I don’t get why classic tapes are looked at as lesser than classic albums

I think sometimes it has to do with rollouts

People act like flockavelli is the only noteworthy thing Waka ever did, I barely rank it in his discog tbh

A lot of the times I agree but a lot of what rxknephew or certifiedtrapper put out do seem to be closer to mixtapes

"Act II" from Jay Elec.

You my guy, but F*** OFF with saying Caprisongs is Twigs' best

So in order to be a mixtape you have to be unsigned, put out 8 projects a year, and they all have to be kinda s***ty. Got it

IYRTITL is an official release tho

ILoveMakkonenEP

Isaiah Rashad
J Cole
Chance the Rapper
Logic probably

Why is this becoming a conflict when it doesn't need to be

Till I'm dead got a big push this year, not so much with ready 2 ball

one of the rare artists where every project could be argued is their best

Kid Cudi (imo)

Robb Banks.

i hate all of her old music Lol

Man lol

Mixtapes will always be seen as lesser than an album because there's less pressure on the artist to have hits and sales. So the artist isn't really recording and releasing the music under the same circumstances. A mixtape flopping is whatever, but an album flopping is potentially career ending

Or maybe it's just a legacy thing from the time when mixtapes were done over other people's beats

Krit got amazing albums but these right here.. 😮‍💨 you could go either one

LP1, Magdalene and that EP with the weird ass spelling are all f***ing classics

Travis X DBR

But from a quality standpoint shouldn’t classic be classic no matter what? Or do sales factor in classic status?

garbage!

Maybe not sales, but people are more likely to listen to an album than a mixtape. Like I've spoken to people who haven't listened to The Warm Up, Friday Night Lights, Overly Dedicated. Probably a lot of people out there who never heard Faces until it dropped on streaming recently. So if an artist can deal with the pressure of the world's eyes on them and still drop a project that's regarded as a classic, it's more highly regarded than doing it on a mixtape

And J Cole is a good example of how it affects the output of the artist. FNL didn't need to have a Work Out. And between FNL and CW:TSS, one of them is universally considered better

Nah his tapes trash compared to DSP