Tyler Keast

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Tyler Keast is back at it again with his first official release of the year, “NARCOS”. Big boomin 808’s and smooth synths make this one a true trunk rattling head bobbing thumper that is sure to reel folks right in. Keast has added two Kansas City natives to compliment his hype flow. WaveLink and Nicky halt are two flame throwers that add real depth to this outstanding record. There definitely more to come in 18 from Tyler. - Music On The Dot

“Narcos” need I say more. Tyler Keast is back at it again with his first official release of the year. Big boomin 808’s and smooth synths makes Narcos a true trunk rattling, head bobbing thumper that is sure to reel folks right in. Keast has added two Kansas City natives to compliment his hype flow. WaveLink and Nicky Halt are two flame throwers that add real depth to this outstanding record. There’s definitely more to come in 18 from Keast. Enjoy!! - Hip Hop Headquarters

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- One Kansas City man loves the Royals so much he wrote a song. The man behind the music is TK, by day he's Tyler Keast.

"I always see the Chiefs anthem, but nobody ever does the Royals so I got the idea for that and hollered at my producer about it, and he sent me a couple of beats," he explained.

The masterpiece is called 'Royals Blue.' He cranked out this song in about six hours.

"Behind you is a little closet space. I've been recording in there. This song came straight out of here," Keast said.

It doesn't take a multi-million dollar to produce what TK calls the 'Royals' anthem'. He prides himself in being creative.

Although he's been a lifelong baseball fan, TK says this year there's more reason to celebrate the Royals.

"They're killing it right now. I mean we've been on an amazing winning streak. It's great to see all the fans involved," he said.

And when Alex Gordon won the game against the Minnesota Twins at the bottom of the ninth Tuesday night, it was also a line straight out of his hit song.

TK says he hopes 'Royals Blue' will someday be played at the stadium sometime during the chase for the pennant. - Fox 4 News - Kansas City

The Royals have theme music for the playoffs.

That’s the hope of Tyler Keast, aka TK, wrote and performs the song, “Royal Blue.” Keast, 24, is a lifelong Royals fan who grew up in Osawatomie and lives in Kansas City.

“I recorded the song in my home studio and did all the mixing/mastering of the final product,” Keast said in an e-mail. “The composition was produced by a good friend of mine Tim Seymour.” - Kansas City Star

When three K-State students presented their original hip-hop song, “K-State Stand Up,” at a campus talent show last year, they had no idea Pat Bosco, vice president of student life, would ask them to perform the song at this weekend’s game against Texas.

“It was definitely something that we just kind of did for fun, and we kind of thought people would like it, but we didn’t think it would blow up like this,” said Tyler Keast, junior in marketing, whose stage name is TK.

Joe Goll, freshman in business administration and member of the trio, said ever since they posted the video of their song on YouTube, the video has received about 2,000 plays per day. As of Thursday evening, the video had been viewed over 14,000 times.

While the song’s exposure has come quickly, Steven Rayvonne Freeman, sophomore in English and man behind the stage name Supasauce, said the trio’s success has faced a few speed bumps along the way.

When the trio used the song to compete in Beta Sigma’s annual Blue Apollo talent show, it did not place.

“I think the judges were not really feeling it,” Freeman said. “They were a little on the older side, though, so it’s hard to rap to the older crowd.”

However, the trio used their lack of success in the beginning to make changes to the song so it would be better received.

Keast said they reconnected to record a higher-quality version, and Freeman said they changed the lyrics to make the song more school-appropriate, at Bosco’s suggestion.

Freeman described the process of writing a hip-hop song this way: The rappers generate an idea — in this case, creating a song for K-State — and then find a compatible beat, put together the hook, also known as the chorus, and finally write the verses.

“We all tried to go on different topics, so we didn’t repeat things in the song, so we kind of wrote individually,” Keast said. “I would do my verse and then let them hear it, and then the next one would do theirs and let us hear it.”

Keast said he wrote the first verse and the chorus, Freeman wrote the second verse and Goll wrote the third verse.

“We just kind of did it like that, and we all had something different to talk about,” Keast said.

In addition to receiving thousands of plays on YouTube and capturing Bosco’s attention, the song has also been noticed by radio stations and a clothing company.

“I don’t think the fun has really begun yet,” Freeman said.

Statewide FM radio stations KJCK 97.5 and KACZ 96.3 have contacted the trio with requests to put “K-State Stand Up” on the stations. The song is scheduled to air early next week, if not today.

Freeman said T-shirt company “CreateMyTee” contaced him to make “K-State Stand Up”-related apparel, from T-shirts to hoodies.

Keast said the three of them have also been meeting with K-State attorneys to get the song copyrighted so they can sell it on iTunes.

“Everything’s just constantly been improving, and there’s always new opportunities for us, so, I mean, I don’t really see any reason to slow it down,” Goll said. “It’s definitely something that we all dream about and something that we all want to take as a career. We definitely have a lot of passion for it.”

The trio will perform “K-State Stand Up” at the football game this weekend. - K-State Collegian