Skepta premiered a new track with Kanye West at a fashion show for his label MAINS last night (September 14). Check it out below.
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The unreleased track, dubbed ‘Cash Cow’ by fans, has been teased since mid-August when West first shared a snippet during the ‘Vultures 2’ listening party in LA.
Last night Skepta shared a new song teaser during a fashion show for his label MAINS. The track includes the lyrics “When it’s war I go Rambo / You want tap, you want samba / There are too many floors, I’ve got enough / I just give and go as I planned.”
It is currently unclear whether the track will be included on Skepta’s upcoming album ‘Knife and Fork’, which will end fans’ five-year wait since 2019’s ‘Ignorance is Bliss’. The upcoming sixth album has yet to be released.
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‘Cash Cow’
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MAINS first launched Skepta in 2017, before dropping it two years later due to an “amicable” split he was having with his producer partner at the time, on Vogue. MAINS was then revived in 2022. Shortly before last night’s show, Skepta put out an open call for models.
It’s not the first time the couple have met. In 2018, Skepta was credited as a composer on West’s ‘ye’ album alongside Wiley. They contributed to the first record ‘I Thought About Killing You’.
The two rappers were previously said to have worked together in the studio in 2015, following West’s performance at the Brit Awards that year, when he enlisted the London MC and others from the UK grime scene to perform ‘All Day’.
Earlier this year, Skepta premiered a short film Tribal markhis film debut as co-director and lead actor. Since the release, Skepta has said NME he had plans to follow it up with a feature film continuing his story.
“He’s like Black James Bond the thing that everybody was trying to do,” Skepta said. “We wanted to do something [where] when I made the movie, I was like, ‘Okay, cool – now it’s a franchise.’
Meanwhile, West and Ty Dolla $ign released ‘Vultures 2’ earlier this year – the second part of their collaborative album ‘Vultures’ trilogy. The record arrived five months later than originally planned.
It was originally slated to top the Billboard 200, but Taylor Swift’s latest album – ‘The Tortured Poet’s Department’ – blocked it from the top spot, ending his 19-year streak of debuting at No. place.
The duo recorded ‘Vultures 1’ – which NME said it was “far from one of his best efforts” and “descended into misogyny” – back in February. It had elements of Freddie Gibbs, YG, Playboi Carti, Travis Scott, West’s daughter North and more.
Since its release, ‘Vultures 2’ has received a mixed response from fans and critics, with Geoff Barrow alleging that the two rappers sampled Portishead on ‘Vultures 2’ without permission.
Member Beak> posted a clip of ‘Field Trip’ – featuring Don Toliver, Kodak Black and Playboi Carti – on X/Twitter, allegedly testing out Portishead’s ‘Machine Gun’.
“FFS. Not again,” he wrote, apparently referring to the second time the song was recorded without permission. “Why can’t he write his own beats?”
The original ‘Vultures’ album also ran into a similar issue of alleged copyright infringement, with West and the estate of Donna Summer reaching a settlement over the alleged “illegal” use of “I Feel Love” on ‘Vultures 1’.
Ozzy Osbourne also threatened to sue over an unauthorized Black Sabbath sample.
Earlier this year, West entered his ‘Vultures 2’ listening party in South Korea on horseback.
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