Art Quote by Curtis Jackson

I'm actually going to self-produce my next tape that I'm working on, 'Platinum Frame'. This going to be my second official mixtape.

— Lil B

Mixtapes were the soundtrack, back in my day, of peoples' lives.

— Wendy Williams

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

— Kelela

My first rap that I ever made was a diss track.

— Doechii

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

I'm not really rocking with mixtapes no more. EPs and albums - that's it.

— A Boogie wit da Hoodie

If I could never put out an album in my life, I could just put out mixtapes. The music got to be out there…

— Richard Hilfiger

This is going to sound ridiculous, but I read in an interview with Lil Wayne that he recorded a mixtape of something like 50…

— Chris Carmack

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

My first mixtape especially - that came from a heartbreak.

— A Boogie wit da Hoodie

I've had mixtapes that have been better than albums I've heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.

— Kevin Gates

The first album that I bought with my own money was 50 Cent's 'Get Rich or Die Tryin'.' That was, like, the 5th grade,…

— Le'Veon Bell