All I had was
All I had was a CD with beats. I wrote to every beat on that CD, and when I got off punishment, I put out my first mixtape. I passed it out all around school. I started going to the studio. I started doing shows. Dreezy
Mixtapes
Mixtape legend, underground kings…
Mixtape legend, underground kings… Looking for the right way to do the wrong things Drake
For me, DJ culture
For me, DJ culture – with its obsession with collecting records and archiving everything – predated the cloud concept with primitive material like the mixtape. Now we would call it collaborative filtering or something technical, but the impulse is the same – gather fragments, make something new. That is how you will bypass the climate-change … Read more
Making a film is
Making a film is like making a mixtape. You’re collecting all this stuff and putting your favorite stuff into it: you have actors that you like, characters that you’re interested in, moments you want to explore, themes you want to deal with, music that you want to put in. It’s a pastiche of all these … Read more
The Black Power Mixtape
The Black Power Mixtape is a documentary, first of all. It brings us closer to the voices we heard at that particular point in time. Danny Glover
Remember, we’re talking [in
Remember, we’re talking [in The Black Power Mixtape] about 1967, the year before [Martin Luther] King’s assassination. We’re talking about the emergence of black power, which is a discussion King mentioned in his last book, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? We’re talking about the meaning of black power and the possibility … Read more
In The Black Power
In The Black Power Mixtape , you hear the voice of Angela Davis – not someone playing Angela Davis. Danny Glover
[Relationships] never seem to
[Relationships] never seem to work out, I mean it gets to the point where I have to be extremely cautious. You have to understand, this stardom thing is still new to me, I don’t even consider myself famous. It’s 2008: if you have a blog, a mixtape and two pairs of skinny jeans you, too, … Read more
I listen to him
I listen to him [Chief Keef] the most. I like his older mixtapes a little better though, because old Chief Keef scared me – I thought he was about to pop up out of nowhere with a hoodie on and shoot me. Danny Brown
When I put out
When I put out my first mixtape, ’50 Cent is the Future,’ it was the first tape where an artist did the entire tape in song format. Curtis Jackson