Harley Geffner‘s next pitch is to Oprah about scamming the Royal Family.
What would you do if you could wipe the year 2020 from your consciousness? Kobe, Pop Smoke, and many loved ones were lost, as well as a year of good hair and (maybe) hotness, but on the other hand, Kasher Quon dropped more than 80 loosies on scattered youtube accounts, and every single one was hot. It’d be a tough choice.
It was 2019 when I really fell in love with Kasher Quon’s rapping, as he rose to national prominence out of Detroit alongside Teejayx6 for the absurdity in their raps. Kasher had been rapping for many years before that, but Teejay, who was still a teeanger, gave the style that extra wow factor with the added shock value on his bars. Kasher said in one interview that he’s not really scamming his family members or people on the dark web, or at least no more than a local scammer collecting gift cards and doing some light stuff to get ahead and pay for studio time. But Teejay would really bring reference points to the higher scamming terminology, rapping about watching girls kill themselves in red rooms while Kasher was rapping about more petty shit like doing Cash Back at the self-scanner machines. Teejay has more of those bars that’ll knock you back, but Kasher has been more consistent across the board and his chemistry with some of the best producers out of Detroit is off the charts.
Kasher sounds great with high-octane Enrgy beats, but really shines when he gets to rip some jazzy piano or saxophone courtesy of Undefined. He’s got some Wayne-ian instincts in the way he rhymes things that have absolutely no business rhyming, but he also is just as content rhyming a word with itself 4 times in a row.
Kasher thrives in absurdism to the point it feels like you’re listening to a rap version of “Waiting for Godot’ at times. Like a boxer, he’ll lull you to sleep with two or three boring jabs about smoking runtz or London pound, then he’ll throw a crazy 6 line combo, punching in to telling a complex story about why he wasn’t able to make the bitcoin machine in West Philly work. Some of it makes little to no sense at all and some of it shows an incredibly wise, mature, and self-aware perspective, like when he rapped, “Why would I be mad teejay blew past me, it ain’t even shit man cuz we all family.” But mostly it’s just hysterical.
The main challenge with creating a list like this is ranking the songs, so consider these rankings incredibly loose. Kasher is so consistent that his best song and his 50th best songs are not all that different in terms of quality. A lot of it depends on how beautiful the piano sounds and what types of pockets he falls into with his flurries. I mean, in a lower tier on this list, there’s a song where Kasher makes up an alias for someone who asks him his name in an airport, then realizes he’s not a threat because he’s wearing Adidas shell toes and is so fucked up that he can’t even buy a bag of Ruffles.
He has recurring characters in his raps, like a crackhead named Ezel who makes a few appearances, he has recurring themes like beating people’s asses with an assortment of objects such as a Disco ball or can opener, and most famously, he calls people poor by saying they’re fucked up in the crib or elsewhere doing poor people shit. Here’s an abbreviated list, divided by location:
Fucked up in the crib:
- eating whipped cream
- drinking faucet water
- Texting from WiFi
- eating Tootsie rolls
- eating leftovers
- with no refrigerator
- sharing clothes with your little brother
- eating Egos
Fucked up, in other places:
- buying cigarettes
- cleaning bathrooms
- smoking angel dust
- working at steak and shake
- procrastinating
- in the way (move)
- unable to buy a pack of oreos
- sleeping on a bunkbed
Unfortunately, artists like Kasher who drop at such a torrid place have their stuff scattered between many different YouTube accounts and some of those songs get pulled down pretty frequently. I started a Kasher playlist near the start of 2020 and added to it as I went through the year and it had gotten up to 80 songs including all the features by the end of the year, but many were removed and the playlist now sits at a mere 57 songs. Some bars from the lost ones still pop into my head, and others I don’t remember and will be lost to time. Or maybe they’re just on another account. Actually, they’re probably at a Wells Fargo in Chattanooga.
1. “Miramar”
“Just bought a new crib this bitch warm and comfy / Yo mama kicked you out the crib cuz she old, she grumpy”
2. “The 80s”
“Auntie smoke dope she was born in the 80s / My cousin turned weird that n**** went and joined the navy”
3. “ReRock”
Undefined > Mozart
“Do you wanna fuck, yes or no, you confusin’ me / Can hear the lean talkin’ to me right now sayin’ you abusin me (stop)”
4. “Opa Locka”
Kasher told a story on TheHipHopLab’s podcast about how this song taught him he’s got to be legit careful about what he says. He apparently got pressed in Florida because of this bar:
“Got into it with some n***** from Florida in Opa Locka, I’m finna bring the whole Detroit and shoot up Opa Locka”
5. “EDD (ft. Teejayx6)”
Just over a minute of dark energy, and Teejay is hungry on this one.
“I’m eatin’ off EDD shout out to the government / Why the prices on the lean so high, that shit don’t make no sense / Don’t bring your hoe around me ‘cuz I’ll take your bitch / How you say you gon’ rob me and you ain’t go no stick”
6. “Organized Crime”
Undefined > Beethoven
“I tried to smoke before my Uber came and missed my ride / Tried to cop some lean for the plane and missed my flight”
7. “Crackhead Ezel”
Here’s a good example of how his patterns keep you off-balance.
“With all this coronavirus goin’ on I won dap you / You just got a dirty bitch pregnant, she trapped you / And I cheated on my bitch, she slapped me … but it was my fault, ran off with his BOA and said ‘my fault’ (my bad) / Like my fault bro, I ain’t mean to run off with your card / I’m sipping on green right now and I popped a bar”
8. “New Balance”
Undefined > Bach
“I heard that you just got evicted ducking your landlord / he couldn’t pay the rent, it cost a dollar to get a Game leaf, he got 50 cent”
9. “10:17”
In life, you’re either the dude who doesn’t want to smoke while his man keeps rolling up or the man who keeps rolling up.
“I don’t even wanna smoke, my mans keep rolling up”
11. “Kitchen Freestyle”
“Stole 20 out your grandma purse, you a bum for that / ran into my opp and bumped him he better not bump me back”
12. “Low Key”
“I heard you got zero dollars on your birthday”
13. “Stretch Monroe (ft. YSR Gramz)”
This one’s groovy and high-energy.
“I’m in Walmart doing some Cash Back at the self-scan (bing) / I can’t see myself leeching off another man (nope) / that’s impossible, I’m finna pour up some Hi-Tec in a tropical”
14. “Careful”
“Smoked a whole zip to the face I can’t get no higher / told that bitch we go together I’m a whole liar / Now she think that we cool / Ran into a fan downtown now he think that we cool”
15. “CNN”
“I scammed a bitch last year on April Fools, She thought she was finna get a package I told her April fools”
“Bought a fake ID now my name James Bond, I love fuckin around with your bitch we got a good bond”
16. “American Idol”
“Caught one of my opps at the store and I punched him in the tooth / and I heard his cousin wanna buy lean, Imma play with his juice”
17. “Dove Soap”
“I’m finna fuck this bitch and give her 65 dollars / I’m ridin in the car right now with 65 bullets / Draco hold 50 and the nine hold 15 / n****s fucked up in the crib eating whipped cream”
18. “Emotional”
“I’m sick this bitch got on K Swiss”
19. “Asteroid”
“Just got a fire ass instagram promo from Snooki / I just caught one of my opps in an old ass Suzuki”
20. “Not Enough”
“You sippin on green you gon’ turn into an alien / the police pulled me over I gave them an alias / I ain’t the goat yet until I scam the president”
‘The first five bars in your song was five lies (capper) / you lied as soon as you came in that bitch bro”
21. “Purple”
I can’t condone this one – “My one opinion don’t matter so I never vote”
22. “Scam Doctor (ft. RSLG B Smith)”
I love it when Kasher goes bar for bar with someone who can hang, and they’re able to play off each other’s words. RSLG actually has the more impactful bars on this one:
“I just stabbed a n**** in the eyeball with a pencil / I just killed a n**** brother then tweeted I miss him”
“You only got 1500 why you need a rubber band / boy you can’t hustle for shit, you need a helping hand”
23. “Sensational”
Undefined > Chopin
“I’m finna fuck this bitch and take her to the studio / and I just slapped the fuck out of a n**** named Julio”
24. “How You Doin”
“Bought a fake ID now my new name Ludacris / I just scammed a lame ass n**** named Dominic / just fucked this bitch and imma take her to Dominoes / just busted my daddy’s ass for 3000 playing Dominoes”
25. “South Park”
“I had to break up with my last bitch, she got on my nerves / got all her clothes and I put ‘em on the curb / she can’t find me now ‘cuz I stay deep in the suburbs”
26. “No Adlibs”
“I’m finna take my bitch to the mall for a Louis Vuitton bag / Walked in Louis with Gucci on and make Louis Vuitton mad”
27. “Comeback”
“I’m tired of this court shit when the fuck is my next appeal? / I’d still scam you even if I got a hunnid mill / Cuz there was time I didn’t even have a hundred dollar bill”
“Hold on hold on hold on hold on, I’m talking spicy for real / My brother a hater that n**** don’t really like me for real / We got 400 people in the live, I hope my brother in here, so he can hear that”
28. “Flamee”
This beat is pretty magical.
“I’m chillin’ with some hoes right now on Miami beach, we bought to have a good time / why a n**** try to match me with a good time”
29. “Yao Ming”
This one is mad funky.
“Drinking all that green you gon’ turn into Piccolo”
30. “Tostones (ft. Teejayx6)”
“I just fucked your bitch and she ain’t even in my contacts (i’on know her) / I blow a n**** crib up that’s a bomb threat / I just scammed a Black African for 9 racks”
31. “The Mafia”
Calling someone “pointless” because they don’t have payment apps is hilarious.
“This bitch pointless she ain’t got Cashapp or Chime / Seen this n**** at the airport just said is you Kasher Quon / I told that n**** I’m Kasher Juan, scammin online that’s white collar crime / So what I’m tellin’ you I ain’t finna do no jail time / how you finna hold me and you still wearing shell toes??”
32. “Lil Uzi”
“Damn bro this beat groovy, tight ass jeans and big shoes bro I look like Lil Uzi”
“I just told a n**** show me 10, he didn’t have that / this bitch just said I need some money, do you have some? / My man just said he got some Wock I need to grab some”
“I treat that bitch like a liquor store, I’m in and out”
33. “Antisocial Weirdo (ft. 10kkev)”
Another one where they go single line for line.
“Just popped this n**** in the face with a football”
34. “Undertaker & Kane (ft. Rio Da Yung OG)”
This is very much a Rio beat from Enrgy, but Kasher still stands out.
“I didn’t have my gun so I beat him with a sledgehammer”
35. “Quon Poker Chips (with Almighty Suspect)”
Kasher sounds awesome over LA beats too.
“I’m finna go to hell ‘cuz I just scammed a pastor”
“Boutta hit the road and turn around with Michigan plates / I gotta hurry up ‘cuz Walmart close at 8 / And I gotta pick your bitch up from work she got off at 9 / scammed an NBA player I think it’s LeBron”
36. “Palm Angels”
“Why a n**** just try to match me with a ‘Rello?”
“I was tryna fuck that little hoe ain’t have no condom / these shoes i got on my feet you can not find ‘em (nope) / these bitches sold out, I just got booked for a show and it’s sold out”
37. “Smackdown”
“I just wasted two thousand dollars on a reptile”
38. “Wavy”
“Imma kill you in peace / I’m in the strip club throwin’ ones smackin’ cheeks”
39. “Game Over”
“I don’t wanna fuck the lil hoe she smell like mildew / my uncle just spent 3 thousand on a gold tooth”
40. “RAW (ft. Rio Da Yung OG & Tony Rose)”
This is again, very much a Rio song with those different types of church bells. I’d like to hear Rio and Kasher together on a more Kasher beat.
“I just got a glass pint of red from a hillbilly (white guy)”
41. “2 Chainz”
“This bitch just got her braces done in the basement / I just killed a n**** and threw his body in a dumpster / that n**** trash, he just paid for a feature but he was ass”
42. “No Wok (snippet)”
5 grams in the backwood, fuck a pre-roll / I got my own damn YouTube, fuck a Vevo / I’m finna be on probation, fuck my P.O. / like, fuck him / this bitch always got Kasher in his mouth, you wanna fuck him?”
43. “Pandemic”
“Yo bum ass gonna go to jail, you drivin stolies / how you gon’ slide on me and you ain’t Moby”
“Unemployment got me rich I’ll never run out of money / I got a white bitch hoein’, sellin’ pussy for me / I got a lil n**** in the spot sellin’ cookie for me / the real question is who had it before unemployment”
44. “Deadstock”
“I’ll have a crackhead come kill you for two dollars”
45. “Spazz Out”
“I gotta pay Enterprise a fee ‘cuz I smoked out the rental”
“I was finna fuck that lil hoe, she smell like a raccoon (what the fuck) / so that lil bitch turned me off, I didn’t wanna listen to your songs so I turnt it off”
46. “Boomin (ft. Lil Esco 28 and RobThePlayboy)”
Kasher is rapping here with the kid (Lil Esco 28) who has 4.5 million YouTube views from him saying “man I’m finna whip this hoe” about a nice-looking car. That kid in this song is worried about going to hell because he killed a toad. After a line from his friend RobThePlayboy about someone shopping at Sears, Kasher chimes in:
“That n**** was tryna get aeropostale / kicked this one bitch out my car for wearing aeropostale (bye)”
47. “Exotic”
“Bought a profile he was born in 1995 / these some new Amiris off some Air Max 95s / I just scammed a lame ass n**** for his last 95 / how you gon’ slide on me and you ain’t even drive / how you gon’ keep up with me and you sellin’ dimes”
“I can’t even buy no more beats I scammed Jose the plug”
48. “Fraud Bible”
“Saw a fiend overdose on dog I hope he okay / n**** said he got five TDs I hope he don’t play”
49. “Chrome Hearts (ft. 2way and 10kkev)”
“Gave this lil ass gorilla glue I told him it was gruntz / my cousin ran off two years ago I still hold a grudge”
50. “Goated 2”
“I heard you caught a 14 hour flight to skip lag”
51. “2 Mins of Hell (ft. Bag Life Tee)”
“Just smoked a whole zip to the face I think my lungs broke”
52. “Retail Price”
Minus points for too many recycled bars, but a real nice beat and it still sounds good.
53. “Unemployment (ft. Teejayx6 & Bornbandz)”
“Just because we went to high school we cannot hang”
54. “Wakanda (ft.Shittyboyz Trdee)”
“Woke up in the morning birds chirpin’ that’s all a n**** hear / she said she wanna get drunk, come over here (pull up)”
55. “Right Now”
“My cousin finna come home he got two more years left over / heard you fucked up in the crib eating leftovers”
56. “Dania Beach (ft. GMD Jets)”
“I hit that n**** with a .38 / I gotta be up at the bank by 8 (good morning) / cuz if I don’t imma take a loss, I don’t wanna talk to no worker, where yo boss”
57. “On Go”
“I chose scammin’ instead of the honor roll”
58. “Miami Gardens (ft. 1king)”
Not sure Kasher thought this one through, but hey it sounds hard.
“I’m the first n**** with an American flag pistol”