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That shit was completely original, it sold over 500K, he toured off it, it had multiple radio hits, but in interviews, he's calling it a 'mixtape"? How is that possibly a mixtape by any existing definition? It sounds more like Drake just wants all the perks of releasing an album while ducking any criticism of his album's quality by saying it was 'just a mixtape.' So it's a mixtape if an artist says it's a mixtape and it's an album if the artist says it's an album? Fuck out of here. That's not a definition, that's proof that there's no real difference between mixtapes and albums anymore.
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Isn't he the epitome of the 'mixtape was better than the album' artist, and if that's true then there's actually no real relationship between quality and whether something's an 'album' or a 'mixtape' anymore, right? Let's use a real example from this year, Drake's IYRTITL. 99% of what everyone still refers to as a mixtape is now made up of all original production and songs, so what's a mixtape? A project that a label didn't release? What is this, 1999? Only labels can release important music? So then people try to make the difference between an album and a mixtape about quality, but again, how many high quality 'mixtapes' are there? Like there aren't shitty, low quality 'albums'? I know we can all think of a hundred so-called mixtapes better than most so-called albums - just take Big K.R.I.T. "Come on guys, do mixtapes even exist anymore? Back in the day, it was easy, a mixtape was people rapping over previously released beats mixed by a DJ, how many of those are even released anymore? I can think of.what.one prominent example this year? Lil Wayne's Sorry 4 the Wait 2? That's one example. First, someone will ask if we should still have separate Mixtape and Album categories, which will set off my first rant.