I specified With original songs because than otherwise that would have been D6

But what I mean by this is, like how up until 2015 or so rappers would release mixtapes in between their albums, what was the last big one that wasn’t released to streaming services/iTunes?

im gonna guesst 2014/2015 cuz thats when Apple music came out and it was a wrap

purple reign?

Honestly this might be it

Lol wtf is this when did this happen

apple/ spotify really messed up the free music game now everythihng has to be sold and get numbers whereas before artists could just fling out a projject for fun/free have no pressure to do numbers so sometimes be putting out bloated projects that would've otherwise been split into 2 projects one being free want these times back

this came out end of 2020 but not sure if he's mainstream enough?

they also used to be able to use other peoples beats and samples with no clearances

you dont remember when they played the f*** out of us saying there was a huge surprise drop and it was that tape

it was like 2016

D6/R had original songs

so the amount of creativity flowin was mainstream artists as well rnb and hiphop jumping on each others beats legendary era tbh i feel for the youth that missed it

slime & b was on datpiff and streaming if that counts

it was also that weird era where everyone was flopping album sales wise so putting out a free mixtape would build a buzz and record labels wouldn't really push it financially so didnt have as much say in these projects

true tbh thats a good shout wish more artists did this im not a streaming guy i need them mp3 files

Don’t see why it wouldn’t

was even exclusive for a day or so

they did it for the culture datpiff.com helped both their careeers alot

yeah this is probably it

Probably tbh

Kodak just released a tape didn’t he?

Something by the souncloud era

A lot of them would still throw their tapes onto piff n mixtape monkey even tho it died

Like Uzi n Trippie

It’s Better This Way

They don't make money off of it and producers wouldn't get paid.

I think more artists should do beat jackin tapes. I'd like to see Cole do one.

chance the rapper christmas mixtape