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Cash Cobain Mixes Versatility With Raunchy Wit on Breathless ‘Play Cash Cobain’: Album Review


Cash Cobain's debut album 'Play Cash Cobain' is a balancing act of versatility and witty raunch.

In less charismatic hands, the thirsty bars could get redundant, but his constellation of cadences, sounds and flat-out imagination builds momentum instead of stagnation; a single Cash Cobain verse can play out like a “Kama Sutra”coloring book. There’s a general sense of horny whimsy seeping in everywhere from the song titles to the bar structures, with the Bronx creator sounding like a cross between a mutated Max B and The-Dream with less refined vocals. Featuring guest spots from 6LACK, Big Sean, Kenzo B, Fabolous and 10 others, the Laila!-sampling “Problem” is an exercise in perfect excess, with the varied styles and speedy pace of it all making it exhilarating where it could otherwise be tiresome.

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