Toasty Digital
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 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. 2020: 2049 and Maybe We Can Make It To Christmas In 2020, he released 2049, 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. 2049 featured a backstory and an interactive website to promote the release. The website was designed by starfennec and features, alongside the songs from the album, information about climate change with hyperlinks to various websites, including the Climate Justice Alliance and the Indigenous Environmental Network. 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