First things first, let's talk about what makes a mixtape great. A good mixtape should showcase the artist's skills and creativity, while also giving fans something fresh and exciting. It should have a cohesive theme or concept that ties the songs together and makes the listener feel like ...
Shayaa Bin Abraham-Joseph (born October 22, 1992), known professionally as 21 Savage, is an American rapper known for his mixtapes The Slaughter Tape (2015) and Slaughter King (2015) and his EPs Free Guwop (2015) and Savage Mode (2016) with Metro Boomin before the release of his debut...
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We had a few criteria when deciding: We only included full-length projects that were commercially released, so no mixtapes or EPs. We took into account the world into which the album was released: Did it break new ground or was it just a different version of a more popular album? We ...
sources. He was one of the first producers to sample James Brown, and his use of the "Apache" break on the song "The Bridge" helped to form the sound of early hip hop. In addition to his work as a producer, Marl is also an accomplished DJ and has released several mixtapes and ...
Best Rappers of All Time: Billboard/Vibe count down hip-hop's greatest MCs in honor of hip-hop's 50th anniversary.
using it in the titles of his mixtapes, likeIf You're Reading This It's Too Late, which has "6IX" written on its cover, and his fourth studio album,Views from the 6(later to be shortened toViews). The use of this number highlights his personal attachment to his hometown and adds ...
,” with its infectious “You used to call me on my cellphone” intro and instantly meme-ready video, became an enormous viral hit, inspiring versions by everyone from Alessia Cara, who rendered the song as a ballad, to Erykah Badu, who spun her take into an entire phone-themed mixtape....
The mixtape was welded by a group of producers from UK imprint Night Slugs and their L.A. sister label Fade to Mind who bent elements of drum’n’bass, dubstep, techno, grime, and footwork into sparse soundtracks for the club underground. Kelela was the skeleton key to the crew’s ...
The context of a release, both within an artist’s own career and within rap at large, mattered to us, as did replayability: The best mixtapes of the millennium double as some of the era’s best long-playing rap albums, because the distinction between the two has all but been erased....