A Post Malone-Bob Dylan collab was once in the works but got shelved by Dylan’s team. Music producer Michael Cash lifted the lid on the would-be song in a new interview with Rolling Stone. He said he came up with the idea and reached out to Dylan’s longtime rep Jeff Rosen. After Rosen gave the project the green light, he sent over lyrics for track “Be Not Deceived” written by Dylan. Malone, a huge fan of the singer-songwriter, was “literally in tears,” remembered Cash. “It was talking about a loss of innocence,” the producer said of the song. “And what people are going through — disfranchised, kind of leaderless masses of children with no parent or guardian or shepherd or anything. It talked about going out and making your own way. And when you read it, honestly, it’s poetry. It’s beautiful.” After work got underway to record the song, it stalled half way through when Malone had to take off, and then never committed to returning to the project. Cash hopes that one day the project will get finished and see the light of day.
