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 ...

USB Cassette Mixtape plugged into USB drive of laptop. - Milktape Long gone are the days of mixtapes. They may have first started out as dubbed live-performance and song demo mixtapes from artists, ...

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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 ...

Baseball cap tilted to the front, DJ Drama slouches in a leather seat at Billboard's New York office. Considering today's conversation, his first regarding his Jan. 16 arrest for racketeering, could… ...

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 ...

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 ...

Long gone are the days of mixtapes. They may have first started out as dubbed live-performance and song demo mixtapes from artists, but eventually, people began using them to record and share what ...