Royalty too

That and Camp made people finally take gambino seriously as an artist & no longer boxed

Crazy what he grew into as a music career from those two tapes

yeah i mean the underground is still alive but the sound is just people kinda cloning each other

but we know the real anthem

nothing corny about gems like this

Streaming, playlist politics & dmcas is what happened

The thing that makes it so great, is your right; there's different types of sound that they experiment with instead of just the same formulaic s*** over and over

s*** really was a gem era.

rare pic of lil wayne getting his eyelid tatted from 10/28/2005

Yeah it’s different when underground and upcoming artists make mixtapes cus they’re on budgets anyway. It’s the mainstream artists who really get creative with mixtapes.

Underground rappers make mixtapes out of necessity, mainstream rappers do it for fun.

The Deans List

Surprisingly they still do numbers on spotify

i miss when mixtapes were mixtapes, probably one of the only negatives to come from streaming

holy s*** this is a gem

mac put a lot of white people onto "real hip-hop". i ain't mad. he was a vital part of the hip-hop community. nothing can take that away.

Cactalyst 2 probably his best montage. I think it’s C2. Which ever one that made him leave FaZe the first time back then

Dreamchasers 2 deadass had Datpiff crashed out for like an hour

Same with rappers like "edubble" too, I just loved how they were being themselves with like absolutely no corporate backing. s*** was just wild that most of the stuff was produced entirely by them too

Yep mixtapes no longer is a thing. Just another name for a album these days

im not even from Cleveland

i remember that. he was snappin on black ops 2 back in the days. iconic era that people still talk about

Yea 2012 CoD is the peak

Yeah, its literally cuz people are all trying to fight for playlist placements so most are doing what others have been successful at getting on the major ones, because theyre very particular for the most part. Unless you blow up completely on your own then come to them which is very rare, most need those playlists in order to blow up in the first place.

I worked at a studio before corona too, & people would literally try to make their sound based off of playlist trends, or at the very least have one to three songs that can fit that vein. The talks are wild.

Streaming is the new gatekeeper & playlists are the new radio. The labels regained control again through the back door. Even the streaming services have a lot of stock divided between the major labels.

Music is at one of its highest political states currently since like the 90s & before its crazy.