Big Mike - What's Beef 2K7

free to stream, not download

yeah sorry should have mentioned that, but you can record them off streaming with 'advanced mp3 wma recorder' and then upload them to here for promotional use

wait, give it about 30 mins mayb more, it needs to find seeds. the tape will come just be patient

It was like Mixunit was got it comin, tryin to make money sellim dem mixtapes!

MIXTAPES ARE FOR PROMO USE ONLY, THATS WHY THEY SHOULD BE FREE ASSHOLES!!

Now pay the concequances!

that was a dumb as fuck comment. you think this is only about mixunit?

Hey genius read the article. Not only did hundreds of mixtape sites get shut down, stores were raided and such also. Bottom line is WITOUT THESE SITES/ STORES/ and DJ's arrested, there won't be mixtapes PERIOD. I would love to see how much shit you get from this site when the entire mixtape scene moves underground.

Look who talks stupid now!!
The next phase in this whole shit would be more sites like mixtapetorrent and mixfiend that you'll download mixtapes for free. The sites can get serious money without sellin them mixtapes! But you too stupid to understand that there are commercials and advertisements that could sponsor them sites and mixtapes!!!

You dump fuck what you thought? Albums are been created and sold so the artists, the producers and the Industry in generall to earn money. I bet you dont know shit about what they call IP you stupid fuck!!!!!

So we can all figure out why these two djs are in JAIL and dem sites are ripped off, CAUSE LIKE I SAID BEFORE YOU STUPID FUCK, MIXTAPES ARE FOR PROMO REASONS ONLY AND WHOEVER TRYES TO GET MONEY FROM THEM IS AN OUTLAW!!! YOU CANT DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT!

It been like this for eva but in the last couple of years for and more fuckin sites and fuckin djs try to makin a livin of it! What did you expect them to do!

And dont worry them sites like mixtapetorrent wont extict me sure for that, as long as there are different kind of resourses to fund them!(like i said before)

But you think only with you're dick, thats why you seat tight all the time and wait someone to post shit so you start dissin!!!
But you dont know shit..

Mixtapes Will Neva Die cause they know if they try some shit the whole black community and the whole world would start a war with them. And trust me they dont want it!!!

Lil pety nigga!
Now read what i told you and write and essay for your teacher about this cause only a kid that still goes to school can think like you do!

Don't be a dumb fuck. The artists sell them to make MONEY, its the changing times. Album sales aren't doig SHIT anymore, you think they want to give all there stuff away for free?

Oh and stop trying to talk like a gangsta, it's quite pathetic

The Mixtape Game

So what does DJ Drama & DJ Don’s arrest mean for the future of mixtapes? Well for one it has terrorized the mixtape community. As you read this 100s of online mixtape sites are disappearing. The mixtape industry is moving more and more underground. Soon it might be easier to find an I Love Castro poster in Miami than to find a mixtape. What would that mean for Hip Hop?

In today’s Hip Hop, mixtapes are the corner stone. As a subaltern part of the record industry mixtapes have operated off the original essence of Hip Hop. I’m neither being nostalgic nor purist. The first mixtapes started circulating around New York in the late 70s early 80s as DJ recordings of Hip-Hop Parties. You could hear the latest mc battles or the hot party you missed. It was one of the biggest reasons hip-hop was able to spread to all 5 boroughs of New York and across the country.

Kid Capri is largely responsible for how we know mixtapes today. In mid 80s He began producing them in his house and made them clearer than the club versions. Down the line others innovated by taking acapellas and mixing them over different beats and creating the “exclusives” mixtapes (songs that have not yet been released by records labels).
Along the way this progression has given rise to many things:

• Alternative Economy: many local neighborhood store service mixtapes to communities, Many Previously unknown DJs and MCs blow up off of mixtapes.
• Alternative distribution network: mom & pop stores, street vendors, trunks of cars, and even some major retail outlets serve as part of a grassroots network
• Promotion service: Mixtape DJs break records better than mainstream corps. Primarily because of the relationship to the streets/people
• Alternative media: mixtapes are often experimental spaces for new styles, new beats. MCs and DJ often get away with saying and doing things on mixtapes that their major labels would not let them.

Many record labels (the same one that the RIAA say they are representing) caught on to the importance of this network. They give songs and money to DJs to make a mixtape around their artist. After 50cents meteoritic rise through the mixtape game, it would seem like some labels have a whole mixtape arm!
Now here in lies what makes mixtapes, as opposed to downloading, difficult for the RIAA to tackle. They hold a peculiar position in that they help with sales and promotion of official albums while at the same time challenging copyright laws.

Mixtapes like hip hop its self is a collaborative process. Remixing, sampling, tagging on a wall. All of these things challenge what we consider to be “legal“. Mixtapes push the barriers of the old copyright laws. May be its time we made new ones, to fit our reality and our culture.

In Light of this state/corporate terror what can we do?
Artists should start to look into creative commons licenses: www.creativecommons.org
We can even create our own much like the FAM Foundation: http://freethiscd.com/
There are already examples of folk doing this: www.freshoutmedia.com/about-us Fresh out Media allows artists to upload their songs onto their website for free promotion under the creative commons license.
The Hip Hop Media Lab, which produces mixtapes with independent artists, is starting to use a version of the creative commons license as well: www.myspace.com/hiphopmedialab

With Hip Hop being ‘Dead’ and ‘Killed’ maybe we can save it by doing what folks did in the beginning. Take what we’ve been given and do our own thing.

I agree wit most of ya words,
but nigga dont try lecture me, and not be mistaken u aint gonna tell show me how i should talk..thats for u

As far as the mixtape, i told ya i dont think mixtapes sites will dissapear. I believe more mixtapes sites like this right here will come and the Djs/rappers will be sponcorin them just because they would be free so ! As far as these sites are legal and they not sellin mixtapes but only promotin them for free they will exist. Trust me...

and yo stopsnitchin listen to the intro by kay slay
on "Sign of the Times" mixtape.
What i've tellin u stupid ass all this fuckin time

"FOR PROMO ONLY"!! aye