I can’t even remember the last time I actually held a CD mixtape, much less played one. But there’s a CD wallet kicking around in storage that’s filled with unassuming silver discs doodled on with ...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Fifteen months after mixtape pioneer DJ Drama was arrested for racketeering, bootleg hip-hop CDs are as popular as ever. Sign up here. On a recent Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop ...

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Within the Pomona Swap Meet’s sea of shiny Corvettes and 1950s Cadillacs, a storage truck seems out of place. In thick block letters, it reads Thump Records and is open for vending. As racks of ...

YG's Red Friday mixtape will be arriving this Friday, and today he revealed that a limited run of physical copies will be available—but they won't come with a cheap price tag. "So I just linked up ...

If an MC has put in enough work that they can wrap a verse around a beat so tightly you can’t separate the two, then the odds are good they’ve accumulated a trunk full of unreleased material in the ...