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 ...

Pressing altered versions of classic projects into boutique collector’s items sends a fuzzy message in a significant year, Nadine Smith writes. This year has been filled with countless tributes to rap ...

The new NTS Radio Player from Atonemo brings curated radio, infinite mixtapes and hi-res audio to any audio system and can provide a constant stream of curated 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 ...

2015 has seen a crazy amount of great album releases, and it's no different in the realm of mixtapes. With all the albums that have been released, you might actually forget all the fantastic projects ...

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 ...

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 ...

Peter Quill's Awesome Mix Vol. 1 is just one of many great fictional mixtapes. Slate Some of the success of Guardians of the Galaxy’s hit soundtrack—which is the No. 1 album in the country as I write ...