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 ...

Star Wars fans are literally weeks away from spontaneously combusting with the release of Episode VII: The Force Awakens and Richie Branson and Solar Slim are representing the Otaku Gang with their ...

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. The 13 songs on My Face Hurts From Smiling are some of Lizzo’s most exciting and down-to-earth music ever, raging with Dirty South ...

Before the Internet took over the music game and streaming platforms became king, the street mixtape reigned supreme and all of your favorite rappers knew that was the best way to get their name out ...

Two parallel but related developments emerging from the existence of Southerngold, the ace Santigold/southern rap mash-up mixtape created by Brooklyn’s Terry Urban. The first is a scandal: on the eve ...

Titled Otis Benjamin, the almost 23-minute long mashup takes feature lyrics and beats from throughout 3000 and Madlib's careers, respectively. "Utilizing feature verses only, the Outkast MC's ...

Websites offering up free — and not always legal — music flourished in the gap between the fall of the CD era and the rise of streaming. Keeping those archives intact is proving difficult. By Brian ...

The underground mixtape has long been a staple in hip-hop, with blended DJ selections being all the rage throughout the '90s. But this decade saw the format mutate: Rappers began to take matters into ...