Collaborator on New Justin Bieber Album 'Swag' Says He Was ‘Mad Cool'
That fact stood true again on Bieber's newest album, Swag, which features collaborations with several names and various artists. This includes Cash Cobain, whose debut studio album, Play Cash Cobain, was released in 2024.
During an interview with GQ, Cobain spoke about the process of working with Bieber and explained how the duo came together to create the song "Swag."
Cobain revealed that he messaged Bieber after the 31-year-old showed love by posting his song Trippin on a Yacht.
'I wrote bro like, 'We got to get some work in,'' Cash recalls. 'So I'm like, all right, boom—took bro's number down and then we was chopping it up for, I don't know, a couple days.'
Cash said that Bieber reached out to him when he was in New York and met the pop star at his house, where there were several producers, rappers and artists.
The 27-year-old rapper then detailed to GQ what the creative process was like working alongside Bieber, calling him "mad cool."
'You might think Justin Bieber would be on some other s---, but bro is mad cool. It was just natural...' Cash recalls, saying that Bieber was very loose in communicating a specific vibe that he was shooting for when making the song. 'He was just like, 'Swag. Swag, bro.' He on some swag s---. That's [all] him right there.'
Cash went on to praise Bieber's first song on the album Swag, saying that the first song stood out to him, calling the beat something he's never heard anyone "really try to emulate."
Bieber's 21-song album features credits to a few well-known names, including 2 Chainz for background vocals on "Yukon." The same song gives credit to Eminem as a composer-lyricist, but as Billboard details, that stems from an interpolation of a line from Eminem's "Untitled," a song on his 2010 album Recovery.Collaborator on New Justin Bieber Album 'Swag' Says He Was 'Mad Cool' first appeared on Men's Journal on Jul 17, 2025
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