Mixtape Madness

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Mixtape Madness
Company type Private
Industry Entertainment, music
Genre
FoundedSeptember 2010
FoundersEddie Agyeman, Kingsley Okyere, Kwabz Ayim, Andy Ayim
Area served
 United Kingdom
Website mixtapemadness.com

Mixtape Madness is a British urban music outlet and an entertainment and distribution platform based in London, United Kingdom. [1] [2] The platform was founded in 2010 by a group of friends. [3] [4] Mixtape Madness is the 3rd biggest media outlet platform in the UK, behind GRM Daily and Link Up TV. [4]

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Overview

Mixtape Madness was formed in 2010 as a place where users could go and stream or download British mixtapes without having to go to American websites that lacked a focus on British music, such as DatPiff. [4] [3]

Mixtape Madness hosts talk shows called MMTalks that feature people involved in the British urban music industry. The topics covered are varied, with some focusing on how to build a music business, or how to build your profile as a musician. [5]

Mixtape Madness also has a YouTube channel, where artists can release music. Various artists have released their music through the platform, such as Headie One, Unknown T, SL, and EO. [3] [4] [6]

In July 2018, Mixtape Madness hosted a stage at The Butterfly Effect Festival in London. [7]

On 1 April 2019, Mixtape Madness partnered with Caroline International in a worldwide sales and distribution deal. Caroline would also be responsible for marketing services when required. [3] [8]

Mixtape Madness partnered with the FIFA eWorld Cup, an esports competition that was hosted at The O2 in London, to bring 4 hip hop artists to perform and compete in a rap competition in the arena prior to the eWorld Cup's final. The winner out of the 4 artists would receive a FIFA Head 2 Head Freestyle Champion 2019 award. [9] [10] Big Jest and Deekayy both attended the competition, with the latter winning the award after a vote held by the in-house crowd and social media. [11] [12] [13]

Freestyle series

The Mixtape Madness YouTube channel hosts three freestyle series' called Next Up, The Cold Room and Mad About Bars, the latter is hosted by Tweeko, a renowned British Sound Engineer and the third of which is hosted by Kenny Allstar. [14] [15] [16] Artists such as Unknown T, Skengdo & AM, and M Huncho have received significant attention through their Mad About Bars freestyles. [17] [18] [19] [20] Unknown T personally credited Mad About Bars for being "huge" for him and for "opening doors". [21] Skengdo & AM's freestyle has over 30 million views, [22] substantially higher to most other Mad About Bars. [23] Loski's Mad About Bars freestyle had over a million views, before being removed by YouTube. [24]

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