“Cashmere Thoughts” finds Jay dropping pimp lines over a Clark Kent track that samples “Save Their Souls” by Hamilton Bohannon. Clark talked about the track in an interview with Complex:

‘Cashmere Thoughts’ was almost like a joke. You hear the way we’re talking back and forth on that record? That’s me and him talking pimp shit, because we did that all the time. ‘Cashmere Thoughts’ is from the name Cashmere Jones, which was Jay’s pimp name and alias. We were just bugging. [Laughs.]

It was just one verse. So when he comes back in and goes ‘The ghetto’s, Errol Flynn…’ it’s because I was like, ‘Yo, give me some more. Let’s make this a whole song.’ He was like, ‘For what?’ I said, ‘Because it’s crazy, that’s why! It screams that you have to do the next verse.’

The Source magazine featured Jay’s opening verse in their Hip-Hop Quotable section.