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Author :: The GND Trio  |
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| Article Title :: Music Mixtapes: The Other Side! |
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There have been a lot of bad things happening in the mainstream
music industry leaving major recording artists and fans bitter.
On the flip side of things, mixtapes are booming better than
ever. It's the rave and everybody and their Mama wants mixtapes
now. Websites are dedicated to finding out who the big bang is
on the streets, chat rooms filled with chatters throwing out
some amateur gangsta rhymes and even new talent out there mixing
up some cool new sounds, right now.
So the big question is, why are mixtapes becoming more popular?
The answer is pure music and a generation who is sick of big
recording companies pushing artists and fans around. The music
that comes from mixtapes is real and some of the stuff out there
is from big artists like 50 Cent, Biggie and a more! Stuff that
nobody hears, great stuff that should be heard but it's not,
you'll hear it on mixtapes.
An article featured on the MTV website quoted successful artist
and producer P. Diddy, "Labels don't even have the heart to put
out a new artist right now".
Other artists who are choosing to make their names big using
mixtapes instead of the corporate music world usually agree that
one of the advantages to the mixtape industry is that they are
not limited in what they can produce. "The mixtapes are like me
speaking directly to my neighborhood", says famed rapper 50 Cent
who also released many mixtapes before being backed up by a
major recording contract.
Even mixtape producers claim that record companies use their
services, often swapping unreleased goods for favors rather than
paying with cold hard cash. If you wanna get your hands on some
'real jams', get a mixtape! There are thousands of ways to get
or listen to one and one of them is the Internet. Sites do sell
mixtapes but the only way to get the real answers to who's hot
and who's not is mixtape chat rooms and forums where users
converse about their mixtapes.
Either way, the industry is getting better and better. The next
big wave of the future could be mixtapes sold at a national
retail level, could basement producers be pushing the big dogs
out of cushy recording company offices? The future is bright for
mixtapes and we'll have to wait and see.
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