Here are examples of what I was talkin bout in the blog entry "Mixtape Purposes", I have two examples. Thd 1st example is beat that my group and I took from other artist, the second is all original beats from different producers-both have a combination of Rap and R&b performed by me but neither is mastered
So you be the judge and please, give honest feed back!!
Mixtape # 1
"Street Swaggin, Deep Rappin, $ Beat Snatchin"
http://www.datpiff.com/Da-Faculty-Street-Swaggin-Deep-Rappin-Beat-Snatchin-mixtape.121893.html
Mixtape # 2
"Luke Warm Sampler"
http://www.datpiff.com/Antiseptic-Luke-Warm-Mixtape-Sampler-mixtape.190552.html
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A lot of people question why an artist such as myself would create a mixtape so I wanna address the issue. When I first started recording music in 2002, we had the only home studio for miles to come. Anybody that was messin wit the music heavy was on a mission to get signed and everybody round the area pretty much knew eachother. Internet was just becoming popular so myspace, youtube, and reverbnation where far from the minds of anybody and I can't think of any online sales taking place in those days. Now fast forward to present times, I can't get out my car and walk through the parkin lot without being offered to buy 8 albums or mixtapes. I can't get on myspace without 30 people claimin to be the next big thing within the 1st several minutes of me signin on!!
At 1st I was against using other peoples beats because I felt it lacked originality and I didn't want people to hear a beat and automatically hum the tune of the original song that gets radio play. Until I started messin round in the studio wit my boi L.dot. he would download lots of beats from sound click and flip em just for the love to recording and making music so I was hesitant but I agreed. Didn't have a lot of doe for beats wit all of this written material I jumped on and started finding beats, sometimes not even the best beats but they were workable. Started killin em and it was easy cuz I would dl what eva beat he pointed me toward at home, write to it, memerize it, go jump in the booth and lace it, wrap that song up and move on to the next. Then he started playin beat for me that were out on the radio and he would say "We would kill this", I say "fuc it let's do it", we kill it and it come out cleaner than the song that's on the radio! At this point in time I am already disappointed wit radio so I figure I show the world how competetive and how talented that I am that as an indie atist I am competetion to the majors because anybody that hear my mixtape shit will agree that any track I jump on is gonna stand out. So anything they can do I can do and most of the time I can do it better, but take away the commercial portition and make the song what it should be anyways. It also gave me an opportunity to hear my voice behind already established artist such as trey songz and alicia keys, n mentally prepare for the upcoming colaborations to come! I have the opportunity to kill a dr dre beat and put it in a way that 50 cent didn't. +it gave me the opportunity to build a lil buzz by not tryin to right off the back sell my product in a time when everybody who can make garbage has the ability to compete wit me for the sale, it gave me an opportunity to let the quality of my talent surpass the competetion so that when I do drop my album I will already have built a fan base and the no talented individuals would have already cheated their only opportunity out of their hard earned money! Not to mention practice makes perfect so ya boi been gettin his practice in.
So hopefully the skeptics will have more of an understanding as too why, you will still get original material from me, mos def cuz that's my essence...but every once in a while, you'll catch me theivin cuz ima take a nigga beat and kill it....FOLLOW THE MOVEMENT||||
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Mixtape Examples
Here are examples of what I was talkin bout in the blog entry "Mixtape Purposes", I have two examples. Thd 1st example is beat that my group and I took from other artist, the second is all original beats from different producers-both have a combination of Rap and R&b performed by me but neither is mastered
So you be the judge and please, give honest feed back!!
Mixtape # 1
"Street Swaggin, Deep Rappin, $ Beat Snatchin"
http://www.datpiff.com/Da-Faculty-Street-Swaggin-Deep-Rappin-Beat-Snatchin-mixtape.121893.html
Mixtape # 2
"Luke Warm Sampler" http://www.datpiff.com/Antiseptic-Luke-Warm-Mixtape-Sampler-mixtape.190552.html
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Mixtape Purposes
A lot of people question why an artist such as myself would create a mixtape so I wanna address the issue. When I first started recording music in 2002, we had the only home studio for miles to come. Anybody that was messin wit the music heavy was on a mission to get signed and everybody round the area pretty much knew eachother. Internet was just becoming popular so myspace, youtube, and reverbnation where far from the minds of anybody and I can't think of any online sales taking place in those days. Now fast forward to present times, I can't get out my car and walk through the parkin lot without being offered to buy 8 albums or mixtapes. I can't get on myspace without 30 people claimin to be the next big thing within the 1st several minutes of me signin on!!
At 1st I was against using other peoples beats because I felt it lacked originality and I didn't want people to hear a beat and automatically hum the tune of the original song that gets radio play. Until I started messin round in the studio wit my boi L.dot. he would download lots of beats from sound click and flip em just for the love to recording and making music so I was hesitant but I agreed. Didn't have a lot of doe for beats wit all of this written material I jumped on and started finding beats, sometimes not even the best beats but they were workable. Started killin em and it was easy cuz I would dl what eva beat he pointed me toward at home, write to it, memerize it, go jump in the booth and lace it, wrap that song up and move on to the next. Then he started playin beat for me that were out on the radio and he would say "We would kill this", I say "fuc it let's do it", we kill it and it come out cleaner than the song that's on the radio! At this point in time I am already disappointed wit radio so I figure I show the world how competetive and how talented that I am that as an indie atist I am competetion to the majors because anybody that hear my mixtape shit will agree that any track I jump on is gonna stand out. So anything they can do I can do and most of the time I can do it better, but take away the commercial portition and make the song what it should be anyways. It also gave me an opportunity to hear my voice behind already established artist such as trey songz and alicia keys, n mentally prepare for the upcoming colaborations to come! I have the opportunity to kill a dr dre beat and put it in a way that 50 cent didn't. +it gave me the opportunity to build a lil buzz by not tryin to right off the back sell my product in a time when everybody who can make garbage has the ability to compete wit me for the sale, it gave me an opportunity to let the quality of my talent surpass the competetion so that when I do drop my album I will already have built a fan base and the no talented individuals would have already cheated their only opportunity out of their hard earned money! Not to mention practice makes perfect so ya boi been gettin his practice in.
So hopefully the skeptics will have more of an understanding as too why, you will still get original material from me, mos def cuz that's my essence...but every once in a while, you'll catch me theivin cuz ima take a nigga beat and kill it....FOLLOW THE MOVEMENT||||
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I like that...you articulated your philosophy for doing mixtape tracks with precision. I am from the camp that looks at mixtapes as being unauthentic and hijacking other peoples beats. Truthfully, I won't even listen to mixtape songs for those reasons. Yet, after reading your perspective and why you do mixtapes, I may have to give a little more credit to some artists who use mixtapes for the same reasons as you. Good job arguing your case!
TPA
Chief Executive Officer
www.profetikalchemy.com
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Peep what music you see on here 1st den look out for my album set to drop in late April under profetikalchemyproductions.com
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