Mixtapes

[rob_one]

Now I've got respect for mixtape DJs. It takes a lot of work to make a dope tape (or CD, or download, or whatever...) but I'm continually confused about the techniques some of them adopt.

What I want to know is where some of these come from and what their purpose is:

- Shouting over tracks continually. You're a DJ. Shut the f*** up!
- Rewinding the beginning of the song or a single, nondescript line ad infinitum, so by the time the track starts proper you're at the two minute mark
- Track 'snippets'. This is is just f***ing annoying.
- Scratching in sound clips over verses or hooks. These clips bare little or no relation to the music
- Putting unmastered, barely mixed 'exclusive' joints out.

Why do these happen? Irritatingly, Papercutt seems to have adopted most of them, as have a few other SA DJs (Kenny, I'm looking at you...)

[Myth]

co-sign all this.....
hahaha, kenny realy did a whack mixing job on ths current HYPE cd...

[rob_one]

co-sign all this.....
hahaha, kenny realy did a whack mixing job on ths current HYPE cd...

Kenny has an incredible amount of hustle, puts on ill parties and is a damn good DJ. But although he kept his mouth shut on the HYPE CD, he could've done a better job on the mixing - to say nothing of boosting the levels.

[DaT NiGGa P-DuB]

what i wanna know is why the heck would u wanna buy them mixtapes!!! although i cant lie i really used to dog them DJ Whoo-kid mixtapes back in the day (when G-unit was bursting out)

[jiggy china]

the shouting dj is a branding exercise, plus a cornball punchline sounds better when the dj goes "DAMN!" or "whoowhoooooo" like a lil white girl on a rollercoaster.

but the bring it back shit is irritating, tbo touch completely sucks at it. dude waits until the last hook of the joint then "hold on touch, your killing em, no matter fact bring that back" f***en arsewipe!

[Alias]

Mixtape Dj's And Their Insistant Talking/Screaming/Shoutout Kak and often below par mixing and scratching spoil good tracks. Yeah I tottaly agree. And there have been a few Hype Magazine Compilations that have been found wanting

@Rob

Sup Bro...Did You Get The Beats I Sent You?

[Touareg]

CO-f***ING-SIGN, some of the crockers sream so loud, marketing themselves over a track you end up skipping it coz you cant hear shit...

'f*** outta here with that bull shit...

[Killa Merc]

They say " Drama, we love it when you talk that ish!!!!"

[polaris]

Qba's "Gutter Butter" has got to be one of the worst! That dj sounds terrible even if he hadn't been screaming.
Then there's Paperkutt too on the Tumi mixtape, and Kenzhero's Rear & Unreleased Mixtape is not so much annoying as it is flat. Haven't heard the one he made for Hype

[TY-D-CPT-021-NKE]

i co-sign ever post cause  i hate it too...they spoil the track and it kills the essence of the track..dont get me started on clubs...f***!!!never play full hip hop tracks...dj giving shout outs to his daughter and wife while his side line chills in the vip section..bitches!

[General In8]

tru to everything everyone said. oh and ROFLMAO!!! at everything evryone said.

[SolitaryNative]

the shouting dj is a branding exercise, plus a cornball punchline sounds better when the dj goes "DAMN!" or "whoowhoooooo" like a lil white girl on a rollercoaster.

Not to mention self preservation through maintaining the "exclusive" nature of the track (where that is really the case). Nobody is going to rip an "exclusive" off a mixtape and drop it with some other DJ's name screamed all over it, and his little gunshots and sirens thrown in. It's miiine, all miiine typa shtuff.

[TY-D-CPT-021-NKE]

omp...dj whoo kid...must i say anything else?

[A pimp named Sarkozy]

the shouting dj is a branding exercise, plus a cornball punchline sounds better when the dj goes "DAMN!" or "whoowhoooooo" like a lil white girl on a rollercoaster.

. It's miiine, all miiine typa shtuff.

 

Its Exclusive people it shows you heard it first from that Dj.

Drama,Kay Slay and whooooooooooooooooookid like that shit

[Killa Merc]

"It's Gangsta Grizzlz you b.....ds"