Support Mixtapes and the Justo's Mixtape Awards

I remember like it was yesterday. Back in the day I used to be a fiend for mixtapes. I would hit up the local corner stores and record shops to find the latest and greatest mixtape. Back then your mixtape came on a 90 minute Maxell cassette and you rocked it until the tape popped. One of my good friends in high school left to go to the Airforce and was stationed near NYC. So he would always send us the hottest mixtapes and we would have them weeks before they even hit our local spots. Kid Capri, Ron G, Tony Touch, Stretch Armstrong all taught us who the hottest Hip Hop artist were at the time and dropped the newest singles to the hungry masses. We even had local DJ’s who brought the heat just as much as the DJ’s from New York. I loved getting a new mixtape popping it in the ride and heading out for the night. I studied the lyrics, the beats and swagger that came with the hot tracks dropped on each and every mixtape.

Now it seems the mixtape game has changed. At first mixtapes brought us the hottest artist and new tracks. But it was not only that, but it was the DJ as well that captivated our minds. The formula of the rapper, the hot beats, and the DJ made each and every mixtape special. Now you might run across a few good mixtapes that give you all of those elements, but far too many mixtapes dropped now do not bring it like they used too.

Well just like the Grammys, The Billboarboard awards or (insert your favorite award show), there is a organization that each year gives out awards for mixtapes!!

The Mixtape Award Association launches a brand new innovative site January 1st, 2009.

Who: The Mixtape Award Association, presenter of the 2009 12th Annual "Justo's" Mixtape Awards is set to launch a new and improved, innovative two-part site dedicated to the DJ culture and The Music Industry in which it exists.

What: The site, www.TheJustos.com, is divided into two-parts. The first part, a site solely dedicated to The Justo's Mixtape Awards, to be held on Wednesday, April 29, 2009. This area of the site will be the powerhouse of the actual awards, through online voting, awards updates and all related events. The second part of the site, to be launched in March, will be an online comprehensive DJ community, with forums, blogs, goods and services catering to The DJ and the Music Industry.

When/ Where: THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 2009, Log onto www.TheJustos.com and sign up for the online community to stay up to date with key information and year round events produced by The Mixtape Awards Association.

Key Information to be announced only via www.TheJustos.com includes:

* Information dedicated to the Nomination and Voting Process for "The 12th ANNUAL JUSTO'S MIXTAPE AWARDS"

* Contests, Press Releases and Updates regarding the events leading up to and taking place around The Justo's Mixtape Awards.

Please on January 1st go to the site and nominate your favorite mixtape. Show support to the site and the artist and DJ’s that drop mixtapes to the masses. By supporting the Justo awards you will be supporting Hip Hop!!!