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here’s nine, like the number of stories salinger combined or the number of the district where they made all the aliens live in that movie a few years ago, in the wait what wednesday saga. phantogram started playing mood music about diamonds and kanye heard it in the distance, ran up, and started rapping to craft mouthful of diamonds in sierra leone.

people often ask how I decide to put two songs together, and it’s usually because two songs share some feeling or one brings out a more subtle element in the other. in this case, the thematic match is pretty obvious, but had been wanting to mash up something with phantogram, and liked how kanye’s voice sounded after the drop.

this week featured a good new year’s eve in sf followed by a 13 hour roadtrip to arizona with three friends and a crushing fiesta bowl (american college football for those unfamiliar). the photo in the art comes from masai mara, in kenya, last year — not exactly sierra leone, but it’s the closest I’ve gotten. I also didn’t have any good shots of all the diamonds I rock on the reg, so went for the african plains shot instead.

shouts to all my lost boys (we rowdy),
charlie