Fabolous was one of the first East Coast MC’s to embrace the west coast from the mixtape industry. In a recent interview Fabolous speaks his mind about mixtapes. He believes they are declining in popularity but there are ways to strenghten them.
“That game is really saturated,” Fab said in an interview about mixtapes. “I feel like you really have to do something special now, but there’s not really anything special you can do on a mixtape besides trying different things musically or with the way you distribute it…There’s nothing special to me about a mixtape now…There’s pretty much one coming out every five minutes. Right now, I think the dopest thing is to have a mixtape online–don’t even have a hard disc, because even that’s slowed down. When was the last time someone went somewhere and bought a hard copy of a mix CD? So maybe the next step is to release something digitally and tie it in with that.”
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