New album proves how effortlessly the Bronx-born drill innovator can assemble a sonic universe
“Rump Punch,” an early single from the Bronx drill Casanova Money Cobain’s new album PLAY CASH COBAIN, rides a glittering piano riff layered over the rapper-producer’s signature drums—boisterous and staggered, the air in between every drop full of a sly romantic rigidity. Money is a blueprint for a brand new form of rap-r&b crossover. Lyrically, he’s capable of flip top-tier raunchiness into one thing smoother (Pussy style like rum punch,” he cooly raps on the observe), all whereas he builds out a sonic universe that’s taking the rap world by storm. Money’s sound has been effervescent up in rap circles round New York for a while. A lot so, that “Rump Punch” samples a beforehand unreleased Money Cobain music, a form of meta flex attainable while you’re as prolific a producer as Money.
PLAY CASH COBAIN, a follow-up to final yr’s Fairly Women Love Slizzy, arrives at a second when the Bronx-born producer’s sound is as red-hot as something the rap world’s seen in a while. Quavo arrives on album opener “Slizzyhunchodon” like Money’s lengthy misplaced twin, the slinky, rhythmic circulate he perfected with the Migos slotting into Cobain’s manufacturing type with ease. Equally, Don Toliver sounds enlivened on the observe, tapping into the chemistry he and Money exhibited on their smash single “ATTITUDE.” right here, Toliver is extra subdued, his spectacular vocal vary arriving at its most dynamic over Money’s boisterous, undulating drum loops.
“Downside,” the eight-minute posse-cut that includes everybody from Huge Sean to Luh Tyler, is a case research of Money Cobain’s skill to conjure moments that take command of our consideration. The music contains a pattern of the rising rapper Laila!’s viral On The Radar freestyle looped to virtually surrealist terrain, whereas a who’s who of rappers younger and outdated volleying varied boasts over the music’s hypnotic and booming drum loop. Whereas PLAY CASH COBAIN leans heartily on the producer’s signature type, a sensual tackle the bravado of New York drill, Money explores a refreshing vary of latest sounds too. Throughout a current go to to Rolling Stone’s places of work, he mentioned the music “Luv It,” was impressed by Soca music. The music, a pitch-perfect crossover hit, proves how effortlessly Money Cobain can assemble sonic universes. All through the album, he exhibits how singular a voice he’s in at present’s rap panorama
