Jan 29, 2016 http://www.fuse.tv/videos/2016/01/the-drake-effect-mixtape-influence?campaign=scl Welcome to The Drake Effect, a weekly miniseries created by Fuse's Esteban Serrano in which we explore the various ways in which Aubrey "Drake" Graham has helped shape the culture at large. The first installment, "The Mixtape," features thoughts from Drizzy, 2 Chainz, Meek Mill (!), Rich Homie Quan, Hot 97's Bobby Trends, Genius' Rob Markman and YouHeardThatNew's Low Key about the mixtape as a shifting art form. "Dropped a mixtape, that s--- sounded like a album Who'da thought a country wide tour would be the outcome?" –Drake, "Forever," August 2009 In February 2009, Drake dropped So Far Gone, a 17-song free digital release featuring Lil Wayne, Bun B, Santigold and packed with original beats. Fast-forward seven years and you can't get two inches down your social media feeds without encountering that day's new mixtape, or two mixtapes, or five. By no means was So Far Gone the first mixtape," says Markman, "but it felt like the first, because even though other artists were definitely dropping mixtapes at the time, this felt like an album." Since his label debut in 2010, Drake has released an equal amount of mixtapes and albums, with 2015 seeing the arrival of If You're Reading This It's Too Late and, with Future, What a Time to Be Alive. "It's a very overwhelming thing to think of making an album, especially when you're not in the position of an artist that's signed and has the backing," Drake told Fuse back in the day. "I just thought it would be smarter to put free music out, and that was I didn't have to worry about clearing samples." @DrakeSXN this is interesting af
Jan 29, 2016 Drake dropped one f---ing mixtape, f--- this s---. Tired of people riding this dude Let me know when he drops quality mixtapes like 50 and Wayne were edit: and what, like 2 before SFG?
Jan 29, 2016 Yeah Room For Improvement & Comeback Season. Off the top of my head 50, Wayne, and Cole's tapes were all collectively better. @Immy are they considering IYRT & WATTBA in this?
Jan 29, 2016 fam, peak the Views thread. something is popping and I dont wanna make another thread for it lmao
Jan 29, 2016 LOLOLOL. I like drake, let me get this out of the way. But holy f---. People need to stop riding his d-ck. In no way, shape, or form did he "change the mixtape game forever". Every reason they tried to list as to why he did can be credited to 50 and Wayne. Drake was just a beneficiary of what they did to the mixtape game. This is embarrassing. Drakes a cool artist, but for Christ sake, everything he's ever done has been inspired from someone else.
Jan 29, 2016 Coming from another guy that has arguably has two of the best mixtapes ever: "Alot of the songs, like “The Badness,” “Grown Simba,” “I Get Up,” “Can I Live,” and “Lights Please,” were album songs. We used to ride around and listen to them and be like, “Yo, when we get signed, this is the album!” But when Drake put out So Far Gone for free and took over the mainstream sound, then I had to compete against that wave that just happened." - J Cole
Jan 29, 2016 TWU & FNL are great and 2 of my favorites, but I haven't listened to nearly enough mixtapes to call them GOAT.
Jan 29, 2016 Im not fully schooled on this topic but can someone direct me to some mixtapes that hit the mainstream like SFG???
