Shakily propped up by blogs, upload sites, and grey legal areas, it was the wild west of web-based music discovery, and Gangsta Grillz quickly became one of the most reliable guns in the game. Though some have argued over whether it’s technically a Gangsta Grillz entry or not, Call Me If You Get Lost - and Dreamville’s D-Day - prove the lasting resonance of Drama’s mixtape run, which is evidently still inspiring the rappers who grew up waiting for pages of his tapes to load on Kanye to The,, and DatPiff (which is somehow still fully operational after all these years).īoth projects send up a proper salute to a pillar of 2000s hip-hop, who played no small part in breaking down the barriers between regional styles and their respective fanbases during rap’s broadband upgrade.
He won the “Best Rap Album” Grammy as the host of Tyler, the Creator‘s 2021 album, Call Me If You Get Lost, where the Atlanta DJ’s trademark shouts served as the connective tissue between horrorcore callbacks and slab-worthy symphonies.
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Take a look back at DJ Drama’s wildly influential Gangsta Grillz mixtape series, the soundtrack to the DatPiff era of rap.Īfter 22 years and hundreds of mixtapes, compilations, and album-adjacent drops, DJ Drama and the revered Gangsta Grillz series are finally part of the Grammy family.īack in April, DJ Drama, record executive and creator of the influential Gangsta Grillz series, was given his first Grammy.
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