I'M NOT THAT INTO THE MIXTAPE CRAZE
- Thread starter Justin
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lol thats what i was thinking...I pick most of them up at my barber shop for $3.00...I like mixtapes they koo, you get to hear 1st hand tha scoop on just about anything thats poppin in hip-hop from their own mouth...Ive noticed alot of west coast artist like to make albums off thease mixtapes & sell them like they were real albums....
MIXTAPEz R A GOOD WAY 4 ARTISTz 2 SHO DAT DEY HAVE DA SKILL 2 B IMPACT PLAYAz ON DA MAINSTREAM CIRCUIT...
IF DEY CAN RIP DA MIC ON MAINSTREAM PRODUCTION AN DO IT RIGHT , DEY GET DAT POINT ACROSS...
SUM PPL NOW DAYz DONT USE DA MIXTAPEz 4 DA SAME REASON OL SKOO CATz DID.....
BUT I RESPECT DA MIXTAPE SCENE, ITz A GOOD WAY 2 GET A BIG BUZZ AN HAVE PPL ANTICIPATE YUR ALBUM OR FUTURE PROJECTz....
I KNO ALOT OF ARTISTz WHO HAVE DROP'D LIKE 20 UNDERGROUND ALBUMz TRYNA GET A FANBASE WISH DEY HAD DROP'D MIXTAPEz OR BEEN ON ALOT OF COMPILATIONz 1ST.....
GOTTA RESPECT DA GRIND MAYN
- GEEzUz
I'd rather a hear a mixtape than a nigga constantly spitting all in my ear at the club... or even better a nigga talking bout how much gas he got, than I buy his album at full price and fell like he owes me my money back. It's very very very true that some treat mixtapes like albums... when in actuallity they are suppose to be preludes or "intermissions" between albums. I like the fact that there are no politics to mixtapes and the more creative you are, the better the results. Kat's recording on everybody's beats with no cause or flip'age of the song are just hungry by any means neccasary. Some of ya'll act like Martin L. King and belive we have to Get along with mainstream in order to suceed. Go for the gusto... make an album and they still gone hate. If you don't like it... turn that page in ya life and move on, but to shit on someone else because they don't cater to yo ego is another. $5-$8 is all you gone get out of me for a mixtape. I prefer to use industry beats, local homies beats(give em production credits too), Street freestyles(recorded with phone or mini recorder), Comedy skits, and interviews to fill up my mixtapes. I look at mixtapes as underground magazines or audio books to the strrets. If that's the only way you can get heard untill your budget permitts an album... so be it. I ain't mad at cha.
^ yeah homie, but most rappers now adays don't make their own beats anyways... most producers stay pimping the keys and dont get on the mic.. there are only a hand full of great artists who make awesome beats and rap too. and even cats who can produce, like Em for example still will only produce a few cuts on his CD and use Dre and others for the rest... to me a big thing with mixtaping is proving that you can do it better than the original artists... I'm from the bay area, and if you're familliar with it you know we flourish with underground cats trying to prove themselves and thats a good way to do it...