The post 15 Best Hip-Hop Mixtapes of All Time appeared first on Consequence. So much of hip-hop history was recorded on humble mixtapes, from early concerts captured on cassettes to the digital ...

In the Hip Hop universe, mixtapes have often been the unsung heroes that serve as the foundation for raw talents to blossom into legends. From the gritty streets to the digital realm of sites like ...

“The smooth criminal on beat breaks / Never put me in your box if your shit eats tapes,” rapped Nas on his 1994 classic “N.Y. State of Mind.” Like other underground genres that hit their stride in the ...

For the latest sounds in hip-hop, don't bother with the radio. Turn off your computer, too. The good stuff lives and breathes on mixtapes, unlicensed CD compilations crammed with unofficial remixes, ...

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Ab-Soul, Ferg, and Cordae. The past few weeks have featured a glut of new hip-hop, so even though this week slows things down a ...

At first many dismissed it as a fad when it exploded out of the Bronx after a dance party in the summer of 1973 where Dj Kool Herc used two turntables to switch back and forth between two records to ...

New Jersey’s DJ Juice, a hip-hop mixtape pioneer, has died. SiriusXM and LL Cool J’s Rock the Bells Radio reports that Juice, born Brian Short, was 54. Starting in the ’90s, the award-winning DJ was ...

The GRAMMY Museum celebrates the 50th anniversary of hip-hop with the new 5,000-square-foot exhibition Hip-Hop America: The Mixtape Exhibit. The exhibit explores the origins of hip-hop music, dance, ...

I’ve known Chicago rapper Davis for a few years. I first encountered him as part of local underground hip-hop collective Why Footclan, which also runs a label for its small but mighty collection of ...

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Tyler The Creator, Lil Uzi Vert, and IDK. Okay, now I am mad at all the rappers. It’s not that there hasn’t been a slew of worthy ...