By day, San Francisco's Charlie Kubal works at Google. By night, he DJs at bars under the name Wait What. And it's in that latter guise that the 24-year-old has made a big internet splash, thanks to a new mash-up album matching the Notorious B.I.G.'s cocksure rhymes with the soft, atmospheric tunes of the xx's self-titled debut. You can stream or download The Notorious XX from Kubal's website.
"The combination of the two is the extrovert meets the introvert," he explains – and it's a marriage that works amazingly well. Rather than cutting up the music to create entirely new compositions, Kubal made only subtle tweaks and cuts to the originals in order to blend them. Because he did that so skilfully, the results sound as natural as they are impressive. Closing track Mo Stars Mo Problems, in particular, somehow uses the xx's Stars to strip out the braggadocio of B.I.G.'s Mo Money Mo Problems and replace it with real tenderness. Definitely worth a listen.
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