This dovetailed into the fact that the late 2000s would prove to be a time of great upheaval and change in the music space. While rappers making their own statements on the material of their peers was seen as a quintessential mark of the competition inherent to the art, experimentation - verging into other genres - was becoming more and more appreciated with the likes of Kid Cudi and his "blog rap" contemporaries. That being said, as these examples indicate, there were no set bounds to the practice of remixing. The consistency was predicated on remixes of other artists’ released material - think Lil Wayne’s flip of Lil Boosie’s “Watch My Shoes” or Kid Cudi’s flip of N*E*R*D’s “Spaz”. Be it one of Lil Wayne’s seemingly countless releases, or Kid Cudi’s A Kid Named Cudi, a formula had been established that was consistent across hip-hop styles, yet varied in practice. In the late 2000s, with a new decade fast approaching, hip-hop’s mixtape era was in full swing.
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