“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 ...

Freddie Gibbs has as much popularity as he ever has these days, but when he dropped "B.A.N.ned," featured on his Cold Day in Hell mixtape in 2011, he was still on the come up. His storytelling ...

June was one of the strongest months for mixtapes so far this year, thankfully—as 2013 had been feeling a little sparse once you got beyond the big names. As ever, there's plenty of great rap being ...

Lady Gaga earned seven nominations this year, topping her previous record of six in 2010. The Mother Monster landed ...

In part because, technically speaking, there is literally no competition. There Is No Competition 2, the long-awaited follow-up to 2008’s original from DJ Drama and Brooklyn firebrand Fabolous, is the ...

Another year closes this Mixtape Monday. This week we take a look back at The Best of 2019. This week’s roundup features over sixty projects from some of the dopest ...

Bad Bunny is continuing a historic year. On Friday, as the Recording Academy announced its nominations for the 2026 Grammys, ...

Yesterday we kicked off the countdown with 50 of the best mixtapes released in 2010, and of course, all you readers were asking us why we were missing this artist or that mixtape. Well, the answer is ...

Who knows what the term mixtape even means in 2011? After all, these downloadable albums haven't existed on magnetic tape or even CDs for years. But there's no doubt that mixtapes remain the lifeblood ...