It’s Almost Dry Tracklist
It’s Almost Dry is Pusha T’s fourth studio album, serving as the follow-up to his third studio album, DAYTONA, four years after its release.
In a January 2022 interview with Complex, Steven Victor, the head and A&R of Def Jam Records, said that the album would be coming soon and announced that he was putting the final touches on the album.
The first single for the record, “Diet Coke,” produced by Kanye West and 88-Keys was released on February 8, 2022.
It was speculated the project’s title would be It’s Not Dry Yet, since this was accidentally revealed by YouTube Music on January 14, 2022. A month later, on a February 17 Complex interview, Push confirmed this was not the actual title.
The second single for the record, “Hear Me Clearly,” with Nigo was released on March 4, 2022. The song also landed a placement on Nigo’s sophomore album, I Know NIGO!.
On March 21, a German music retailer, CeDe.de revealed an April 8 release date for the project under the title of It’s Almost Dry. On March 29, the site changed the date to April 22.
The third single for the album, “Neck & Wrist,” produced by Pharrell Williams was released on April 6. The same day, Push announced the It’s Almost Dry Tour and confirmed the album’s reported title.
On April 12, HOT 97 incorrectly reported an April 15, 2022 release date in the description of the video for Push’s interview with Ebro in the Morning but later deleted it. On the same day, Push held a private listening session of the album.
On April 18, 2022, Pusha T announced that a public listening party would be held in New York that same week. Later that day, Push officially announced the album’s release date while sharing a snippet from the then-unreleased, “I Pray For You.” The album ended up leaking on the same day, four days before its official release.
The next day, Push officially announced the album’s artwork and the tracklist.
“It’s Almost Dry” Q&A
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Translations
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What has Pusha T said about the album?
All I’ll say is this: The album of the motherfucking year is coming. A Pusha album takes a long time. It takes a long time to put this shit together, but when it comes together, ain’t nothing fucking with it. We stamping that on everything. I don’t care what they say, how they act. I don’t care how viral they go, none of that. Nothing is fucking with it.
—via Complex
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What was the process behind the album's recording?
In an April 6 interview with fashion designer, Tremaine Emory for Interview Magazine, Pusha T described the process:
During the pandemic me and my family went and stayed with Pharrell; he has a compound. We’d get up every morning at 6 a.m., work on music, and watch Joker. If the music didn’t feel that evil, if it didn’t have that character, we didn’t use it. After that, I took it to Ye in California. From there we found what was going to be the two different roles of these producers. Pharrell was doing compositions but Ye wanted com-positions more in line with strong, street hip-hop. […] Once I got the bodies of both of those, I would go back and forth. I’d go play the new ones from Pharrell, for Ye. And then he would give me something to [outdo-slash-compliment] and vice versa.
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What's the meaning behind the album's title?
I’m always creating a masterpiece and in the creation of that in terms of a painting, you end up telling people while they waiting on it, ‘It’s almost dry,’ because they’re always asking, ‘When will it be done?’ And you have to wait on masterpieces. Also in drug culture, a lot of times you’ll have people waiting on the product and it’s not dry yet. You can come get it when it’s dry.
—Pusha T via Rolling Stone
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Album Trailer
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What has Pusha said about working with Pharrell for the album?
When I’m working with Pharrell, he’s all about composition. He’s all about song formula and structure. He wants steroids in every part of that composition, meaning cadence, flows, sticky hooks, bridges; he wants the beat to be a certain way, he wants the flow and melody to be a certain way. He uses the word “composition”. When he was saying, ‘'I don’t want you to be a mixtape rapper for the rest of your life,’' to me it was bothersome, because I came up with him listening to those same mixtapes, listening to those same LOX freestyles, riding around aimlessly all day. At the time, his GS Lexus was used and that’s what we aspired to be, we found the greatness in that. So when he said that to me, I didn’t like it, because I didn’t know whether he still found the greatness of the cornerstone in the shit of what we do.
– Pusha T, via an interview with Charlemagne tha God
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What did Push say about Ye and Pharrell's different approaches in the studio?
Ye is just a Pusha T rap fanatic: he just likes all of my raps, and he just wants me to rap all day long, and then he just wants to take them from me and edit them, and do what he wants to do with it, right?
Pharrell is more of a composer: he wants to make sure that every verse, every hook, every cadence, every flow [clicks.] He likes to call them “sticky moments.” He wants to make sure that everything is sticky and just stays with you the whole time throughout the whole song. It’s way more tedious with Pharrell, it’s way tougher with him!
– Pusha T, via The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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How did this album perform on the charts?
It’s Almost Dry debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200, moving 55,000 album-equivalent unit. It is Pusha T’s first album to top the charts.
