MaccKing
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I thought 50 Cent - Guess Who's Back dropped before the first Dipset tape
50 Cent Responds To Jim Jones’ Claims That Dipset “Started The Mixtape Movement" | "He's Lying 🤣🤣🤣
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its the coli people ignore that 50 was putting out tapes and others around 97-98Before you become a star, you have to "bubble" I guess the word "bubble" should not have been used. He was taking over the streets before Go DJ came out in that time era 2003-2004
Locally maybe
Locally maybe
I dunno bout that but Dipset mixtape was definitely before the G Unit ones that sparked 50 rise50 had a run of his own tapes since 98
I know because I had them all except NMNF
Power of a dollar came out in 00
murksiderock
Superstar
These threads always show nikkas who believe that what was happening in they hometowns was happening everywhere else 
news flash, it wasn't...
The spread of hip hop in general is akin to the spread of drugs and gun violence in America. It's hard to say who did it "first" because multiple areas were introduced to, or were doing, the same shyt in the same time frame, they just didn't know other places were on it. Like we know NYC as the home base of hip hop as a cultural art form but the singular art of "rapping" did not start in New York City in the 70s
I'm not from Texas, New Orleans, or New York. I'm 34 so I can tell you the perspective from where I was at...
One I thought it was understood that DJs started the mixtape format. The NY DJs got more notoriety for it because 25 years ago hip hop was more NY-centered, but NY DJs weren't the only DJs pushing tapes with artists over mad beats. I don't know who started it, or where, but in the same time frame the popular NY DJs were on the tape shyt, lesser known DJs elsewhere were doing the same shyt...
Far as the artists go and who took it mainstream, I'd probably say 50, it directly fueled his meteoric rise. But they were all in the same window. Wayne then took it to an even higher level in the mid-00s. Dipset had their run but 50 first, then Wayne, were more influential...
About Wayne, look. Most of us knew who Wayne was by '02 because most of us knew Cash Money and Hot Boy shyt. But he wasn't seen as some star in most areas. We looked at Wayne as the Cash Money mascot in VA and CA, we knew Block Is Hot and 500 Degreez, we knew that shyt. He didn't have no major following on the coasts, first time I heard someone really hype Wayne was Summer '04 after Tha Carter dropped. And then he steadily grew momentum from there...
I can't tell you a single person I knew who was playing anything Wayne in 2002. We knew who he was but cats wasn't feeling him. Again this is where I was at, understandably his following was different in other places...
Dipset and 50 had strong fanbases in VA well before Wayne did...
news flash, it wasn't...The spread of hip hop in general is akin to the spread of drugs and gun violence in America. It's hard to say who did it "first" because multiple areas were introduced to, or were doing, the same shyt in the same time frame, they just didn't know other places were on it. Like we know NYC as the home base of hip hop as a cultural art form but the singular art of "rapping" did not start in New York City in the 70s
I'm not from Texas, New Orleans, or New York. I'm 34 so I can tell you the perspective from where I was at...
One I thought it was understood that DJs started the mixtape format. The NY DJs got more notoriety for it because 25 years ago hip hop was more NY-centered, but NY DJs weren't the only DJs pushing tapes with artists over mad beats. I don't know who started it, or where, but in the same time frame the popular NY DJs were on the tape shyt, lesser known DJs elsewhere were doing the same shyt...
Far as the artists go and who took it mainstream, I'd probably say 50, it directly fueled his meteoric rise. But they were all in the same window. Wayne then took it to an even higher level in the mid-00s. Dipset had their run but 50 first, then Wayne, were more influential...
About Wayne, look. Most of us knew who Wayne was by '02 because most of us knew Cash Money and Hot Boy shyt. But he wasn't seen as some star in most areas. We looked at Wayne as the Cash Money mascot in VA and CA, we knew Block Is Hot and 500 Degreez, we knew that shyt. He didn't have no major following on the coasts, first time I heard someone really hype Wayne was Summer '04 after Tha Carter dropped. And then he steadily grew momentum from there...
I can't tell you a single person I knew who was playing anything Wayne in 2002. We knew who he was but cats wasn't feeling him. Again this is where I was at, understandably his following was different in other places...
Dipset and 50 had strong fanbases in VA well before Wayne did...
Starting and revolutionizing are 2 different things