Why don't the Yay have a mixtape scene like the East and the South do?

[fozzit]

speaking of mixtapes...my homie okwerds from Stockton flew to Rocksteady and won 2n place in they battle tournament over there..and made soem connections....anyways..he got on a mixtape pumpkinhead is putting out...

You can get the hottest mixtape at sandboxautomatic.com and soon on hiphopcanada.com and if your in N.Y. you can get it at Fat Beats here is the final playlist for vol.1

1.Bad Seed(Exclusive) - Weary
2.Rass Kass - Van Gough
3.Forbidden Chapters (Elemental & Blackout) - Lay Down & Die
4.Extended F@mm(Exclusive) - Fuck you I Rhyme Betta
5.Wordsworth(Exclusive) - On Ya Feet
6.Spitballs Feat.Copywrite - Copywrites verse only
7.Hydra(Exclusive) -Win
8.Grand Agent Feat. Pete Rock - This is What They Meant
9.Mos Def - Brown Sugar
10.Large Pro Feat. Busta(Exclusive)- On
11.Jin(Exclusive) - I Don't Know
12.Obie Trice - Well Known Asshole
13.The Plague(Exclusive) - Gangreen
14.Copywrite Feat. Camu Tao - Three Words
15.Runamuk (Toronto M.C.'s Exclusive) - From The Top
16.Blackalicous - Sky Is Falling
17.Okwerdz - Off The Top Freestyle
18.Rok One Feat. C-rayz Walz & Poison Pen - The More The Merrier
19.Lady OF Rage - Unfukwittable
20.Verbal Kent - Written Freestyle
21.Word of Mouth(Exclusive) - Three's Company
22.Jean Grae(Exclusive) - Keep livin
23.Jazzy Jeff Feat. J. Live - Break It Down
24.Mecca - Remarkable
25.Soul Kaliba - Past Present & Future
26.Blowout - Free Man
27.Last Emperor - Heaven
i love when anybody form nor cal get some play..anyways..from what i heard..the next mixtape pumpkinhead is putting out will have a few more cali heads in it....

so yeah...hopefully we can get back in the Game....


BRING BACK THE YAY....... its amovement

 

[BASEDVATO]

<--- will be King of the Northern Cali Mixtape scene in a year or so hahaha but on the real, i do some good work... the songs are all mixed and cut, sounden' super hard


The CD is very professional, pressed and shrink wrapped...no shitty CD-R's... i have the real thing!

i've sold near a 100 in little more then a week, and everyone is like "Damnnn whens the next one comen?"... this shit has the tightest music, that people need to know, while i showcase my mine and my potna's skillz on the wheels of steal

get at me people, and i will posting on the upcoming project really soon, so for serious artist will need to get at me

 

[BASEDVATO]

forgot to say, that all song on this project are exclusive, rare and hard to find... nothen Recycled or that you already have

 

[Zigidy]

personal oppinion "cus you havent did it' (not to be rude but do it playa!!!!

 

[LD-SKI]

It seems some people don't even know what a mixtape is. A compilation to me is really something different. On a real mixtape in my opinion should all the tracks be blended into each other. The dj should show some skills like scratching or juggling.

I also enjoy if a dj puts some samples from other songs or movies into the mix or at the beginning of the tape. Or putting own remixes into the mix. If you make tapes like I described them, even a song you heard 1000 times before sounds brandnew.

Real mixtapes don't hurt the music industry, because it's not like bootleggin the songs. On mixtapes you don't got a song seperately - if you want the song clean without anything mixed into it you need to buy the record/cd.

And I specially enjoy mixes with Bay Area or Southern Cali stuff on them. @ DJ Mark 7: Keep doing your mixes! I always enjoy them - their are a lot of songs in your mixes I never heard before.

 

[NorKoastal]

Ever heard of the MaD Idiot Gumbo Mix... Been out for years...

 

[BASEDVATO]

LD-SKI you just explained exactly to the T what i do, with juggling records and movie quotes ect...

compelations are nothing like what "us" mixtape DJ's do!

Madd Idiot are cool... just they put a lot of East Coast on there stuff... yet they always put bangen shit on there tapes

 

[rollinhard]

The Bay Area has no flows like the EAst Coast. The South dont have flows but they aint as greedy as the Bay Area . The mix tape in the Ba Area are compilations. There is not a big compilation scene in the East only mix tape. The Bay Area is talkin about getting money, but they lose respect in the quality and price of the product.

 

[LD-SKI]

By the way mixtapes are mostly cheaper than compilations. And you rarely hear mixing on compilations.

 

[BASEDVATO]

hey i started my next mix today.. to peep it out go to:

www.angelfire.com/hiphop/savy/PHATMIX.rm

and stream it... its pretty dope so far, i need to go back edit some of my scratches and transition cleaners... but for you that are wondering what mixtapes are about peep it, you'll get the picture

 

[Scottie Pizzle]

yeah there defenitely needs to be a mixtape scene here in the bay. that would defenitely benefit a lot of people. the rappers would get exposure, and even the DJ's would get mad recognition.

 

[DubbC415]

fucc mixtapes. i'd rather listen to a whole album done by a guy who laid his money on tha table fo tha shit. the guys on those mixtapes in new york, already got jobs, and were freestyling on tha street fo fun. sum guy from a record company, wuz like "oh, this guy can rap," lets put him on a mixtape for 15 seconds. peeps out here make they own album, and push it theyselves. id rather put money towards a full cd than a mixtape.

 

[DubbC415]

oh yeah, no hate to dj's. they doin they jobs too. and how would bein' put on a mixtape give them exposure? if we had dr. dre come up here and create a "mixtape"? or how about we have funkmaster flexx or sum other NY busta come here so our bay playaz can get sum exposure.

 

[BASEDVATO]

you have to look at a Mixtape, like the radio in away... Radio gets paid for playing those song (not even payola), like if it wasn't for the music, there'd be no listener, with no listener no advertisments ect.

Mixtapes is like a Radio for the Underground, to showcase all the raw shit that the radio won't play... who gives a fuck if the mixtape dj gets paid off it... cause from him getting paid, the artist on the tape are getting great promotion!

it'll bennifit the artist, those 2000 tapes sold by the DJ, are possiable sales of an artist album on that mixtape, that otherwise the listener might of never gave that rapper a chance, but because they heard a song they like on there, might pick up the album

anyone see what i'm saying?... people have to think more then 1 steps ahead in this industry!

 

[DubbC415]

why cant u support the artist by buyin his album? thats support. these guys, they're trying to live off this one album they push. they're not on mtv trying to push an album so they can buy a new pool. local full albums get as much push, if not more, than mixtapes.

 

[MeloTrauma]

you have to look at a Mixtape, like the radio in away... Radio gets paid for playing those song (not even payola), like if it wasn't for the music, there'd be no listener, with no listener no advertisments ect.

Mixtapes is like a Radio for the Underground, to showcase all the raw shit that the radio won't play... who gives a fuck if the mixtape dj gets paid off it... cause from him getting paid, the artist on the tape are getting great promotion!

it'll bennifit the artist, those 2000 tapes sold by the DJ, are possiable sales of an artist album on that mixtape, that otherwise the listener might of never gave that rapper a chance, but because they heard a song they like on there, might pick up the album

anyone see what i'm saying?... people have to think more then 1 steps ahead in this industry!

^^^^^^ thats real talk, especially in a market like the Bay Area where hella fools got albums on the shelves and aint nobody gonna chance they money on it because the market here is WAY oversaturated. Its best to drop a heated verse on top of a heated beat on a mixtape (since we dont get any radio play), and if its it dope, your shit will stand out among all those other cats who got an album on the shelve. Cause I mean, we dont even be buying Yay artists albums anymore because its real iffy these days...a lot of weak shit. Showcasing your heat on a mixtape would promote your shit and at the same time filter out the weak shit's chance in the market

 

[MaddDogg]

MIXTAPES DEFINITELY EXPAND AN AUDIENCE, BUT THATS IF THEY ARE $5 A PIECE. CELLSKI ISNT GOING TO GAIN VERY MANY NEW FANS BY SELLING A MIXTAPE FOR 13.99, 99% OF HIS SALES WILL BE FROM PEOPLE WHO ALREADY BUY HIS MUSIC.

<--MY 2 CENTS.

 

[DubbC415]

i agree fully, where a lotta peoples shit is iffy these dayz. its hard to chance ya money on something ya aint sure of....but, people arent gonna buy mixtapes cuz they see a no name guy is on it, they are gonna buy it cuz they see a big name guy on it. i strongly dislike how people have to get promotion thru others.

 

[keynan]

me too.

 

[MeloTrauma]

^^^^ If a mixtape is cheap (which they are), and you have some big names on there, you will get heard. Or if the DJ gets a no-name artist's verse and laces it over a big name's beat after the big name spits his shit, you will get heard. The mixtape scene has to be established first before it starts working though...when will it happen?