Mixtapes have long played an important role in hip-hop. Often viewed as an unfiltered, more authentic alternative to the traditional album release, the mixtape format as we now know it rose to ...

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The late DJ’s mixtapes will be uploaded weekly until the end of June ...

Last month, rap star Lil Wayne announced that his much-anticipated album, "Tha Carter IV" would be released Aug. 29. It was a long wait from the original anticipated date in May -- even longer for ...

Before you could create and share a playlist with a few clicks of a computer mouse, exposing your friends to new music meant making a mixtape. You'd carefully pick out selections from your record ...

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. I never want to be the guy who’s like, “hip-hop was better back in the ...

Soulja Boy is claiming he has another first to add to his rapper résumé. After seeing Drake drop a trio of albums on Friday ...

Peter Quill's Awesome Mix Vol. 1 is just one of many great fictional mixtapes. Slate Some of the success of Guardians of the Galaxy’s hit soundtrack—which is the No. 1 album in the country as I write ...

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 ...

UCSB Arts & Lectures and the Santa Barbara County Office of Arts & Culture present the 2026 Free Summer Cinema lineup called ...