yeah,coop thats why my opinion on 'mixtapes' at first was like 'what the fuck is a SD mixtape?' because to my knowledge a mixtape meant it was mixed....like beat junkies, mixmaster spade, dj fingaz, dj rectangle, dr dres rhodium mixtapes, shit like that...but im getting up there in age and i realize that the idea of a 'mixtape' has changed severely when people like DJ clue made their way into the game...it seemed like from then on a mixtape was just as much a compilation as a compilation was...and as west coasters sort of went along with that, like a dj hosting and it just being compiled songs....really i cant count too many mixtapes in sd...atall..if i use the true definition of a mixtape..id like to say that a mixtape has all unreleased songs? but cd's like dj junks dope fiction had songs that were released, and it was mixed so ill consider it a mixtape...
maybe part of what makes a mixtape is like...when an artist is solely looking for promotion? like the album before the album, kinda? all them lil wayne mixtapes. i guess in a way it compiles songs but being that its only one artist, its not a compilation..
i dunno..i have a fuckin headache now..thanks sonny bo =/
i guess eastrippin is more of a compilation, youre right. i was thinking more along the lines of 'put all these songs on one cd and call it a day' ...kinda like these lazy mixtapes nowadays.