Cash Cobain has successfully carved out his lane with his signature “Slizzy” sound, but it appears he’s drawing inspiration from two rap legends for some of his new material.
Givin fans a glimpse at what’s next, the rising New York rapper shared a handful of new song snippets on Instagram on Tuesday (July 16).
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Among them was an untitled track that samples André 3000‘s “I Swear, I Really Wanted to Make a ‘Rap’ Album but This Is Literally the Way the Wind Blew Me This Time,” the opening song from his flute album New Blue Sun.
Cash’s version finds him adding some skittering percussion and thumping bass to the ambient instrumental, along with some sexually-charged raps and rapid-fire flows.
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In another song preview, the “Fisherrr” hitmaker flips Drake‘s “Started From the Bottom,” giving the 2013 hit a similar sonic makeover.
Cash also nods to the track’s title, starting his verse with: “Started from the bottom/ Chow told me to get ’em, I got ’em,” namedropping fellow Big Apple rapper Chow Lee who also features on the song.
Cash Cobain isn’t the first rapper to take a stab at André 3000’s New Blue Sun.
Last November, Lupe Fiasco dropped off a Thanksgiving gift for fans by making good on his promise to rap over the flute beats from the OutKast legend’s solo LP.
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The Chicago-bred lyricist posted a clip on social media of him rapping over the New Blue Sun intro “I Really Wanted To Make A ‘Rap’ Album, But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time.”
“I prefer Kintsugi pottery over pristine, perfectly-weaved sophistry / I’m bodhisattva possibly ’cause being bothered don’t even bother me / But not a Buddha ’cause I ain’t got the modesty / What you miss mentally is how much I catch bodily,” he effortlessly spit.
The audio was accompanied by a photo of Lupe and the late Virgil Abloh, with the rapper explaining: “He showing me the custom case he made for 3 Stacks flute.”
New Blue Sun also received a Hip Hop-flavored facelift from Dr. Dre collaborator and Aftermath producer Dem Jointz, who posted two remixes of 3 Stacks’ instrumentals on social media.
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The first found him injecting some heavy funk-infused percussion and André 3000 ad-libs into “I Swear, I Really Wanted to Make a ‘Rap’ Album But This Is Literally the Way the Wind Blew Me This Time.”
The second saw Joints adding some boom bap drums and a funky bassline to “The Slang Word P(*)ssy Rolls Off the Tongue with Far Better Ease Than the Proper Word Vagina. Do You Agree?,” before taking the track into trap terrain.
