Thousands of Hip Hop Mix Tapes, Why Not

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Re: Thousands of Hip Hop Mix Tapes, Why Not

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Post by boyaka » Thu, May 19, 2016, 7:14 PM UTC

6stringmerc wrote: post #38

aarmenante wrote: post #35

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Or have someone post a Watts tape... Houston has had it's own self-sustaining rap system that never really crossed over into the mainstream. DJ Screw, Watts, Swishahouse, Chopped-and-Screwed tapes... All crazy influential on the rap scene, but most people have never heard of this shit. Does anyone have this tape? http://www.djayres.com/houstonfordummies.htm Aryes (DJ from the RUB DJ's in NYC) put out this "cliff note…

Eh, I don't think you can say Houston's influence didn't cross into the mainstream. Mike Jones and Paul Wall definitely broke through and hit the top of the charts for a while. Drake just had a sample of Pimp C on his latest Views. The incorporation of the Lean'd out style is really present in contemporary big hits, and I think - maybe I'm off on it - that a lot of that can be traced back to the Houston scene, or the…

I'll have to check out the early Houston music, but I've heard a lot about DJ Paul, Juicy J and others from Memphis being a huge influence. Having listened to quite a bit of that early stuff I can definitely hear the sound in modern music. I wouldn't doubt that it came from Houston though, or a mix of a lot of Southern places including Houston, Memphis, Atlanta, New Orleans, and Miami. Here's an example of some Memphis music:

https://www.youtube.com/user/UndagroundThreat/videos?flow=gr...

Re: Thousands of Hip Hop Mix Tapes, Why Not

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Post by duaneb » Fri, May 20, 2016, 12:48 AM UTC

whatok wrote: post #55

duaneb wrote: post #52

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> Apple's, among other streaming services, has impacted this music negatively, and whether you are a fan of rap music or not, it does set a precedent that affects all styles, genres, and tastes of music. I don't share this interpretation: look at Drake, Wiz, Kid Cudi, 50 Cent, A$ap Rocky, The Weeknd, Chance, Young Thug + the rest of the 1017 label, Lil Wayne. These are people who found success on amazing mixtapes, an…

You gear content towards Apple vs selling out the trunk and the content will change. Arguably for the worse. People will get paid but it definitely will not be the same. If you use 50 as an example, he absolutely would not exist with his early mixtapes. You cannot release those on an official platform without running the risk of getting sued into oblivion. No label is going to back something like that. I also am not…

> If you use 50 as an example, he absolutely would not exist with his early mixtapes. You cannot release those on an official platform without running the risk of getting sued into oblivion. No label is going to back something like that. I also am not a fan of the curation process with a lot of these streaming services and definitely do not have any faith that you will be able to discover some unknown talented rapper in the way that you could with someone you've been buying shit from and you know they only carried good stuff.

I agree with all of these; my gut response indicates that because of this the "underground" mixtape sources (e.g. torrents) are not going to disappear.

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