![]() Atlanta newcomer Donnis recently released a nasty specimen of the other kind of mixtape: the complete album no label has been smart enough to release. 50 Cent was omitted because his music is terrible.ĥ) Donnis, Diary Of An ATL Brave - Lil Wayne’s tapes have illustrated the Darwinian beauty of the online market, where laws don’t apply. A note to readers: I didn’t pick Drake’s So Far Gone because I don’t think it’s especially great. They should still be available on sites such as or. ![]() Most of these people are much less rich than you’ve been led to believe.īelow are my preferences for the top five free hiphop mixtapes of 2009. That said, you should support good artists financially when you can. Many artists with label backing do their best work in the unregulated online market. While the unsigned-and-online business model is still an unsolved mystery - those labels are shady, but the money ain’t bad - the worthiness of much of the free content outdoes the stuff in stores. What started as a trickle of freeness years ago has grown into a torrent, pun intended. A few hip-hop artists - Raekwon, UGK and others - dropped worthwhile major label albums in 2009, but hip-hop’s true current is carried forward on the hundreds of blogs that drop mixtapes, tracks and videos every day. This year’s crop of free mixtapes drove home a point that grows more clearly true each year: the traditional record-company-as-gatekeeper-and-tastemaker model is, and always was, inadequate. Luckily, record company people hold dwindling influence over what hip-hop music you get to hear. ![]() ![]() Industry rule number 4,080, as set forth by A Tribe Called Quest on The Low End Theory, is still true.
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