Following the underground success of 2013's
Crenshaw, Los Angeles rapper
Nipsey Hussle issued his ninth mixtape,
Mailbox Money, in 2014. Flipping the business model employed for
Crenshaw's physical release -- a limited run of one thousand copies priced at $100 --
Hussle pushed it one step further, restricting
Mailbox Money to just a hundred copies for $1,000 each. For this set,
Rick Ross and
Dom Kennedy returned, joining
Buddy,
K Camp,
Trae tha Truth, and others, alongside producers such as
Hit-Boy and
DJ Mustard. After the rapper's untimely death in March 2019, the mixtape debuted on the Billboard 200 at number 192.