The Annual Mixtape Awards was established in 1995 by Orpheous “Justo” Fasion, to help cultivate the under-standing, appreciation and advancement of the Disc Jockey - from the street, club and radio DJ to the platinum selling Artist signed to major record labels. The Mixtape Awards is designed to honor DJs and Artist who constantly raise the bar within the music industry. The 11th annual awards take place tonight in NYC. Well the mixtape awards used to be respected by all of the Hip Hop world when Justo was alive, now it is just a joke. Whoever took the reins when Justo passed has reduced the awards to a low budget swap meet. Last years awards were cut short by fighting and overall they were trash. Rapmullet awarded them the mixtape murder of the year, everyone I talked to that went said the awards must of been run by some crack head. This year half the DJ’s on the ballot should not be on the ballot, most of the top mixtape DJ’s were not on the ballot. The artist’s must of been rigged, because multiple artists that should of been on the ballot are not, Some artists that are on the ballot are there because they voted for themselves 2 million times. Then there is the thousands of emails we have received from the DJ’s and artists begging someone to vote for them. What the fuck? How tacky is that, you are begging people to go vote for you for a award that is basically rigged and for a award that means nothing.Hahahaha everytime I receive one of these emails I have to shake my head. I wont name names, but they all say the same thing. What a joke. We appreciate what Justo did for the mixtape DJ’s and Artists, but when he passed away, the whole mixtapeawards has went down the tube from nominating to voting to the show, it has all turned into a big pile of shit. I bet Justo is turning over in his grave,when he see’s how low budget the show has become. We at Hiphopspy dont even want to know who wins what, dont tell us and myspace us to death about it. Take your little trophy and place it on your shelf and then sit by your phone and wait for it to ring with some label on the the other line wanting to give you a million dollars. We think you might be waiting a very long time.

 I hate to give this artist any more free press, but I will because I cannot help writing about the worst artist to have a #1 hit in the history of Hip hop. He’s churned out a breakout hit in “Crank Dat,” his debut album is certified gold, and he’s smack in the middle of the LeBron James/Deshawn Stevenson feud. Life as a supposed one-hit wonder is pretty good for Soulja Boy. But instead of relaxing, the teen rapper is getting busy preparing his sophomore album, Back to School. “Basically, it is really me taking it back to the basics”. “It’s time to start studying again. Make it happen, man. [By the] the time I drop the album, everybody is gonna be going back to school. My fans are 21 and under. He says his fans, stop lets think about that, exactly who are his fans and if they there is a legitimate fan out there, what race are they and why would anyone be a fan? He’s also focusing on his business acumen. He’s going to crank out a line of shades based on the ones he wears in his videos and on stage. SB is also going into the sneaker biz with a line of kicks called Yums; there’s also plans for a cartoon about him and his friends called Bad Little Homies.” No date has been set yet for Soulja Boy’s next album. But we at Hiphopspy are hoping he never comes out with another CD, we cant stomach much more garbage being dropped on us by these trash artists as it just gives hip hop a black eye.