The definition of a mixtape — and what one could look like — has changed a lot over the years. We’ve moved far beyond the era of handing out CDs on the corner and releasing projects on platforms like ...
Now, with Apple Music using their muscle to secure permanent and temporary exclusive deals with rappers like Drake, Future and Chance the Rapper, all of whom started their careers off mixtapes, the ...
Over the last decade or so, mixtapes have revolutionized the rap game and altered how marketing in general is approached. Not only have the rappers received substantial acclaim, the DJs have, too.
DJ Doo Wop has been holding it down for more than 20 plus years in the mixtape game. In celebration of the huge milestone, Doo Wop held a huge concert last week that featured performances by The Lox, ...
DJ Drama is talking his talk. He recently said he brought mixtapes back, and the culture agreed wholeheartedly. As per Complex, the record executive took to social media to give himself some flowers.
The introduction of DJ Screw's indelible work onto streaming services began this week with the "Originals (Volume 1)" drop. DJ Screw spent his life as an underground legend, and his afterlife has been ...
This one was worth the wait. Check out our highlights from 'Before the World Blows.' It's a mistake to think these worlds are separate. The work of artists like Brooklyn's Todd Terry and Kenny Dope, ...
DJ Envy recalled how he upset Diddy and The Notorious B.I.G. in an interview with AllHipHop’s Chuck Creekmur. The Breakfast Club host explained why he was the first New York DJ to play Tupac Shakur’s ...
DJ Drama, arguably the most famous mixtape DJ of all time, breaks down the art form's evolution. By Dan Rys Ten years ago this month, a raid on DJ Drama and Don Cannon’s Atlanta studio netted ...
Noisey looks back at three classic mixtapes in hip-hop history that have quietly gone underrated and overlooked in history.
The business behind the hip-hop mixtape, and how a raid on DJ Drama's studio in 2007 kickstarted a whole new industry that, 10 years later, is itself facing the music. By Dan Rys On the afternoon of ...