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Keyboard Kid is a living legend and founder of the new music generation.

“Days Past Gone” is an xtra rare art collaboration between the #based OG Keyboard Kid and 3D artist Digital Purity.

we all live in Based World, some just don’t know it yet.

this is the story of how Keyboard Kid met Lil B and created Based World…

Keyboard Kid grew up with music all around him. his dad bought Key a Bone Thugs album as the first ever cassette tape he owned; his mom objected at first, but eventually agreed.

Keyboard played songs on toy keyboards before making his first beat on an ASR-10 with a floppy disk at 13. online since web0, Key eventually stumbled into a free copy of fruity loops, the same program he makes beats in to this day.

in the pnw, Keyboard came up surrounded and inspired by water. a true synaesthete, he visualizes music as water with intricate shapes and colors. his friend Dj Fij gave him the name Keyboard Kid, astounded at the beats he made using only a computer keyboard.

Key was your everyday internet art kid, playing video games, downloading music on Bearshare and Kazaa while at school, listening to ambient music, and making beats he could ride and smoke to. then, while living with his dad in Dallas, a song from california about skate sneakers changed his life - and the music game - forever.

in ‘06, inspired by The Pack’s viral hit, “Vans,” Key sent beats to Pack member Lil B the Based God over Myspace. B called Key’s beats “incredible,” confiding his plan to release solo music #based on his philosophy of positivity and “doing your own thing.”

but what does “based” mean, exactly? what started as a derogatory term for crack addicts, detourned into the most authentic expression of self. Black folk turning a negative positive. the more B explained “based,” the more Key agreed he was on the exact same vibe.

B and Key co-built Based World as a shared vision, shifting and expanding the culture with each drop. and drop they did, at a frenetic pace. these 80-plus Keyboard-produced Lil B songs represent just a sample of their expansive collaboration:

nowadays, every artist uses social media to steadily drip content to their audience. B and Key were dropping a 30-song mixtape per month back when artists wouldn’t dare drop over one project a year. B’s invention of “based freestyles” made such a prolific pace possible.

based freestyles are based thought in musical form. ambient beats weathering stream-of-consciousness bars precipitated Cloud music. B’s first based freestyle over a Keyboard beat, “Creu”, dropped in ‘07.

Based freestyles were ahead of their time. originally dismissed as whack (people didn’t get it), huge artists like Doja Cat and Lil Nas X now owe their aesthetic to these lighthearted rhymes.

by ‘09, Key would produce 2 songs on I’m Thraxx, B’s 21-track solo debut, led by the epiphanic single “Chasing the Rain,” an ageless musical triumph. no one else made rap beats like this in 2009. Cloud music thus began its rain.

“Thraxx” is Based nirvana, “when u reach a fine understanding of…based…[study] ‘I’m Thraxx’ to know. Very Pure.” - Keyboard. Key would bless Thraxx House, which became Gothboiclique and produced Lil Peep and Lil Tracy.

When Lil B asked how they could change the rap game, Keyboard pointed out that everything at the time sounded hype and sugary. Key responded with Cloud* music, an atmospheric alternative to the overly upbeat, saccharine style du jour.

*“Cloud” describes the sonic recreation of cannabis smoke effects; it DOES NOT refer to soundcloud, but its lo-fi yet textured sound would define the new wave both on and off soundcloud. hear its influence in acts ranging from ASAP Mob to Mac Miller to Joji.

Key and Lil B birthed the modern rap game with B’s magnum opus, “6 Kiss,” along with the Cloud sound that they conceived on “I’m Thraxx.” Key produced 4 tracks on “6 Kiss,” including the magnificent ‘Walk the World.”

“6 Kiss” features Cloud god Clams Casino’s breakthrough hit, “I’m God.” it was first a fast song, but B said loop the ethereal intro, “cuz me and Keyboard on this cloud shit.” Clams and Key went on to collab on “Witness,” from Clam’s debut album.

Key HAS continued to steer the sonic rocketship orbiting BasedWorld for over a decade. he produced scores of songs for the Based God himself, but his beats also fueled the new underground of devout Based God worshippers, including Denzel Curry, Tay K, Chxpo and 645AR.

a relentless innovator, Key’s latest project, 2019's “Mindcraft,” showcases his obsession with internet and video game culture. as B raps on “Mindcraft Based Freestyle”, “i wanna thank [Key] for all the history / cus without him, there would be no me.”

the #based formula of free self expression and not taking oneself too seriously defied pop conventions of the time. the movement influenced a generation of even the most mainstream artists from Tyler to Uzi Vert to Kendrick.

#based is the original online music community, cultural philosophy and digital religion for millions of diehards, replete with its own memes and lore. the special forces in basedworld’s #bitchmobtaskforce stand ready to thank the basedgod and #protectlibatallcosts.

the “Days Past Gone” nft is diamond hard Digital Purity straight from the Based mines, carved out of ether by two pioneers at the apex of internet culture. it memorializes Keyboard Kid cutting his dreads, and announces his web3 arrival in triumphant fashion.

Keyboard Kid said of cutting his dreads,

“I had them goin on 6 years. They meant a lot because I got them loc’d in right before the birth of my first daughter so really they grew with me as I grew to be a father and still being an artist finding that balance in life. I started touring more and being more responsible in general. Had em up until right after my 2nd daughter Kaia. I’m jus entering a new era and phase of my life. I think [”Days Past Gone”] cements that look, that era of keyboard kid the artist in that time period.”

Keyboard early adopted Foundation’s split functionality early, sharing 50% of this nft with Digital Purity, its gigadimensional visual artist. like Key, Digital Purity drew influence from “all the artists that contributed to the legendary aesthetics of the N64, PS1, and PS2.”

my proudest accomplishment so far is making “Days Past Gone” with Keyboard Kid. I was listening to based music at a crazy time in my life and it took my consciousness to another level. Especially with beats like Key’s Bashido Blade. It was really something rare at the time. - Digital Purity

“Days Past Gone” is a fully uncompressed high resolution utterly exquisite 1/1 art collectible in 1080p. everyone who partycipates in the partybid will receive $BASED tokens in proportion to their contribution to the pool. token holders will receive:

VIP pass to live pop up event including:

• music production lesson and DJ set from Keyboard Kid

• 3d modelling lesson from Digital Purity

• mint of resulting artwork in the official BasedWorld nft collection

• executive producer credits on the beat.

plus…

• full 320 kps mp3 download of “Days Past Gone”

• VIP ticket to future Keyboard Kid show of holder's choosing

• first access to future BasedWorld nft drops

future modern invites you to join the partybid this official Based World 3D animated music video nft. thank you based god.