Okay so you just don’t understand how royalties work lol

rollingstone.com/music/music-news/eagles-consider-legal-action-against-frank-ocean-84747

Again you are more than welcome to show me where artists were financially hurt or stopped performing songs on free projects

The eagles considered

Did they do it?

I can’t read the article for you brother good luck I know you got this

I did.

They didn’t

But my point is it’s impossible to release anything for free anymore because of streaming. Which is why the mixtape is dead.

How does that change anything? If the f***ing Eagles threaten to sue you you’re gonna stop doing whatever they told you not to do they don’t actually have to sue you.

Article didn’t say they threatened to sue anyone. Did you not read it?

It’s in the second paragraph did you read it?

Well that’s just franks word

This still isn’t my main point brother

Even if all original content artists can’t create free mixtapes because without streaming an entire generation is unable to access music.

I don’t even care what your dumbass is saying anymore off of this reply lol

My main point is above

Even if the lawsuits weren’t lost don’t u think having to be involved in a lawsuit would discourage doing the thing that’ll get u sued

No yeah sure. Then streaming eliminates it completely because of money made

t5his trash need a kickdrum at least lazy sampling

yh this better wish they flipped it more seem undercooked n not that great but it is a new interpretation just not thast developeed

we didnt know how good we had it glad i lived thru it

We’re extremely fortunate

Then this nigga went & said he was gonna save SoundCloud

I purposely showed the most overt examples I could tbf it’s still more than just doing the og beat

Labels got their hand and feet in everything right now, including releases

Also, niggas not about to let niggas rap on their beat without paying.

Also, the mixtape sites theirselves are basically extinct. I have the LiveMixtapes app solely for the fact to listen to old mixtapes, but damn near every old mixtape can’t be downloaded.

But I do miss it. Used to check LiveMixtapes and DatPiff everyday like it was the morning papers

If you had a mixtape and it was close to a thousand score, I listened. You had motion.

Niggas used to treat mixtapes like they was albums

The Death of The Mixtape has lowkey killed the genre....

It brought hype, excitement, and attention before and album release

Also i think rappers dont wanna "waste bars" on free music

Last sentence lowkey contributed to the death of the mixtape.

Drake, chance, rocky, cole, wale, and KRIT gave us classic mixtapes but it legit dont really make sense for original production to be put on a mixtape