New Money
by Calvin Harris (featuring 21 Savage)

Album: Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2 (2022)
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Songfacts®:

  • Over Calvin Harris' smooth production, 21 Savage flexes about his wealthy lifestyle. The Atlanta-based rapper has all the dough he needs because his bank accounts constantly get topped off with new money. All the cash he's making buys Savage the freedom to charter planes and drive the foreign luxury cars of his choosing.
  • This is the first collaboration between Calvin Harris and 21 Savage. The Scot's summery funk-indebted production is more poppy than the Atlanta rapper's usual trap-laden beats. However, Savage reins in his steely flow and gangsta rhymes to match the instrumentation.
  • Calvin Harris and 21 Savage wrote "New Money" with bassist/producer Alissia Benveniste. The Berklee graduate has also worked with funk legend Bootsy Collins ("World Wide Funk"), the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul Mary J Blige ("Love Without the Heartbreak") and California rapper/singer Anderson Paak ("Fire in the Sky").

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