OPINION: Mixtapes were a critical part of pre-internet hip-hop culture. I never want to be the guy who’s like, “hip-hop was better back in the day.” When I turned 30, I promised myself I would never ...

Affordable blank cassette tapes in the late 1970s turned ordinary listeners into curators, giving everyone the tools to share music on their own terms. The order of songs on a mixtape was never random ...

"Man. I just feel like to me, the Gangsta Grillz and the whole mixtape culture and scene is what I’m about. That’s the purest form of hip-hop to me," Push responded when asked about pursuing a Gangsta ...