Toasty Digital
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Toasty Digital | |
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| Born | 1994 (age 27–28) Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Genres | Mashup, Hip hop, electronic |
| Years active | 2020-present |
Toasty Digital (born 1994) is an American musician and mashup artist. His first notable release was 2049, a mashup concept album created through sampling various Kanye West tracks. He rose to further prominence with the release of Good Kid Twisted Fantasy, a mixtape sampling West and Kendrick Lamar.
Early life and career[edit | edit source]
Toasty Digital was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He began teaching himself how to make and mix music at the age of 12 using GarageBand. His job outside of music is technical editing. a concept album made with mashups of various Kanye West songs both released and unreleased. Notably, Toasty Digital sampled leaked songs from West's cancelled album Yandhi. The relevance of these links are in the backstory, which explains that the album is set on a futuristic Earth, where Kanye West has disappeared and humanity has been overwhelmed by climate change. The album was well received,
2021-present: Later Mixtapes[edit | edit source]
In February 2021, Toasty Digital released the mixtape Good Kid Twisted Fantasy. This release features samples from Kanye West and Kendrick Lamar, with the title being a homage to their respective albums My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and Good Kid, M.A.A.D City. The mixtape continues the story of 2049, being set one year later as humans plan to evacuate the Earth. A 63-year old Lamar would have heard the album before being put into cryogenic sleep for the duration of the six-year trip. Toasty Digital would also release DIET YEEZUS, a mashup album of Kanye West's album, Yeezus, featuring what he describes as a "plant-based, cruelty-free" sound. Toasty also made the first volume of ‘Tyler 2049’, a collection of songs made from different parts of other songs from Tyler the Creator in November 2021. Tyler 2049 (vol. 1) is a spinoff to 2049, being set in the same setting and year, but following the compositions of an AI Okonma. Toasty Digital's next mashup project, BLONDA, featured samples from Frank Ocean's Blonde) and Kanye West's Donda. It was slated for release in 2021, On November 15, 2022, the album title was revealed as Instrumentals from my mama's Christmas Party. It is set to primarily feature samples from Kendrick Lamar and will debut on November 25.
Discography[edit | edit source]
Albums[edit | edit source]
- 2049 (2020)
- SAMPLE SERVICE (2022)
Mixtapes[edit | edit source]
- MAYBE WE CAN MAKE IT TO CHRISTMAS (2020)
- Good Kid Twisted Fantasy (2021)
- DIET YEEZUS (2021)
- Tyler 2049 (vol. 1) (2021)
- DIET YEEZUS DELUXE (2022)
- BLONDA (2022)
- Instrumenals from my mama's Christmas Party (2022)
