I was in college when it came out and friends with a guy who didn't like hip-hop. Played 1999 one day while we were in my dorm, and I swear it was all I heard him playing for months. 😆
I honestly feel like he couldn’t capture that sound and vibe again. Summer knights was cool but his albums are unfortunately All but forgotten for me. I always like Joey but yea 1999 was his magna opus.
Ab-Soul - Long Term A$AP Rocky - LIVE.LOVE.A$AP Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap Chief Keef - Almighty So Clipse - We Got It for Cheap Vol. 2 Danny Brown - XXX Denzel Curry - Imperial Drake - So Far Gone Freddie Gibbs - Baby Face Killa Gucci Mane - DropTopWop Joey Bada$$ - 1999 Kendrick Lamar - Overly Dedicated Lil Wayne - Da Drought 3 Mick Jenkins - The Waters 50 Cent - 50 Cent Is the Future
Man this just took me down a rabbit hole. Some of my favorites that weren't mentioned. In no order 1. Wale - Back To The Feature 2. Big K.R.I.T. - Return Of 4eva 3. Clipse & Re-Up Gang - We Got It 4 Cheap Vol. 3 4. Joe Budden - Mood Muzik 3 5. Pac Div - Church League Champions 6. Chamillionaire - Mixtape Messiah 1 & 2 7. XV - Zero Heroes 8. Mick Jenkins - The Waters 9. Lupe Fiasco - Enemy Of The State 10. Royce Da 5'9 - Bar Exam 3 11. Cyhi The Prynce - Black Hystori Project
A mix tape about nothing is a mixtape I listened to front to back multiple times when I was 16 before I even watched the show. Wow I just got teleported back in time !
Mixtapes that weren’t mentioned that are also some of my faves: The Weathermen- The Conspiracy (shoutout to Myke for putting me on to it), Mr. Mfn Exquire - Kismet, Flatbush Zombies - BetterOffDead
Thank you, Rod, for mentioning Charles Hamilton! And Fefo I'm glad I'm not the only one that got Beats headphones just because of Charles Hamilton rocking them in the "Brooklyn Girls" video lol
I liked everyone's selection, solid picks guys! Some of mine are Cyhi the Prynce - Black History Project Conway - Lulu Big Krit - Return of 4eva.. Honorable mentions.. Styles P - Ghost in the Shell, Don Trip & Starlito - Stepbrothers, Benny the Butcher - Tana Talk 3
Some of the underrated ones that I love: Popular Culture- XV The Hunger Games - Tito Lopez Kush and OJ - Wiz Khalifa Welcome to forever- Logic Royalty - Childish Gambino :) :/ :( - Cam Meekins Wheel's Up - Kid Ink YelloWhite- MellowHype Cold Day in Hell - Freddie Gibbs
The mixtape era was a moment that can’t be recreated. So many classics. The Drive In Theater-Curren$y There is No Competition 2-Fab Popular Culture-XV Mickey Mause-Mickey Factz Drought 3-Weezy Huge shoutouts for mentioning Charles Hamilton in the video.
Lupe Fiasco Friend of the People and Abstract Artform, Kid Cudi A Kid Named Cudi, Big KRIT King Remembered In Time, Meek Mill Dreamchasers 2, Rick Ross Rich Forever, Action Bronson Saaab Stories, BoB Hi My Name Is Bob, Bishop Nehru Nehruvia, Chance the Rapper Acid Rap, Childish Gambino Royalty, CyHi Black Histori Projekt 1 and 2, Jay Electronica Act 1 Eternal Sunshine, Pusha T Wrath of Caine, Raekwon Unexpected Victory, Reason The Free Album, Slaughterhouse The Mixtape, T.I. Fuck Da City Up, Talib Kweli Fuck the Money, Wale More About Nothing, Wayne No Ceilings, and the Your Old Droog EP are all 🔥 🔥 🔥 LONG LIVE DATPIFF 👑 🏅
Drake had some good mixtapes before So Far Gone with Room For Improvement and Comeback Season too. The Warm Up was good by Cole. Wayne - No Ceilings. If Cilvia Demo counts
WAYNE Dedication 1 & 2 Da Drought 3 No Ceilings Sorry 4 the Wait COLE Friday Night Lights The Warm Up KENDRICK Kendrick Lamar EP Overly Dedicated 50 Guess Who's Back Thats all i got rn Cilvia Demo too One of my own lol
Man a kid named cudi was a game changer for me, he was so diverse and went over so many different type of production and had a song for every mood i played that so much in high school it was really magical return of 4 eva, is krit at his finest, just elevated what a mixtape can be in my eyes, this is album worthy cult classic music I could go on, but yeah the waters, 1999 and shout out to pac div and the cool kids, xv, and searching sylvia
Glad bezzy mentioned the chittlin circuit by little brother but I’m surprised none of the Bar Exams by Royce got a mention! For me the first one is my favourite
Juicy J - Blue Dream and Lean Tbh, Juicy J had pretty good mixtape run with Blue Dream and Rubba Band Business during the early to mid 2010s. Blue dream and lean and Rubba Band Business 1 & 2 stayed in rotation during my high school years 💯
Joe Budden Mood Muzik 4 Danny Brown Detroit State of Mind 4 Cyhi da Prynce Black Hystori Project J. Cole The Come Up Freddie Gibbs Baby Face Killa Fashawn The Antidote Mac Miller Faces Mac Miller K.I.D.S Chance the Rapper Acid Rap Childish Gambino Culdesac
5. Indigoism - The Underahievers 4. The Waters - Mick Jenkins 3. Return of 4Eva - Big KRIT 2. Better Off Dead - Flatbush Zombies 1. Acid Rap - Chance The Rapper
Boldy James - Trappers Alley Pros and Cons got me into Boldy way back when. Lots of dope tracks on there: JIMBO, I Sold Dope All my Life, Home Invasion and so many more
Dope convo! Took me down memory lane. 1999 is great, but sometimes I love Summer Knights and PEEP: The aPROcalypse just as much honestly. Others I really like are Friday Night Lights, which to me is still Cole's best body of work, Faces, 4eva N a Day and Overly Dedicated. Others that I can still enjoy though to a lesser degree now are Kush and OJ, So Far Gone, Comeback Season, Acid Rap, Young Sinatra III, Innanetape and Earl. People in the comments reminded me how good Nostalgia, Ultra was and early A$ap.
1. No Ceilings x Wayne 2. Friday Night Lights x Cole 3. Drought 3 x Wayne 4. Dedication 3 x Wayne 5. Soul Tape x Fab 6. More about nothing x Wale 7. Back to the trap house x Gucci 8. Acid Rap x Chance The Rapper 9. Purple Reign x Future 10. Trap or Die x Jeezy 11. Monster x Future 12. Dirty Sprite x Future 13. Astronaut Status x Future 14. Dreamchasers x Meek Mill 15. Almighty So x Chief Keef And plenty of more
Rick Ross -Rich Forever/Selfmade2 Wale - Folarin Anderson .Paak - Yes Lawd Mac Miller - Faces/Macadelic Big Krit - Krit Wuz Here Joey Badass - Rejex Some that weren't mentioned
ELmatic the GOAT mixtape and Elzhi 1 of the GOAT Cambatta, Tonedeff, Locksmith, Eminem, Lloyd Banks, Nino Bless, Lupe, Joey Badass, 50Cent, Canibus, Cole, Droog, Mickey Factz, Jay Elec, Diabolic, Little Brother, Jadakiss, Budden, Royce, Crooked and on and on. Shocked how few actual spitters they listed. Shocked Detroit dude who loves Detroit lyricism/emcees didn’t list ELmatic. Insane to me. For no one to list it is insane to me. ILL live instrumentation & ILL lyricism. No Elzhi? Royce? Em? Shady Records with Em G-Unit etc? Crooked? Jadakiss? Droog? Budden MM series (I’m not even a big fan of Joe like that either)? Cambatta? Locksmith? On and on and on. The most shocking names not dropped was Elzhi & Royce though.
Power of the Dollar was not a mixtape. It was originally going to be his debut album under Columbia Records but they shelved it and dropped 50 after he got shot.
The first mixtape i've ever listened to was Exmilitary by Death Grips. What an amazing experience i had from this mixtape and is what made me become a hip hop fan and that was back in 2014 or 2015. But my actual favorite mixtape currently is Live.Love.ASAP by ASAP Rocky. That whole mixtape is a masterpiece.
