The Goat Mixtape Tournament Preliminaries

[_Goldie_]

Nah I'm just fuckin with that nigga lol

 

[bck145]

Besides whats been mentioned already

Xv popular culutre

Ace hood starvation 2

Nipsey hussle the marathon

J hood hood stripes

Royce bar exam 1-2

Jadakiss the champ is here

Danny brown xxx

Cassidy apply pressure

 

[Melanin_Enriched]

This thread makes me sad

 

[soulfulcat]

Came in to name some joints and they pretty much all named

 

[soulfulcat]

Soul Tape 1-3

How Fly -Wiz and Currency

Live in Concert wiz and Currency

Taylor Allderdice

Black Market

Wale eleven one eleven theory

Jeezy Trap or Die

Nipsey Hussle Crenshaw considered a mixtape?

 

[Billy_Poncho]

Currensy- Covert Coup

Big Krit- 4EvaNaDay

Jeezy- Trap or Die

TI- In Da Streetz Vol 2

50 Cent- 50 Cent is the Future

Wiz- Kush and OJ

Lil Wayne- No Ceilings

J Cole- The Warm Up

Max B- Wavy Crockett

Future- Dirty Sprite

Gucci- Mr Zone 6

 

[g00dlikeg0d]

1.dedication 2

2. How fly

3. No ceilings

4. Trap or die

5. So fr gone

6. Kush & oj

7. Rich forever

8. More about nothin

9. Friday night lights

10. 56 nights

 

[5 Grand]

I'm going to take you all waaaaaaay back.

Red Alert talks about how mix tapes started @ 7:45


According to DJ Red Alert, the first two mixtape DJs were Brucie B and Starchild, both from Harlem. Brucie B used to DJ at the Rooftop and Starchild would DJ at The Fever, both popular Harlem nightclubs. They would make tapes and sell them to the drug dealers in Harlem and Queens like Alpo, Fat Cat, Rich Porter, Azie, Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff, Gerald “Prince” Miller, Pappy Mason, the original 50 Cent may have even been one of their clients. They used to sell tapes for anywhere between $100-$500 a pop.

So the first two mixtape DJs were Brucie B and Starchild. Its debatable who was first. But Kid Capri saw what they were doing and improved it. So Kid Capri was third.

Anyway, here are some of the best and earliest mix tapes. If you consider yourself a connoisseur you should have these. Not saying they should all make it to the final four of the tournament, but they're certainly a must have for a Hip Hop audiophile.

1. Hollywood and Brucie B - Live At The Disco Fever (August 31, 1985). This is the oldest Brucie B mixtape I can find. Its on Youtube. Apparently Tim Westwood played it on his show in England and somebody taped it.

2. Kid Capri - 10/9/89 - Live At The Powerhouse. This is the oldest Kid Capri tape I can find. Its also on Youtube. I can remember people talking about Kid Capri when I was in high school (circa 1991) but I didn't understand what they were talking about or the importance/impact that Kid Capri would later have on Hip Hop.

3. Ron G - Beat Kingdom (circa 1991) - Kid Capri made a tape called 52 Beats where he basically flipped breaks and beats. It was all original samples from popular Hip Hop songs, The problem with Kid Capri's tape was that his records had a lot of static. Ron G's Beat Kingdom had the same format but his records were clean so there was less static and thus his mixes sounded smoother.

4. Ron G - Blends (circa 1991) - Ron G created a monster with this tape. He took the acapella versions of R&B songs and put beats underneath them

5. DJ S&S - Something For That Ass (1993) - I had this tape when it was out. It had What's My Name by Snoop Dogg a few months before it was officially released. It also had Come Clean by Jeru the Damaja. I remember when I copped this mixtape on 125th st and played it for my coworkers in Boston. They went nuts over Whats My Name.

6. Doo Wop - 95 Live part 1 and 2 (1995) - This mixtape changed the game forever. Rather than just playing one song after the next, Doo Wop got the hottest MCs in the game to freestyle for the intro. He had Keith Murray, Q Tip, Busta Rhymes, Rampage, Fat Joe and Wu Tang, and those were just the freestyles in the intro! Then the tape started and it was all hot sh!t from early 1995. His 95 Live part 2 tape came out later that year and had the same format. Doo Wop was the first mixtape DJ to get popular rappers to freestyle on his tape.

7. Mr Cee - The Best of Biggie (1995) - This tape also changed the game. Big was the self-proclaimed King of New York. Not only did he have the hottest single on the radio (One More Chance Remix). But he had a mixtape floating around the underground with all of his b-sides and remixes that weren't on Ready to Die.

8. DJ Clue - 4,5,6 (1996) - This was the first mixtape to have all exclusive songs. Every song on this tape was unreleased at the time it came out, and this was before mp3 technology. The internet may have existed but it would be a few years until file sharing.

9. Tony Touch - 50 MCs (1999) - If Doo Wop changed the game by having a 20 minute freestyle session for the intro, Tony Touch revolutionized the game when he had a mixtape of all freestyles. There wasn't any actual songs on this tape, just freestyles.

10. Kay Slay - The Drama Hour part 1-9 (2003) . This was a series of mix tapes that came out circa 2003. Kay Slay was getting stuff from high profile rappers like Jay Z, 50 Cent, Nas and Jadakiss. Kay Slay was getting unreleased material and freestyles and putting them out on 125th st before the internet would get them. And when those songs/freestyles finally made it to the internet Kay Slay would be screaming all over the track. Kay Slay was the undisputed mixtape king in this era. I'd say the Drama Hour series was between August 2003-October 2003. I remember buying some of them. I wish I had the whole series, I've looked all over but all I can find is links about his radio show which is also called The Drama Hour.

None of these will make the tournament , but I still goated.

I know the mix tapes I named are a different format, but Mr Cee's The Best Of Biggie was the first mixtape of the modern format, i.e. a mixtape dedicated to one rapper. Granted the songs were available on b-sides of singles and remixes, but its still the beginning of the era where rappers have mix tapes.

You gotta include The Best of Biggie.

Having a mixtape tournament and not including The Best of Biggie is like having Thanksgiving with no turkey.

 

[BedStuy]

I can't take the Reason serious if this isn't in the top 15.

 

[KneeGro_DuperMan]

Styles P - Ghost in the Shell/Machine

GOAT Mixtapes

 

[water ur seeds]

Yo @Goldie did the story tournament ever finish???

You dont remember? U voted in the thread lol
http://community.allhiphop.com/disc...hildrens-story-vs-today-was-a-good-day#latest

Oh schitt that was the final?! I feel like you should of given a kinda speech or an e-throphy should of been presented, that was an epic tournament haha

 

[water ur seeds]

This was a classic too...

 

[water ur seeds]

Though, the king of all mixtapes and mixtape DJ's...

 

[Beta]

Whiteowl drop that 62

 

[aka40Cal]

50 Has to have a spot in the top 3

 

[riddlerap]

can a mixtape SERIES be considered as one thing? cause Lloyd Banks Money In The Bank series, G-Unit Radio series and Banks 5 or Better series >>>> all mixtapes series

as far as individual tapes.. 50 Cent is The Future gotta be the goat.

 

[GetoBoy]

No Ceilings-Lil Wayne

Down with the King-T.I.

Dedication 1 & 2-Lil Wayne

Friday Night Lights- J. Cole

Warm Up-J.Cole

So Far Gone-Drake

 

[5 Grand]

can a mixtape SERIES be considered as one thing? cause Lloyd Banks Money In The Bank series, G-Unit Radio series and Banks 5 or Better series >>>> all mixtapes series

as far as individual tapes.. 50 Cent is The Future gotta be the goat.

I'm telling ya'll, Kay Slay had a series called The Drama Hour. It was full length CDs that all had unreleased material from people like Jay, Nas, 50, Jadakiss, Dipset, etc. It was a whole series of mix tapes. Off the top I can say that it came out around the same time as The Black Album and Beg For Mercy because I remember he had songs from those albums just as they were coming out. Also Runnin by 2Pac and Big was on one of the tapes (Vol 5) hosted by Ghostface. I think Pharell hosted either vol 1 or vol 2.

If anybody has any connects with Kay Slay you should try to get copies of the entire series. I don't know where else to look. There were at least 9 volumes. Maybe more.

 

[psychobutcher]

Spitta

Covert Coup

New Jet City

Spitta and Roddy

Bales

Wiz Khalifa

Kush and OJ

Taylor Alderdice

Roc Marciano

The Pimpire Strikes Back

Freddie Gibbs

Cold Day in Hell

Str8 Killa No Filla

Action Bronson

Blue Chips

 

[HustleThaDon]

Lemme add:

Southern Smoke 16-DJ Smallz

Slim Thug-Boss Basics

Clipse and Re up Gang- We got it for Cheap vol.1

Mixtape Messiah 2 & 3