The American Gamer Remixes

So before thoughts of doing Forever Famicom with Mega Ran emerged, my first real foray into taking video game music and re-mixing/purposing it as hip-hop songs was on The American Gamer album.

This album was one of MANY remix projects based on Jay-Z's American Gangster album, which dropped a few months before. When Random, who had the album's acapellas, asked me to take part, i was hyped as i always wanted to try something as cool as this that fused two of my greatest passions, which is probably why i ended up doing the most remixes on the whole album- i was excited to see if i could do the game samples justice as well as keep the vibe & integrity of Hov's lyrics intact.

I strategically picked Sega's NiGHTS, Streets Of Rage & Final Fantasy II as the source material for my remixes as they were all personal favorites of mine and all had dope ass soundtracks that were just ripe for the sampling ;)  And as a result of people's positive reactions to my remixes and the project in general, i got the idea to pursue making what eventually turned out to be Forever Famicom over 2 years later...


So props again to the homie Random for inviting me to get involved and the rest, as they say, is history...

K