Keyboard Kid - "New Workout Plan 2014 (Based Remixx)"

Based Eye for Every Guy is riddled with potential. Imagine the rare possibilities: spa day and based-over, compliments of God's Father. These facials exfoliate skin and brain. By design, the team's experts do more than provide a make-over, the goal is to refresh worldviews. Style is strictly superficial. The customer's deepest concerns are those of the cast and crew. Waxes and specialty grooming remain the area of licensed specialists - all of whom have been board certified to work with green, pink, white, red, and blue flames, as required. Satisfaction is not guaranteed, rather it is rediscovered.

Lil B may lecture at renowned research institution but Based World is still trying to break free from the shackles of fiber-optic cables. Luckily this is not a one-man mission. The ongoing Based quest includes more than just  Based God. Chief followers of the Based book is production extraordinaire Keyboard Kid; beat-maker for the likes of Deniro Farrar and co-conspirator to such projects as Friendzone's Kuchibiru Network, Keyboard Kid, like his associates, is multifaceted. Labels have no stock in Based World and this car is no exception: he simply makes music and its sound indispensable from the Based movement.

This scene's remixes are translations just as much as make-overs. The proverbial cloudiness - an element of drug haziness and ambient harmony embraced in recent years - can be added, the appeal of heavy bass and 808 rehashes never far behind. A based remix does more than fit its subject to a model; songs must be reimagined entirely. The essence is a dream which imagines the author as based.  Of the three remixes Keyboard Kid released recently, "New Workout Plan" works best. Where "Through the Wire" and "Pound Cake" fall short, the third succeeds. "New Workout Plan 2014" exacerbates the original's tongue-in-cheek quality. Kanye's vocals turn into self-parody with the benefit of time and auto-tune effect.  The development of Kanye's ongoing public narrative adds an irony in and of itself, but the song succeeds in maintaining the original's integrity as a jingle.

- John Noggle