Clipse walked away with Album of the Year at the 2026 BET Awards Sunday night, taking the biggest trophy of the evening for Let God Sort Em Out and proving that the Recording Academy got it wrong earlier this year.
Pusha T and Malice spent 16 years apart before reuniting for the Pharrell-produced comeback record, which dropped last July to some of the year’s strongest reviews across the board. The Grammys nominated it for Album of the Year and Best Rap Album in February but handed neither to the Virginia Beach brothers. BET voters saw things differently and the Clipse took home the hardware that the Recording Academy kept out of reach. Malice had stepped away from rap entirely back in 2010 to pursue his faith, and it took a conversation with their late father to bring him all the way back.
Pusha, meanwhile, held the Clipse name in high regard across a decade-plus of acclaimed solo work, and both brothers told AllHipHop they believed a reunion was overdue. The album even required them to leave Def Jam and sign with Roc Nation just to get it out, after Universal demanded changes to Kendrick Lamar’s verse on “Chains & Whips,” which also earned Clipse a Grammy for Best Rap Performance earlier this year.
