“Devil’s Roof” is an apt title for this latest project from Cashius Green and Caleb Stone, because the album is just under twenty minutes of the rug being pulled right from under us.
The alternative and nostalgic emo instrumentals immediately hint that we are getting an inside peak at someone’s innermost thoughts and feelings.
They take us to a place in our own psyche: a slow-swaying, emotionally vulnerable place, and Cashius’s cadence hops onto these tracks like someone starting to run on a moving treadmill, or mounting a running horse—as soon as he arrives, the rhythm shifts to the weight of his words, and we’re in the middle of a story we are not in control of.
The poetic abstractions paired with blatant accounts of “misdeeds” on “Devil’s Roof” (from pimpin’ to boostin’, slangin’ and sexin’) are delivered at the speed of game.
The talk is too slick to hear the first time, so we lean in for the kill, we start to release ourselves to the trance of the first hook:
“…Sauce, check. I’ma boss n*gga, check. Respect, check. Sex, check”, we loudly agree when “Check” invites us in.
And by the time “Déjà vu” comes on eighteen or so minutes later, and the record leaves us with “do whatever you feel”, it seems “Devil’s Roof” was less an analogy for our foundations being rocked, and more a peak into the mind of evil itself, and the con is:
the “Devil’s Roof” sounds and feels eerily like our own.
-Sondria Writes
“Midnight Music” is Cashius Green slipping outrageous lyrics into our psyches via eclectically nostalgic beats. It’s “vodka, water, and sea moss”, like the cocktail Cashius mentions on “Take Two”—balance, but with a degenerate lilt.
Every beat on “Midnight Music” will change your walk. You’ll start to limp like a pimp. “I love talking chivalry, mix it up with pimpery” (“Ooh Damn”). Imagine a future where polyamory, drug trafficking, sex work, and drug use are the norm, and maybe even a little passè, and you’ll be in the universe Cashius describes on “Midnight Music”. He’s giving us the soundtrack to the other side of life’s coin—where the heroes are the things that go bump in the night.
The album is brimming with anthems, sing-a-long hooks, and two-step tracks. Green shares the spotlight with talented artists Johnny Storm, Doorbeez, Jae Harper, and IDK.mrn, who each show up and show out, but the most exciting part of “Midnight Music” is hearing how Cashius Green manipulates language to reinforce the vibe provided by the record’s slip-n-slide-smooth production. It’s the great con: the pimp itself.
Throughout “Midnight Music”, Cashius is accepting darkness, speaking on it, and pimpin’ through it to control his own narrative.
“I don’t fight my demons, I pimp ‘em so they can’t hide no mo’.” -Cashius Green
- Sondria Writes
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