{"id":227,"date":"2014-03-20T08:52:14","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T08:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buymixtapes.com\/blog\/?p=227"},"modified":"2016-06-20T00:19:20","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T00:19:20","slug":"mixtapes-and-how-they-can-help-music-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buymixtapes.com\/blog\/mixtapes-and-how-they-can-help-music-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixtapes and How They Can Help Music Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_228\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-228\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/buymixtapes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/gunitradio5-coverb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy size-medium wp-image-228\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buymixtapes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/jquery-image-lazy-loading\/images\/grey.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/buymixtapes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/gunitradio5-coverb-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"new artists, music fans, music lovers\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-228\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-228\" src=\"http:\/\/buymixtapes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/gunitradio5-coverb-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"new artists, music fans, music lovers\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.buymixtapes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/gunitradio5-coverb-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.buymixtapes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/gunitradio5-coverb-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.buymixtapes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/gunitradio5-coverb-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.buymixtapes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/gunitradio5-coverb-624x624.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.buymixtapes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/gunitradio5-coverb.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> New artists can use mixtapes as a way to connect with fans.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>http:\/\/www.buymixtapes.com\/DJ-Whoo-Kid-G-Unit-Radio-24.3476.mixtape<\/p>\n<p>There are many artists who have been discovered through these products\u00a0and have landed major recording deals. One of the first who was featured on many DJ Clue releases\u00a0was Fabolous. His real name is John David Jackson and is from Brooklyn, New York. He first appeared on DJ Clue drops\u00a0in 1995 and after that was featured on many of his projects. His slick freestyles and catchy jingles is what landed his a recording deal with Elektra Records. He ended up releasing 6 albums and is still going hard in the underground\u00a0scene. Just this past December of 2013 he released his 3rd official feature\u00a0in the series titled \u2018The Soul Tape\u2019. This\u00a0series alone solidifies his presence in the rap music genre, as well as the underground\u00a0game.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most notable and famous rap artists to be signed to a major recording deal after being discovered through mixtapes is Curtis Jackson better known as 50 Cent. He is well known as the rapper who was shot 9 times and did not die. His first retail album was \u2018Power of the Dollar\u2019 in 2000, but it was never released. After this, he resorted to distributing his music to the streets\u00a0and then finally landed a million dollar deal with Eminem on Shady Records in 2002. Before he released the highly acclaimed \u2018Get Rich or Die Trying\u2019 in 2003, 50 Cent released about 4 features\u00a0consisting solely of him and his G-Unit crew. G-Unit was comprised of 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks, and Tony Yayo. The projects\u00a0he released in the following order were \u201950 Cent is the Future\u2019, \u2018No Mercy, No Fear\u2019, \u2018God\u2019s Plan\u2019 and \u2018Automatic Gunfire\u2019. A few weeks after his highly successful \u2018Get Rich or Die Trying\u2019 album was released to retail markets, he dropped another mixtape titled \u2018Bulletproof\u2019. All of these drops\u00a0were hosted by DJ Whoo Kid who was just as famous as G-Unit at the time. 50 Cent\u2019s fame helped launch Whoo Kid\u2019s DJ Career. 50 Cent went on to have an excellent career in music even though it did not last as long as anticipated. Most of his wealth was acquired from Vitamin Water which was sold to Coca-Cola for 4 billion dollars. His share in the health drink was 250 million dollars. 50 Cent also went on to release a retail album with his G-Unit crew entitled \u2018Beg for Mercy\u2019. The artist Young Buck was added to G-Unit after Tony Yayo became incarcerated. Another rapper that was eventually signed to G-Unit because of his freestyle\u00a0material was west coast music artist The Game, who is now known as just Game. G-Unit and Game had their differences and split. Eventually Young Buck also followed and split from G-Unit.<\/p>\n<p>References:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.buymixtapes.com\/The-Game-Cant-Leave-Rap-Alone.6307.mixtape<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.buymixtapes.com\/DJ-Whoo-Kid-G-Unit-Radio-24.3476.mixtape There are many artists who have been discovered through these products\u00a0and have landed major recording deals. One of the first who was featured on many DJ Clue releases\u00a0was Fabolous. His real name is John David Jackson and is from Brooklyn, New York. He first appeared on DJ Clue drops\u00a0in 1995 and after that was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buymixtapes.com\/blog\/mixtapes-and-how-they-can-help-music-artists\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mixtapes and How They Can Help Music Artists&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[206,207,73,75,72,213,220,74],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-free-mp3-download-sites","tag-free-music-download","tag-g-unit","tag-hip-hop","tag-new-artists","tag-playlist","tag-song","tag-the-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buymixtapes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buymixtapes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buymixtapes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buymixtapes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buymixtapes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.buymixtapes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1203,"href":"https:\/\/www.buymixtapes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/1203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buymixtapes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buymixtapes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buymixtapes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}