“I feel like I have the community behind me now.” Self-taught “It’s incredible to me that people even know the Toasty name,” he said. Simply put, he does it because he loves it. Because of copyright issues, he can’t directly monetize his remixes. Toasty, who works a desk job during the day, got into making Kanye mashups out of pure fandom. He’s made a name for himself on Kanye-related subreddits, like r/WestSubEver and r/Yedits, where he posts new mashups before they hit SoundCloud and YouTube. Since dropping Kanye 2049, Toasty has also built up a listenership of his own that he aims to please. Deconstructing good kid and Twisted Fantasy was like playing with fire. As a diehard listener himself, he knows how invested Kendrick and Kanye fans are in each artist’s music. When making GKTF, Toasty felt a lot of pressure to do good kid and Twisted Fantasy justice. Money is not what drives Toasty’s aspirations. Making GKTF was easier than past projects, though, because Toasty had already organized all his Kanye assets - samples, stems and song data - for his last project. Restriction forced Toasty to get more creative, finding ways to tie together songs with different keys, tempos and vibes. Visualsĭrawn from only two albums, GKTF is much more contained than Kanye 2049, which sampled various Kanye songs from across two decades.
Some of the mashups just feel right, like “DEVIL IN THE BACKSEAT,” which lifts the fiery verse of “Backseat Freestyle” above the cinematic beat of “Devil In A New Dress.” Others, like “DEAD POETS,” which blends the triumphant verse of “All Of The Lights” with the soulful Janet Jackson sample from “Poetic Justice,” are shockingly seamless. The fluttering piano chords bring out a previously unheard sadness in Kendrick’s scorching bars. The project’s centerpiece is “MAAD WORLD,” in which Toasty fuses Kendrick’s harsh staccato rap from “m.A.A.d city” with the melancholic mellifluence of the “Blame Game” instrumental. Toasty introduces the mashup album with “GET MUCH HIGHER,” which lays the exclamatory opening lyrics to “Backseat Freestyle” over the heavenly choir from “Dark Fantasy.” Later on, Kendrick and Kanye trade verses on “MONEY POWER,” which effortlessly glides between “Power,” “Money Trees,” “All Of The Lights” and “Swimming Pools.” Mixing together these legendary tracks is like assembling an NBA All-Star team - the individual parts are great, but putting them together can yield an even more extraordinary, yet unpredictable result. The mashup album’s 11 tracks consist only of songs and samples from Kendrick and Kanye’s landmark LPs, and every song from each album is utilized in some capacity on GKTF. Out February 21, Good Kid Twisted Fantasy blends together two of the most beloved and critically acclaimed hip-hop albums of all time - Kendrick Lamar’s good kid, m.A.A.d city and Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Following up his last project, Kanye 2049, Toasty sets Good Kid one year later, in 2050, as the soundtrack to a space-bound Kendrick Lamar’s cryogenic sleep. This sounds like a dystopian nightmare, but luckily it’s just the backstory of Good Kid Twisted Fantasy, the latest Kanye-inspired mashup album from Toasty Digital, a 26-year-old technical editor who moonlights as an internet DJ and Yeezy superfan.
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