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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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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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 ...

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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 ...