that s*** never hit on time, it was always a version with a DJ.

2dopeboyz would have the NO DJ version hours later

I think this is important too. How many artists got their start or even interest in music by freestyling over beats from songs they liked? It left for a lot of room to get your own ideas out into the world or even practice and progress musically.

triiumphant comeback

My idea is to let artists upload non-profit songs to streaming. Like they'd be in Spotify, but no one would get paid for them.

the sample thing is def a real concern to me. have def noticed a few artists i like use what seem to me to be less adventurous beats and i wonder if it's to do with ppl avoiding stuff that isn't likely to get caught up in clearance hell

imagine if this was still mixtape era and carti dropped a whole proper mixtape of leaks and kid cudi officially

Good take.

Ima miss it.

Music discovery more of a niche tool than ever.

Gets tiring when playlist people are always asking “to be put on”

Like bro cant u just do what im doing

What if streaming services had a mixtape add-on that allows everyone to upload music for free without being able to make money off the uploaded music

optimistic idea but streaming services only care about one thing

streaming ruined music

I thought about this b4 lol. They won't

Great points OP; I still remember being on datpiff and the OG ktt in highschool finding new artists all the time. I think its just that streaming has the game f***ed up, there's damn near no distinction between an album or mixtape. How many times has a artist released they "debut album" only for it to not do the numbers that they wanted and now they coming back 6 months later with another "debut album"? lmao

If only 1 service did this, they would get a lot more member imo

Spoiler alert:Op is 100% right

if this wasn’t an opinion,it’d be a lie

What? The good year for music?

2020 cool but to compare it to the 90s is a far stretch imo. Rap artist today are the exact opposite of interesting. Yea they can rap but that’s it,a lot of rappers have no artistic integrity whatsoever to back up their raps.

Wild West internet era before labels knew how to control it

Stupid post. I'll hold my L

And niggas say this generation has the most creative freedom smh. Labels grabbed music and artist by the balls with streaming.

Last mixtape I downloaded was luv is rage. Those were simpler times

I didn't compare it to the 90's I said its one of the best years since. and as far as "mainstream" goes you're right. but look at descendants of cain, alfredo, pray for paris, the price of tea in china, kings disease, miles etc. all absolute top tier releases and the years still not up. my top 10 this year hold up to pretty much any year in the 00's and 10's