I know they be recording like 100+ tracks for their album and only releasing like 15 of them, while most sit in the vault that will never see light of the day. But I know artists like Drake and even Linkin Park were generous enough to feed their fans with unreleased music, even though if some are like half baked ideas

It’s a shame cuz I know these rappers be having HEAT in their vault and I heard some great, unreleased stuff that was even arguably better than what they put out

Question is…why? Maybe their label doesn’t allow them? Lack of confidence?

If they package and release like 15 unreleased tracks as a free mixtape that’d be dope and great way to hold over the fans until the next major release

Saving it for when they die

For every great song there are 15 bad ones you never heard of

money and/or someone else could have beat

Legal / money / specific vision for their discog

But like why can’t they take Linkin Park’s approach where they’re put on like an exclusive CD for die hard fans and don’t have to market them?

I think it’s win-win situation, if you know what I mean

you have to clear stuff to sell it

Sometimes they don’t like them enough to release officially

Chief Keef should release some of those 2013 snippets 😮‍💨 I’d pay for some of them joints

Most the greats create trash more constantly than greatness and have great quality control

Unless u are Miles davis or somethin its imperative to vault most of ur work

they dont think its good enough

I feel you, it’s awesome that LP did that

They always had a special relationship with their fans

If u flood the market that can backfire

Really it's just u end up with more songs than u need, doesn't make sense to release everything all at once

Eventually songs get old and it rly don't make sense to drop them cus then it might not hit the same

The good majority of it is ass / incomplete

I mean how you know its "ass"

Cuz truss me some unreleased stuff I heard definitely weren't "ass"

Because they are vaulted

yea sure ok

Bro finally registered for leaked.cx an making threads like these now

I wish more artists were like that

how tf are we supposed to know. we're not them

It’s pretty common for artists to vault some of their favorite music because it doesn’t fit a project or because they can’t get a sample cleared

Some songs are vaulted and their lyrics are re-used for other songs. I know Kendrick and Drake do this.

I like when artists in late/retirement stages of their career release compilations of rare/vault stuff

need kanye, kendrick& drake to do this more often