Mixtapes have become a huge factor in the success of upcoming hip-hop artists careers in recent years and loads have dropped over the last 12 months. It’s been a year full of standout mixtape releases, most of them even good enough to be albums. See what we thought were the best mixtapes and EPs of 2013 after the jump.
Stay tuned for the Best Albums of 2013 dropping tomorrow!
The Pro Era camp have dropped a new joint titled Sol Luna this week. Joey Bada$$, A La Sole and Dyemond Lewis team up for this track which is set to appear on the crew’s upcoming project Secc$ Tap.e Pt 2, due February 14th. Check it:
CJ Fly drops a new visual from his mixtape Thee Way Eye See It. Watch the music video for the Pro Era spitter’s laid back joint Still The Motto down below:
Joey Bada$$ gets to rhyme over an exclusive, previously unreleased J Dilla beat on this new track Two Lips. The Pro Era MC definitely does this soulful beat justice. R.I.P. Dilla.
Pro Era hit us with some more of that boom-bap as A La $ole releases Been Swank from his forthcoming project The Art of Sole .
With the retail version of his Summer Knights tape due to drop tomorrow Joey Bada$$ unveils My Jeep, the second of two new tracks set to feature on the project.
After performing together in London, Joey Bada$$ recruits UK’s Maverick Sabre for the official remix to My Yout. Bada$$’s mixtape Summer Knights is being re-released as an EP with two new tracks, look out for that October 29th.
Amidst all the hype over the BET cyphers (mainly Kendrick Lamar’s monster verse, high-five), Pro Era have taken to YouTube to release a video of their own cypher. Watch as Joey Bada$$, CJ Fly, Kirk Knight and the rest of the Era crew wax lyrical with Statik Selektah on the decks.
Eclectic Relaxation 