Jim Jones says that Harlem group Dipset started the mixtape trend and not 50 Cent’s G-Unit.
“Let’s get this right and I’m going to keep it all the way a buck,” Capo said on the Flip Da Script podcast. “We started the mixtape movement, right? And it wasn’t a crew mixtape. We were making real albums and putting them out as mixtapes. G-Unit was doing replays of other people’s beats and making mixtapes.”
He continued: “It was a big difference. We was using our mixtapes as albums to promote our real albums, and off those mixtapes, we were taking singles that the people started loving and started putting them on our real albums. But even in that, we put the Dipset mixtape out first before G-Unit put their mixtape out. Now go Google it.”
In total, Dipset released 8 mixtapes and G-Unit released 33 mixtapes. Is Capo right or is G-Unit the kings of the mixtape era?
