While sampling fees were established and grew throughout the 1990s, mixtapes became part of the mechanism hip-hop artists used to release their work without all the paperwork. "It's quicker it's been a chance for artists to explore."įor years, it seemed mixtapes flew under the radar with regard to copyright suits. Dan, owner of ID Labs Studios in Lawrenceville, who has worked with Miller and many other local and national-level hip-hop artists. "I think mixtapes came about initially because it was a really great way for guys to promote themselves without an album," explains producer E. Mixtapes are now generally distributed as free downloads on the Internet, with the biggest hub being DatPiff ( Some mixtapes are like demo tapes, especially for up-and-coming artists, but even the best-known rappers release mixtapes in between albums. The mixtape is a fixture in hip hop: The name stems from "party mix" cassettes made by DJs in the 1980s, but has come to refer most often to unofficial collections of tracks released by MCs. and whether it's such a bad thing if it is. It raises the question of whether the utility of the mixtape in hip hop is waning. But in recent years, more and more artists have been slapped with mixtape-related suits.
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Conventional wisdom once said that mixtapes were generally safe from copyright suits, as they're distributed for free and don't have the profile of larger releases. It was surprising, if not unprecedented, when rapper and producer Lord Finesse sued Mac Miller last year over a sample on Miller's 2010 K.I.D.S.
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