Who Thought Up A Lana Del Rey Rae Sremmurd Mashup Local Spf420 Cofounder Chaz Allen

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• Chaz Allen in his room back in 2013

Earlier this week a mashup of Brooklyn chanteuse Lana Del Rey and Atlanta-via-Mississippi rap duo Rae Sremmurd took hold of handfuls of music sites. The tune combines the somber-strings instrumental of Del Rey’s 2011 breakthrough “Video Games” and Rae Sremmurd’s slo-mo, Billboard 100 charting anthem “No Type”; like any good mashup this track, which is dubbed “Lana Del Rae,” reflects its distinct parts and creates its own identity. The producer who made the song is Chazzzy, aka local genre-blurring wunderkind and SPF420 cofounder Chaz Allen.

Cantalini tells me he found Allen’s Soundcloud a couple weeks ago and thinks the producer’s work is interesting. “I just love the way he changes up the feel of ‘No Type’ entirely and turns it into something kind of melancholy and dark,” Cantalini says. “I’ve always loved ‘Video Games’ and I’m way more into the Rae Sremmurd record [SremmLife] than I thought I would be, and since it came out this week I thought it’d be a good nod to them to post with some cool shots that our photographer Faith Silva shot at their Jimmy Fallon appearance.”