Artist Quote by A Boogie wit da Hoodie

When I started making songs, some of them read as mixtape-y, and some of them read as album-y.

— Kelela

A mixtape is for the street, it's something you without necessarily thinking about it, because you have to stay in the game. It's like…

— Young Thug

Mixtapes, it's for everyone and you throw them in the trash quickly. While an album is an object that only your real fans take…

— Young Thug

I never really told anybody that I'm a rapper. I wasn't walking around being like, "Yo, check out my mixtape!" It was more of…

— J. Cole

There were a couple of companies that wanted to put me with a producer, and I said, "Well, I just produced my last album,"…

— Shuggie Otis

Mixtapes are very personal, and they describe who you are better than an album sometimes.

— Theophilus London

I'm not the mixtape guy who's gonna put out a new one every month. I'm gonna allow my albums to marinate and resonate and…

— DMX

Honestly, I always think it's cool when artists name their first album after themselves. It's confident it just means like this is me, this…

— AJ Tracey

The notoriety you get from when your song is on the radio versus when your song is on a mixtape is two completely different…

— Paul Wall

When I made 'Lil Boat,' my first mixtape, I didn't have a drop date, a due date. I didn't have critics rating on it;…

— Lil Yachty

We owned the mixtape game, and every mixtape we put out was like an album.

— Takeoff

I never wanted to do the mixtape circuit and 300,000 people hear it and that's a chapter of my life and when I do…

— Rakim