Music

This Weezer and Kanye West mash-up album is a nerdy labour of love

by Jesse Locke

Mashing up the music of Weezer with hip-hop heavyweights is nothing new. Jay-Zeezer‘s The Black and Blue Album was a decent if somewhat slapdash attempt (with a hilariously outdated website), while various fusions of Weezer with Lil Wayne have been kicking around for years. The latter even became a self-fulfilling prophecy with the 2009 IRL collab “Can’t Stop Partying.”

Now, a mixmaster by the name of Chuckie Nugget (a.k.a. Ohio State sophomore Alex Hodowanec) has ran circles around all previous projects with the perfectly named Yeezer. His appreciation of both artists’ source material is clear with some deep cut pulls from their back catalogues. One successfully surreal juxtaposition is hearing the words “I wanna fuck you hard on the sink / After that, give you somethin’ to drink” from Kanye’s “Bound 2” with the butt-rock riffs of The Green Album‘s “Smile.” The Marilyn Manson-indebted industrial thrust of Yeezus calling card “Black Skinhead” gets fused with Raditude‘s “The Girl Got Hot” for something that definitely improves on the Weezer song. Best of all is “American Island”, a pitch-perfect combination of the breezy riffs from “Island in the Sun” with Estelle’s Ye-featuring “American Boy.”

Yeezer has already been pulled down from Bandcamp and Audiomack, but you can stream it in the YouTube video below and download it from a link in the description. In the immortal words of Chuckie Nugget: “ALL MUSIC BELONGS TO THAT OF KANYE WEST AND WEEZER, I AM JUST THE DISCIPLE.”

[h/t The Daily Dot]