Rapper Pusha T name-drops Frances Tiafoe in new Clipse song

Tennis fans listening to the latest release from hip-hop duo Clipse on Friday might've needed to hit rewind at the mention of a familiar name. American Frances Tiafoe got a shoutout from his good friend, rapper Pusha T, on the track "Inglorious Bastards."

Tiafoe's name comes up in the first verse of the song, which is the 10th track on the album "Let God Sort ;Em Out."

Written by Rennard East, Pusha T raps: "Watching Tiafoe with the Open, that's the only back and forth that I'm posting. We really netted what we grossing."

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But the bar isn't just art. It rings a bit of truth, as he and Tiafoe have struck up a friendship since first meeting in 2022.

Tiafoe and the five-time Grammy Award nominee, whose legal name is Terrence LeVarr Thornton, were introduced by a mutual friend. Tiafoe, who hails from College Park, Md., and Thornton, who was raised in Virginia Beach, both take pride in being from the Washington, D.C. metro area.

“Always loved the sport and that's how our mutual friend connected us\],” [Pusha T told the ATP website last year. “He was like, ‘Man, Pusha loves tennis. You from Maryland. He from Virginia. Y'all gotta link up, y'all both in Paris.’ So just from that initial meetup man, we've been just running around city to city, country to country."

"[We] just really [organically get along], just out of a genuine love for tennis and being from the DMV area," Thornton added.

Tiafoe will hope to further fly the flag for his hometown next week in Washington, D.C. when he competes at the Mubadala Citi DC Open.