Been back listening to mixtapes after being stuck in a streaming app for while. Apple Music has some of these, but most of them have tracks cut or a bit different from the original release. So here’s my top 5 mixtapes of all time, what do you got?

I wanted to include some others, but they are technically considered albums (ex Tana Talk 3, Diplomatic Immunity, Flygod etc) so I had to go with what are actual “mixtapes”

In no particular order at all:

1. No Ceilings - Lil Wayne
2. Stranger Than Fiction - Kevin Gates
3. Back from the Dead - Chief Keef
4. Guddaville - Gudda Gudda
5. Butcher on Steroids - Benny the Butcher

Honorable Mentions:

• Signed to the Streets - Lil Durk
• Welcome to Fazoland - G Herbo (Lil Herb at the time of release)
• Guess Who’s Back - 50 Cent
• Faces - Mac Miller
• Wiz Khalifa - Prince of the City (basically just because of “Thrown” that song is )

In

Thats tough, lemme think

1. Kush & OJ - Wiz Khalifa
2. Live.Love.A$AP - A$AP Rocky
3. Better Off Dead - Flatbush Zombies
4. Days Before Rodeo - Travis Scott
5. Taylor Allderdice - Wiz Khalifa

damnnn days before rodeo is a great pick, that would have made my list, i just haven’t got to listening to it again yet

that s*** is so good

1. If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late - Drake
2. Day69 - Tekashi
3. Before The Party - Chris Brown
4. Da Drought 3 - Lil Wayne
5. Days Before Rodeo - Travis

edit: forgot about Days Before Rodeo so that's gonna be #5 instead of Acid Rap

So Far Gone
Signed to the Streets
Da Drought 3
Back From the Dead
Cold Devil

Dedication 2
LLA
Drought 3
Faces
So Far Gone

1. Mac Miller - Faces
2. Drake - If You're Reading This It's Too Late
3. The Weeknd - House of Balloons
4. Travis Scott - Days Before Rodeo
5. Young Thug - Slime Season

HM: Dedication 6, No Ceilings, Live.Love.A$AP, Young Sinatra: Welcome to Forever, Friday Night Lights, 56 Nights, Kush & OJ, K.I.D.S (there are too many classics now that I think of it)

No Wayne?

1. Lil Wayne - Dedication 2
2. Future - Monster
3. Joey Badass - 1999
4. ASAP Rocky - Live Love ASAP
5. Mac Miller - Faces

HM: BFTD, Almighty So, Slime Season 2, Days Before Rodeo

I'd put D6, No Ceilings and DD3 just below all of those for me. They're classics imo but they don't get played as much as my top 5

If it wasnt on Datpiff for free it's not a mixtape

Welcome to Fazoland
Faces
Better off dead
If you're reading this its too late
DD3

HM: HOB, SFG, LLA, Blue Dream and Lean

DEDICATION 2
DA DROUGHT 3
NO CEILINGS
DEDICATION 3

and Kush & OJ

Slime season 2 - thug
Drought 3 - Wayne
Monster - future
Writing on the wall - gucci
Slime season 1 - thug

HM: Rich kidz - money swagg// gunna - drip season 3// Rich homie quan - still goin in//

EDIT: I actually have like 50 mixtapes worthy of top 5. I enjoy mixtapes way more than albums. RIP mixtape era

No Label 2 is up there too. Prob my favorite project from the Migos

The Suffix
Dedication 2
Da Drought 3
The Drought is Over 2
IYRTITL

1. Barter 6
2. Slime season 2
3. Slime Season 1
4. I’m up
5. I came from nothing

Some of my favorites, in no particular order:

1. Lil Wayne - Da Drought 3

2. Lil Wayne - No Ceilings

3. Rick Ross - Rich Forever

4. Joe Budden - Mood Musik 4: A Turn 4 the Worst

5. Lil Wayne - Dedication 2

OP you're a real one for including Guddaville. All my friends hate on it just cus it's Gudda but it's legit a great mixtape

No order:
Nostalgia ultra
Monster
DBR
Cabin Fever
Purple Reign/No Ceilings

gucci - from zone 6 to duval
lil wayne - dedication 2
french & max b - coke wave
thugger - 1017 thug
juicy j - rubba band business 2

guddaville is a great choice

Too hard to remember or choose just 5, a loose top 10 in no particular order

We Got It For Cheap Vol 2

Sit Down, Man

Chittlin Circuit

XXX (I remember the press release that called it a mixtape!! F*** off!!!)

1017 Thug

Blue Chips

Da Drought 3

Sexy Wave For You Girls

The Lost Tapes (Sada one, to be clear. Does the Nas one count? If so, I meant the Nas one)

Coke Wave Vol 1 (this is kinda just a stand in for all the excellent Max B tapes that I can’t pick a winner from. Vigilante Season would be it but its technically his debut album)

EDIT: WHAT AM I, F***ING CRAZY???

I forgot First Night Out, ShorelineDoThatShit and Dumb & Dumber 2!!! Those knock out Blue Chips, Chitlin Circuit and The Lost Tapes, respectively. Cold Devil also belongs here somewhere…

I wasn’t counting Drake’s mixtapes or Trilogy.