Rap-Up.com || Chamillionaire Retires from Mixtapes

Chamillionaire is closing one chapter of his career and focusing on a new one.

The 29-year-old rapper released a statement on Friday clearing up rumors that he is retiring from making music. “It was definitely not my intention to mislead anyone into thinking that I plan to completely retire from music,” he said of the confusion that started after he did a live broadcast on his website. “I love making music and will continue to do so.”

While he’s not retiring, the Houston MC who rose to fame on the mixtape circuit, is ending his long-running mixtape series. “What I am retiring is the Mixtape Messiah part of my career. This means no more jacking beats and no more underground mixtapes,” he revealed. “I have been making and putting them out for over a decade and I feel like it is time to step to another level.”

His next mixtape will be his last. “The upcoming installment of the Mixtape Messiah series, Mixtape Messiah 7, will be the final one. Moving forward, a large majority of the music I release will be on original beats.”

Cham has scrapped plans for his third LP Venom and is working on material for another as-yet-untitled studio album. “Additionally, even though I don’t plan on releasing any of the original material that I had wanted to call Venom, I will definitely be releasing a third Chamillionaire album with Universal.”

He is turning his attention to creating records for the radio instead of the streets, and hopes his fans will understand. “I hope that my fans will understand that over time, you grow as a person and this means you will evolve as an artist. The experiences that you encounter throughout your life all contribute to those changes and that is bound to affect the music an artist feels like making at any given time,” he continued.

“I love that my fans feel so deeply about the work I have done in the mixtape scene or the Get Ya Mind Correct era of my career, but at this time I want to focus 100% of my studio time on perfecting the commercial music I will release in the future.”

Chamillionaire’s sophomore album, Ultimate Victory, has sold close to 400,000 copies since its release in 2007.

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7 Comments

yeahyeah
June 5th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
his last album was awesome, but was overlooked by many so whatever he does, wish him best of luck.

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Rashad
June 5th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
He makes really good music though. He just gets slept on and overlooked, but hopefully he doesn’t lose his original sound that got him his fans in the first place. I don’t want Cham turning into Flo Rida for some commercial success.

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Electrik Red- "P Is For Power" Next Single!!!!
June 5th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
I wish the best for him

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An0thrDream
June 5th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
I hope he taps Ciara for his next album – they mesh well together

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UserQQQQ
June 6th, 2009 at 4:30 am
aka “I love that real money you get when you put out a real album”.

Get Ya Mind Correct was a collaborative classic. Top 3 collab albums of all time. Right up there with Blackout. I actually like Sound of Revenge a tad more than Ultimate Victory but they’re both good so whatever long as we get something more from him I’m cool. Not to imply that Cham wasn’t making bank from mixtapes but that money to work ratio must be so much better with the big boys.

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iZIK
June 6th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
man i was sad to hear this. i got mixtape messiahs 1-6, all bangers and even alot of the old swishahouse and color changin click mixtapes from back in the day… one of the most underrated rappers in the game. wish him the best. just PLEASE do not sell out on us… keep it trill

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Catie
June 6th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
“Ultimate Victory” is a really great album, it’s a shame it didn’t garner much attention.

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