Every week, our Songs of the Week column highlights the perfect new tunes from the earlier seven days and takes a take a look at notable releases. Discover our new favorites and extra on our High Songs playlist, and for different nice songs from rising artists, you may hearken to our New Sounds playlist. This week, Younger Thug and Future flex like madmen on “Cash on Cash.”
You recognize you’re wealthy when you may afford to personal a Rolls Royce. You recognize you’re actually fucking wealthy when proudly owning a Rolls Royce is so pedestrian throughout the scope of your luxurious life that you just don’t even trouble studying its mannequin. These trivial particulars are under your pay grade, in spite of everything.
That’s the extent of flexing that Younger Thug and Future interact in on their new single “Cash on Cash,” Thugger’s first main launch since his high-profile authorized troubles. Although, you’d by no means realize it, because the rapper presents like he hasn’t missed a beat. Overlook conspicuous consumption, these two current themselves as Scrooge McDuck or Pablo Escobar sorts — they’ve a lot money stream they actually don’t know what to do with it (apart from spend it on “my bitch and my children.”)
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After all, Younger Thug does seemingly tackle his case, if in a considerably oblique approach. It doesn’t take all that a lot evaluation to place the items collectively when he disses rats and faux associates, particularly when the video options the 2 burning a tapestry that bears the identify of Thugger’s label, YSL. He appears able to blow all of it up and burn the slate clear.
The beat matches the ice of their veins and (presumably) the ice on their wrists; devious, costly, and boasting the kind of entice hi-hats and synth traces that make you stank face such as you’re a blues rock guitarist ripping a solo. Then there’s the beat change, which finds the observe momentarily taking a flip in the direction of the darkness earlier than returning to the marginally glossier establishment.
Put all collectively, it’s a cold-ass fucking package deal, one which makes you are feeling like a baller even in the event you’ve been conserving tabs on the fluctuating worth of eggs.
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— Jonah Krueger