There's nothing strange about what you said, Jay, kendrick dont release mixtapes and the ppl who frequent livemixtapes/datpiff are well aware of this. Ive never searched either of those names on any of those sites and wouldnt. Rich Homie Quan's My type of Way is charting on the billboard Hot 100 currently and his success was as organic as you'll get in this day and age. He made a hot song that started buzzing around Atlanta and grew from there (obviously no unknown artist will get where he's at w/o some kind of string pulling but that doesnt make you an industry plant).
Migos has blown up since the drake feature, my man's sister and new husband came out to Versace during their wedding reception two weeks ago. Keef's fanbase is mainly online and was supposed to have a mixtape coming out the other day
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Jay-Z doesn't give away free music... which is why his albums still to this day do so well. All of these cats don't understand people value things that have value & when you give them too much free product you become valueless to them. Jay has always been master of his own mystique...