Did the mixtape kill the westcoast rapscene?

[mlk93]

In a other term too much music kill the music(quality)! that's what  i think! when u see the new west rapper loosing the freshair they was bringing when they first pop up and now after so many mixtape they are loosing the rage . it's like snoop before doggystyle if he had drop 10 or 15  mixtape before doggystyle did the impact of this album would be the same? Look at bishop , G malone they was the shit when they first came out . But now bishop doesn't surpise me anymore even if i think they ares till good . I guess i have to wait their album if they ever drop to see if they keep some fresh and good music before they fall in the industrie buisness. The perferct exemple it's nipsey now he 's new and bring some fresh air in the rap gameon the westcoast but if he don't drop his album this year we loose all that .

[stillinrehab]

Nope the scene isnt dead for starters.. just a bit quieter... but if anything its flipflopping label execs and downloading that made artists drop the mixtapes to get their music out without losing too much money.... Hopefully people will get incentives to start copping more albums than they d/l and more good stuff can be released as actual albums

[mlk93]

good point of view

[Portugoal]

Mixtapes helped to raise the child called Hip Hop, but the bastard sons are killing the child now.

[Gamestarr]

No.. the rappers killed it.. The West is fuckin trash right now.. and there is nobody to blame but the rappers..

[Triple OG Rapsodie]

In a other term too much music kill the music(quality)! that's what  i think! when u see the new west rapper loosing the freshair they was bringing when they first pop up and now after so many mixtape they are loosing the rage . it's like snoop before doggystyle if he had drop 10 or 15  mixtape before doggystyle did the impact of this album would be the same? Look at bishop , G malone they was the shit when they first came out . But now bishop doesn't surpise me anymore even if i think they ares till good . I guess i have to wait their album if they ever drop to see if they keep some fresh and good music before they fall in the industrie buisness. The perferct exemple it's nipsey now he 's new and bring some fresh air in the rap gameon the westcoast but if he don't drop his album this year we loose all that .

In some cases maybe, but I disagree with Bishop. His street albums get better and better. The Confessional > Pope Mobile > Nigger Noise > his non Aftermath drops.

The major label album debut targets a different audience than the mixtape. The mixtape is for those up on the internet rap scene and to keep the fans happy. The major label debut is for them also, but also for a whole new crowd, the people who only get their music off the radio and mtv. The mixtape is sometimes necessary to keep an underground buzz going, especially in today's industry where albums keeping getting delayed and pushed back and back. Back in the day it was much easier to release an album, the label would actually want you to release it as fast as possible. Now there's a lot of bullshit politics going on.

[OG Hack Wilson]

without mixtapes we'd have less Crooked I to listen to

so it helped the westcoast scene which would be dead without him.

[MY FIRST LOVE WAS HIP HOP]

without mixtapes we'd have less Crooked I to listen to

so it helped the westcoast scene which would be dead without him.

[Robert Smalls]

The westcoast was killed by the older westcoast rappers..they need to get up out them seats and get some young talent that's hungry..

[Jimmy H.]

It's not just Westcoast music. It's the rap scene in general. Artists bore me to death. Even the cats who are my favorites are kind of phoning it in a bit. If you'd told me back in 2002 that music would be like this, I'd of thought you were fucking with me. It's not a coastal thing for me because I love good music. Period. I will say that the one cat whose music sounds refreshing to me is Hi-Tek. His shit doesn't sound like all this generic wannabe club noise they're playing now or these attempted 90's throwback tracks that have no heart. Hip-hop used to have diversity. Now it's all geared to one specific fanbase.

[OG Hack Wilson]

without mixtapes we'd have less Crooked I to listen to

so it helped the westcoast scene which would be dead without him.

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