Tony Yayo
Tony Yayo just released a prequel to his upcoming album with a mixtape called Gunpowder Guru.
The G-Unit camp is known for dropping hot mixtapes, and giving them away for free on 50′s website. But Yayo took a different approach…
He is actually selling his mixtape on Amazon and iTunes, according to MTV’s Mixtape Daily.
So what is the actual selling price? How about $7.99 on Amazon, and $5.99 on iTunes….Oh, and there are only 10 songs!
I have no problem with artists selling mixtapes. The music industry is so crazy right now, I understand the need to sell music. But $7.99 is pretty steep considering the fact that there are only 10 songs.
Go ahead and browse around mixtapekings.com, or datpiff.com and see how many songs are normally on mixtapes. It seems to me that they average about 15-25 tracks.
The mixtapes that have 25 tracks are selling anywhere between $2.99 – $5.99, so how is there a value in Yayo’s mixtape that is $7.99 and includes only 10 tracks?
G-Unit fans are used to getting their mixtapes for free, and a few of them will probably buy the mixtape. But I suspect that Yayo’s plan to sell this skimp mixtape will backfire.
In the world of free downloads, there has to be some incentive for people to pay for your music. What are you really offering them? If you can’t get that message across, people won’t buy your shit!
Yayo said in that interview with Mixtape Daily that it is “all about the Internet now“, and he is right. It looks like we are at the point where pressing up cd’s is not needed as much, so digital downloads are the way. It not only saves money, but it can be distributed a hell of a lot quicker.
I think G-Unit fans may have been a little pissed off by this new “money maker” idea of his. Not to mention the fact that they are only getting 10 songs…He should have stayed in the studio a little while longer and at least banged out 5 more tracks.
Would you by a mixtape, or album, for $7.99 that only had 10 tracks?
Hell no! I gave the people 58 tracks of heat from some of the hottest underground artist out and that was 100% free. For this guy to be selling anything is crazy considering his album only went gold back when G-unit was the hottest name on the streets (2003-2006). Bad business move
tony must be rockin his yayo and smokin that shit……who in the fuck even listens to tony yayo
lol dude wild
What??? hell no, that shit better come with a free pyrex or somthing!!! so we can atleast cook yayo, hahaha. real talk, i mean yayo go hard on mixtapes and shit, but he dont go that hard. hell nah..