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, ...

Before Spotify links and shared playlists, there was the nerve-racking act of handing someone a cassette tape and hoping they ...

Everywhere I go people (usually those in their 30s or 40s) are always bellyaching about the current state of rap music. Granted, things have changed tremendously since the days of televised music ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Headphones and Apple Music logo displayed on a phone screen - Credit: Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto/Getty Images These uploads reflect ...

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 ...

Mixtapes have been around for decades now, although they’ve changed shape. While we now rely on online playlists on our streaming service of choice, creating a custom playlist used to be a more ...

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 ...

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 ...

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… ...

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 ...