Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Backseat Freestyle’ And ‘Take On Me’ Mashup Is An Instant Hit

By Shakiel Mahjouri. Published: 17 Oct 2018 5:07 PM

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Never have two widely different musical genres so wonderfully complimented one another.

i’ve either made a great discovery or a terrible mistake pic.twitter.com/hhz1dnxjpW

— Noah Charlick (N0̷4H) (@noah_charlick) October 16, 2018

Twitter user Noah Charlick made a phenomenal discovery on Monday. Charlick laid vocals from Kendrick Lamar’s 2012 “Backseat Freestyle” over Norwegian synth-pop band A-Ha’s timeless 1984 hit “Take On Me”.

“I’ve either made a great discovery or a terrible mistake,” the Twitter user captioned a video of his results. Hundreds of thousands of people seem to agree it was a great discovery.

The mashup has been viewed more than 6 million times in two days, boasts more than 500,000 likes and 200,000 comments.

Check out another great mashup here. See Twitter reaction to the mashup below.

it’s official, music has been completed, it’s all downhill from here https://t.co/r7URSP1ffe

— aliyah (@almostaliyah) October 16, 2018

This is why the internet was invented. https://t.co/WNJoUjjhUV

— John Bon Voci (@johnjvoci) October 16, 2018

The remix no one wanted or needed, but is actually really fire https://t.co/or8RiVO5Lz

— Star Lord (Raiders 1-5 please god help us) (@TDerig23) October 16, 2018