Gunna Provides His Finest Rationalization For ’Pushin P’

It solely took Gunna per week to take over 2022 on the prime of the 12 months. The Atlanta native launched his third album DS4EVER and it arguably turned his largest launch so far. DS4EVER debuted at No. 1 on the albums chart, beating out The Weeknd’s Daybreak FM, and whereas the undertaking was statistically impactful, however was equally so on a cultural degree. The undertaking produced the time period “Pushin P,” because of Gunna’s track with Younger Thug and Future, and it took the world by storm. Fellow rappers and celebrities began utilizing it and big-time companies joined in on the enjoyable. Via all of it, Gunna’s definition of the time period wasn’t the clearest, however in the end, we’ve acquired a extra simple rationalization.

Throughout a current episode of LeBron James and Uninterrupted’s The Store — which additionally featured Rick Ross, Las Vegas Aces participant A’ja Wilson, and United Grasp CEO Steve Stoute — Gunna took his time to elucidate the phrase.

“Pushin P actually began at first as me simply pulling up on some participant, may obtained me a vibe with me,” he mentioned. “My homies are like ‘Okay!’ You may come again round [later] and I’m doing the identical one with a special kind of vibe [and it’s like], ‘You’re nonetheless going? You Pushin P, now you pushing it! You pushin this participant sh*t.’ Now I’m tryna guarantee that I’m capitalizing on the P like, y’all Pushin P or what?”

Gunna then defined what impressed his participant mentality. “Actually all of the dope boys,” he mentioned. “Like our OG dope boys, man they was P, they was pulling up. When Boosie and them was using DUBs, floaters, and Chargers, we had some OGs in our hood using them too, telling us like, ‘This the way you pull up.’ I seemed as much as them, obtained my recreation, and ran with it. Saved it P.”

Stoute chimed in together with his viewpoint on “Pushin P,” and recalled that many individuals from Oakland accused Gunna of stealing their lingo. “Come to seek out out,” Gunna mentioned in response, “they only come from participant sh*t, too. That’s all which means. That’s what I took from it like bro, all people been participant. Your uncles, your aunties? They was participant.”

You may watch the total episode of The Store within the video above.

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