I’ve been looking forward to this mixtape for a while and I gotta give props to M.I. as he really seems to understand what the game needs. This mixtape couldn’t have come at a better time and where the hell are all the other mixtapes? Rappers need to be prolific with it. Fans don’t like to wait two years for their favorite rappers to drop an album. We need more collabos, more mixtapes like this… Bring the excitement, the drama!
Illegal Music doesn’t disappoint on any level. The samples are crazy, the flows are inzain. I just keep wondering, with material like this on a free mixtape, I’m practically biting my nails in anticipation of his next album. The saddest thing to me is that this mixtape in terms of content, production, creativity, lyricism and practically every benchmark you could think of is way ahead of the “albums” that a lot of cats put out. The bar has been raised. Who’s gonna step up?
Apart from Modenine (who has actually dropped 2 mixtapes) and M.I. has any other rapper dropped a mixtape? We really need more of this in the industry and not just from the rappers, the DJ’s like Jimmy Jat need to be more prolific, lets get more freestyles going, some real battles you know (not the one sided flogging Modenine gave Rugged Man), lets see more of those ill collabo’s and a lot more concept projects between rappers and producers like Nigel Ben’s Kraftwork: The Soul Edition.
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