Those even casually familiar with hip-hop have already long-known Cash Cobain as one of the most-promising, fastest-rising rapper-producers in the game. A week since Justin Bieber’s Swag released, the rest of the music world may be getting to know that too.
Cobain delivered one of the best features on Bieber’s latest album, released on July 11, the highest-profile moment in the rapper’s career so far, with Cobain taking the opening verse on Swag’s title track.
“We were chopping it up since then, and then one day, he was in New York and he was like, ‘Yo, pull up on me,'” Cobain says. “We were in this big apartment, there were a lot of people there. He had a studio in his living room, there were a few other musicians and writers there and we were sitting in a circle on the couches. He had this microphone, they were playing a beat and he was vocalizing and he asked me if I had anything for that. I started harmonizing, mumbling, just coming up with ideas. We were recording everything.”
