Essays Tagged: "Mixtape"

50 Cent aka Curtis Jackson

mainstream success (foiled by an attempt on his life in 2000) and a successful run on the New York mixtape circuit (driven by his early-2000s bout with Ja Rule), Eminem signed 50 to a seven-figure co ... Money XL (who had also been signed to JMJ around the same time that 50 had), and began churning out mixtape tracks (many of which were later compiled on Guess Who's Back? in 2002). These mixtape recor ...

(6 pages) 19 0 3.8 Mar/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers