“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 ...

A care package featuring Eminem songs is "contraband personified," says the music giant By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large It's hard to imagine "The King" being sent to jail, but it happened ...

Mixtapes aren't just a rap thing anymore—they're beginning to reflect the diversity of pop music. Clockwise from top left, several artists who've had successful ...

A Live Takeover (Thu 5 Feb 2026), a multi-venue event bringing together more than 200 musicians from six orchestras for a ...

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 ...

Decades after they helped grow hip-hop into mainstream culture, mixtapes are now the raw material in a number of apps and websites that do not pay record labels or artists any money. DatPiff If you ...

If you ever made – or listened to – a mixtape, please press the pause button for a few moments to mark the passage of Lou Ottens, the engineer who oversaw the development of the cassette tape. The ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Q: Our son is getting married this summer in Bali. We would like to create a playlist of music for the wedding and reception from our iTunes. We aren’t very ...

DETROIT — Inside, the studio is small and sterile. The walls are white; the smell is clean; the air is humid. The structure sits on top of a heating and cooling store. Scattered about are a tan ...