Cash Cobain – “Play Cash Cobain” review

Cash Cobain is a 26 year old rapper & producer from The Bronx, New York who taught himself how to make beats by using FL Studio & his mother having to buy him some equipment to help him in his work becoming a pioneer in the sample drill scene producing for everyone from Lucki to Drake & Don Toliver. He later made it onto this year’s XXL Freshman Class publicly admitting that the freestyle he did for them was wack & that he doesn’t even give a fuck, so I went into his 6th mixtape wondering if he can hold a project down like Pi’erre Bourne or Southside as far as producers getting on the mic. Especially since his last tape Pretty Girls Love Slizzy is considered to be the best sexy drill project.

“slizzyhunchodon” featuring Don Toliver & Quavo gets the ball rollin’ hookin’ up a soothing sample tackling the themes of romance whereas “rump punch” goes for a significantly cloudier dancehall approach instrumentally making a bitch cum twice. The half baked “all i wanna hear” talks about this bitch’s pussy being the best & all she really wants is sex leading into J. Cole providing the worst feature of his career on the lo-fi sexy drill single “Grippy” originally titled “dunk contest” continuing the topic of intercourse & Cole channeling his inner Ned Flanders making her go strictly dickly.

The 2-parter “cantsleep / drunkinluv” produced with OG Parker starts on the soulful tip ahead of a beat switch during the other half refusing to let his new lover go getting shitfaced at 11 tryna get all in her pants while “Problem!” featuring Anycia, Big Sean, Chow Lee, Don Q, Fabolous, Flee, Flo Milli, Kaliii, Kenzo B, Laila!, Lay Bankz, Luh Tyler, Rob49, YN Jay & 6LACK is this tiring 7 & a half minute sexy drill posse cut. “slizzy poetry” goes drumless to lay more romance bars out on the table & “turks (i apologize)” sends an open letter to a woman he hurt.

“wassup (wya)” keeps the sexy drill vibes going describing a savage woman bringing the madness with her that no one wants to fuck with, but then ”message u” hops over a crooning vocal sample addressing his baby. “dunk” goes sample drill turning up the southern hip hop influences a bit maintaining the sexy subject matter while “luv it” embraces the dancehall sound further & has some of the most annoying songwriting on the tape.

The aptly titled “me n payroll” featuring Payroll has a deconstructed vocal flip throughout telling their significant others to not ask about their day before hitting it while “slizzy poetry, pt. 2” strips the drums again talking about wanting to eat his girl out like a dentist. “fisherrr” featuring Bay Swag & later Ice Spice on the remix was one of the better sexy drill singles demonstrating a back-&-forth chemistry from the 2 prior to “act like” sampling “How You Gonna Act Like That?” by Tyrese beating it up like Ike Turner.

“candle” featuring 4Batz nears the end of the mixtape fusing cloud rap, sexy drill & R&B together maintaining the romantic concepts from previously & 4Batz having the best feature on the tape while the song “some shit” has a moodier drill atmosphere telling his bitch that he doesn’t want her getting in her feelings at all. “baddest in the room” finishes Play Cash Cobain with 1 more sexy drill cut talking about the baddest hoe in the entire room.

Some of the singles building up to this tape left little to be desired for me personally & now that we have the full course in front of us, it’s less enjoyable than I imagined it being. I don’t mind the sexy drill scene or Cash Cobain’s production whatsoever, it’s just that he’s significantly more mediocre on the mic than he is behind the boards & a lot of the guests don’t pull off any better performances other than only a select few.

Score: 1.5/5

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