- GOV’T NAME: Cashmere Small
- AGE: 26
- REPPIN’: The Bronx
- X: @CashCobain_2x
- INSTAGRAM: @cashcobain_2x
- TIKTOK: @cashcobain12
- NOTABLE RELEASES: Songs: “Fisherrr” with Bay Swag, “Fisherrr (Remix)” with Bay Swag and Ice Spice, “Dunk Contest,” “Grippy” with J. Cole; Tasks: Slizzy Timing, 2 Slizzy 2 Horny with Chow Lee, Fairly Women Love Slizzy; Visitor Appearances: Don Toliver’s “Perspective” that includes Charlie Wilson, A Boogie Wit da Hoodie’s “Physique”
- LABEL: Big Music
- CURRENTLY WORKING ON: Play Money Cobain challenge dropping this summer season.
- WHO ELSE SHOULD BE PART OF THIS YEAR’S CLASS: “Anycia. Karrahbooo. Veeze. Chow Lee. Lots of people. I ain’t gonna lie. You’re lacking individuals.”
- INFLUENCED BY: “[Ye’s] Commencement. I wouldn’t say like a particular particular person. I simply hearken to music. Outdated-school music. I hearken to some Drake.”
- AS A FRESHMAN IN HIGH SCHOOL: “[I was] late. I used to be simply myself for actual.”
The XXL Freshman Class? It’s historical past, it is a second, it is a milestone in my timeline. Individuals are gonna keep in mind this one. I keep in mind simply being a younger ni**a and simply watching this sh*t, 2016, 2017, you understand. That was the sh*t, however nobody’s gonna deny I’ve to be right here, although. Like I stated, it’s a milestone. It motivates you. It provides you that gentle, that highlight on you. It places that magnifying glass on you, and everybody’s like, ‘Who the f**okay is that this ni**a?’ Everybody will get to know you. It’s a present.”
Watch Money Cobain’s 2024 XXL Freshman Freestyle
Money Cobain 2024 XXL Freshman freestyle
It’s onerous to argue that any rapper has put New York Metropolis on their again fairly like Money Cobain in 2024. The Bronx-bred polymath has been steadily making a reputation for himself since 2019, producing and writing tracks for each hometown abilities like B-Lovee and Massive Yaya to nationwide icons like Lil Yachty and Drake. After the pandemic shuttered every thing in 2020, the 26-year-old rapper determined to look inward and make investments completely in his personal sound. He started crafting a dizzying mix of pattern drill, amalgamating tracks from the Spice Women, Prince Royce and the Plain White T’s with the uneven bounce of Jersey membership. Now, Money is bringing that slick power to his 2024 XXL Freshman freestyle.
Within the rhymes he delivers, Money feels the opps lurking at each flip, and is hesitant about who he spends his time with. “I come from the trenches, the slums, I am unable to go nowhere with out bringing my gun,” Money raps within the video beneath. “Do not f**okay with them ni**as, them ni**as suspicious they’re probably not with it.”
Nevertheless, Money reiterates that he is will not let the haters hold him from wandering the bustling streets of his hometown, which he is been noticed doing on many events. “I deal with my enterprise, I am exterior, let’s get it,” he raps. “I am exterior, let’s get it.”
Money has had an unbelievable rise in simply two years. He is churned out 5 solo tasks, each inching nearer to the sound that he’d later coin attractive drill. Money lastly struck gold with the success of 2022’s 2 Horny 2 Slizzy with Chow Lee, and his signature sound began to develop into his Frankenstein’s monster. Imitators started to pop up all throughout the 4 boroughs, however as Money continued his rise, it turned clear nobody might faucet into the nonchalant bravado of songs like “JHOLIDAY” and “ALREADY.”
By the point 2023’s Fairly Women Love Slizzy arrived, Money Cobain’s silky sound had been utterly embraced by the town that raised him. He earned probably the most reward of his profession when “Fisherrr” dropped in February of this yr. The tune with rapper Bay Swag put the highlight on the 2 artists in New York Metropolis and past. Unbelievable cosigns from artists like Frank Ocean and Lil Uzi Vert have been like gasoline on an already raging hearth, and all of it culminated within the explosive Slizzy Fest this previous April. The present was canceled earlier than it even started due to what number of keen Slizzy supporters confirmed up unannounced.
As an alternative of languishing in disappointment, Money marched the social gathering over to Union Sq. Park in NYC for one of many metropolis’s most memorable moments this previous spring. The second straddled the road between each refreshingly new and nostalgically New York and instantly put Money on everybody’s radar. In June, Money popped out once more exterior Le Pére clothes retailer for one more last-minute road efficiency. He is beginning to develop into referred to as the hometown hero who’s all the time out and about.
Ever because the Union Sq. Park occasion, Money’s music has been unstoppable. His “Fisherrr” remix with Ice Spice and Bay Swag is already a high contender for tune of the summer season, and his current “Grippy” collab with J. Cole is inflicting lyrical rap followers to notice Money Cobain’s impression as properly. He is obtained an upcoming challenge, Play Money Cobain, on the way in which. In July, he is acting on the Y2K World Tour with Ice Spice. Because the world watches Money’s sound unfold, he hopes rising as a 2024 XXL Freshman will proceed to puzzle his naysayers.
“It’s a milestone,” Money tells XXL of being a Freshman. “It motivates you, it provides you that highlight on you. It places that magnifying glass on you, and everybody’s like, ‘Who the f**okay is that this n***a?'”
Watch Money Cobain hold it slizzy in his freestyle beneath.
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