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 ...

Beloved mixtape service DatPiff is reinventing by pairing with Archive.com to make past music accessible. DatPiff is rolling out its “next generation.” After the mixtape service announced last month ...

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 ...

"The Best Free Shit You'll Ever Get" tweets Chicago's Lil Bibby, referring to the long-anticipated Free Crack II mixtape he dropped on DatPiff just in time for Labor Day weekend. The tape see Bibby's ...

Online mixtape distribution platform DatPiff has put rumours of its demise to rest, assuring listeners, "we're still here." On Monday evening (March 13), a post in subreddit r/hiphop101 claimed that ...

Long before Spotify and streaming music was a thing, mixtapes were everything. DatPiff.com was one of the most popular mixtape sites of that era. Now, there's a race to archive the mixtape catalogues ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The reason people will pay for this mixtape, and why rappers will continue to charge for mixtapes in the future, ...