Last week, social media was abuzz with whispers that DatPiff, the venerable hip hop mixtape platform, might be closing shop after 18 years of unparalleled service to the music community. Though the ...

DatPiff, one of the leading sites in the “Blog Era” of downloadable music projects and mixtapes, gave its longtime supporters a bit of a scare. After rumors that the famed blog was shut down for good, ...

Legendary mixtape platform DatPiff has uploaded the entirety of its over 366,420-project catalog to the internet archive. Last March, the service which calls itself “The Authority In Mixtapes” ...

MP3s are bubbling thanks to the influx of streaming and the fact that a whole generation of classic hip-hop songs and mixtapes are not available on streaming services. Last year, vinyl sales surpassed ...

Lost tapes, warped vinyl records, and scratched CDs have historically been the relics of hip-hop yore. But now, 404 errors, dead links, and server failures illustrate the erosion of hip-hop’s early ...

As SPIN reported via Billboard last week, the Recording Industry Association of America announced that it will now count the number of streams an album receives towards its gold and platinum status.

Hip Hop is all about the dollars. Especially since the 1990s, when everything exploded in terms of earning potential for artists, the amount of money available for projects, the growth of the large ...

Hip-hop fans were dismayed to learn that long-running mixtape streaming site DatPiff — whose existence even predates that of more mainstream DSPs like Spotify — had shut down yesterday, leading to a ...

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 ...

(AllHipHop News) Guerilla Union has announced the final additions to its lineup for this year’s Rock the Bells Festival in association with Boost Mobile. The festival will visit three cities, two in ...