One correction before anything else: this is not a Lee Young Ji track. The full credit is Wu-Tang Clan with three of the biggest names in Korean hip-hop Lee Young Ji, Jay Park and E SENS and the video description omits two of them. All three rap in a mix of English and Korean. The remix was overseen by RZA with Martin Wave of Parasol Music, and the reasoning is more considered than most brand partnerships. "This song is special to me because it brought our group to new heights worldwide," RZA said. "At its core, 'C.R.E.A.M.' tells the story of a group of young people coming together, overcoming adversity, and rising from nothing to something. That journey mirrors the arc of our characters in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4." Modern Warfare 4's storyline turns on a confrontation on the Korean Peninsula, which is why the remix is Korean-led rather than simply licensed. The split is neat: the original "C.R.E.A.M." plays over the game's opening cinematic, the remix runs over the end credits. The game launches today. The video, at just under two minutes against a three-and-a-half-minute track, cuts between gameplay and Lee Young Ji rapping around Seoul convenience stores and street corners rather than sets. She won High School Rapper 3 in 2019 and became the first female winner of Show Me the Money in 2022, which is roughly the equivalent of arriving at a Wu-Tang remix with your credentials already in order. E SENS takes the last verse and does the heaviest lifting, and he appears to know exactly what he's doing on a track that is, functionally, an advertisement: "Cash still rules the fuckin' world / C.R.E.A.M. got my money but I ain't sell my soul." That's a genuinely interesting thing to say inside a brand partnership, and it is the reason the remix survives the context.
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