Beyoncé‘s Cowboy Carter is much more than a country album — it’s actually a tour through the Black roots of American music that manages to be both thematically rich and stuffed with indelible pop songs, in multiple genres. Kendrick Lamar‘s virtuosic “Not Like Us,” meanwhile, completely transcends its status as …
Read More »Ice Spice's New York Show Was a Coronation For a Budding Icon
Ice Spice, Cash Cobain, and their New York crowd may have been robbed of seeing the exciting duo amid the beautiful views of Manhattan’s Pier 17 — but they made due at Terminal 5. Rainy weather made the westside Manhattan venue the alternate choice for the second-turned-first leg of their …
Read More »Cardi B on Proving Her Greatness: 'I'm That Bitch, and Y'all Fucking Know It'
C ardi B is makeup-free and draped in an orange, impossibly plush, queen-size blanket as she shuffles into Glenwood Place Studios in Burbank, California, around nine o’clock one evening in mid-March. Whatever hairstyle she currently has (knowing Cardi, it could be anything from a wig worth thousands to her fluffy, …
Read More »Ice Spice Gets Slizzy in the Music Video For Cash Cobain and Bay Swag's 'Fisherrr' Remix
Cash Cobain and Bay Swag’s “Fisherrr” was already the hottest thing in the New York streets, and the guys getting an Ice Spice verse makes the remix an early song of the summer contender. The Bronx starlet got slizzy on the hypnotic track and filmed a KZA-directed video which was …
Read More »I Went to Cash Cobain's Slizzyfest and All I Got Was That Classic NYC Feeling
Cash Cobain is leading a procession of young New Yorkers down Irving Place towards Union Square Park in Manhattan. It’s a sea of weed smoke and Hellstar hoodies, a few hundred deep, marching along like it was a parade. Cash, the 26-year-old rapper-producer responsible for the increasingly inescapable hits “Fisherrr,” …
Read More »How Cash Cobain Plans on Taking Over the Rap World
Cash Cobain slides into Bed-Stuy’s Loudmouth Records alone, wearing a cream shirt, black jeans, and white forces. His publicist daps him up and asks if he drove from his home in Queens to Brooklyn by himself. He scoffs at the notion; at least two people are waiting outside. I agreed …
Read More »11 Rappers Set to Make it Big in 2023
The rap world is ever-changing, and 2022 showed us where we might be heading next. The year was full of solid releases from budding stars who set the stage for a lower-key sensibility within hip-hop. It was a year where fans turned away from the larger-than-life superstars towards more down-to-earth …
Read More »Meet the Artists Taking New York Drill in a New Direction
On a recent Wednesday night in Brooklyn, “Hey there, Delilah, what’s it like in New York City?” bellowed from the speakers at Baby’s All Right. Except, the indie rock band Plain White T’s was nowhere to be found. By the time Bronx rapper-producer Cash Cobain’s iconic tag dropped over the …
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