wait what — making konstantine cry (jay-z vs something corporate)

This is nice. And the album it’s from — This is Real Life — is an amazing piece of art—one of The Greatest So Far of this new generation of mash-up wizardry. These guys chopping up and blending hip hop and modern rock/pop/indie/folk music are geniuses. Expect to see a lot more of it here. I’m gonna be sharing a bunch of cool stuff in this vein on his blog in the days ahead.

I like to call this “genre” Hip-Hop Fusion. That’s exactly what it is. Hip-hop fused with all kinds of amazing music to make new even-more-amazing music that is truly sublime.

And this… well this is just ridiculous. This guy Wait What just gets it. A lot of remix artists can mix cool beats with cool vocals, but his stuff has a certain quality that a lot of those lack. It’s like he gets the whole theme, the vibe, of both songs and then seems to match them perfectly.

His Biggie mash-up The Notorious XX was a huge hit online, and righfully so. It’s a piece of pure genius. It’s not available on his site anymore because some small-brained executive sent him a take-down letter, but you can still get it in its entirety at his Soundcloud.

The song above is from, This is Real Life, which may be less iconic than The Notorious XX, but no less well done. In fact, the production values are a bit higher on this one. It’s full of amazing tracks. Go get it. Turn it up. Enjoy.