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Jay-Z raps over Radiohead on the mash-up record Jaydiohead
Jaydiohead, a mash-up record that sets Jay-Z's vocals against Radiohead recordings, has gone up at jaydiohead.com to hear and download. One track puts “Dirt Off Your Shoulder” over “Paranoid Android” and calls the result “Dirt Off Your Android”; elsewhere “99 Problems” meets “The National Anthem”.
The record is the work of a New York DJ who goes by Minty Fresh Beats, and it runs to ten tracks. It works the way Danger Mouse's The Grey Album did, when he set Jay-Z's vocals from The Black Album over the Beatles' White Album.
Kevin Bronson of buzzbands.la, who usually writes mash-up artists off as men with too much time on their hands, makes an exception and picks “No Karma” and “Dirt Off Your Android” as his favourites. Neither Jay-Z's camp nor Radiohead's has objected so far.