even Frank has to keep NU scrubbed off everywhere cuz all the uncleared samples it uses

j. cole is the most overrated rapper of all time besides drake

I mean ppl r pulling off way more egregious samples and putting them in streaming if not u can just go SoundCloud wym
Unless u mean just literally rapping on other ppl beats but ya that got killed by lawsuits

Tezzus the ressurection out now

Tbh im a bigger fan of the sampling the famous beat and doing a dif song on it than just rapping on the og instrumental personally

Yep and even that was based on performing the song live not necessarily releasing it on a free mixtape

Post exampls I think I know what you mean tho but hard time thinking of examples

I was just about to post this lol

Yeah I love how they’re doing it fr

Did they lose these lawsuits?
What about Krit Cole meek Wayne Freddie Gibbs future wale

Everyone did it dude. That’s not what killed the mixtape

What do you mean? What about them?

What killed it then?

I’m talking specifically rapping over other people’s songs on mixtapes btw

People were getting sued over mixtapes long before streaming took over.

Streaming IMO + the slow killing off of LiveMixtapes and Spinrilla Dat Piff type apps because of streaming

S*** was cooked in 2016-2017 when you'd start clicking niggas tapes and it had that CD icon where you couldn't download it no more you had to open it in Apple Music

But also post So Far gone to section 80 to more about nothing to Yellow Album to Acid Rap etc mixtapes in general became more like actual full projects to where if you weren't really really nice enough to make a song "yours" with a freestyle, it served you better to just make original music. Most dudes aren't Wayne to where they can hop on a song and make it theirs

Remember them using chance the rapper to rollout the albums that’s “so free” as long as you have a subscription.

He the NFL x Jay-Z of mixtape apps ending lol

If they didn’t sell and profit off these tapes then they didn’t lose lawsuits

Streaming killed the mixtape because that’s the only way two generations know how to access music so no new artist is gonna do that

I took so much s*** for calling him a hypocrite back in those days

As I’ve said multiple times the issue wasn’t releasing the tape it was performing it. Artists were facing lawsuits over PERFORMING the songs.

If you can’t perform the songs that are getting you hot you might as well just release an original project which is exactly what started happening.

Streaming is more so what has stopped them from coming back at all not what initially killed them.

Can you show me where artists lost these lawsuits then I’ll stop

Nobody said anybody lost a lawsuit. If you get threatened with a lawsuit you’re gonna stop before you get sued out of your ass

Use Google brother

The biggest examples of people getting in trouble over mixtapes all happened before streaming was popular and the transition to artists releasing original projects to get hot did too.

You’re telling me Krit doesn’t perform return of 4eva on tour?!

The project thats available to stream right now?

I’m not making a claim here you are

Earl and Mike were straight up playing drakes don’t worry song at concerts this year