In retrospect, the 10-song Kanye West/Weezer mashup album called Yeezer seems inevitable. After all, Kanye West is a hip-hop nerd with a reputation as a brooding, difficult genius, while Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo is a power-rock nerd with a reputation as a brooding, difficult genius. Neither West nor Cuomo do well with constructive criticism. Both acts were blasted in dorm rooms everywhere in the 2000s. Plus, Kanye had that album called Yeezus, which sort of sounds like Weezer. That, in all likelihood, was the clincher. It took an Ohio State sophomore named Alex Hodowanec to connect these particular dots. As told to Radio.com’s Jay Tilles, Hodowanec, whose nom de remix is Chuckie Nugget, was already a dedicated Weezer fan when a friend jokingly suggested the name Yeezer to him. And thus, a mashup album was born. Hodowanec started with just one track, a canny mixture of Weezer’s “Beverly Hills” and Kanye’s “Through The Wire” called “Through The Hills,” and the rest of the album blossomed from that. Quickly taken down by Bandcamp, the album has found a new home on Audiomack, where Hodowanec insists it remain a free download. Using a West-appropriate Christ metaphor, the student humbly explains, “All music [on Yeezer] belongs to… Kanye West and Weezer. I am just the disciple.”