plenty of them nowhere near old enough to remember Grindin' the first time around, carrying the verses word for word. A comeback album finding an audience that was never there for the original run. That is the part a chart cannot measure.

The full set of frames is live on Coda Photos.

One year in, the comeback album has stopped being a comeback story. It is just the best Clipse era in a generation, and it is still accelerating.

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Clipse at Roskilde Festival 2026, Saturday 4 July, shot by Colin Darbyshire and Annelies Vollmuller for Coda Photos.