Cole James Cash just sent through this run-down of his latest album, which you can stream or download over at Audiomack. Reading this may take longer than listening to the album but I guess he’s got shit all else to do while he recovers from being shot and robbed in is hometown.
Cole James Cash: Street Champion came out I think around 2 months ago, since then I have done little to no promotion, as I sit at home broke doing nothing but watching movies after being shot with my goddamn leg shattered, I am now ready to reveal track by track how most of these songs are just ideas I stole from alchemist and or other producers whom I clearly bit without the rappers knowing about it.
1. Insert Coin Ft LEX
LEX (ALL CAPS WHEN YOU SPELL THE MANS NAME) when he’s not getting duped into making songs about porno bitches by me, is an excellent MC, I actually wanted something similar to LL Cool J ‘Droppin Em’ off Walking with a Panther. Let’s also discuss something about that album, why is LL Cool J being a fuckin pervert hanging out at high schools “yo she’s only 17 but yo don’t sleep” this nigga sitting in a jeep waiting for high school jrs to get out of class. I guess he got a pass because…sadly, I cant say at 22 I didn’t sleep with a 17 year old, knowing she was 17 I just didn’t rap about it. The references don’t make sense unless you know what I look like, I have a passing resemblance to Steph Curry the point guard, and also makes reference to my ethnic heritage etc. I also make reference to the garbage sorry ass New York Knicks. It’s a great opener. Also “you wish you was from New York” direct reference to me calling LEX phone and leaving.
Idea stolen – Droppin Em, LL Cool J
2. Select Character Ft Singapore Kane
The original version has two people on it, but that second person no longer exists in my canon thus he was written off the album and put on a bus. The whole idea of this song is to sample the original version of a particular EDM/DNB artists song since I know for a fact he doesn’t like his shit sampled, me and him were real cool at one point so I don’t know how he would feel about it, but fuck it, I’m gonna do it every album, besides, he getting Nicki Minaj money.
Idea stolen – Petty retribution and stupidity on my end.
3. Round 1 Ft Hot Rod, Curtessy, SofaKing
This one featuring my homie OG Hot Rod (yes that hot rod) and he did NOT Mail that shit in, he did what he to do. He gave me a verse referencing the message board I frequent and often where I get sonned on a weekly basis TheColi.com. Also featuring Curtessy from LA and SofaKing from Queens, this song was aimed to sound like IMDKV from that Prodigy album. If you listen it definitely has similar aesthetic.
Idea Stolen – IMDKV – Prodigy
4. Balrog Vs Dudley
For once I can honestly say this one didn’t have a precent, only thing I can think of is that bars of terror by Jada but I didn’t use any noticeable horns, for once I made something original. Crew 54 are some seriously great rappers with great chemistry, what shocked me the most was nerd (allegedly) rapper Megaran coming with a vicious verse at the end. Oh, that’s me imitating Dudley, I had hard time transferring that sample, the bitrate was really bad for some dumb reason. Anyhow, I am gonna give myself a pas-….actually, I can think of one
Idea stolen – Train Tussle – U-God, Ghostface, Scotty Wotty (copper tip me)
5. Akuma Vs Gouken Ft Spit Gemz
This song was a lot of work with more than a few versions in the vault that will never see release. This was one of those songs where I had to provide extensive research on the characters and hand over data. It was gruelling work, then individual sounds etc, it was a lot of work, and the promotion of this song was nearly a year before the album came out which is largely on me but the album simply wasn’t ready. I love the song and everyone did great, but I learned a lesson, timing and spacing are critical, if you aren’t ready to release a song when its time and ready, don’t do it. For this one, this is purely original (for once).
Idea stolen – None
6. Practice mode – Ft Metaphysical
This song may not sound like it, but it was created in the same vein of a Big Shug song I REALLY love named “It Just Don’t Stop” ironically off an album called Street Champion a title I didn’t intentionally rip off (honestly). Metaphysical raps of raindrops of walkin into a dark dank ass arcade putting up quarters and giving niggas that work.
Idea stolen – It Just Don’t Stop – Big Shug and Premier
7. Round 2 – Ft H. Alston
This one beat where I really just wanted straight bars within a short time, I had no other idea than that and I loved it. I have no prior song I can think of in that vein.
Idea Stolen – None
8. Sao Paolo – Ft Kese Soprano
This song was really personal for me as a person, most of the rhymes in this song come from extensive issues I have with Brazil which if you know me, you know exactly where that stems from. People often ask “whats the street fighter reference?” Sao Paolo, Blanka and Sean, I shouldn’t have to spell it out to you ya bums.
Idea Stolen – While I would like to say I ripped off Madlib, I grew up on these records since birth, thus by birthright, an Austrud Gilberto was in my blood before I ever heard rap, so I’m gonna claim originality by default of cultural bloodline.
9. Round 3 – Ft Apocalypse Da Archangel
This is clearly my version of “Cold World” by GZA, the way I chopped shit up that was purely my intention, the mc on this is a extremely hard worker, I was very, very pleased and happy with the end product, hes a great guy. I was really happy with this beat when I made it because unlike my usual 40 second sampling jobs, this was done on the MPC hard way and I actually got creative for once.
Idea stolen – GZA Cold World
10 – Bison Ft Aye Wun
Aye Wun really ran with the source material I gave him on this which humored me and impressed me, every project he’s ever had has been incredible, this song was getting cut, my original choice was Starvin B But he thought the beat was horrible (his own words paraphrasing, I hold no grudge, hes a good guy) regardless, I also may have contacted Rozewood about this one, but I’m sort of impatient and I can be bothersome and he probably got tired of hearing me. I cant say I took any ideas off of this one, I am gonna give myself a pass here.
Idea Stolen – None
12. Bonus Stage – if you listen closely this actually resembles the break off of the first tony hawk pro skater game selection screen, for those of you old enough to remember, its nearly identical. The first time I heard this break? Off some bullshit Paul Oakenfold DJ mix that MixMag tricked me would be good. I am truly a product of the 90s.
Idea stolen – Tony Hawk Selection Screen (first game)
13. Hundred Hand Slap – Ft Eff Yoo, El Ay
Hus Kingpin was supposed to be on this but again, I don’t think he was crazy about the beat, my 2014 memory is getting fuzzier the longer times go on but I couldn’t quite get him on this, maybe another time. Eff Yoo murdered it, we had no hook, so the original in the vault is just samples from the movie American Pimp, then I let the great vocalist/producer El Ay hear it and she wrote her own misogynistic hook, (Byron, blame them, not me), this is probably the best song on the album in terms of playing it in a club without these pencil neck hipsters clearing the dancefloor, since vulgarity and women bashing is in these days. I love this song.
Idea stolen – Boldy James – You Know (no dispute about this at all if you listen to traction and the last few seconds before it segues into “You Know” the resemblance is obvious)
14. Final Round – Ft Blaq Poet, H. Alston
This was one sample I actually asked permission from as to not have fallout from the owners of EDM label Hospital Records whom I have a tentative association with through a friend of mine, I was NOT gonna fuck up a potential future of spamming their inbox with my “remixes” by not asking permission first. Which I did. Anyhow, Blaq Poet went the fuck in, I was proud of this one, my only thing is that my g H. Alston went over the 16 bar limit here and I sort of wish I would have edited it down or had him redo it, which he would have been fine with, but after two years, I stopped caring. mostly because I thought he did well but it went overlong which isn’t his fault because it was my job to edit it down, not his.
Idea stolen – London Elektricity Power Ballad (rap version)
15. Chun Li and Sakura – Ft Ensilence and Bliss
This song is basically two women I love to hear rap – rap about Street Fighter. One of these women will literally never speak to me again because I have no sense of timing and can’t keep my mouth shut. I will leave it at that. This song was also supposed to feature Persia from the white rapper show playing R. Mika but I replaced her because she had an impossible time finding a studio but she was a nice person for real so at the very least unlike a certain someone who I will get to.
Idea stolen – Puffy falling out with an artist
16. After The Fight Ft Manti Carlo, Wyndy Jones
My main man Malcolm Albert put in that work to help me get some people on here and hooked me up with Manti Carlo, he was on BBW for some hilarity. But on this one, I literally wrote the entire lyrics for the singer and Malcolm guided her in the studio, and Manti Carlo did his thing, I love this song, little do they know, this is DIRECT RIPOFF of “Victory Is In My Clutches” by Jay Electronica by a fucking mile.
Idea stolen – Victory Is In My Clutches by Jay Electronica
17. Tiger vs Jaguar Ft NEMS, LEX, Eff Yoo
This one is personal unlike the other fun tongue and cheek shit on here, this was not exactly one I fondly remember. This song was the first beat I ever made for this album and the one I desperately wanted to make. This was literally and not in a joking way, a spiritual successor to “Apollos Last Stand” which was my introduction to AG Da Coroner. I contacted AG around september of 2014 with the intention of an agreed fee, I made that fee a month later, this beat was genuinely ALOT of work, if I showed you the original sample I had to work with you would wonder how in the fuck I even completed it. After nearly a year of wrangling then a flat out no show, I had to chuck out more money to get a now hot Gorilla Nems fresh off his Ghostface/G Rap appearances to fucking replace him. He did an EXCELLENT JOB, but the thing is, this song was made for AG to play Sagat, from the voice to the picture of an older, rugged, “im coming back for revenge” type song. I was not happy that he did that. It’s not personal, but its either a verse, or the money, what he did wasn’t right. I guess since my name isn’t Statik Selektah, Bronson or ALC or Mayhem my money apparently don’t mean shit. I love his work and it’s not personal, but this shit just ain’t fair. My man LEX filled in along with Eff Yoo and did their thing to the max, I loved the song, but what was supposed to be was the zenith of my album on a personal level.
Idea Stolen – Apollos Last Stand – Alchemist
18. Ryu and Ken- Ft G.S Advance, Eff Yoo
You can’t have a tracks about street fighter and not give these niggas some solo time. I loved this track because of the inside references being made to the other people on the album which I will sort of leave out of it. Everyone had fun with it and that was the entire point.
19. NYC Subway Fights Ft Eff Yoo, Skyzoo, LEX
This was a spiritual successor to a song with Planet Asia and Alchemist called “Junkyard Fights” if I am not mistaken the name escapes me at this very second. Anyhow, I found a loop from a record I hadn’t heard in AGES, I mean it was just the perfect loop, that album is loaded with loops and it was perfect. This song takes place in the final fight universe on the second level in that train. This is basically my idea of expanded canon within the Capcom universe. I really thought this shit out when I did it. This was potentially going to have Sean Price but there was no way I could afford what he was asking and I had met Skyzoo back in San Jose awhile back and he remembered me (no mask just me at a concert in Santa Clara), anyways it turned out to be a great song and probably the most popular song on the album and the song that I’ll likely be most known for.
20. Vega Ft Laif
This is one I am not gonna really spell out, but its about these cats trying to be something they aren’t, it’s not an attack on homosexuality at all, but these dudes out here wearing skirts for sheer attention, I am just not with that. I’ll leave it at that.
21. Game Ending Ft El Ay Sofaking
This is one of those joints I just wanted to use to end the album, I really didint take much input in the writing, El Ay wrote her entire portion and Sofaking wrote his and that was that, I enjoyed the end result.