Take An Early Listen To DJ Snake’s Upcoming Collaboration With French Montana And Gashi
DJ Snake has been pumping out hits in 2018 like nobody’s business. Most recently DJ Snake dropped the refreshing new single ‘Maradona Riddim’. Fans immediately fell in love with the unexpected nature of the track.
It seems that Mr. Snake has some more surprises up his sleeves. This time, Gashi has teased his new collaboration with the Frenchman on his Twitter. While the clip is only 30 seconds long and a bit quiet, enough can be heard to know that this one is going to be a major hit.
French Montana is featured on the track, so it seems that DJ Snake is once again working to blur the lines between dance music and hip-hop. So will this release be the showstopper of the late summer? Only time will tell…
@gashi just previewed his collaboration with @djsnake And @FrencHMonTanA – creep on me
And this song is the biggest summer song without any doubt 🏖
Check it out here pic.twitter.com/wylql6acs5— DJ SNAKE INDIA (@DjSnakeIndia11) July 28, 2018
The Track Was “Creep On Me,” And It Was Gashi’s Single
That teased clip turned out to be “Creep On Me,” which dropped that fall as a Gashi single featuring both French Montana and DJ Snake, rather than a DJ Snake-led release. It ended up being one of the bigger crossover moments of the year for Gashi, whose profile had been rising steadily throughout 2018, and it leaned even further into the same pop-meets-hip-hop-meets-dance lane DJ Snake had already been carving out with tracks like “Taki Taki” and “Maradona Riddim” that same year.
The song picked up enough traction that it later got the remix treatment too, with a version featuring Maahez joining the rotation. For DJ Snake, “Creep On Me” was just one more data point in a 2018 stretch where he seemed to show up on nearly every genre-blurring hit in the pop and hip-hop world, further cementing him as one of dance music’s most in-demand collaborators outside the festival circuit.
It’s a good example of how DJ Snake operated during that era: rather than chasing one lane, he spread features across pop, hip-hop, and dance simultaneously, popping up as a credited artist on other people’s singles just as often as he dropped his own. That strategy paid off in a big way later that same year when “Taki Taki” with Cardi B, Selena Gomez, and Ozuna became a global smash, proving the “blurring the lines” approach this post predicted was very much the right call.
