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 ...

Free, online mixtapes may be outliving their function to rap music. Buzz is almost exclusively attained with hot singles, and albums are now getting released with no promotional push. It’s hard out ...

If you're like me, you enjoy listening to good music and dislike spending money. So I find the concept of a free online mixtapes pretty damned irresistible. Since I'm all about saving readers money ...

Struggle rappers, rejoice! Araabmuzik has released a ton of free and original instrumentals on his bran new mixtape, For Professional Use Only. Araab has produced hit records for a myriad of rap stars ...

Joe, Joell, Royce and Crooked do what they do best on their first collective Gangsta Grillz; tear instrumentals to pieces. 23. 50 Cent and DJ Drama – The Lost Tape For the first time ever, mixtape ...

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 ...