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“Cashmere Thoughts” finds Jay dropping pimp lines over a Clark Kent track that samples “Save Their Souls” by Hamilton Bohannon. Clark talked about the track in an interview with Complex:
‘Cashmere Thoughts’ was almost like a joke. You hear the way we’re talking back and forth on that record? That’s...
[Intro]
Hah, hah, hah, hah, yeah, yeah
What it is player?
(You player, it's all about you
How you gon' say that man)
If I had your hand I'd turn mine in
(Far as I'm concerned, if I had your hand, I cut mines off)
Hah man, you know man, I'm just dealing that hoe money
You know hoe money is slow money but it's sho' money
(Check this out man, you run up on your bitches
This is what you tell 'em
Stick they hands in they panties, grab that knot
Stick they arm in a car window, drop it like it's hot)
[Verse 1]
Uhh, I talk jewels and spit diamonds: all cherry
Like a hymen, when I'm rhyming with remarkable timing
Caviar and silk dreams, my voice is linen
Spitting venom up in the minds of young women
Mink thoughts to think thoughts type similar
Might you remember, my shit is cold like December
Smoother than Persian rugs, the cashmere
Chromosomes make a nigga Jigga - Jay-Z, lethal drugs
18-carat gold pen, when it hits the sheets
Words worth a million like I'm rapping them through platinum teeth
I got the Grey Poupon, you been warned
'Cause all beef return well done filet mignon
The Don, smell of Dom on my breath as I
Yawn, (slow) when you hoes try to con a pro
As if you didn't know, Jay's about getting dough
Spitting flow like fine wine down your earlobe
I'm smooth but deadly like a pearl handled pistol
Honeys hum in melody when I rub it like crystal
The proper etiquette when I drop the subject verb
Then the predicate with this rich nigga rhetoric
I'm solid gold, I rap like a mink stole
I stick pearl tongues your world'll never know
From New York to Paris, the vocal style vary
From nice to deadly like a bad bag of D, now
Notice the child swift like a Lotus
Focus on the loc', I be the greatest nigga that wrote it
Return of the Jedi from Rio De Janeiro on the red eye
Yet I still feel the need to be fly
I did die when I'm rapping then slide like satin
You know the black I white china in the brain cabinet
I never cry if I did I'd cry ice
From my nigga Sauce, I hit you with this advice
Life's short, so play hard and stick hard
And the only time you love them is when your dick hard
[Interlude]
Whoooh! (That's cashmere baby)
Nah, you know, that's just laid back man
(Man, shit, J to the A to the Y to the Z)
Cashmere baby
(Motherfucking pimp that's what he be)
Cashmere baby
(It don't get no hotter than that baby)
Sho' yo right, sho' yo right
(Them niggas know)
[Verse 2]
Check it out, check it out
Ghetto's Errol Flynn, hot like heroin
Young pimps is sterile when I pimp through your borough and
I gotta keep your tricks intact
'Cause I walk like a pimp, talk like a mack, man
The star player, the golden bar layer
The sweet Ms. Fine Thing puh-layah, sho' yo right
I'm game tight, so why should it change tonight?
Go tell your peeps dog I'm lethal until it ain't right
I pimp hard on a trick, look
Fuck if your leg broke bitch, hop up on your good foot
Cashmere Thoughts was written by JAY-Z & Clark Kent & Hamilton Bohannon & Melvin “Wah Wah” Watson & Leroy Emmanuel.
Cashmere Thoughts was produced by Clark Kent.
JAY-Z released Cashmere Thoughts on Tue Jun 25 1996.
DJ Clark Kent revealed in Kareem “Biggs” Burke’s “RD20” documentary that “Cashmere Thoughts” was supposed to be the first track from a collaboration album between Hov, Sauce Money and Jaz-O. The theme of the track was simply meant to be “three pimps talking pimp talk.”
It’s a double entendre. Clark Kent revealed it was Jay’s “pimp name and alias.” It’s also an expensive type of wool, used in the manufacture of luxury clothing. Jay’s “cashmere thoughts” are then thoughts about opulence and luxury.
Clark told Complex:
‘Cashmere Thoughts’ was almost like a joke. You hear the way we’re talking back and forth on that record? That’s me and him talking pimp shit, because we did that all the time. ‘Cashmere Thoughts’ is from the name Cashmere Jones, which was Jay’s pimp name and alias. We were just...
Clark Kent explained that it’s basically a conversation between himself and Jay’s alias “Cashmere Jones.”
It was just one verse. So when he comes back in and goes ‘The ghetto’s, Errol Flynn…’ it’s because I was like, ‘Yo, give me some more. Let’s make this a whole song.’ He was like, ‘For what?’ I...