Exactly. Her old mixtape flow was her street & gutter flow, unlike this weird "Roman," Tourettes/Old Dirty Bastard thing she does that the white people love so much.
As for that cover that the Tumblr person created, I like it; however, it contradicts the motif of the mixtape. That cover uses an updated, post-mixtape Nicki picture, unlike the cover from the tape, which uses a picture of Nicki from 2007.