{"id":9523,"date":"2025-07-20T03:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T03:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/9523\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T03:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T03:01:08","slug":"cash-cobain-talks-justin-bieber-swag-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/9523\/","title":{"rendered":"Cash Cobain Talks Justin Bieber ‘Swag’ Collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThose 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<\/a>\u2018s Swag released, the rest of the music<\/a> world may be getting to know that too. <\/p>\n

\n\tCobain delivered one of the best features<\/a> on Bieber\u2019s latest album, released on July 11, the highest-profile moment in the rapper\u2019s career so far, with Cobain taking the opening verse on Swag\u2019s title track.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs Cobain, a member of XXL\u2019s 2024 Freshman class, tells The Hollywood Reporter, that collaboration started earlier this year after he saw Bieber posted his song \u201cTrippin on a Yacht\u201d online. He DM\u2019d Bieber after, writing that \u201cwe had to make some fire together.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe were chopping it up since then, and then one day, he was in New York and he was like, \u2018Yo, pull up on me,\u2019\u201d Cobain says. \u201cWe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs Cobain recalls, Bieber called him again last week just before the album had released, asking for a few minor tweaks to the song they recorded together. That\u2019s how he found out the album, which Bieber surprise released Midnight last Friday, was coming out that week. \u201cI kid you not, he gets on the phone, he sent me the piece he wanted me to redo, a couple changes, andb the time I turned it in to him, the album came out the next day.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs far as the actual recording session, Cobain describes it as loose, saying there \u201cwasn\u2019t a process.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe were just in there being free,\u201d Cobain says. \u201cAnd being creative. There wasn\u2019t any pressure, none of that, I just went in there and did my thing, I put a few ideas down. It was a long session too. We skimmed through and figured out what we liked. I\u2019m glad it\u2019s out. I\u2019m happy he was able to put out the album and song.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSwag is Bieber\u2019s first album since Justice back in 2021. Aside from the title track, which also featured rising Australian singer Eddie Benjamin, the record also features verses from Sexyy Red, Dijon, Lil B and Gunna. So far, \u201cDaisies,\u201d with production from music\u2019s new guitar god Mk.Gee, is the album\u2019s standout hit, topping both Apple Music and Spotify\u2019s U.S. daily charts this week. <\/p>\n

\n\tAs for what\u2019s next for Cobain, he\u2019s got a sophomore album on the way, as well as his Party With Slizzy headling tour <\/a>slated to start in New York in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Those even casually familiar with hip-hop have already long-known Cash Cobain as one of the most-promising, fastest-rising rapper-producers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,5429,341],"class_list":["post-9523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-justin-bieber","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}