These days it seems like “street album” is a euphemism for “mixtape.” While mixtapes used to be comprised of rappers rhyming over someone else’s beats, mixtapes these days actually have some original content. Street albums fall somewhere in the middle. At the close of last week, we got Red Cafe’s “street album” Hell’s Kitchen. Is it really a mixtape 
? Maybe? And there’s plenty more of those where that came from.
This week Trae Tha Truth drops his mixtape “King Of the Streets: Freestyles Mixtape” of, you guessed it, freestyles. Trae’s been dropping freestyles like crazy, most recently “Rack City” and “Shot Caller.” The Cool Kids go fishing for instrumentals on January 20th with the beats from “Gone Fishing.” If you’re a fan of their production but not their rhymes, then this might be your dream project.
January 24th looks like a big day in the mixtape world. Young Buck should finally (finally) drop “Live Loyal Die Rich” that week. He delivered the Juicy J assisted “Brand New” at the start of last week. In addition, Saigon will release “Warning Shots 3: Foot In the Grave.” Saigon got MOP’s Lil Fame for his recent leak “Another Man Down.” On that same date, Tez McClain brings “Wishful Thinking Vol. 2” and MMG’s Masspike Miles’ “Say Hello To Forever.” That one is now being called a “street album” too. Here we go again.
Late Pass
Raekwon – “UnExpected Victory”
Mack Maine – “Don’t Let It Go To Waste”
Tony Touch – “Toca Tuesdays – The Best Freestyles of 2011”
January 17
Trae Tha Truth – “King Of the Streets: Freestyles Mixtape”
January 20
The Cool Kids – “Gone Fishing: Instrumentals”
January 23
Rockie Fresh – “Driving 88”
January 24
Young Buck – “Live Loyal Die Rich”
Saigon – “Warning Shots 3: Foot In the Grave”
Tez McClain – “Wishful Thinking Vol. 2”
Masspike Miles – “Say Hello To Forever”
February 5
Project Pat & Nasty Mane – “Belly On Full” (hosted by DJ Smallz)
February 14
Raheem Devaughn – “Jackin For Beats 3”
TBA
Pill – “The Epidemic”
Chip Tha Ripper – “Tell Ya Friends”
Twista & Tech N9ne – “Midwest Fury”
Birdman & Mack Maine – “Billionaire Minds 2”
OJ Da Juiceman – “100/1000”
Troy Ave – “Bricks In My Backpack 3”
Jakk Frost – “Charles Barkley”
Lil Lody – “Last Of My Kind”
Gunplay – “Bogota”
Maino – “I Am Who I Am: The Album Before The Album”
Drake & Rick Ross – “Y.O.L.O.”
Wiz Khalifa – “Taylor Allderdice”
Cassidy – “Get It In 3”
Young Rhome – “FUCK: For U Criticizing a King”
Young Buck – “Bond Money”
Jurrarri – “Rubber Band Rrarri”
Glasses Malone – “Cold As Ice”
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Live loyal….Die rich….both of which you are not Sir, lol. Still sour you pulled a no show in the 810…..dick.
When did stabbing niggas not get you loyalty???