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In an alternate universe, future President of the United States Kanye West decided to take up the rock mantle, meets up with the Queens Of The Stone Age along the way, and both collaborate and release this surreal but infectious album. West's claims of being the "greatest living rockstar alive" doesn't seem so pompous anymore.
Although some would say this is just a silly dream, or even a horrendous nightmare, now a brand new mashup album by producer ToToM has surfaced on Bandcamp making it a reality, with Kanye of the Stone Age. With tracks such as 'Jesus Walks With The Flow' ('Jesus Walks' meets 'Go With The Flow') and 'Black Skinhead Does It Again' ('Black Skinhead' vs 'Do It Again'), it's definitely something of a strange but brilliant mashup.
Explaining his envisionment on his Bandcamp page, ToToM said: "I packed the first half of the present album quite rapidly a year ago but as it started to become an important project (plus the media fuss around Kanye West and his new tracks released in between), I took my time and as I was waiting for an artwork, I found new ideas, improved other tracks. I even added another bonus track that'll be fitter to play for a packed dancefloor."
"It consists in 12 tracks of Kanye West's raging ego rapping, grunting and singing over Queens of the Stone Age, plus one special bonus track featuring both artists over Prodigy and 4 bonus tracks produced following the "Bootwards concept" (rock vocals vs. hip-hop instrumentals); actually, the last bonus track is taken from Bootwards Volume 3."
"I hope you like that album, I just put so much energy into it, I'm glad it finally comes out."
You can download the album for free here. All proceedings made by the album will go to Josh Homme's Sweet Stuff Foundation, which is currently accepting donations for victims of the Paris attacks.
