However, outside of live performances, this music cannot be monetized by artists because it’s built upon third party material. Those mixtapes often contain an artist’s earliest hits and are still beloved by fans. These projects were typically recorded (at least in part) over popular beats the artist didn’t own or samples that they never cleared, and released for free via websites like DatPiff and LiveMixtapes in the form of mp3 files that could be burned to CDs or uploaded to an iPod. Rappers like Wiz Khalifa, Mac Miller, Nicki Minaj, Childish Gambino, Joey Bada$$, Big Sean, Future, Gucci Mane, 2 Chainz, 50 Cent, Rick Ross, Curren$y and many others all released a significant amount of material on free mixtapes in the late 2000s and early 2010s.
Wayne is far from the only artist that faces this issue. Together, these tapes contain much of his best work, but fans won’t find them in his catalog on Spotify or Apple Music.
On either side of his blockbuster albums Tha Carter II and Tha Carter III, Wayne released several acclaimed mixtape series like Da Drought, Dedication, and No Ceilings. Lil Wayne’s output in the mid-late 2000s is often hailed as one of the greatest career peaks of any rapper in hip-hop history.
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