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
guddaville such a classic my friend just got his license around the time it dropped and we’d just be driving around bumping that s*** lol
i think gudda actually has a lot of dope ass verses and he gets unfairly hated
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…
sherm how does sit down, man sit so highly for you
sherm how does sit down, man sit so highly for you
I mean it’s truly indefensible but I’ll try regardless:
On a personal level, I just have such deeply fond memories of it. It’s a perfect right place, right time thing where I had just moved to New York for college as it came out, I was super into streetwear, Mishka drops it with the flash game for Who’s That? (Broooooown) and everything just clicks. For the first time I feel like I’m right there where the art is happening. Odd Future was on the opposite end of the country when I was in high school stanning, Wale was the local star and we had Clipse/Missy to idolize from VA but that didn’t really count, they were southern artists and I was right outside the capital which is in the north of Virginia. But now, its like “oh f*** - that’s Dapwell on the other side of the street, holy s***” and that locality felt cool and unique and edifying to the reasons I came to NY. Mad Decent was a big part of my high school days too and their involvement put stars in my eyes.
Bars-wise, it resonated with me and honestly when I play it back it still holds up. I like the humor, it felt in line with what I found funny at the time and I still do tbh. It was so heavily referential towards cultural ephemera that I was geeked to catch all the nods to other s***, whether it was Dipset deep cuts or obscure old commercials. I grew up on Mystery Science Theater 3000 in a major way, using insanely insular niche s*** as a punchline appeals to me greatly. I like smart alec energy, and I liked it even more back when the hipster era waned and I was younger. And I think it doesn’t come at the expense of the actual raps, at least not enough for me to grow tired of it now. It helps that the flows are so elastic, which I think is an unsung element of their chemistry as a group. Hahahaha JK is a masterclass of flows in my opinion
The beats are largely good-to-outstanding in my opinion, I think they’re weird and distinct in how they approach melding different strains of influence. You’ve got blog rap stylings (real blog rap, like Pac Div, not what the kids think it was) meshing with Adult Swim bump type beats like Rapping 2 U. Ghostface type beats like Rooftop jut against weird dance-rap tracks like Irresponsible. I think they either still hold up today or work as time capsules from when NYC truly didn’t know the sound to come next.
Plus it exposed me to a ton of artists and art in general, first time I heard Fat Tony, Roc Marci (!!!!), Despot, a lot of underground people that lead me down different rap rabbitholes
1. Return of 4eva/4evanaDay/King Remembered In Time (interchangable)
2. Friday Night Lights
3. More About Nothing
4. Kush & OJ (Never Been top 5 beat of the decade)
5. Long.Live.A$AP
So Far Gone
Friday Night Lights
No Ceilings/Drought 4
A Kid Named Cudi
Everything from Pac Div
Honorable Mentions
IYRTITL
Acid Rap
B******
DC2
Wrath of Cane
LiveloveAsap
Faces
Section80
B******
Acid Rap
Major Mixtapes haven’t been a thing since like 2015 so im sure im forgetting some that I really enjoyed from the early 2010s
House of Balloons
Kush & OJ
Comeback Season
Friday Night Lights
No Ceilings
It’s so f***ing hard for me to pick man. There are so many quality tapes out there that I listen to on a regular basis but I think these five may be the most I listen to or have the fondest memories with. Datpiff era was truly something special
bro wtf are mixtapes
Da Drought 3
So Far Gone
No Ceilings
Live Love A$AP
House of Balloons
HM: The Warm Up, Rich Forever, Back From the Dead, Acid Rap, Dedication 2, Monster, The Tour Pt. 1, Nostalgia ultra
DEDICATION 2
DA DROUGHT 3
NO CEILINGS
DEDICATION 3
and Kush & OJ
Dedication 3 underrated af. Auto-Tunechi at his finest
a kid named cudi, so far gone, nostalgia, ultra, coke wave, trap ir die
honorable mention to diplomats tapes, and the burrrrprint 3d
we got it for cheap vol 1-3
dedication 2
Drought 3
There is no competition
Chicken talk
Live love asap
From the west side w love
Future d*** s***sounds
OG dom kennedy
So far gone
these prolly some of my most played tapes but tbh I haven’t played any of these in a long time. But when they dropped I played the s*** out of them.
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…
wow real for das racist
xxx and sit down man too
Also this too 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)
sherm how does sit down, man sit so highly for you
I still listen to town business and rappin 2 u and like 3 other das racist songs
I mean it’s truly indefensible but I’ll try regardless:
On a personal level, I just have such deeply fond memories of it. It’s a perfect right place, right time thing where I had just moved to New York for college as it came out, I was super into streetwear, Mishka drops it with the flash game for Who’s That? (Broooooown) and everything just clicks. For the first time I feel like I’m right there where the art is happening. Odd Future was on the opposite end of the country when I was in high school stanning, Wale was the local star and we had Clipse/Missy to idolize from VA but that didn’t really count, they were southern artists and I was right outside the capital which is in the north of Virginia. But now, its like “oh f*** - that’s Dapwell on the other side of the street, holy s***” and that locality felt cool and unique and edifying to the reasons I came to NY. Mad Decent was a big part of my high school days too and their involvement put stars in my eyes.
Bars-wise, it resonated with me and honestly when I play it back it still holds up. I like the humor, it felt in line with what I found funny at the time and I still do tbh. It was so heavily referential towards cultural ephemera that I was geeked to catch all the nods to other s***, whether it was Dipset deep cuts or obscure old commercials. I grew up on Mystery Science Theater 3000 in a major way, using insanely insular niche s*** as a punchline appeals to me greatly. I like smart alec energy, and I liked it even more back when the hipster era waned and I was younger. And I think it doesn’t come at the expense of the actual raps, at least not enough for me to grow tired of it now. It helps that the flows are so elastic, which I think is an unsung element of their chemistry as a group. Hahahaha JK is a masterclass of flows in my opinion
The beats are largely good-to-outstanding in my opinion, I think they’re weird and distinct in how they approach melding different strains of influence. You’ve got blog rap stylings (real blog rap, like Pac Div, not what the kids think it was) meshing with Adult Swim bump type beats like Rapping 2 U. Ghostface type beats like Rooftop jut against weird dance-rap tracks like Irresponsible. I think they either still hold up today or work as time capsules from when NYC truly didn’t know the sound to come next.
Plus it exposed me to a ton of artists and art in general, first time I heard Fat Tony, Roc Marci (!!!!), Despot, a lot of underground people that lead me down different rap rabbitholes
Wait you started college when this dropped
I always thought you were like 19
EA Sportscenter - Gucci Mane
Drink More Water 4 - iLoveMakonnen
In My Mind : The Prequel - Pharrell
Back From The Dead - Chief Keef
Honorable Mentions:
Fathers Are The Curse by Key!
White Flame by Lil B
I mean it’s truly indefensible but I’ll try regardless:
On a personal level, I just have such deeply fond memories of it. It’s a perfect right place, right time thing where I had just moved to New York for college as it came out, I was super into streetwear, Mishka drops it with the flash game for Who’s That? (Broooooown) and everything just clicks. For the first time I feel like I’m right there where the art is happening. Odd Future was on the opposite end of the country when I was in high school stanning, Wale was the local star and we had Clipse/Missy to idolize from VA but that didn’t really count, they were southern artists and I was right outside the capital which is in the north of Virginia. But now, its like “oh f*** - that’s Dapwell on the other side of the street, holy s***” and that locality felt cool and unique and edifying to the reasons I came to NY. Mad Decent was a big part of my high school days too and their involvement put stars in my eyes.
Bars-wise, it resonated with me and honestly when I play it back it still holds up. I like the humor, it felt in line with what I found funny at the time and I still do tbh. It was so heavily referential towards cultural ephemera that I was geeked to catch all the nods to other s***, whether it was Dipset deep cuts or obscure old commercials. I grew up on Mystery Science Theater 3000 in a major way, using insanely insular niche s*** as a punchline appeals to me greatly. I like smart alec energy, and I liked it even more back when the hipster era waned and I was younger. And I think it doesn’t come at the expense of the actual raps, at least not enough for me to grow tired of it now. It helps that the flows are so elastic, which I think is an unsung element of their chemistry as a group. Hahahaha JK is a masterclass of flows in my opinion
The beats are largely good-to-outstanding in my opinion, I think they’re weird and distinct in how they approach melding different strains of influence. You’ve got blog rap stylings (real blog rap, like Pac Div, not what the kids think it was) meshing with Adult Swim bump type beats like Rapping 2 U. Ghostface type beats like Rooftop jut against weird dance-rap tracks like Irresponsible. I think they either still hold up today or work as time capsules from when NYC truly didn’t know the sound to come next.
Plus it exposed me to a ton of artists and art in general, first time I heard Fat Tony, Roc Marci (!!!!), Despot, a lot of underground people that lead me down different rap rabbitholes
First time I heard chariflidt/CP too