he wanted to be a singer-songwriter.[11] Prior to changing his name to Mac Miller‚ he was known as EZ Mac and released the mixtape But My Mackin’ Ain’t Easy in 2007 at the age of fifteen. Miller was also part of rap group The Ill Spoken together with fellow Pittsburgh rapper‚ Beedie. The Ill Spoken released the mixtape How High in 2008. In 2009 Mac Miller released two mixtapes The Jukebox: Prelude to Class Clown and The High Life before getting signed to Rostrum Records. In 2009 at age 17‚ he made
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Award for Best Ensemble in the dramatic hit TV show Degrassi: The Next Generation. While still preforming on the TV show Degrassi Graham was trying to transform into the world of hip-hop. The mixtape Room for Improvement was released in 2006 that sold about 6‚000 copies. In 2007 Drake released his second mixtape called Comeback Season. Comeback Season that also released his first music video called Replacement Girl‚ Shortly after he got cut from the TV drama Degrassi. Even though he was rapping he
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Brandon McCartney grew up in Berkeley‚ California‚ and attended high school at Albany High in Albany. He adopted the name Lil B‚ and began rapping at age 16 with San Francisco Bay Area based hip hop group The Pack. After two locally successful mixtapes‚ at the peak of the Bay Area ’s hyphy movement‚ the group ’s song "Vans" became a surprise hit. The song was ranked as the fifth best of 2006 by Rolling Stone magazine.[5] The strength of "Vans" led the group to release Skateboards 2 Scrapers‚ featuring
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What started off as an accident‚ propelled the young Disc Jockey into a career full of fans‚ money‚ and business. DJ Screw was one of the few entertainers whose talents caused people from all over his city to drive to his door demanding mixtapes- what he did best. His talent and invention for the Chopped and Screwed genre has changed the way that Disc Jockeys mix music in this day and age‚ and has definitely influenced many other young Disc Jockeys to play around and experiment with their
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A game-changing artist and an impervious celebrity‚ Lil Wayne began as his career as a near-novelty — a preteen delivering hardcore hip-hop — but through years of maturation and reinventing the mixtape game‚ he developed into a million-selling rapper with a massive body of work‚ one so inventive and cunning that it makes his famous claim of being the “best rapper alive” worth considering. Born Dwayne Michael Carter‚ Jr. and raised in the infamous New Orleans neighborhood of Hollygrove‚ he was a straight-A
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the Welcome Back‚ Kotter TV-series. All of these were released for free on the internet‚ making it similar to a mixtape.[7] From March to April 2010‚ jj was on a nationwide tour in the United States with the British band The xx.[8] Following the US tour‚ jj went on a minor tour through Europe with dates inItaly‚ France and Belgium among others.[9] jj ’s next release‚ following jj n° 3‚ was a mixtape named Kills.[10] It was released as a free download on Christmas Eve 2010‚ at Sincerely Yours website.[11][12]
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Brandon McCartney grew up in Berkeley‚ California‚ and attended high school at Albany High in Albany. He adopted the name Lil B‚ and began rapping at age 16 with San Francisco Bay Area based hip hop group The Pack. After two locally successful mixtapes‚ at the peak of the Bay Area’s hyphy movement‚ the group’s song "Vans" became a surprise hit. The song was ranked as the fifth best of 2006 by Rolling Stone magazine.[5] The strength of "Vans" led the group to release Skateboards 2 Scrapers‚ featuring
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Boston based 20 year old rapper born on April 8th 1989 Kristian Garcia is fresh off completely his debut soon to be classic mixtape entitled "The Mass Effect" Boston hasn’t been known churning out great emcees over the past‚ but Kristian Garcia is here not only here to put Boston on the map the rather the whole east coast. Roxbury native‚ half black half spanish with lyricism reminiscent of a young Nas and the soul of Big Pun setting himself lyrically apart from many of today’s youngest rappers Kris’s
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Megan Paradise Professor Lee Response to Black Power Mixtape 2/8/13 Response to Black Power Mixtape I can honestly say that going into the clip of the film we watched‚ I knew next to nothing about the Black Panther Party‚ or any other type of advocacy for the movement‚ other then Martin Luther King Jr. What I did know what the typical story told to us in school. Dr. King was a peaceful man‚ the good guy‚ and Malcolm X and The Black Panther Party were the radicals‚ the bad guys. After watching
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album has since gone platinum. He will release his second studio album on October 24‚ 2011 titled Take Care. Drake will release an R&B mixtape sometime in the future and will release a collaboration album with Lil Wayne. Drake has worked with several other hip-hop artists such as Lil Wayne‚ Young Jeezy‚ Kanye West‚ Eminem‚ and Jay-Z. With the success of his mixtape turned EP So Far Gone‚ Drake has been nominated for several awards including Grammys‚ even being selected to perform at the 2010 Grammy
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