It's May 11, 2024, 05:57:04 AM
In the 90's record sales were sky high for West Coast rappers, maybe because of the success the big artists were having. But come the year 2000, "mixtapes" started dropping because they were easy to distribute and cheap. Also a lot of artists wernt getting record deals so they started dropping mixtapes.IMO this poluted the music, big named artists started releasing mixtapes, and by the time their "real albums" dropped, people were used to just downloading their free mixtapes and had so many mixtape tracks, there was no real anticipation for retail albums.Mixtapes are ok for unknown artists, but the top artists need to just stick to releasing retail music like Jay Z, Kanye, etc do.Some artists killed their careers by releasing decent mixtapes.