![]() ![]() The tape was well received by rap bloggers, but by the time his second tape, The Real Coast Guard, came out in 2008, he was ready to step out of the GTA universe. He oversaw everything- from sourcing the beats to mailing out the completed CDs-because despite the game’s success, he was still a new artist with few resources. Maylay dropped San Andreas: The Original Mixtape independently. ![]() “I’ll probably never sell as many records as they sold video games.” The intro even saw him rap over the game’s theme music in full character. “I was like ‘why not’ for the simple fact that this game was where the majority of people knew me from,” he says now. The cover played on the series’ familiar artwork. Eager to parlay the success of the game into a music career, Maylay packaged his first release as San Andreas: The Original Mixtape in 2005. ![]() ![]() For years, he’d been sitting on a clutch of tracks, mostly classic west coast rap songs on top of middle-era Dr. Back home in L.A., a plan formed in Maylay’s mind. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas became the best-selling PlayStation 2 game of all time. ![]()
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